Deafness: from genetic architecture to gene therapy

C Petit, C Bonnet, S Safieddine - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Progress in deciphering the genetic architecture of human sensorineural hearing
impairment (SNHI) or loss, and multidisciplinary studies of mouse models, have led to the …

Hear and now: Ongoing clinical trials to prevent drug-induced hearing loss

J Lee, K Fernandez… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Each year over half a million people experience permanent hearing loss caused by
treatment with therapeutic drugs with ototoxic side effects. There is a major unmet clinical …

Generation of inner ear organoids containing functional hair cells from human pluripotent stem cells

KR Koehler, J Nie, E Longworth-Mills, XP Liu… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The derivation of human inner ear tissue from pluripotent stem cells would enable in vitro
screening of drug candidates for the treatment of hearing and balance dysfunction and may …

Organoids: a novel modality in disease modeling

Z Heydari, F Moeinvaziri, T Agarwal, P Pooyan… - Bio-design and …, 2021 - Springer
Limitations of monolayer culture conditions have motivated scientists to explore new models
that can recapitulate the architecture and function of human organs more accurately. Recent …

Age-related hearing loss: sensory and neural etiology and their interdependence

KL Elliott, B Fritzsch, EN Yamoah… - Frontiers in aging …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Age-related hearing loss (ARHL) is a common, increasing problem for older adults, affecting
about 1 billion people by 2050. We aim to correlate the different reductions of hearing from …

Correlation between human nervous system development and acquisition of fetal skills: An overview

E Borsani, AM Della Vedova, R Rezzani… - Brain and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Understanding the association between fetal nervous system structure and functioning
should be an important goal in neurodevelopmental sciences, especially when considering …

[BOOK][B] Foundations of sensation and perception

G Mather - 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
Do you wonder how movies–sequences of static frames–appear to move, or why 3-D films
look different from traditional movies? Why does ventriloquism work, and why can airliner …

Generating inner ear organoids containing putative cochlear hair cells from human pluripotent stem cells

M Jeong, M O'reilly, NK Kirkwood, J Al-Aama… - Cell death & …, 2018 - nature.com
In view of the prevalence of sensorineural hearing defects in an ageing population, the
development of protocols to generate cochlear hair cells and their associated sensory …

Gene therapy for inherited hearing loss: updates and remaining challenges

R Hahn, KB Avraham - Audiology Research, 2023 - mdpi.com
Hearing loss stands as the most prevalent sensory deficit among humans, posing a
significant global health challenge. Projections indicate that by 2050, approximately 10% of …

Recent advances and future challenges in gene therapy for hearing loss

AE Amariutei, JY Jeng… - Royal Society Open …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Hearing loss is the most common sensory deficit experienced by humans and represents
one of the largest chronic health conditions worldwide. It is expected that around 10% of the …