Abstracts of the Fourth Joint Annual Conference, Experimental and Clinical Short Papers Meetings of the British Society of Audiology

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Forgotten Fibrocytes: A Neglected, Supporting Cell Type of the Cochlea With the Potential to be an Alternative Therapeutic Target in Hearing Loss

“…Scale bar = 100 μm. Image taken from conference presentation, cited in published proceedings by Furness (2014).…”

“…Other substrates are also possible, and 3D culturing of fibrocytes is another way forward. Preliminary work in our lab (Furness, 2014) has shown that fibrocytes can be grown on a variety of substrates and 3D culturing of type III fibrocytes from guinea pig in hydrogels has been successful (Kelly et al, 2012). This paves the way for novel strategies to grow fibrocytes and use of an appropriate matrix that could direct the phenotypes of the cultured cells, even to potentially “bioprinting” a replacement ligament in vitro .…”