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Du H, Ye C, Wu D, Zang YY, Zhang L, Chen C, He XY, Yang JJ, Hu P, Xu Z, Wan G, Shi YS. The Cation Channel TMEM63B Is an Osmosensor Required for Hearing. Cell Rep 2021; 31:107596. [PMID: 32375046 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.107596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2019] [Revised: 02/21/2020] [Accepted: 04/10/2020] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Hypotonic stress causes the activation of swelling-activated nonselective cation channels (NSCCs), which leads to Ca2+-dependent regulatory volume decrease (RVD) and adaptive maintenance of the cell volume; however, the molecular identities of the osmosensitive NSCCs remain unclear. Here, we identified TMEM63B as an osmosensitive NSCC activated by hypotonic stress. TMEM63B is enriched in the inner ear sensory hair cells. Genetic deletion of TMEM63B results in necroptosis of outer hair cells (OHCs) and progressive hearing loss. Mechanistically, the TMEM63B channel mediates hypo-osmolarity-induced Ca2+ influx, which activates Ca2+-dependent K+ channels required for the maintenance of OHC morphology. These findings demonstrate that TMEM63B is an osmosensor of the mammalian inner ear and the long-sought cation channel mediating Ca2+-dependent RVD.
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- Han Du
- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Department of Neurology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210032, China; Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Model Animal for Disease Study, Model Animal Research Center, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210032, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Department of Neurology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210032, China; Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Model Animal for Disease Study, Model Animal Research Center, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210032, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Department of Neurology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210032, China; Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Model Animal for Disease Study, Model Animal Research Center, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210032, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Department of Neurology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210032, China; Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Model Animal for Disease Study, Model Animal Research Center, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210032, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Model Animal for Disease Study, Model Animal Research Center, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210032, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Model Animal for Disease Study, Model Animal Research Center, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210032, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Model Animal for Disease Study, Model Animal Research Center, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210032, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan Province 450052, China
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- Department of Prenatal Diagnosis, Women's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing Maternity and Child Healthcare Hospital, Nanjing 210004, China
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- Department of Prenatal Diagnosis, Women's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing Maternity and Child Healthcare Hospital, Nanjing 210004, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Model Animal for Disease Study, Model Animal Research Center, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210032, China; Institute for Brain Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210032, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Department of Neurology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210032, China; Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Model Animal for Disease Study, Model Animal Research Center, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210032, China; Institute for Brain Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210032, China; Chemistry and Biomedicine Innovation Center, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210032, China.
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Farahbakhsh NA, Narins PM. Slow motility in hair cells of the frog amphibian papilla: Ca2+-dependent shape changes. Hear Res 2006; 212:140-59. [PMID: 16426781 DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2005.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2005] [Accepted: 11/23/2005] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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We investigated the process of slow motility in non-mammalian auditory hair cells by recording the time course of shape change in hair cells of the frog amphibian papilla. The tall hair cells in the rostral segment of this organ, reported to be the sole recipients of efferent innervation, were found to shorten in response to an increase in the concentration of the intracellular free calcium. These shortenings are composed of two partially-overlapping phases: an initial rapid iso-volumetric contraction, followed by a slower length decrease accompanied with swelling. It is possible to unmask the iso-volumetric contraction by delaying the cell swelling with the help of K+ or Cl- channel inhibitors, quinine or furosemide. Furthermore, it appears that the longitudinal contraction in these cells is Ca2+-calmodulin-dependent: in the presence of W-7, a calmodulin inhibitor, only a slow, swelling phase could be observed. These findings suggest that amphibian rostral AP hair cells resemble their mammalian counterparts in expressing both a Ca2+-calmodulin-dependent contractile structure and an "osmotic" mechanism capable of mediating length change in response to extracellular stimuli. Such a mechanism might be utilized by the efferent neurotransmitters for adaptive modulation of mechano-electrical transduction, sensitivity enhancement, frequency selectivity, and protection against over-stimulation.
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- Nasser A Farahbakhsh
- Department of Physiological Science, 621 Charles E. Young Drive S. University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1606, USA.
