Hearing restoration may be possible with cochlear repair after transplant of human cord blood cells
Wednesday, September 3, 2008 - 10:42
in Biology & Nature
According to an Italian research team publishing their findings in the current issue of Cell Transplantation (17:6), hearing loss due to cochlear damage may be repaired by transplantation of human umbilical cord hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) since they show that a small number migrated to the damaged cochlea and repaired sensory hair cells and neurons.