Nature Communications (Dec 2019)

Renewed proliferation in adult mouse cochlea and regeneration of hair cells

  • 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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13157-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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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.