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 …

Advances in gene therapy hold promise for treating hereditary hearing loss

L Jiang, D Wang, Y He, Y Shu - Molecular Therapy, 2023 - cell.com
Gene therapy focuses on genetic modification to produce therapeutic effects or treat
diseases by repairing or reconstructing genetic material, thus being expected to be the most …

Precise detection of CRISPR-Cas9 editing in hair cells in the treatment of autosomal dominant hearing loss

C Cui, D Wang, B Huang, F Wang, Y Chen, J Lv… - … Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2022 - cell.com
Gene therapy would benefit from the effective editing of targeted cells with CRISPR-Cas9
tools. However, it is difficult to precisely assess the editing performance in vivo because the …

Preclinical Efficacy And Safety Evaluation of AAV‐OTOF in DFNB9 Mouse Model And Nonhuman Primate

J Qi, L Zhang, F Tan, Y Zhang, Y Zhou… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
OTOF mutations are the principal causes of auditory neuropathy. There are reports on Otof‐
related gene therapy in mice, but there is no preclinical research on the drug evaluations …

Mitigating a TDP-43 proteinopathy by targeting ataxin-2 using RNA-targeting CRISPR effector proteins

MA Zeballos C, HJ Moore, TJ Smith, JE Powell… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The TDP-43 proteinopathies, which include amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal
dementia, are a devastating group of neurodegenerative disorders that are characterized by …

RISC-y business: Limitations of short hairpin RNA-mediated gene silencing in the brain and a discussion of CRISPR/Cas-based alternatives

K Goel, JE Ploski - Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Manipulating gene expression within and outside the nervous system is useful for
interrogating gene function and developing therapeutic interventions for a variety of …

[HTML][HTML] Hair cell-specific Myo15 promoter-mediated gene therapy rescues hearing in DFNB9 mouse model

H Wang, MZ Xun, H Tang, J Zhao, S Hu… - … Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2024 - cell.com
Adeno-associated viral (AAV) vectors are increasingly used as vehicles for gene delivery to
treat hearing loss. However, lack of specificity of the transgene expression may lead to …

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 Therapeutic Progress and Future Perspectives for the Treatment of Hearing Loss

J Lye, DS Delaney, FK Leith, VS Sardesai… - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Up to 1.5 billion people worldwide suffer from various forms of hearing loss, with an
additional 1.1 billion people at risk from various insults such as increased consumption of …

Approaches and vectors for efficient cochlear gene transfer in adult mouse models

Y Zhao, L Zhang, D Wang, B Chen, Y Shu - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Inner ear gene therapy using adeno-associated viral vectors (AAVs) in neonatal mice can
alleviate hearing loss in mouse models of deafness. However, efficient and safe transgene …