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Farkas Z, Sziklai I. Potassium-induced slow motility is partially calcium-dependent in isolated outer hair cells. Acta Otolaryngol 2003; 123:160-3. [PMID: 12701732 DOI: 10.1080/0036554021000028127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Low flow rate (0.6 microl/min) administration of high concentration potassium solutions (12.5, 25 and 37.5 mM) was tested for evoking slow-motility length changes in isolated, apical turn, guinea pig outer hair cells (OHCs) (length 65-80 microm; n = 38). Control OHCs (n = 16) showed a flow rate-dependent, reversible, longitudinal shortening of 0.5-3 microm during perfusion with normal saline. Potassium, an effective depolarizing agent for OHCs, induced a concentration-dependent cell shortening of 0.5-13 microm. These cell shape changes were reversible. The magnitude of shortening was significantly (p < 0.01) decreased in a calcium-free incubation medium (n = 8). The velocity of the shortening was 300 nm/s in the first 10 s after application of 37.5 mM K+ in a normal incubation medium and decreased to 100 nm/s during the next 10 s. Corresponding velocities in calcium-free solutions were 100 and 50 nm/s, respectively. K+-induced shortening velocities were not significantly different from control values after 30 s. It appears that K+-induced OHC shortening is sensitive to the calcium content of the incubation medium during the first 10 s. Higher flow rate (1.5 microl/min) administration of K+ makes the velocity and magnitude of slow motility of OHCs insensitive to the absence of calcium. These results highlight the fact that one of the critical technical points in fluid perfusion experiments with isolated OHCs is selecting a safe low flow rate of < 0.6 microl/min. At this perfusion rate, K+-induced OHC shortening is composed of both calcium-sensitive and -insensitive components.
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- Zsolt Farkas
- Clinic of Otorhinolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, Debrecen University, Debrecen, Hungary
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Taurine is the second most abundant free amino acid in the brain where its osmoregulatory function is well established. Taurine-deprived kittens show retinal pathology leading to blindness. In the inner ear, taurine has been reported to be the most abundant free amino acid although its role in inner ear function is not known. Immunohistochemistry was employed here to investigate the localisation of taurine in normal cochleae of the guinea pig compared with two different conditions: experimentally induced endolymphatic hydrops and after oral administration of glycerol. In normal cochleae, by light microscopy, taurine-like immunoreaction was never observed in the sensory outer hair cells and appeared absent from the inner hair cells. In contrast taurine-like immunolabeling was found to be present in all supporting tissue with the striking exception of the tectorial membrane and the outer pillar cell which had no or little taurine immunoreactivity respectively. In early experimental endolymphatic hydrops, the distribution of taurine-like immunoreactivity appeared similar to that observed for normal cochleae. In long-term hydrops, degenerated outer hair cells were replaced by the swelling of the phalangeal process of the Deiters' cells which became highly immunoreactive to taurine. After glycerol administration, the tectorial membrane became more tightly bound to the apical surface of the sensory hair cells and distinctly immunoreactive to taurine. The localisation of taurine in the organ of Corti shown here is consistent with taurine being involved in the maintenance of osmotic equilibrium in the normal and perhaps also in the restructuration of the pathological organ of Corti.
