Therapeutics of hearing loss: Expectations vs reality

Drug Discovery Today

Volumn 10, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 1323-1330

  Atar, Orna ^a   Avraham, Karen B ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; BENZYLOXYCARBONYLVALYLALANYLASPARTYL FLUOROMETHYL KETONE; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 3 INHIBITOR; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; PROTEIN BCL 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ATONAL1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU4F3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL CYCLE; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENOME; HAIR CELL; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EAR, INNER; GENE THERAPY; HAIR CELLS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 26244432067     PISSN: 13596446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-6446(05)03618-4     Document Type: Review

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