scholarly journals Activation of the RhoA-YAP-β-catenin signaling axis promotes the expansion of inner ear progenitor cells in 3D culture

Stem Cells ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mingyu Xia ◽  
Yan Chen ◽  
Yingzi He ◽  
Huawei Li ◽  
Wenyan Li
2004 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 205-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan A. Lopez ◽  
Paul M. Zhao ◽  
Masahiro Yamaguchi ◽  
Jean Vellis ◽  
Araceli Espinosa‐Jeffrey

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 757-767 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah L Boddy ◽  
Wei Chen ◽  
Ricardo Romero-Guevara ◽  
Lucksy Kottam ◽  
Illaria Bellantuono ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis Rousset ◽  
Vivianne B. C. Kokje ◽  
Rebecca Sipione ◽  
Dominik Schmidbauer ◽  
German Nacher-Soler ◽  
...  

Nearly 460 million individuals are affected by sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL), one of the most common human sensory disorders. In mammals, hearing loss is permanent due to the lack of efficient regenerative capacity of the sensory epithelia and spiral ganglion neurons (SGN). Sphere-forming progenitor cells can be isolated from the mammalian inner ear and give rise to inner ear specific cell types in vitro. However, the self-renewing capacities of auditory progenitor cells from the sensory and neuronal compartment are limited to few passages, even after adding powerful growth factor cocktails. Here, we provide phenotypical and functional characterization of a new pool of auditory progenitors as sustainable source for sphere-derived auditory neurons. The so-called phoenix auditory neuroprogenitors, isolated from the A/J mouse spiral ganglion, exhibit robust intrinsic self-renewal properties beyond 40 passages. At any passage or freezing–thawing cycle, phoenix spheres can be efficiently differentiated into mature spiral ganglion cells by withdrawing growth factors. The differentiated cells express both neuronal and glial cell phenotypic markers and exhibit similar functional properties as mouse spiral ganglion primary explants and human sphere-derived spiral ganglion cells. In contrast to other rodent models aiming at sustained production of auditory neurons, no genetic transformation of the progenitors is needed. Phoenix spheres therefore represent an interesting starting point to further investigate self-renewal in the mammalian inner ear, which is still far from any clinical application. In the meantime, phoenix spheres already offer an unlimited source of mammalian auditory neurons for high-throughput screens while substantially reducing the numbers of animals needed.


Author(s):  
Danielle Wu ◽  
Patricia Chapela ◽  
Mary C. Farach-Carson
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2019 ◽  
Vol 303 (3) ◽  
pp. 461-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascal Senn ◽  
Amir Mina ◽  
Stefan Volkenstein ◽  
Veronika Kranebitter ◽  
Kazuo Oshima ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 234 (6) ◽  
pp. 9283-9296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasen Aimaiti ◽  
Xin Jin ◽  
Yue Shao ◽  
Wei Wang ◽  
Dewei Li

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quanwen Liu ◽  
Yi Shen ◽  
Jiarong Chen ◽  
Jie Ding ◽  
Zihua Tang ◽  
...  

In this paper, we developed a two-step-induction method of generating functional hair cells from inner ear multipotent cells. Multipotent cells from the inner ear were established and induced initially into progenitor cells committed to the inner ear cell lineage on the poly-L-lysine substratum. Subsequently, the committed progenitor cells were cultured on the mitotically inactivated chicken utricle stromal cells and induced into hair-cell-like cells containing characteristic stereocilia bundles. The hair-cell-like cells exhibited rapid permeation of FM1-43FX. The whole-cell patch-clamp technique was used to measure the membrane currents of cells differentiated for 7 days on chicken utricle stromal cells and analyze the biophysical properties of the hair-cell-like cells by recording membrane properties of cells. The results suggested that the hair-cell-like cells derived from inner ear multipotent cells were functional following differentiation in an enabling environment.


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