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MESH Headings
- Administration, Oral
- Animals
- Cochlea/chemistry
- Cochlea/cytology
- Edema/chemically induced
- Edema/metabolism
- Edema/physiopathology
- Endolymph/chemistry
- Female
- Glycerol/administration & dosage
- Glycerol/toxicity
- Guinea Pigs
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Inner/chemistry
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Inner/cytology
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Outer/chemistry
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Outer/cytology
- Immune Sera/immunology
- Immunohistochemistry
- Solvents/administration & dosage
- Solvents/toxicity
- Taurine/analysis
- Taurine/immunology
- Tectorial Membrane/chemistry
- Vestibular Nucleus, Lateral/chemistry
- Vestibular Nucleus, Lateral/cytology
- Water-Electrolyte Balance
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- K C Horner
- INSERM, Laboratoire d'Audiologie Expérimentale, Université Bordeaux II, France
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Kempf HG, Zimmermann U, Zenner HP. Preservation of the non-rectangular cuticular plate/cell axis angle of outer hair cells. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol 1996; 253:5-10. [PMID: 8932421 DOI: 10.1007/bf00176694] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Motile properties of outer hair cells (OHCs) may contribute to sharp tuning and amplification in the mammalian cochlea. Shape changes of isolated OHCs in response to various physical and chemical influences have been investigated intensively. However, determinations of shape may have been influenced by unanticipated effects of preparation and preservation of the OHCs investigated. Thus, in a first step, lengths of freshly isolated OHCs from the guinea pig cochlea were determined using a video-enhancing magnification system. The cuticular plate/cell axis angle (CP/CA angle) was then measured in native cells and under the influence of potassium chloride and potassium gluconate incubation. To show the influence of glutaraldehyde (GA) fixation on the isolated OHCs, fixative-dependent changes on cell length and CP/CA angle were recorded in native and preincubated OHCs. In these experiments, the cell length of vital isolated OHCs was between 41.5 micrometers, in the basal turn, and 103.7 micrometers, in the apical turn. The average CP/CA angle was 106 degrees +/- 4.2 degrees (n = 324 cells, turns 1-4) with no statistically significant differences for the four turns. Under the influence of potassium chloride, cell length was reduced by 8.1%. Potassium gluconate incubation led to a shortening of cell length, followed by a 5.3% increase after 5 min. The CP/CA angle under potassium chloride was decreased (97.0 degrees) and was then increased under the influence of potassium gluconate (110.7 degrees) as a result of cuticular plate tilting. Cell shrinkage after fixation depended on the fixative's osmolarity and on the GA concentration. Increased GA levels amplified cell shrinkage from 34% for hypo-osmolar solutions to 15% in iso-osmolar and 29% in hyperosmolar solutions. The CP/CA angle of native and incubated OHCs was not different from those fixed with GA. The present data provide a rational basis for isolated OHC shape parameters. Moreover, functionally induced changes can be better interpreted when OHCs are influenced by fixatives, as shown in the GA experiments.
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- H G Kempf
- Department of Otolaryngology, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Germany
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Harada N, Ernst A, Zenner HP. Intracellular calcium changes by hyposmotic activation of cochlear outer hair cells in the guinea pig. Acta Otolaryngol 1994; 114:510-5. [PMID: 7825432 DOI: 10.3109/00016489409126095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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During continued exposure to a hypotonic solution, isolated outer hair cells (OHCs) from the guinea pig cochlea showed a regulatory volume decrease (RVD) after initial cell swelling. In the absence of extracellular Ca2+, RVD was significantly inhibited. Using Ca(2+)-sensitive dye fura-2, accompanying changes of the intracellular Ca2+ concentrations ([Ca2+]i) of OHC were investigated. Hyposmotic activation resulted in a [Ca2+]i increase associated with cell shortening and swelling. In a Ca(2+)-free solution, [Ca2+]i was not significantly increased during hyposmotic activation although shortening and swelling of the OHC was observed. These results suggest that the increase in [Ca2+]i during hyposmotic activation is mainly based on an influx or extracellular Ca2+ which precedes the RVD.
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- N Harada
- Department of Otolaryngology, University of Tubingen, Germany
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Chertoff ME, Brownell WE. Characterization of cochlear outer hair cell turgor. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 1994; 266:C467-79. [PMID: 8141262 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.1994.266.2.c467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The cochlear outer hair cell (OHC) is a cylindrical cell with structural features suggestive of a hydraulic skeleton, i.e., an elastic shell with a positive internal pressure. This study characterizes the role of the OHC elevated cytoplasmic pressure in maintaining the cell shape. Intracellular pressure of OHCs from guinea pig is estimated by measuring changes in cell morphology in response to increasing or decreasing osmolarity. Cells collapse when subjected to a continuous increase in osmolarity. Collapse occurs at an average of 8 mosM above the standard medium, suggesting that normal cells have an effective intracellular pressure of 128 mmHg. Fewer cells collapse when exposed to slow rates of osmolarity increase than cells exposed to fast rates of osmolarity increase, although the final change in osmolarity in the perfusion chamber is similar. Furthermore, cells undergo a slow, spontaneous increase in volume on exposure to either no osmolarity change or slow rates of osmolarity increase, suggesting that the cell's internal osmolarity increases in vitro. After volume reduction or elevation, cells do not return to their initial volume.
