As reported in the new study, the researchers were able to postpone the onset of hearing loss and associated
hair cell degeneration by about a month, providing enough time to inject normal copies of the Clarin - 1 gene into the ear before the onset of hearing loss to see if the treatment was effective.
Not exact matches
Inner - ear
hair cells, seen here via scanning electron micrograph, become swollen and damaged due to age - related
degeneration.
The team found that Isl1 expression protected
hair cells from
degeneration in aging and promoted
hair cell survival after exposure to loud noise.
Severely atrophic or faded, atrophic
hair follicles may be a direct consequences of ischemia and basal
cell degeneration.
A different form of congenital hereditary deafness is seen in the Doberman, which is also accompanied by vestibular (balance) disturbance; this deafness results from a different mechanism where
hair cell death is not the result of
degeneration of the stria but is instead the primary pathology.