FIELD: cell biology; medicine.SUBSTANCE: present invention relates to methods for identifying precursors of human auditory cells in a mixed population of cells, a method of enriching human auditory cell precursors from a mixed population of cells, as well as a method of producing a population of auditory cell precursors. To implement the disclosed methods, it is determined whether a cell contains at least two surface markers selected from SSEA1, GD3, TRA-2-49, SSEA4, GD2 and CD141, in which cell markers SSEA1, GD3, TRA-2-49, SSEA4 and GD2 are positive cell markers, and in which the cell marker CD141 is a negative cell marker.EFFECT: present invention enables to identify and isolate auditory cells from a mixed cell culture.18 cl, 12 dwg, 4 tbl, 1 ex
IDENTIFICATION AND ISOLATION OF HUMAN AUDITORY CELL PRECURSORS