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- M E Chertoff
- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205-2196
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We used electron-probe analysis (EPA) to investigate the transport of the divalent cations calcium and magnesium across the plasma membranes of hair cells. Unlike ion-sensitive fluorescent dyes, EPA detects these ions regardless of the state of chemical combination inside the cell; changes in these cell ions determined by EPA indicate net transport across the cell membrane. Raising or lowering either extracellular divalent cation within 1 mM of its control level raised or lowered its cell contents, but further increases in extracellular concentration of either ion had little additional effect on the cell content of that ion. New steady-state contents could be obtained within minutes, but the net divalent cation currents required to account for the observed changes would have been smaller than most currents recorded electrophysiologically, less than 1 pA. The effects of replacing extracellular Na+ with other ions were consistent with the presence in hair cells of exchangers for divalent cations thought to occur in other tissues: electrically neutral sodium/magnesium exchange (2 Na+ per Mg2+) and electrogenic sodium/calcium exchange (at least 3 Na+ per Ca2+). The increase in cell Ca after 1 minute of potassium-depolarization was similar to that expected from electrophysiological studies of voltage-sensitive calcium currents in goldfish hair cells. After that time in elevated potassium, however, either calcium-entry pathways were inhibited or calcium-export mechanisms were enhanced.
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- E A Mroz
- Eaton-Peabody Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston 02114
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Many cells placed in a hypotonic medium initially swell and then rapidly undergo a regulatory volume decrease (RVD) to return towards original volume. Re-exposure to the isotonic solution results in the cells shrinking followed by a regulatory volume increase (RVI). Previous studies have shown that isolated outer hair cells (OHCs) placed in a hypotonic medium swell and maintain this shape until returned to the original medium. We re-examined this apparent lack of cell volume regulation in OHCs. OHCs were isolated from guinea pig cochleae, mechanically dissociated and dispersed, and placed in a Hank's balanced salt solution (HBS). In the cells studied, switching the perfusate to a hypotonic HBS (290-280 mmol/kg) for 15 min resulted in an immediate shortening of the OHCs (i.e., volume increase). In 26% of the cells, this increase was followed by a return to original length during the time the cell was perfused with the hypotonic medium, a RVD. Twelve percent of the cells demonstrating a RVD also displayed a RVI. Omitting collagenase and increasing Ca2+ concentration did not increase the percentage of cells displaying a RVD, while gadolinium (Gd3+, 10 microM) decreased the percentage to zero. This is the first report of isolated OHCs undergoing cell volume regulation.
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- J R Crist
- Kresge Hearing Research Laboratory of the South, Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Biocommunication, Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans 70112
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Freeman DM, Hendrix DK, Shah D, Fan LF, Weiss TF. Effect of lymph composition on an in vitro preparation of the alligator lizard cochlea. Hear Res 1993; 65:83-98. [PMID: 8458762 DOI: 10.1016/0378-5955(93)90204-e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The effects of different artificial lymphs on the cochlear duct of the alligator lizard were studied in an in vitro preparation. The duct was dissected and cemented to the glass floor of a chamber that had been filled with an artificial lymph. The vestibular membrane was removed and latex beads (1-5 microns in diameter) were allowed to settle on the endolymphatic surface of the duct. During perfusion with an artificial lymph solution, the positions of beads were measured and video images of the duct were obtained. Artificial lymphs were isosmotic and included artificial endolymph (AE), artificial perilymph (AP), Leibovitz's L-15 culture medium, an AE solution whose calcium concentration was the same as that of AP, and AE and AP solutions in which gluconate was substituted for chloride ions. Results obtained in AE were consistently different from those in other lymphs. The displacements of beads, the projected area of the papilla, the occurrence of blebs, and direct observation of cells in the duct all indicated that the tissue swelled in AE (with or without 2 mmol/l Ca) but showed no consistent shrinking or swelling in any of the other artificial lymphs. Thus for the solutions we used, the presence of both potassium and chloride was required to elicit the swelling response to isosmotic artificial lymphs. There were some regional differences in the swelling response: the swelling of the endolymphatic surface of the tissue in a direction orthogonal to the basilar membrane surface was smaller on the free-standing region of the basilar papilla than either on the tectorial membrane or on the hyaline epithelial cells. The preparation was osmotically stable in AP and in both AE and AP solutions in which gluconate was substituted for chloride ions. After exposure to these solutions for as much as 300 min, the preparation showed no gross signs of deterioration visible with the light microscope, and continued to exhibit a highly specific osmotic response to the composition of the bathing medium.
