Inner Ear Hair Cell Regeneration — Maybe We Can Know More

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Professor Fuchs did a webinar back in January on the ear, hearing, and upcoming treatments for hearing loss. He talks a bit about genetic deafness and how gene therapy can address it. He also seems pretty positive about hair cell regeneration as being a thing. I just skimmed through it, but looks really informative.

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Fuchs briefly mentioned that his colleagues are looking at hair cell regeneration via support cell transdifferentiation I think, going by what was said on the slide.

Wasn't this Audion's method and they didn't have much success with it?
 
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Tezcatlipoca said:
Could you explain how it works? Or how it could help us?
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It's not likely to help you specifically unless you have auditory neuropathy (usually genetic or immune, things like GBS). At least that's what they had been working on for years but...

I read the press release just now and it says "cytoarchitecture". I'm not sure what structures that refers to. Mostly the support cells provide that... I think?
 
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FGG said:
It's not likely to help you specifically unless you have auditory neuropathy (usually genetic or immune, things like GBS). At least that's what they had been working on for years but...

I read the press release just now and it says "cytoarchitecture". I'm not sure what structures that refers to. Mostly the support cells provide that... I think?
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Well that's a bummer.
 
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serendipity1996 said:
New paper out co-authored by Liberman investigating the histopathology of both AHRL and NIHL. Is anybody here able to access the full paper?

Primary Neural Degeneration in Noise-Exposed Human Cochleas: Correlations with Outer Hair Cell Loss and Word-Discrimination Scores
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Yes. It was an autopsy study. It talks about the importance of knowing what's going on because a lot of regenerative therapies are entering clinical trials. Damage to striatum doesn't occur until around age 75 in noise-induced hearing loss and presbycusis.Before age 75 striatum is usually still good.
 
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wwtsai said:
Professor Fuchs did a webinar back in January on the ear, hearing, and upcoming treatments for hearing loss. He talks a bit about genetic deafness and how gene therapy can address it. He also seems pretty positive about hair cell regeneration as being a thing. I just skimmed through it, but looks really informative.

How the Ear Hears, and What We Can Do About It
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Very interesting and informative. At the end of the video at 40:47 there's someone (Elen) asking about tinnitus: "Why do hard of hearing have ringing in their ears"?

and the answer is:

"Wow, that's a toughie. So, tinnitus is ringing in the ears. It's a common consequence of hearing-loss for many, many people. For some it is really morbid, it can produce quite sever depression, social avoidance, a variety of other sorts of problems. So tinnitus has been a really quite intractable problem for a long time. And, there have been sound therapy strategies to try to decondition the ear and things of that sort. I think these are of limited utility. I'm hoping that in the long-term strategies like we've been exploring with enhancing the strength of efferent feedback might, may actually have application to pathologies like tinnitus and hyperacusis, but that's a little ways off for now. We're still trying to make sure that it works on the experimental level.

Hopeful, but still a bit discouraging that is seems there's quite a way to go.

Sounds like what I've been thinking many times since I got my new high-pitched tinnitus about one and a half months ago; why did I manage to get this now? If it would have happened 10-20 years from now there might (or even should?) be a medical cure available.

Here's to hoping it goes way faster. :)

But maybe other researchers feel they have come further?
 
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Ty shattuck said:
Soon amputees won't have to worry about living their days without a limb; blindness would soon be a thing of the past. Soon we won't have doctors spitting those loathsome words "get used to i.t" Stem cell research is the next step in human evolution. Or re-evolution.
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The above quote was posted 8 years ago and we still have nothing. What garbage tinnitus is.
 
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Brian Newman said:
The above quote was posted 8 years ago and we still have nothing. What garbage tinnitus is.
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I'm afraid 8 years isn't much when it comes to this kind of research, but I agree tinnitus (depending on its severity) is one of the most stinking bags of garbage one can endure as a human.

My latest one sometimes wants me to remove the left inner ear from my head and smash it with a hammer out of frustration. Shut up! You are torturing a mind here, don't you understand?! :mad:o_O

I know – that won't help and I can't communicate with my inner ear. :(
 
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tommyd87 said:
There seems to be a big focus on gene research with hearing. Hough Ear Institute, Sound Pharmaceuticals and others all actually are focused on genes through either deleting or triggering them to treat.
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From reading the article it seems like they are still missing pieces to the puzzle. I remember when Novartis and GenVec tried just Atoh1. It didn't work as anticipated. Hopefully if they can find the right combination, this could be a good therapy.
 
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RB2014 said:
From reading the article it seems like they are still missing pieces to the puzzle. I remember when Novartis and GenVec tried just Atoh1. It didn't work as anticipated. Hopefully if they can find the right combination, this could be a good therapy.
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It will be interesting. If information about the Sound Pharmaceuticals' (and others') approach is right, then the theory behind gene deletion could work to deliver outcomes.
 
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