Chicken will help a person get rid of deafness

Scientists from the University of Virginia in the United States found that controlling chick hearing cells in the inner ear can grow again after the birds lose their hearing. This discovery could one day help with the restoration of hearing in humans.

Hearing loss

The ability to distinguish different sounds and recognize words, consisting of approximately the same-sounding letters, we owe a special hearing cells of the inner ear. Alas, these cells can be damaged, leading to hearing loss   and even partial deafness. American scientists were able for the first time It determines what effect on the growth and development of these cells.

Hearing loss

The discovery was made possible thanks to the observations of the chicken, who unlike humans have the ability to grow damaged auditory cells again, thereby restoring hearing. And if scientists can understand exactly what allows the hens to restore auditory cells, then one day, the same process can be repeated and people facing full or partial hearing loss .

"And the chicken, and human exposure is too strong Noise leads to the death of hearing cells, and the ability to hear certain sounds height - said study author Dr. Jeffrey Corwin. - That's just our organisms react to it differently. The chicken comes with time reconstitution of the given cell type and the normalization already for hearing several weeks. We lose the ability to hear these sounds for the rest life. These regenerative abilities hens have a very interesting, very much like developed on their basis therapy for humans. "(Read More)

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