Current strategies for the protection, regeneration, and replacement of cochlear hair cells

Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 227-239

  Perde Schrepler, Maria ^a   Maniu, Alma ^a   Cosgarea, Marcel ^a  

^a IULIU HATIEGANU UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Cochlea; Gene therapy; Hair cells; Otoprotection; Regeneration; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CYTARABINE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 3; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 3; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN 3; NOTCH RECEPTOR; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN; RETINOIC ACID; ROSCOVITINE; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; THYROID HORMONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HES 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HES 5; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2;

APOPTOSIS; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL REGENERATION; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COCHLEA SPIRAL CANAL; COCHLEAR NERVE; CORTI ORGAN; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE THERAPY; HAIR CELL; HEARING; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INNER EAR; LASER SURGERY; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MITOSIS RATE; MORPHOGENESIS; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PHAGOCYTE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; REINNERVATION; REVIEW; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STRESS; SURVIVAL FACTOR; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; REGENERATION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 84866604949     PISSN: 19160216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/7070.2012.00027     Document Type: Review

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