“…Using isolated hair cells and SG of the mature cochlea, we identified the NPs ANP and BNP as well as GC-A in OHCs and SG and confirmed the presence of NPs in IHCs, corroborating previous studies (Meyer zum Gottesberge et al, 1991;Yoon and Anniko, 1994;Suzuki et al, 1998Suzuki et al, , 2000Kuhn, 2003Kuhn, , 2009Schulz, 2005;Kemp-Harper and Feil, 2008;Kleppisch and Feil, 2009;Alexander et al, 2011;Qiao et al, 2011;Sun et al, 2013Sun et al, , 2014Shen et al, 2015;Möhrle et al, 2017;Fitzakerley and Trachte, 2018). We could not detect GC-A in IHCs.…”