BRENDA Tissue and Enzyme Source Ontology

Last uploaded: February 4, 2022
Preferred Name

outer hair cell

Synonyms
Definitions

Any of approximately 25,000 hair cells in the organ of Corti, specialized as transducers of sound waves into nerve impulses and sensitive to low sound levels, easily damaged by loud noise (over 85 decibels), and probably involved in encoding information about the loudness of sounds. So called because they are nearer to the outside of the cochlea than are the inner hair cells.

ID

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BTO_0003666

definition

Any of approximately 25,000 hair cells in the organ of Corti, specialized as transducers of sound waves into nerve impulses and sensitive to low sound levels, easily damaged by loud noise (over 85 decibels), and probably involved in encoding information about the loudness of sounds. So called because they are nearer to the outside of the cochlea than are the inner hair cells.

has_obo_namespace

BrendaTissueOBO

id

BTO:0003666

label

outer hair cell

notation

BTO:0003666

part_of

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BTO_0001691

prefLabel

outer hair cell

treeView

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BTO_0001691

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