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Gao L, Wang J, Liang J, Yao W, Zhou L, Huang X. Study of fatigue damage to the cochlea. Comput Methods Biomech Biomed Engin 2023; 26:2047-2056. [PMID: 36629847 DOI: 10.1080/10255842.2022.2164712] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2022] [Revised: 11/17/2022] [Accepted: 12/28/2022] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
Abstract
In order to explore the hearing loss resulting from exposure to continuous or intermittent loud noise. A three-dimensional liquid-solid coupling finite element model of spiral cochlea was established. The reliability of the model was verified, and the stress and amplitude of the basilar membrane of the pivotal structure in cochlea were analyzed. The results show that under the action of the same high-pressure sound, the preferential fatigue area of the cochlear high-frequency area mainly causes fatigue in the cochlear. The safer area is a sound pressure level below 70 dB, while one above 90 dB accelerates damage to the ear.
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- Lei Gao
- School of Mechanics and Engineering Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
- Shanghai Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
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- School of Mechanics and Engineering Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
- Shanghai Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
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- Genomic Medicine Institute, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- School of Mechanics and Engineering Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
- Shanghai Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
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- Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Hockley A, Cassinotti LR, Selesko M, Corfas G, Shore SE. Cochlear synaptopathy impairs suprathreshold tone-in-noise coding in the cochlear nucleus. J Physiol 2023; 601:2991-3006. [PMID: 37212296 PMCID: PMC10374284 DOI: 10.1113/jp284452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2023] [Accepted: 05/16/2023] [Indexed: 05/23/2023] Open
Abstract
Hearing impairment without threshold elevations can occur when there is damage to high-threshold auditory nerve fibre synapses with cochlear inner hair cells. Instead, cochlear synaptopathy produces suprathreshold deficits, especially in older patients, which affect conversational speech. Given that listening in noise at suprathreshold levels presents significant challenges to the ageing population, we examined the effects of synaptopathy on tone-in-noise coding on the central recipients of auditory nerve fibres, i.e. the cochlear nucleus neurons. To induce synaptopathy, guinea pigs received a unilateral sound overexposure to the left ears. A separate group received sham exposures. At 4 weeks post-exposure, thresholds had recovered but reduced auditory brainstem response wave 1 amplitudes and auditory nerve synapse loss remained on the left side. Single-unit responses were recorded from several cell types in the ventral cochlear nucleus to pure-tone and noise stimuli. Receptive fields and rate-level functions in the presence of continuous broadband noise were examined. The synaptopathy-inducing noise exposure did not affect mean unit tone-in-noise thresholds, nor the tone-in-noise thresholds in each animal, demonstrating equivalent tone-in-noise detection thresholds to sham animals. However, synaptopathy reduced single-unit responses to suprathreshold tones in the presence of background noise, particularly in the cochlear nucleus small cells. These data demonstrate that suprathreshold tone-in-noise deficits following cochlear synaptopathy are evident in the first neural station of the auditory brain, the cochlear nucleus neurons, and provide a potential target for assessment and treatment of listening-in-noise deficits in humans. KEY POINTS: Recording from multiple central auditory neurons can determine tone-in-noise deficits in animals with quantified cochlear synapse damage. Using this technique, we found that tone-in-noise thresholds are not altered by cochlear synaptopathy, whereas coding of suprathreshold tones-in-noise is disrupted. Suprathreshold deficits occur in small cells and primary-like neurons of the cochlear nucleus. These data provide important insights into the mechanisms underlying difficulties associated with hearing in noisy environments.
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- A Hockley
- Kresge Hearing Research Institute, Department of Otolaryngology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Instituto de Neurociencias de Castilla y León, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
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- Kresge Hearing Research Institute, Department of Otolaryngology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Kresge Hearing Research Institute, Department of Otolaryngology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Kresge Hearing Research Institute, Department of Otolaryngology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Kresge Hearing Research Institute, Department of Otolaryngology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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Xia L, Ripley S, Jiang Z, Yin X, Yu Z, Aiken SJ, Wang J. Synaptopathy in Guinea Pigs Induced by Noise Mimicking Human Experience and Associated Changes in Auditory Signal Processing. Front Neurosci 2022; 16:935371. [PMID: 35873820 PMCID: PMC9298651 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.935371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2022] [Accepted: 06/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Noise induced synaptopathy (NIS) has been researched extensively since a large amount of synaptic loss without permanent threshold shift (PTS) was found in CBA mice after a brief noise exposure. However, efforts to translate these results to humans have met with little success—and might not be possible since noise exposure used in laboratory animals is generally different from what is experienced by human subjects in real life. An additional problem is a lack of morphological data and reliable functional methods to quantify loss of afferent synapses in humans. Based on evidence for disproportionate synaptic loss for auditory nerve fibers (ANFs) with low spontaneous rates (LSR), coding-in-noise deficits (CIND) have been speculated to be the major difficulty associated with NIS without PTS. However, no robust evidence for this is available in humans or animals. This has led to a re-examination of the role of LSR ANFs in signal coding in high-level noise. The fluctuation profile model has been proposed to support a role for high-SR ANFs in the coding of high-level noise in combination with efferent control of cochlear gain. This study aimed to induce NIS by a low-level, intermittent noise exposure mimicking what is experienced in human life and examined the impact of the NIS on temporal processing under masking. It also evaluated the role of temporal fluctuation in evoking efferent feedback and the effects of NIS on this feedback.
