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ArticleHuman gene therapy2018

Delivery of Adeno-Associated Virus Vectors in Adult Mammalian Inner-Ear Cell Subtypes Without Auditory Dysfunction.

Yong Tao, Mingqian Huang, Yilai Shu, Adam Ruprecht, Hongyang Wang, Yong Tang, Luk H Vandenberghe, Qiuju Wang, Guangping Gao, Wei-Jia Kong and 1 more

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Article in Human gene therapy, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

54 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  13. AAV-mediated Gene Therapy for Hereditary Deafness: Progress and Perspectives.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024
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  18. Advances in gene therapy hold promise for treating hereditary hearing loss.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Yong Tao1 Department of Otolaryngology and Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School and Eaton Peabody Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary , Boston, Massachusetts.
Mingqian Huang1 Department of Otolaryngology and Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School and Eaton Peabody Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary , Boston, Massachusetts.
Yilai Shu1 Department of Otolaryngology and Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School and Eaton Peabody Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary , Boston, Massachusetts.
Adam Ruprecht1 Department of Otolaryngology and Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School and Eaton Peabody Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary , Boston, Massachusetts.
Hongyang Wang1 Department of Otolaryngology and Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School and Eaton Peabody Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary , Boston, Massachusetts.
Yong Tang1 Department of Otolaryngology and Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School and Eaton Peabody Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary , Boston, Massachusetts.
Luk H Vandenberghe6 Grousbeck Gene Therapy Center, Schepens Eye Research Institute and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary , Boston, Massachusetts.
Qiuju Wang4 Chinese PLA Institute of Otolaryngology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Medical School of Chinese PLA , Beijing, China .
Guangping Gao8 Horae Gene Therapy Center and Department of Microbiology and Physiological Systems, University of Massachusetts Medical School , Worcester, Massachusetts.
Wei-Jia Kong2 Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology , Wuhan, China .
Zheng-Yi Chen1 Department of Otolaryngology and Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School and Eaton Peabody Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary , Boston, Massachusetts.

Funding

Hair Cell DevelopmentR01DC006908 · NIDCD · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI CHEN, ZHENG-YI · 2005 to 2015
$2.7M
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC006908
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hearing loss, including genetic hearing loss, is one of the most common forms of sensory deficits in humans with limited options of treatment. Adeno-associated virus (AAV)-mediated gene transfer has been shown to recover auditory functions effectively in mouse models of genetic deafness when delivered at neonatal stages. However, the mouse cochlea is still developing at those time points, whereas in humans, the newborn inner ears are already fully mature. For effective gene therapy to treat genetic deafness, it is necessary to determine whether AAV-mediated therapy can be equally effective in the fully mature mouse inner ear without causing damage to the inner ear. This study tested several AAV serotypes by canalostomy in adult mice. It is shown that most AAVs transduce the sensory inner hair cells efficiently, but are less efficient at transducing outer hair cells. A subset of AAVs also transduces non-sensory cochlear cell types. Neither the surgical procedure of canalostomy nor the AAV serotypes damage hair cells or impair normal hearing. The studies indicate that canalostomy can be a viable route for safe and efficient gene delivery, and they expand the repertoire of AAVs to target diverse cell types in the adult inner ear.

Indexed as

Gene Transfer TechniquesAnimalsCochleaDependovirusEar, InnerGenetic VectorsGreen Fluorescent ProteinsHair Cells, Auditory, InnerHumansLabyrinth DiseasesMiceSerogroupTransduction, GeneticGreen Fluorescent ProteinsAAVadult mousehair cellshearinginner ear

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PMID29130354
PMCPMC5909114

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