lates with the maturational stage of these cells. We have studied cyclin D1 expression in the inner ear. Besides its well known function in the cell cycle control, cyclin D1 has also been implicated in other cellular processes like cell death, cellular differentiation and cancer. During early embryogenesis cyclin D1 is widely expressed in the developing sensory epithelia, but it becomes downreg...

Glutamate is the neurotransmitter released from hair cells. Its clearance from the synaptic cleft can shape neurotransmission and prevent excitotoxicity. This may be particularly important in the inner ear and in other sensory organs where there is a continually high rate of neurotransmitter release. In the case of most cochlear and type II vestibular hair cells, clearance involves the diffusio...

Hair follicle stem cells sustain growth and cycling of the hair follicle and are located in the permanent portion of the follicle known as the bulge. In this issue of the JCI, Ohyama et al. report the characterization of global gene expression patterns of human hair follicle stem cells after their isolation using sophisticated laser capture techniques to microdissect out bulge cells. They disco...

The hair follicle dermal papilla (DP) contains a unique prominin-1/CD133-positive (CD133+) cell subpopulation, which has been shown to possess hair follicle-inducing capability. By assaying for endogenous CD133 expression and performing lineage tracing using CD133-CreERT2; ZsGreen1 reporter mice, we find that CD133 is expressed in a subpopulation of DP cells during the growth phase of the murin...

We analyzed changes of growth and apoptotic cell death in human hair follicles. In anagen hair follicles, terminal deoxynucleotidyltransferase-mediated deoxyuridine triphosphate-biotin nick labeling-positive cells were observed in the keratogenous zone of the upper bulb matrix, the inner root sheath, and the companion layer of the outer root sheath. DNA ladder formation was also detected in ana...

Background: The seladin-1 (selective Alzheimer disease indicator-1), also known as DHCR24, is a gene found to be down-regulated in brain region affected by Alzheimer disease (AD). Whereas, hair follicle stem cells (HFSC), which are affected in with neurogenic potential, it might to hypothesize that this multipotent cell compartment is the predominant source of seladin-1. Our aim was to evaluate...

lates with the maturational stage of these cells. We have studied cyclin D1 expression in the inner ear. Besides its well known function in the cell cycle control, cyclin D1 has also been implicated in other cellular processes like cell death, cellular differentiation and cancer. During early embryogenesis cyclin D1 is widely expressed in the developing sensory epithelia, but it becomes downreg...

lates with the maturational stage of these cells. We have studied cyclin D1 expression in the inner ear. Besides its well known function in the cell cycle control, cyclin D1 has also been implicated in other cellular processes like cell death, cellular differentiation and cancer. During early embryogenesis cyclin D1 is widely expressed in the developing sensory epithelia, but it becomes downreg...

Calcium buffers are important for shaping and localizing cytoplasmic Ca2+ transients in neurons. We measured the concentrations of the four main calcium-buffering proteins (calbindin-D28k, calretinin, parvalbumin-alpha, and parvalbumin-beta) in rat cochlear hair cells in which Ca2+ signaling is a central element of fast transduction and synaptic transmission. The proteins were quantified by cal...