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- D M Freeman
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
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Sunose H, Ikeda K, Saito Y, Nishiyama A, Takasaka T. Membrane potential measurement in isolated outer hair cells of the guinea pig cochlea using conventional microelectrodes. Hear Res 1992; 62:237-44. [PMID: 1429266 DOI: 10.1016/0378-5955(92)90190-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Membrane potential of the isolated outer hair cells (OHCs) from the guinea pig cochlea was measured using conventional microelectrodes filled with 200 mM KCl. The resting membrane potential during superfusion with the standard physiological saline solution containing 3.5 mM K+ was -47.3 +/- 1.4 mV (N = 72), which was higher than those previously reported for isolated OHCs studied by using microelectrodes. Addition of ouabain (10(-5)-10(-3) M), the specific Na+, K+ ATPase inhibitor, depolarized the cell slowly and progressively, indicating the presence of low but definite Na+, K+ ATPase activity in the plasma membrane of OHCs. The magnitude of membrane potential was mainly dependent on the extracellular K+ concentration ([K+]O). A ten-fold increase of [K+]O depolarized the membrane potential by 49.6 +/- 1.0 mV (N = 58). A decrease of [Na+]O to one tenth of the control hyperpolarized the membrane potential by about 2 mV. Decreasing extracellular Cl- from 131.3 mM to 27.5 mM did not cause a significant change in the membrane potential. Using the Goldman-Hodgkin-Katz equation, assuming a negligible contribution of Cl- to the membrane potential and total monovalent cat ion concentration of the cytosol similar to the extracellular fluid, we calculated the permeability ratio of K+ versus Na+ to 131 +/- 19 and intracellular K+ concentration to 33.3 +/- 1.9 mM.
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- H Sunose
- Department of Otolaryngology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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In general, increasing external K+ concentration, as well as exposure to hypotonic medium, induces a shortening of outer hair cells (OHCs) accompanied by an increase in width and volume. One possible mechanism suggested for these changes is a movement of Cl- and/or water across the cell membrane. We therefore examined the role of Cl- in OHC volume maintenance by testing the effect of decreasing extracellular Cl- concentration on OHC length and shape. In addition, the effect of hypotonic medium was examined. OHCs were isolated from guinea pig cochleae, mechanically dissociated and dispersed, and placed in a modified Hanks balanced salt solution (HBS). Exposing the cells to a Cl(-)-free HBS produced an initial shortening, which was rapidly followed by an increase in length. After about 9 min of exposure to Cl(-)-free HBS, the cells appeared to lose all water and collapsed. Upon return to normal HBS, the OHCs returned to their normal shape. We speculate that the collapse of the OHCs may be due to the loss of intracellular Cl-, which, in turn, resulted in the loss of intracellular K+ and water. The results indicate that Cl- contributes greatly to the maintenance of OHC volume. In addition, we confirmed that isolated OHCs swell in hypotonic medium and maintain their swollen state until returned to normal medium. The mechanism for maintenance of the swollen state is unknown.
