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ReviewHearing research2025

Hearing restoration through hair cell regeneration: A review of recent advancements and current limitations.

Melissa M McGovern, Brandon C Cox

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Review in Hearing research, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

  1. Pooled it
  2. Hair cell loss - cause or consequence of hearing loss?Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Melissa M McGovernDepartments of Otolaryngology and Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA.
Brandon C CoxDepartments of Pharmacology and Otolaryngology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL 62702, USA. Electronic address: bcox@siumed.edu.

Funding

Enhancing hair cell regeneration in the mature cochlea: Modulating Sox gene control of supporting cell identityR21DC020982 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI MCGOVERN, MELISSA · 2023 to 2025
$596k
DOD W81XWH-22-1-0674NIDCD NIH HHS R21 DC020982
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hearing loss is extremely common, yet limited treatment options are available to restore hearing, and those that are available provide incomplete recovery of hearing detection. For patients who are born with normal hearing, the most common cause of hearing loss is the loss of the sensory hair cells located in the cochlea of the inner ear. Non-mammals, including birds, fish, and amphibians, naturally regenerate new hair cells after damage and this natural process results in functional recovery. While some limited hair cell regeneration also occurs in the immature cochlea of mice, the mature mammalian cochlea does not naturally produce replacement hair cells, and thus hearing loss is permanent. Since the late 1980s, researchers have been investigating mechanisms to convert supporting cells, the cells that remain once hair cells have been killed, into new replacement hair cells. Here we review the current status of hair cell regeneration in the adult cochlea, highlighting recent achievements, as well as challenges that have yet to be resolved.

Indexed as

Hair Cells, AuditoryHearingHearing LossRegenerationAnimalsCochleaHumansRecovery of FunctionGene-therapyHair cellsNotchRegenerationReprogrammingSupporting cells

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PMID40157114
PMCPMC12052480

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