COMPOSITION COMPRISING BILBERRY EXTRACT AS ACTIVE INGREDIENT FOR PREVENTING OR TREATING SENSORINEURAL HEARING IMPAIRMENT

摘要

The present invention relates to a composition comprising a bilberry extract as an active ingredient for preventing or treating sensorineural hearing impairment. The bilberry extract was found to exhibit effects of inhibiting the apoptosis of auditory cells in which sensorineural damage has been induced by neomycin and increasing a reduced number of hair cells in juvenile zebra fishes such that the composition comprising the bilberry extract as an active ingredient can be provided as a pharmaceutical composition and a health food for preventing or treating various hearing impairments induced by sensorineural damage.