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- R P Cecola
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Biocommunication, Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans
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Dulon D, Zajic G, Schacht J. Differential motile response of isolated inner and outer hair cells to stimulation by potassium and calcium ions. Hear Res 1991; 52:225-31. [PMID: 2061210 DOI: 10.1016/0378-5955(91)90202-k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Inner and outer hair cells were mechanically isolated from the guinea pig cochlea and subjected to stimuli known to induce shape changes in outer hair cells. Depolarization by 70 mM KCl which causes osmotic swelling of outer hair cells also swelled inner hair cells by approximately 8% of their volume. The application of the calcium ionophore ionomycin which induces cortical contractions and elongation of outer hair cells, did not affect the shape of inner hair cells. Since ionomycin increased free intracellular calcium levels in both inner and outer hair cells, the results demonstrate that inner hair cells do not possess the mechanisms necessary for a contractile response to calcium. Thus, calcium is a specific regulator of outer hair cell motility making this mechanism a likely physiological modulator of a transduction feedback process.
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- D Dulon
- Kresge Hearing Research Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-0506
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Lefebvre PP, Weber T, Rigo JM, Delree P, Leprince P, Moonen G. Potassium-induced release of an endogenous toxic activity for outer hair cells and auditory neurons in the cochlea: a new pathophysiological mechanism in Menière's disease? Hear Res 1990; 47:83-93. [PMID: 2228800 DOI: 10.1016/0378-5955(90)90168-o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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In Menière's disease, the increase of extracellular potassium concentration in the perilymph is thought to play a key role in determining the progressive loss of cochlear hair cells. In this paper, we describe a serum-free culture preparation of hair cells from 5 day-old rat and report the release by the cochlea, in response to an increase of extracellular potassium concentration, of a cytotoxic activity active on hair cells and auditory neurons. The toxic activity is associated with low molecular weight (less than 10,000 Dalton) molecule(s) as revealed by ultrafiltration. Morphological studies performed on the organ of Corti incubated during 24 h in the presence of the cochlea-derived toxic activity (CTA), show that this factor is toxic for hair cells and not for supporting or surrounding cells. The release of CTA occurs both in the spiral ganglion and in the organ of Corti. We suggest that this cochlea-derived toxic activity may play an important role in the pathophysiology of the hearing loss that occurs during the progression of Menière's disease.
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- P P Lefebvre
- Department of Human Physiology and Pathophysiology, University of Liège, Belgium
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Patuzzi R, Rajan R. Does electrical stimulation of the crossed olivo-cochlear bundle produce movement of the organ of Corti? Hear Res 1990; 45:15-32. [PMID: 2345114 DOI: 10.1016/0378-5955(90)90179-s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Low-frequency microphonic waveforms have been recorded in the basal turn of the guinea pig cochlea with and without electrical stimulation of the crossed olivocochlear bundle (COCB) at the floor of the fourth ventricle. Stimulation of the COCB increased the amplitude of the microphonic waveforms as described previously, but did not alter the shape of the waveforms markedly. The changes observed with COCB stimulation are consistent with a reduction in the impedance of the basolateral wall of the outer hair cells by about 50%, and possibly a 20% increase in the vibration of the organ of Corti at low frequencies, but suggest little or no change in the operating point on the transfer curve relating deflection of the hair bundles to the receptor current through the hair cells. It therefore seems that if slow contraction of the outer hair cells occurs during acute efferent stimulation in vivo, then it produces only a small deflection of the outer hair cell stereocilia, equivalent to a transverse displacement of the organ of Corti of less than 1.5 nm.
