The findings provide new insight into how epithelial cells in the inner ear develop and differentiate into specialized cells that serve critical functions for hearing and maintaining balance.

"Epithelial cell layers line all of the inner and outer body and organ surfaces in the human body, for example in the lung, intestine, pancreas and in the inner ear," said Moritz Gegg. Cilia ...

Strikingly, null mutants of Foxi3 no inner ear at all and completely fail to initiate the inner ear program from its earliest stages. We’ve shown that the ectoderm in these mice continues to receive ...

The inner ear cochlea is necessary for hearing sound, and located inside it is the organ of Corti (*1). ... In the epithelial tissue, which also includes the organ of Corti, ...

The right panel shows an immunofluorescence image of the auditory sensory epithelium within an injected cochlea. The inner hair cells have been stained for otoferlin in green. Otoferlin is ...

In the inner ear, metabolic processes are performed by an organ called the stria vascularis located a half a millimeter from the hearing organ. The stria vascularis is essentially a battery whose ...

A Japanese research group has become the first to reveal that the checkerboard-like arrangement of cells in the inner ear's organ of Corti is vital for hearing.

Using a gene known to control hair-cell growth, researchers have grown hair cells in tissue taken from newborn rats' cochleas, raising hopes that inner ear damage may someday be reversible.

Cy3-labeled siRNA transfection into inner ear in chinchilla through round-window permeation with or without TAT-DRBD. To further study the specific kinetic profiles of Cy3-labeled siRNA entering ...

CORPSE REMOVAL: An inner ear supporting cell (green) engulfs a dying hair cell (red) in the sensory epithelium of a mouse utricle. ELYSSA MONZACK The paper E.L. Monzack et al., “Live imaging the ...

Cochlear cells from a mammalian inner ear. Scientists said last week that they had figured out a way to harness electricity from the inner ear. (Dr. Fred Hossler/Getty Images) ...