Proliferative responses to growth factors decline rapidly during postnatal maturation of mammalian hair cell epithelia

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Millions of lives are affected by hearing and balance deficits that arise as a consequence of sensory hair cell loss. Those deficits affect mammals permanently, but hearing and balance recover in nonmammals after epithelial supporting cells divide and produce replacement hair cells. Hair cells are not effectively replaced in mammals, but balance epithelia cultured from the ears of rodents and adult humans can...

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