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Anatomy of the Cochlear Nerve
The cochlear nerve, also known as the acoustic or auditory nerve, is a sensory nerve responsible for hearing. It travels from ...
The hearing organ in mammals is a spiraling structure called the "cochlea" from the Greek word for snail. It spirals out from the saccule (one of the balance organs). There are two and a half turns in ...
However, accurately and safely delivering these therapies has proven challenging due to the cochlea’s complex anatomy. Accessing the necessary cells requires navigating through a roughly 2 mm ...
Before a child gets a cochlear implant, they will have hearing tests, speech and language assessments and medical imaging.
With that in mind, we tested two of the capsids, AAV-F and AAV-S, from our selection in mice to transduce non-human primate (NHP) spinal cord and cochlea, respectively. We found that intrathecally ...
Ebselen is under clinical development by Sound Pharmaceuticals and currently in Phase II for Drug Toxicity. According to GlobalData, Phase II drugs for Drug Toxicity have a 65% phase transition ...