The programme has been investigating gene therapy to express atonal homologue 1 (ATOH1) in the inner ear to regenerate the sensory hair cells involved in detecting sound and changes in head position.

Of special concern when considering hearing in aging is the loss of hair cells located on the basilar ... particularly in sensory regions of the brain. However, the presence of a significant ...

Sensory hair cells are the mechanosensory receptors of the auditory and vestibular systems in all vertebrates and of the lateral line system of some aquatic vertebrates. Hair cells can be damaged and ...

The sensory cells are called hair cells because of their appearance under the microscope. Each hair cell has a tuft of projections at one end that looks like a bad haircut. These tiny "hairs" are ...

Their discovery was amazing for sensory physiology because it was equivalent to finding that light comes out of the eye (which has never been observed). Within five years it was discovered that the ...

In mammals, spatial orientation is synaptically-encoded by sensory hair cells of the vestibular labyrinth. Vestibular hair cells (VHCs) harbor synaptic ribbons at their presynaptic active zones (AZs), ...

For example, half the women surveyed said they’d choose to keep their hair over sense of smell. Smell often goes under the radar as one of the least valued senses. But it is one of the first sensory ...

Neurons may get all the glory, but they would be nothing without glial cells. While brain cells do the heavy lifting in the nervous system, it's the glia that provide nutrients, clean up waste, and ...

half the women surveyed said they’d choose to keep their hair over sense of smell. Smell often goes under the radar as one of the least valued senses. But it is one of the first sensory systems ...

New research on nematodes reveals how glial cells maintain and monitor neuronal dendrites. Neurons may get all the glory, but they would be nothing without glial cells. While brain cells do the heavy ...