In light of the currently defined characteristics of stem cells, a re-evaluation of hair cell
regeneration in birds suggests that there may be a stem cell population located in the inner …

Stem cells in various mammalian organs retain the capacity to renew themselves and may
be able to restore damaged tissue. Their existence has been proven by genetic tracer …

Stem cells in the nervous system have some capacity to restore damaged tissue.
Proliferation of stem cells endows them with self-renewal ability and accounts for in vitro …

The use of stem cells offers new and powerful strategies for future tissue development and
engineering. Common features of stem cells are both their capacity for self-renewal and the …

Permanent hearing loss was considered which cannot be cured since cochlear hair cells
and primary afferent neurons cannot be regenerated. In recent years, due to the in-depth …

Most cases of hearing loss are caused by the death or dysfunction of one of the many
cochlear cell types. We examined whether cells from a neural stem cell line could replace …

Loss of inner ear hair cells leads to incurable balance and hearing disorders because these
sensory cells do not effectively regenerate in humans. A potential starting point for therapy …

Hearing loss, or deafness, affects 360 million people worldwide of which about 32 million
are children. Deafness is irreversible when it involves sensory hair cell death because the …

Strategies to restore sensorineural hearing loss focus on the replacement of lost hair cells,
the specialized mechanoreceptors in the organ of Corti that convert the mechanical energy …

Disabling hearing loss is the most common sensorineural disability worldwide. It affects
around 466 million people and its incidence is expected to rise to around 900 million people …