{"id":169226,"date":"2023-08-07T20:25:45","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T01:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/inner-ear-bone-loss-finding-opens-door-to-potential-new-therapies"},"modified":"2023-08-07T20:25:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T01:25:45","slug":"inner-ear-bone-loss-finding-opens-door-to-potential-new-therapies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/inner-ear-bone-loss-finding-opens-door-to-potential-new-therapies","title":{"rendered":"Inner-Ear Bone Loss Finding Opens Door to Potential New Therapies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/inner-ear-bone-loss-finding-opens-door-to-potential-new-therapies.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The researchers were successful in showing the relationship between activin A and bone erosion in cholesteatoma. \u201cOur study showed that targeting activin A is a potential treatment in the management of cholesteatomas,\u201d says senior author Masaru Ishii, MD, PhD, professor.<\/p>\n<p>Currently in clinical settings, the only effective treatment for cholesteatomas is complete surgical removal. However, the discovery of how a cholesteatoma can cause bone erosion in this study offers new hope for developing novel medical treatments as first-line management for cholesteatomas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA cholesteatoma can still return or happen again even after its surgical removal, so it is important to know what is actually causing it,\u201d notes lead author Kotaro Shimizu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The researchers were successful in showing the relationship between activin A and bone erosion in cholesteatoma. \u201cOur study showed that targeting activin A is a potential treatment in the management of cholesteatomas,\u201d says senior author Masaru Ishii, MD, PhD, professor. Currently in clinical settings, the only effective treatment for cholesteatomas is complete surgical removal. However, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}