Abstract Two new findings, that crystals located in the inner ear gravity receptors of mammals have the internal organization requisite for the piezoelectric property, and that sensory hair cells of these same receptors possess contractile-appearing striated organelles, have prompted the author to model mammalian gravity receptors in the ear on the principles of piezoelectricity and bioenergetics. This model is presented and a brief discussion of its implications for the possible effects of weightlessness follows.
Gravity and the cells of gravity receptors in mammals
Advances in Space Research ; 3 , 9 ; 179-190
1983-01-01
12 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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