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Contact: Vicki Cohn vcohn@liebertpub.com<\/a> 914-740-2100 x2156 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.\/Genetic Engineering News<\/p>\n New Rochelle, NY, June 20, 2014Spiral ganglion cells are essential for hearing and their irreversible degeneration in the inner ear is common in most types of hearing loss. Adult spiral ganglion cells are not able to regenerate. However, new evidence in a mouse model shows that spiral ganglion stem cells present in the inner ear are capable of self-renewal and can be grown and induced to differentiate into mature spiral ganglion cells as well as neurons and glial cells, as described in an article in BioResearch Open Access, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available free on the BioResearch Open Access website. <\/p>\n Marc Diensthuber and coauthors from Goethe-University (Frankfurt, Germany), Justus-Liebig University (Giessen, Germany), Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (Boston, MA), and Harvard University and MIT (Cambridge, MA), conclude that the self-renewing properties demonstrated by spiral ganglion stem cells make them a promising source of replacement cells for therapies designed to regenerate the neural structures of the inner ear in the article \"Spiral Ganglion Stem Cells Can Be Propagated and Differentiated Into Neurons and Glia.\" <\/p>\n \"These findings are particularly interesting as they show that spiral ganglion stem cells can be propagated in vitro,\" says BioResearch Open Access Editor Jane Taylor, PhD, MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. \"These cells are normally poorly regenerated in the mammalian ear.\" <\/p>\n ### <\/p>\n About the Journal <\/p>\n BioResearch Open Access is a bimonthly peer-reviewed open access journal led by Editor-in-Chief Robert Lanza, MD, Chief Scientific Officer, Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. and Editor Jane Taylor, PhD. The Journal provides a new rapid-publication forum for a broad range of scientific topics including molecular and cellular biology, tissue engineering and biomaterials, bioengineering, regenerative medicine, stem cells, gene therapy, systems biology, genetics, biochemistry, virology, microbiology, and neuroscience. All articles are published within 4 weeks of acceptance and are fully open access and posted on PubMed Central. All journal content is available on the BioResearch Open Access website. <\/p>\n About the Publisher <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Follow this link: PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 20-Jun-2014 Contact: Vicki Cohn vcohn@liebertpub.com<\/a> 914-740-2100 x2156 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.\/Genetic Engineering News New Rochelle, NY, June 20, 2014Spiral ganglion cells are essential for hearing and their irreversible degeneration in the inner ear is common in most types of hearing loss. Adult spiral ganglion cells are not able to regenerate. However, new evidence in a mouse model shows that spiral ganglion stem cells present in the inner ear are capable of self-renewal and can be grown and induced to differentiate into mature spiral ganglion cells as well as neurons and glial cells, as described in an article in BioResearch Open Access, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. Continue reading
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