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Visualization of the sensory cells of the inner ear detecting angular acceleration. We are able to detect head movement because of the ability of the vestibular part of the inner ear to detect such changes. Here we visualize the anatomy of this nervous system at the level of a semi-circular canal. The sensory cells, called hair cells, are positioned at the base of a dome. They will be stimulated upon specific angular acceleration giving us the sense of spatial positioning. Here a mouse ampulla was stained for actin (green) and the hair cells were genetically stained with TdTomato (red). This picture was finalist in the 2012 GE Healthcare Life Sciences Cell imaging competition.

11 Aug MOUSE GENETICS

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