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Evolutionary and Developmental Biology Provide Insights Into the Regeneration of Organ of Corti Hair Cells
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Evolutionary and Developmental Biology Provide Insights Into the Regeneration of Organ of Corti Hair Cells

Karen L Elliott, Bernd Fritzsch and Jeremy S Duncan
Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, Vol.12, pp.252-252
08/08/2018
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2018.00252
PMCID: PMC6092489
PMID: 30135646
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https://doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2018.00252View
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Abstract

We review the evolution and development of organ of Corti hair cells with a focus on their molecular differences from vestibular hair cells. Such information is needed to therapeutically guide organ of Corti hair cell development in flat epithelia and generate the correct arrangement of different hair cell types, orientation of stereocilia, and the delayed loss of the kinocilium that are all essential for hearing, while avoiding driving hair cells toward a vestibular fate. Highlighting the differences from vestibular organs and defining what is known about the regulation of these differences will help focus future research directions toward successful restoration of an organ of Corti following long-term hair cell loss.
hair cell planar cell polarity Neuroscience hair cell kinocilium loss PCP effects on sensory neurons MET channel mutation effects organ of Corti evolution

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