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- Li Xia
- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Mianyang Central Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Mianyang, China
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- School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Mianyang Central Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Mianyang, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Mianyang Central Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Mianyang, China
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- School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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- School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Mianyang Central Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Mianyang, China.,School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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Dose-Dependent Pattern of Cochlear Synaptic Degeneration in C57BL/6J Mice Induced by Repeated Noise Exposure. Neural Plast 2021; 2021:9919977. [PMID: 34221004 PMCID: PMC8211526 DOI: 10.1155/2021/9919977] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2021] [Revised: 04/01/2021] [Accepted: 05/25/2021] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
Abstract
It is widely accepted that even a single acute noise exposure at moderate intensity that induces temporary threshold shift (TTS) can result in permanent loss of ribbon synapses between inner hair cells and afferents. However, effects of repeated or chronic noise exposures on the cochlear synapses especially medial olivocochlear (MOC) efferent synapses remain elusive. Based on a weeklong repeated exposure model of bandwidth noise over 2-20 kHz for 2 hours at seven intensities (88 to 106 dB SPL with 3 dB increment per gradient) on C57BL/6J mice, we attempted to explore the dose-response mechanism of prolonged noise-induced audiological dysfunction and cochlear synaptic degeneration. In our results, mice repeatedly exposed to relatively low-intensity noise (88, 91, and 94 dB SPL) showed few changes on auditory brainstem response (ABR), ribbon synapses, or MOC efferent synapses. Notably, repeated moderate-intensity noise exposures (97 and 100 dB SPL) not only caused hearing threshold shifts and the inner hair cell ribbon synaptopathy but also impaired MOC efferent synapses, which might contribute to complex patterns of damages on cochlear function and morphology. However, repeated high-intensity (103 and 106 dB SPL) noise exposures induced PTSs mainly accompanied by damages on cochlear amplifier function of outer hair cells and the inner hair cell ribbon synaptopathy, rather than the MOC efferent synaptic degeneration. Moreover, we observed a frequency-dependent vulnerability of the repeated acoustic trauma-induced cochlear synaptic degeneration. This study provides a sight into the hypothesis that noise-induced cochlear synaptic degeneration involves both afferent (ribbon synapses) and efferent (MOC terminals) pathology. The pattern of dose-dependent pathological changes induced by repeated noise exposure at various intensities provides a possible explanation for the complicated cochlear synaptic degeneration in humans. The underlying mechanisms remain to be studied in the future.
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Xiao L, Sun Y, Liu C, Zheng Z, Shen Y, Xia L, Yang G, Feng Y. Molecular Behavior of HMGB1 in the Cochlea Following Noise Exposure and in vitro. Front Cell Dev Biol 2021; 9:642946. [PMID: 33732708 PMCID: PMC7959764 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2021.642946] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2020] [Accepted: 02/05/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) is characterized by cellular damage to the inner ear, which is exacerbated by inflammation. High-mobility group box 1 (HMGB1), a representative damage-associated molecular pattern (DAMP), acts as a mediator of inflammation or an intercellular messenger according to its cellular localization. Blocking or regulating HMGB1 offers an attractive approach in ameliorating NIHL. However, the precise therapeutic intervention must be based on a deeper understanding of its dynamic molecular distribution and function in cochlear pathogenesis after acoustic trauma. Here, we have presented the spatiotemporal dynamics of the expression of HMGB1, exhibiting distribution variability in specific cochlear regions and cells following noise exposure. After gene manipulation, we further investigated the characteristics of cellular HMGB1 in HEI-OC1 cells. The higher cell viability observed in the HMGB1 knocked-down group after stimulation with H2O2 indicated the possible negative effect of HMGB1 on cellular lifespan. In conclusion, this study demonstrated that HMGB1 is involved in NIHL pathogenesis and its molecular biology has essential and subtle influences, preserving a translational potential for pharmacological intervention.
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- Lili Xiao
- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, China.,Otolaryngology Institute of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.,Shanghai Key Laboratory of Sleep Disordered Breathing, Shanghai, China
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- Zhangjiagang TCM Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Zhangjiagang, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, China.,Otolaryngology Institute of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.,Shanghai Key Laboratory of Sleep Disordered Breathing, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, China.,Otolaryngology Institute of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.,Shanghai Key Laboratory of Sleep Disordered Breathing, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, China.,Otolaryngology Institute of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.,Shanghai Key Laboratory of Sleep Disordered Breathing, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, China.,Otolaryngology Institute of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.,Shanghai Key Laboratory of Sleep Disordered Breathing, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, China.,Otolaryngology Institute of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.,Shanghai Key Laboratory of Sleep Disordered Breathing, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, China.,Otolaryngology Institute of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.,Shanghai Key Laboratory of Sleep Disordered Breathing, Shanghai, China
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