Sensorineural hearing loss due to ototoxic side effects of certain medications, noise trauma, infections or healthy aging is associated with inflammation and robust activation and increase in numbers of macrophages. However, the precise functions of macrophages and inflammation are unclear. In the Kaur Lab, the research aims to understand the complex biology and interactions of immune cells and their effector molecules with the sensory cells in the cochlea of the inner ear and how these interactions influence hearing, hearing loss and sensory cell development, degeneration, repair, survival, and plasticity.
Program Faculty
- Tejbeer Kaur
- Assistant Professor
- Department: Department of Otolaryngology
- Graduate Program(s): Cell and Developmental Biology
- Major Research Interest(s): Neuroscience
- Research Techniques: Cell Biology, Fluorescent and super resolution microscopy, Genetics, Imaging
- Research Organism(s): Mice
- Phone: 1.7322357311
- Email:
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- Daniel I. Kessler Teaching Laboratories, Room 211
- 675 Hoes Lane West
- Piscataway, NJ 08854-5627
- Key Words: Auditory system, Neuroimmunology of hearing and hearing loss, Neurodegeneration, Ototoxicity, Macrophages