美研究:基因療法治癒失聰老鼠 聽力恢復後能聽細至耳語聲量 撰文: 高紫恩 發佈日期: 2017-02-08美國研究人員成功利用基因療法,
絨毛細胞把聲音轉化成訊號 患病者與一般人的耳朵分別在於內耳的絨毛細胞。在健康的耳朵中,
Gene therapy restores auditory and vestibular function in a mouse model of Usher syndrome type 1c Nature Biotechnology (2017) doi:10.1038/nbt.3801. Received 27 May 2016 Accepted 23 January 2017 Published online 06 February 2017. Because there are currently no biological treatments for hearing loss, we sought to advance gene therapy approaches to treat genetic deafness. We focused on Usher syndrome, a devastating genetic disorder that causes blindness, balance disorders and profound deafness, and studied a knock-in mouse model, Ush1c c.216G>A, for Usher syndrome type IC (USH1C). As restoration of complex auditory and balance function is likely to require gene delivery systems that target auditory and vestibular sensory cells with high efficiency, we delivered wild-type Ush1c into the inner ear of Ush1c c.216G>A mice using a synthetic adeno-associated viral vector, Anc80L65, shown to transduce 80–90% of sensory hair cells. We demonstrate recovery of gene and protein expression, restoration of sensory cell function, rescue of complex auditory function and recovery of hearing and balance behavior to near wild-type levels. The data represent unprecedented recovery of inner ear function and suggest that biological therapies to treat deafness may be suitable for translation to humans with genetic inner ear disorders.
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