sensory neurons and hair cells

Hi all,

These comments on sensory neurons and hair cells were motivated by issues we've 
had in marking up the text of PMID:12585968 with CL.

First, 'auditory hair cell' is an indirect subclass of both 'neuron' and 
'epithelial cell'--is this intended? 

Also, 'sensory hair cell' is an indirect subclass of 'neuron' but not of 
'sensory neuron'.  It seems it should be, but  my reading of this article 
suggests that sensory neurons and hair cells are indeed different (disjoint?), 
e.g., the Table 1 caption.  So, is it the case that sensory neurons and sensory 
hair cells are either disjoint or overlapping, but the former doesn't subsume 
the latter, as is currently modeled?  If so, then why are sensory hair cells, 
which are neurons, not sensory neurons?  If this is the case, it seems mentions 
of sensory neurons might be referring to either.  On the other hand, 
categorizing sensory hair cells as sensory neurons doesn't seem to jive with 
this article to me, so I'm stuck.  And would the mentions of vestibular and 
cochlear sensory neurons in the article refer to vestibular and cochlear hair 
cells already represented in CL?

Mind you, I'm not an expert in this at all, so I'd be curious to hear opinions.

Thanks!
Mike

Original issue reported on code.google.com by mikeb...@gmail.com on 14 Mar 2014 at 4:07

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