Research Article
Distribution and Afferent Effects of Transplanted mESCs on Cochlea in Acute and Chronic Neural Hearing Loss Models
Table 1
Status of organ of Corti and Rosenthal’s canal in each animal after experiment.
| | Group | Animal no. | Organ of Corti | Rosenthal’s canal |
| | KM only | #3K | Supporting cell remains | Total SGN loss | | #4K | Supporting cell remains | Total SGN loss | | #5K | Flat epithelium | Total SGN loss | | #16K | Supporting cell remains | Intact SGN density | | #17K | Supporting cell remains | Intact SGN density | | Ouabain only | #2O | Supporting cell remains | Intact SGN density | | #3O | Supporting cell remains | Partial SGN loss | | #12O | Supporting cell remains | Partial SGN loss | | #2KS | Supporting cell remains | Partial SGN loss | | #3 KS | Supporting cell remains | Partial SGN loss | | #9KS | Supporting cell remains | Intact SGN density | | #11KS | Supporting cell remains | Intact SGN density | | #17OS | Supporting cell remains | Intact SGN density | | #20OS | Supporting cell remains | Partial SGN loss |
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KM: kanamycin; SC: stem cell; HC: hair cell; SGN: spiral ganglion neuron.
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