Hair Bundles of Vestibular Sensory Cells (IMAGE)

Institut Pasteur

Hair Bundles of Vestibular Sensory Cells

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Hair bundles of vestibular sensory cells analyzed using scanning electron microscopy. The image shows a normal hair bundle with its characteristic "staircase" pattern (in yellow), a defective Usher type 1G hair bundle (in pink) and a treated Usher type 1G hair bundle (in green), whose normal/characteristic form was restored with gene therapy.

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