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Adult Human Cochlea Nerve Glia cartoon

Schematic illustration of the peripheral glial cells in the adult human cochlea. Satellite glial cells (green) envelop all spiral ganglion neuron (SGN) cell bodies. Non-myelinating Schwann cells (light blue) ensheath both the central and peripheral processes of the type II SGNs (yellow) that innervate the outer hair cells (OHC). Myelinating Schwann cells (dark blue) ensheath and myelinate both processes of the type I SGNs (red) that innervate the inner hair cells (IHC). Beyond the habenula perforata, in the organ of Corti, neither Schwann cell types ensheath the most distal part of the peripheral processes of type I and type II SGNs.

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Reference

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© 2014 Locher et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Locher H, de Groot JCMJ, van Iperen L, Huisman MA, Frijns JHM, et al. (2014) Distribution and Development of Peripheral Glial Cells in the Human Fetal Cochlea. PLoS ONE 9(1): e88066. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0088066

Image: Figure 1. Capturing PGCs in the human cochlea. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0088066.g001

Panel C cropped, resized and relabelled from original figure. Text modified from figure legend.