“…In our cell culture experiments, consistent with many previous inner ear studies [[78], [79], [80], [81], [82]], we also used the HC-like OC-1 cell line, which is an immortalized cochlear sensory epithelial cell line that was derived from the organ of Corti of rats and that expresses multiple HC markers. OC-1 cells were cultured in a 37 °C incubator with 5% CO 2 in MEM supplemented with 20 mM HEPES, 2 mM l -glutamine, 10 mL/L nonessential amino acids, 0.4 μg/mL hydrocortisone, 5 μg/mL insulin, 2.5 μg/mL transferrin, 10 ng/mL EGF, 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS, Gibco, 10099141), 50 μg/mL streptomycin, and 50 units/mL penicillin.…”