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Macrophage contribution to the response of the rat organ of Corti to amikacin.
Journal of neuroscience research - 1 Jul 2007
Ladrech Sabine, Wang Jing, Simonneau Lionel, Puel Jean-Luc, Lenoir Marc
Abstract excerpt
Transdifferentiation of nonsensory supporting cells into sensory hair cells occurs naturally in the damaged avian inner ear. Such transdifferentiation was achieved experimentally in the cochlea of deaf guinea pigs through Atoh 1 gene transfection. Supporting cells may therefore serve as targets for transdifferentiation therapy. Supporting cells rapidly degenerate after hair cell disappearance, however, limiting...
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