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 …

Hearing loss drug discovery and medicinal chemistry: Current status, challenges, and opportunities

R Cousins - Progress in Medicinal Chemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
Hearing loss is a severe high unmet need condition affecting more than 1.5 billion people
globally. There are no licensed medicines for the prevention, treatment or restoration of …

A single dose of AC102 restores hearing in a guinea pig model of noise-induced hearing loss to almost prenoise levels

H Rommelspacher, S Bera… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Although sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) is a serious condition, there are
currently no approved drugs for its treatment. Nevertheless, there is a growing …

Treatment with the ferroptosis inhibitor ferrostatin‐1 attenuates noise‐induced hearing loss by suppressing ferroptosis and apoptosis

PW Ma, WL Wang, JW Chen, H Yuan… - Oxidative Medicine …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hair cell death induced by excessive reactive oxygen species (ROS) has been identified as
the major pathogenesis of noise‐induced hearing loss (NIHL). Recent studies have …

[HTML][HTML] Fatty acid binding protein type 7 deficiency preserves auditory function in noise-exposed mice

J Suzuki, T Hemmi, M Maekawa, M Watanabe… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Fatty acid-binding protein 7 (FABP7) is vital for uptake and trafficking of fatty acids in the
nervous system. To investigate the involvement of FABP7 in noise-induced hearing loss …

Developmental exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls prevents recovery from noise-induced hearing loss and disrupts the functional organization of the inferior …

BA Ibrahim, JJ Louie, Y Shinagawa, G Xiao… - Journal of …, 2023 - Soc Neuroscience
Exposure to combinations of environmental toxins is growing in prevalence; and therefore,
understanding their interactions is of increasing societal importance. Here, we examined the …

2D Catalytic Niobium Carbide MXenzyme for Ameliorating Noise‐Induced Hearing Loss

B Xu, Q Jiang, Y Huang, K Xu, W Feng… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Noise‐induced hearing loss (NIHL), a prevalent sensory disability affecting a majority of the
global population, is dominantly induced by mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress …

[HTML][HTML] The quantum tunneling of ions model can explain the pathophysiology of tinnitus

BM Al-Rawashdeh, AB Qaswal, A Suleiman, FM Zayed… - Brain Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Tinnitus is a well-known pathological entity in clinical practice. However, the
pathophysiological mechanisms behind tinnitus seem to be elusive and cannot provide a …

[HTML][HTML] The role of GABAB receptors in the subcortical pathways of the mammalian auditory system

R Tureček, A Melichar, M Králíková… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
GABA B receptors are G-protein coupled receptors for the inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA.
Functional GABA B receptors are formed as heteromers of GABA B1 and GABA B2 subunits …

[HTML][HTML] CFTR potentiator ivacaftor protects against noise-induced hair cell loss by increasing Nrf2 and reducing oxidative stress

F Wu, R Hu, X Huang, J Lou, Z Cai, G Chen… - Biomedicine & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Over-production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the inner ear can be triggered by a
variety of pathological events identified in animal models after traumatic noise exposure. Our …