Towards translational optogenetics

A Bansal, S Shikha, Y Zhang - Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2023 - nature.com
Optogenetics is widely used to interrogate the neural circuits underlying disease and has
most recently been harnessed for therapeutic applications. The optogenetic toolkit consists …

Therapeutic AAV gene transfer to the nervous system: a clinical reality

E Hudry, LH Vandenberghe - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
Gene transfer has long been a compelling yet elusive therapeutic modality. First mainly
considered for rare inherited disorders, gene therapy may open treatment opportunities for …

Cochlear implant research and development in the twenty-first century: a critical update

RP Carlyon, T Goehring - Journal of the Association for Research in …, 2021 - Springer
Cochlear implants (CIs) are the world's most successful sensory prosthesis and have been
the subject of intense research and development in recent decades. We critically review the …

Multichannel optogenetic stimulation of the auditory pathway using microfabricated LED cochlear implants in rodents

D Keppeler, M Schwaerzle, T Harczos… - Science Translational …, 2020 - science.org
When hearing fails, electrical cochlear implants (eCIs) provide the brain with auditory
information. One important bottleneck of CIs is the poor spectral selectivity that results from …

Emerging approaches for restoration of hearing and vision

S Kleinlogel, C Vogl, M Jeschke, J Neef… - Physiological …, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
Impairments of vision and hearing are highly prevalent conditions limiting the quality of life
and presenting a major socioeconomic burden. For a long time, retinal and cochlear …

Towards the optical cochlear implant: optogenetic approaches for hearing restoration

A Dieter, D Keppeler, T Moser - EMBO molecular medicine, 2020 - embopress.org
Cochlear implants (CI s) are considered the most successful neuroprosthesis as they enable
speech comprehension in the majority of half a million CI users suffering from sensorineural …

Choice of vector and surgical approach enables efficient cochlear gene transfer in nonhuman primate

E Andres-Mateos, LD Landegger, C Unzu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Inner ear gene therapy using adeno-associated viral vectors (AAV) promises to alleviate
hearing and balance disorders. We previously established the benefits of Anc80L65 in …

Viral rhodopsins 1 are an unique family of light-gated cation channels

D Zabelskii, A Alekseev, K Kovalev, V Rankovic… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Phytoplankton is the base of the marine food chain as well as oxygen and carbon cycles and
thus plays a global role in climate and ecology. Nucleocytoplasmic Large DNA Viruses that …

AAV-S: A versatile capsid variant for transduction of mouse and primate inner ear

MV Ivanchenko, KS Hanlon, DM Hathaway… - … Therapy Methods & …, 2021 - cell.com
Gene therapy strategies using adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors to treat hereditary
deafnesses have shown remarkable efficacy in some mouse models of hearing loss. Even …

New molecular therapies for the treatment of hearing loss

Y Ma, AK Wise, RK Shepherd… - Pharmacology & …, 2019 - Elsevier
An estimated 466 million people suffer from hearing loss worldwide. Sensorineural hearing
loss is characterized by degeneration of key structures of the sensory pathway in the …