"Acoustic Maculae" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The sensory areas on the vertical wall of the saccule and in the floor of the utricle. The hair cells in the maculae are innervated by fibers of the VESTIBULAR NERVE.
| Descriptor ID |
D008267
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A09.246.631.909.625.125
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| Concept/Terms |
Acoustic Maculae- Acoustic Maculae
- Macula, Acoustic
- Acoustic Macula
- Acoustic Maculas
- Maculas, Acoustic
- Maculae, Acoustic
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Acoustic Maculae" by people in Profiles.
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Ionic currents of mammalian vestibular hair cells. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1992 May 22; 656:58-74.
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Eye movements and vestibular-nerve responses produced in the squirrel monkey by rotations about an earth-horizontal axis. Exp Brain Res. 1982; 46(3):393-402.