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The Efferent System

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The Mechanosensory Lateral Line

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Our understanding of lateral line operation cannot be complete until the significance of the efferent innervation is understood. This innervation is a fundamental component of hair cell function: it is found not only in canal and superficial neuromasts of the lateral line but also in the inner ear. This efferent system, in common with the efferent innervation to the retina and muscle spindle, provides the opportunity for a dynamic control of sense organ properties, but how this is used and organized, in the case of octavolateralis efferent neurons, is unknown.

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  1. Barry L. Roberts
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  1. Parmly Hearing Institute, Loyola University of Chicago, 60626, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Sheryl Coombs

  2. Faculty of Biology Department of Neurophysiology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Federal Republic of Germany

    Peter Görner

  3. Faculty of Biology Department of Neurophysiology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Federal Republic of Germany

    Heinrich Münz

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Roberts, B.L., Meredith, G.E. (1989). The Efferent System. In: Coombs, S., Görner, P., Münz, H. (eds) The Mechanosensory Lateral Line. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3560-6_22

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