Composition for preventing or treating hearing loss, containing Vitis vinifera leaf extract as active ingredient
AssigneeAjou University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
InventorsYun-Hoon Choung, Young Sun Kim, Young-Joon Park
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Abstract
A composition for preventing or treating hearing loss, containing a Vitis vinifera leaf extract as an active ingredient, is disclosed. A pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating hearing loss, containing the extract (a Vitis vinifera leaf extract) as an active ingredient, protects auditory hair cells in the cochlea and spiral ganglion cells from damage caused by noise and the like and effectively reduces the hearing threshold measured in the auditory nerves, thereby being usable as an agent for preventing or treating hearing loss.
Claims5
A method of treating hearing loss in a human in need thereof consisting essentially of administering to the human in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of a Vitis vinifera leaf extract to effectively treat the hearing loss in the human in need thereof, wherein the Vitis vinifera leaf extract is the only active ingredient in the method and wherein the hearing loss is selected from the group consisting of noise-induced hearing loss, ototoxic hearing loss, sudden sensory neural hearing loss, and presbycusis.
A method of treating hearing loss in a human in need thereof consisting essentially of administering to the human in need thereof a mixture of therapeutically effective amounts of Vitis vinifera leaf extract and at least one of Korean red-ginseng extract or Ginkgo biloba leaf extract to effectively treat the hearing loss in the human in need thereof.
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