Abstract
Three innervation components of the cochlea are known:
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The first, numerically by far the most important component consists of the afferent bipolar cochlear sensory neurons.
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The second is an efferent nerve supply mainly from the crossed and uncrossed olivo-cochlear tract coming with the vestibular nerve to the periphery and reaching to the cochlear nerve through the anastomosis of Oort.
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The third component consists of an autonomic nerve supply which originates in the superior cervical ganglion and most probably does not enter the organ of Cortio.
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Spoendlin, H. (1974). Neuroanatomy of the Cochlea. In: Zwicker, E., Terhardt, E. (eds) Facts and Models in Hearing. Communication and Cybernetics, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65902-7_2
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