ReviewFrontiers in neuroscience2023
Stem cells as potential therapeutics for hearing loss.
Review in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Short-Term Audiometric Trajectories in Older Adults Receiving Systemic Human Umbilical Cord-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells: An Exploratory Single-Arm Substudy.Clinical interventions in aging · 2026Trial
- An engineered ferritin nanocage co-delivery system for targeted hair cells protection and hearing loss attenuation.Theranostics · 2026Article
- Hearing loss: a global view for gene therapy approaches and challenges.European journal of pediatrics · 2025Review
- Protective Effect of Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicles on Inner Ear Sensorineural Cells Affected by Cisplatin.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
- Potential uses of auditory nerve stimulation to modulate immune responses in the inner ear and auditory brainstem.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2023Article
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- Optogenetically modified human embryonic stem cell-derived otic neurons establish functional synaptic connection with cochlear nuclei.Journal of tissue engineeringArticle
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Abstract
Hearing impairment is a global health problem. Stem cell therapy has become a cutting-edge approach to tissue regeneration. In this review, the recent advances in stem cell therapy for hearing loss have been discussed. Nanomaterials can modulate the stem cell microenvironment to augment the therapeutic effects further. The potential of combining nanomaterials with stem cells for repairing and regenerating damaged inner ear hair cells (HCs) and spiral ganglion neurons (SGNs) has also been discussed. Stem cell-derived exosomes can contribute to the repair and regeneration of damaged tissue, and the research progress on exosome-based hearing loss treatment has been summarized as well. Despite stem cell therapy's technical and practical limitations, the findings reported so far are promising and warrant further investigation for eventual clinical translation.
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