... team publishing their findings in the current issue of Cell Transplantation (17:6), hearing loss ... show that a small number migrated to the damaged cochlea and repaired sensory hair cells and neurons. ...
... cochleae (the auditory portion of the inner ear) and found they had the capacity to differentiate into sensory hair cells and neurons. The study is published in the April issue of STEM CELLS.
The ...
... first step towards curing deafness with stem cells grown in the
laboratory.Early versions of the sensory hair cells and neurons
essential for hearing were created from stem cells taken from the
inner ...
... picked up by nAChR and turn down these sensory hair cells.
The team genetically altered a single ... encouraging news is that molecular mechanisms like the hair cell's nAChR frequently involve unique ...
... production of hundreds of other molecules within sensory hair cells of the inner ear. The research provides ... examined. Mutation of the miR-96 gene seemed to disrupt development of intricate sensory hair ...
... of African cichlids feeds by using its lateral line sensory system to detect minute vibrations made by ... jaw, which contain small groups of sensory hair cells that respond to water flow. The lateral ...
... gene, a microRNA, is a snippet of genetic information that affects the working of sensory hair cells of the inner ear. The research provides important new genetic understanding of a condition that is ...
... hearing loss as they get older. Moreover, if they carry two of these mutants, their sensory hair cells are impaired from birth on.
A number of genes associated with hearing loss were already known. ...
... rare, whisper-small second set of cells also carry signals from the inner ear to the brain ... done by responding to glutamate released from sensory hair cells of the inner ear. Glutamate is a workhorse ...
... loss, a condition marked by deaths of sensory hair cells and spiral ganglion neurons in the inner ... free-radical damage does not kill the cell directly, but rather induces the pathway to programmed ...
