Talk:Hair cell

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[[Image:heart == Looks like this article is describing inner hair cells in particular (i.e., not hair cells in general). It's my understanding that inner hair cells convert sound waves into neural signals, and that outer hair cells do some fine-tuning based on feedback received from the CNS. It's not my field (but what is, really?) so I hesitate to make any additions without doing some research. --Diberri | Talk 20:42, Aug 11, 2004 (UTC)

Sigh, yes pretty much every wikipedia article on the auditory system needs work. But at least we have a pretty thorough start on inner hair cells. I was going to work on this tonight, but I got side-tracked by sound localization, so I'll try to get to this next. --Chinasaur 09:11, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC) ==]]

[edit] Disambiguation link?

Since the article title is potentially confusing, how about adding a disambiguation link to Hair follicle at the top? Something like:

This article is about sensory cells in the auditory system. For the production of hair by the skin, see hair follicle.

Also, as I understand the article, hair cells don't actually protrude hair, but hair-like structures - is this distinction worth stating? WhiteCat 02:37, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Page edited by some joker?

In the section "Outer hair cells – acoustical pre-amplifiers" it seems someone has edited the article and replaced some words by the sentence 'o i love asian women' I'm new to editing on wikipedia, and I couldn't find in the history of the document what the correct words should 've been. I hope someone can fix this. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.200.95.53 (talk) 17:06, 4 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Number

Please add the approximate number of each type of cell. I read once that in humans it's 15 to 20 thousand. Badagnani 06:12, 11 February 2007 (UTC)