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We aimed to investigate the effects and mechanisms of Hericium erinaceus (HE) on hearing degeneration. By a double-blind, randomized, clinical trial, all 80 hearing-impaired patients aged 50–79 were randomly divided into the two groups, which received HE mycelia (2000 mg/day) and placebo boluses for eight months, respectively. A student’s t-test was used to evaluate the differences of the average pure tone hearing threshold of all, low, and high frequencies (PTA-all, PTA-low, and PTA-high); speech recognition threshold (SRT); speech discrimination score (SDS); and serum concentrations of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and neurotrophic growth factor (NGF) between the two study groups. Subgroup analysis by age showed that PTA-high-Right, PTA-all-Left, PTA-high-Left, SRT-Right, SRT-Left, and NGF were significantly different between the two groups among patients aged ≧ 65. HE mycelia treatment could ameliorate hearing loss, especially for high frequencies and speech recognition, and increase NGF in patients aged ≧ 65. |
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