Regenerative medicine for the inner ear [electronic resource] / Juichi Ito, editor.

Part I. Targets of Regenerative Medicine for the Inner Ear
1. Anatomy of the Inner Ear
2. Therapeutic Targets and Possible Strategies for Regenerative Medicine for the Inner Ear
3. Hair cell
4. Stereocilia
5. Cochlear Lateral Wall
6. Spiral Ganglion Cell and Auditory Neuron
7. Synaptic Contacts between Hair Cells and Primary Neurons
8. Otolith
9. Tectorial membrane
Part II. Development of the Inner Ear
10. Development and regeneration
11. Otic Induction
12. Cochlear Development
13. Vestibular Development
Part III. Cochlear Implants
14. Cochlear Implant: Past, Present and Future
15. Recent Progress in Cochlear Implant
16. Regenerative medicine in cochlear implantation
17. Artificial cochlear epithelium
18. Auditory Brainstem Implant
Part IV. Hair Cell Regeneration
19. Hair Cell Regeneration in the Avian
20. Self Repair
21. Transdifferentiation
22. Dedifferentiation-mediated Regeneration
23. Gene Therapy
24. Cell Therapy
Part V. Spiral Ganglion Neuron Regeneration
25. Clinical Background
26. SGN development
27. Gene Therapy for Regeneration and Preservation of Spinal Ganglion Neurons
28. Cell therapy
29. Afferent dendrite and axon
Part VI. Stem Cells
30. Inner ear stem cells
31. Pluripotent Stem Cells
32. Somatic Stem Cells
Part VII. Future Perspective
33. Regenerative Medicine for the Inner Ear
Summary.