Renewed proliferation in adult mouse cochlea and regeneration of hair cells

The adult mammalian inner ear cells cannot regenerate nor proliferate. Here, the authors show that co-activation of Myc and NOTCH pathways can stimulate proliferation of inner ear sensory epithelial cells, which can be induced to become hair cell-like cells in vitro and in vivo.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yilai Shu, Wenyan Li, Mingqian Huang, Yi-Zhou Quan, Deborah Scheffer, Chunjie Tian, Yong Tao, Xuezhong Liu, Konrad Hochedlinger, Artur A. Indzhykulian, Zhengmin Wang, Huawei Li, Zheng-Yi Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13157-7