Hoshino T
ORL J Otorhinolaryngol Relat Spec. 1976;38(1):11-8. doi: 10.1159/000275253.
The residue of tectorial membrane insertion of cochlear inner sensory cell hairs was studied under a scanning electron microscope. In addition to the clear imprints resulting from outer sensory cell hair insertions, an adjacent medial row of bow-shaped imprints was noted on the base of the tectorial membrane. The relative position of these imprints corresponded to the location and the size of the inner cell hairs. These imprints were thus thought to arise from the insertion of the inner sensory hair cells. Such imprints were found only in the lower turns of the cat's cochlea, but not on the guinea pig tectorial membrane. Thus an actual physical contact between the tectorial membrane and the inner sensory cell hiars may exist in some species but not in others, and when there is physical contact, it is thought to be less firm than that of the outer sensory hair cells.
利用扫描电子显微镜对耳蜗内感觉细胞毛的盖膜插入残留物进行了研究。除了外感觉细胞毛插入产生的清晰印记外，在盖膜基部还注意到一排相邻的内侧弓形印记。这些印记的相对位置与内毛细胞的位置和大小相对应。因此，这些印记被认为是由内感觉毛细胞的插入产生的。这种印记仅在猫耳蜗的较低螺旋中发现，而在豚鼠的盖膜上未发现。因此，在某些物种中盖膜与内感觉细胞毛之间可能存在实际的物理接触，而在其他物种中则不存在，并且当存在物理接触时，其被认为比外感觉毛细胞的接触更不牢固。