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- R Patuzzi
- Department of Physiology, University of Western Australia, Nedlands
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Outer hair cell electromotility is a rapid, force generating, length change in response to electrical stimulation. DC electrical pulses either elongate or shorten the cell and sinusoidal electrical stimulation results in mechanical oscillations at acoustic frequencies. The mechanism underlying outer hair cell electromotility is thought to be the origin of spontaneous otoacoustic emissions. The ability of the cell to change its length requires that it be mechanically flexible. At the same time the structural integrity of the organ of Corti requires that the cell possess considerable compressive rigidity along its major axis. Evolution appears to have arrived at novel solutions to the mechanical requirements imposed on the outer hair cell. Segregation of cytoskeletal elements in specific intracellular domains facilitates the rapid movements. Compressive strength is provided by a unique hydraulic skeleton in which a positive hydrostatic pressure in the cytoplasm stabilizes a flexible elastic cortex with circumferential tensile strength. Cell turgor is required in order that the pressure gradients associated with the electromotile response can be communicated to the ends of the cell. A loss in turgor leads to loss of outer hair cell electromotility. Concentrations of salicylate equivalent to those that abolish spontaneous otoacoustic emissions in patients weaken the outer hair cell's hydraulic skeleton. There is a significant diminution in the electromotile response associated with the loss in cell turgor. Aspirin's effect on outer hair cell electromotility attests to the role of the outer hair cell in generating otoacoustic emissions and demonstrates how their physiology can influence the propagation of otoacoustic emissions.
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- W E Brownell
- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205-2195
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The Effect of Cytoplasmic Turgor Pressure on the Static and Dynamic Mechanical Properties of Outer Hair Cells. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1990. [DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4757-4341-8_7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/22/2023]
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Dulon D, Zajic G, Aran JM, Schacht J. Aminoglycoside antibiotics impair calcium entry but not viability and motility in isolated cochlear outer hair cells. J Neurosci Res 1989; 24:338-46. [PMID: 2585554 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.490240226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Cochlear outer hair cells have been well established as primary targets of the ototoxic actions of aminoglycoside antibiotics. These cells, isolated from the guinea pig cochlea and maintained in short-term culture, were used as a model for evaluating the acute effects of gentamicin on cell viability, depolarization-induced transmembrane calcium flux, and depolarization-induced motile responses. On the basis of morphology and fluorochromasia, the presence of extracellular gentamicin as high as 5 mM did not affect the viability of the cells for up to 6 hr, the longest time tested. Viable cells showed binding of fluorescently tagged gentamicin to their base but excluded the drug from their cytoplasm. In response to [K+]-depolarization, intracellular calcium levels (monitored with the fluorescent calcium-sensitive dye fluo-3) increased from a resting value of 218 +/- 102 nM to 2,018 +/- 1,077 nM concomitant with a cell shortening of 0.7% +/- 1.3%. The depolarization-induced calcium increase was apparently caused by calcium entry into the cell as it was inhibited by the calcium-channel blocker methoxyverapamil and prevented in the absence of extracellular calcium. Both gentamicin and neomycin blocked the [K+]-induced calcium increase at an IC50 of 50 microM. Despite the inhibition of calcium entry the ability of the outer hair cells to shorten under [K+]-depolarization was not impaired; in fact, cell shortening was even more pronounced in the absence of calcium influx (2.6% +/- 1.4%). This argues effectively against the existence of a calcium-dependent actomyosin-mediated component in [K+]-induced shape changes.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- D Dulon
- Kresge Hearing Research Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-0506
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Ulfendahl M, Flock A, Khanna SM. A temporal bone preparation for the study of cochlear micromechanics at the cellular level. Hear Res 1989; 40:55-64. [PMID: 2768083 DOI: 10.1016/0378-5955(89)90099-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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An in vitro preparation of the guinea pig temporal bone was developed for studying the micromechanical behaviour of the cochlea. The preparation consists of the cochlea opened at the apex, allowing observation of cellular structures within the cochlear partition with an optical sectioning microscope and measurements of cellular vibration with laser interferometry. The middle ear ossicles and the tympanic membrane are left intact as well as the bony part of the external auditory canal, which is used for delivering a sound stimulus to the cochlea.
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- M Ulfendahl
- Department of Physiology II, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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Ulfendahl M, Khanna SM, Flock A. Effects of caffeine on the micromechanics of the isolated cochlea. ACTA OTO-LARYNGOLOGICA. SUPPLEMENTUM 1989; 467:221-8. [PMID: 2626932 DOI: 10.3109/00016488909138341] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- M Ulfendahl
- Department of Physiology II, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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