Hair cells are the sensory receptor cells of hearing and balance. They are as important for the senses of the inner ear as chemoreceptors are for taste and smell; as photoreceptors are for vision; and ...

Family with sequence similarity 19 member A5 (FAM19A5) is a secretory protein highly expressed in the brain that regulates synapse dynamics through its interaction with leucine-rich repeat-containing ...

Thanks to Olson, Manor and his team obtained cochlear samples from adult mice that had normal hearing and were either exposed ...

It does so by increasing the number of connections – called synapses – between hair cells in the ear's cochlea and the brain.

Certain brain cells make serotonin and release it into the synapses so it can act on other brain cells ... or roughly 6,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair.

UVA's Dr. Lu Q. Le and his team have identified a previously overlooked stem cell population in the upper and middle sections of the hair follicle that plays a crucial role in hair growth.When ...