Therapeutic potential of neurotrophins for repair after brain injury: a helping hand from biomaterials

J Houlton, N Abumaria, SFR Hinkley… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Stroke remains the leading cause of long-term disability with limited options available to aid
in recovery. Significant effort has been made to try and minimize neuronal damage following …

On the horizon: cochlear implant technology

JP Roche, MR Hansen - Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America, 2015 - oto.theclinics.com
Most patients with hearing loss significant enough to result in social dysfunction can be
treated with nonsurgical interventions. In many instances, environmental manipulations are …

Development in the mammalian auditory system depends on transcription factors

KL Elliott, G Pavlínková, VV Chizhikov… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
We review the molecular basis of several transcription factors (Eya1, Sox2), including the
three related genes coding basic helix–loop–helix (bHLH; see abbreviations) proteins …

Toward cochlear therapies

J Wang, JL Puel - Physiological reviews, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
Sensorineural hearing impairment is the most common sensory disorder and a major health
and socio-economic issue in industrialized countries. It is primarily due to the degeneration …

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 …

Importance of cochlear health for implant function

BE Pfingst, N Zhou, DJ Colesa, MM Watts, SB Strahl… - Hearing research, 2015 - Elsevier
Amazing progress has been made in providing useful hearing to hearing-impaired
individuals using cochlear implants, but challenges remain. One such challenge is …

A novel Atoh1 “self-terminating” mouse model reveals the necessity of proper Atoh1 level and duration for hair cell differentiation and viability

N Pan, I Jahan, J Kersigo, JS Duncan, B Kopecky… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Atonal homolog1 (Atoh1) is a bHLH transcription factor essential for inner ear hair cell
differentiation. Targeted expression of Atoh1 at various stages in development can result in …

Neurotrophins and their role in the cochlea

D Ramekers, H Versnel, W Grolman, SFL Klis - Hearing research, 2012 - Elsevier
Spiral ganglion cell (SGC) degeneration following hair cell loss can be prevented by
administration of exogenous neurotrophic factors. Many of these neurotrophic factors, in …

Conditional deletion of Atoh1 using Pax2-Cre results in viable mice without differentiated cochlear hair cells that have lost most of the organ of Corti

N Pan, I Jahan, J Kersigo, B Kopecky, P Santi… - Hearing research, 2011 - Elsevier
Atonal homolog1 (Atoh1, formerly Math1) is a crucial bHLH transcription factor for inner ear
hair cell differentiation. Its absence in embryos results in complete absence of mature hair …

Adeno-associated virus-mediated gene delivery into the scala media of the normal and deafened adult mouse ear

LA Kilpatrick, Q Li, J Yang, JC Goddard, DM Fekete… - Gene therapy, 2011 - nature.com
Murine models are ideal for studying cochlear gene transfer, as many hearing loss-related
mutations have been discovered and mapped within the mouse genome. However, because …