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Xiong C, Liu X, Kong L, Yan J. Thalamic gating contributes to forward suppression in the auditory cortex. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0236760. [PMID: 32726372 PMCID: PMC7390390 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0236760] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2020] [Accepted: 07/11/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The neural mechanisms underlying forward suppression in the auditory cortex remain a puzzle. Little attention is paid to thalamic contribution despite the important fact that the thalamus gates upstreaming information to the auditory cortex. This study compared the time courses of forward suppression in the auditory thalamus, thalamocortical inputs and cortex using the two-tone stimulus paradigm. The preceding and succeeding tones were 20-ms long. Their frequency and amplitude were set at the characteristic frequency and 20 dB above the minimum threshold of given neurons, respectively. In the ventral division of the medial geniculate body of the thalamus, we found that the duration of complete forward suppression was about 75 ms and the duration of partial suppression was from 75 ms to about 300 ms after the onset of the preceding tone. We also found that during the partial suppression period, the responses to the succeeding tone were further suppressed in the primary auditory cortex. The forward suppression of thalamocortical field excitatory postsynaptic potentials was between those of thalamic and cortical neurons but much closer to that of thalamic ones. Our results indicate that early suppression in the cortex could result from complete suppression in the thalamus whereas later suppression may involve thalamocortical and intracortical circuitry. This suggests that the complete suppression that occurs in the thalamus provides the cortex with a "silence" window that could potentially benefit cortical processing and/or perception of the information carried by the preceding sound.
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- Colin Xiong
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Luo Y, Qu T, Song Q, Qi Y, Yu S, Gong S, Liu K, Jiang X. Repeated Moderate Sound Exposure Causes Accumulated Trauma to Cochlear Ribbon Synapses in Mice. Neuroscience 2020; 429:173-184. [PMID: 31935490 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2019.12.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2019] [Revised: 12/23/2019] [Accepted: 12/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Repeated induction of a temporary threshold shift (TTS) may result in a permanent threshold shift (PTS) and is thought to be associated with early onset of age-related hearing loss (ARHL). The possibility that a PTS might be induced by administration of repeated TTS-inducing noise exposures (NEs) over a short period during early adulthood has not been formally investigated. We aimed to investigate possible cumulative acoustic overstimulation effects that permanently shift the auditory threshold. Young adult C57BL/6J mice were exposed twice to moderate white noise in an experimental design that minimized the effects of aging. The first exposure resulted in a reversible noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) measured as recoverable alterations in auditory brainstem response (ABR) thresholds, waveform amplitudes, and numbers of ribbon synapses. The second NE with the same parameters caused persistent threshold shifts, wave I amplitude reductions, wave IV/I ratio enhancements, and synaptic losses, even though recovery time sufficient for a TTS had been provided. The pattern of PTS resembled NIHL since the observed impairments tonotopically followed the power spectrum of the noise insult, rather than ARHL, which distributes at higher frequencies. No significant changes were observed in the control group as the mice aged. To conclude, our results demonstrate a cumulative effect of repetitive TTS-inducing NE on hearing function and synaptic plasticity that does not cause premature ARHL, thereby providing insight into the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying NIHL and ARHL.
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- Yangtuo Luo
- Department of Otolaryngology, The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110001, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100050, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100050, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100050, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100050, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100050, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100050, China.
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- Department of Otolaryngology, The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110001, China.
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Lin X, Li G, Zhang Y, Zhao J, Lu J, Gao Y, Liu H, Li GL, Yang T, Song L, Wu H. Hearing consequences in Gjb2 knock-in mice: implications for human p.V37I mutation. Aging (Albany NY) 2019; 11:7416-7441. [PMID: 31562289 PMCID: PMC6782001 DOI: 10.18632/aging.102246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2019] [Accepted: 08/22/2019] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Human p.V37I mutation of GJB2 gene was strongly correlated with late-onset progressive hearing loss, especially among East Asia populations. We generated a knock-in mouse model based on human p.V37I variant (c.109G>A) that recapitulated the human phenotype. Cochlear pathology revealed no significant hair cell loss, stria vascularis atrophy or spiral ganglion neuron loss, but a significant change in the length of gap junction plaques, which may have contributed to the observed mild endocochlear potential (EP) drop in homozygous mice lasting lifetime. The cochlear amplification in homozygous mice was compromised, but outer hair cells' function remained unchanged, indicating that the reduced amplification was EP- rather than prestin-generated. In addition to ABR threshold elevation, ABR wave I latencies were also prolonged in aged homozygous animals. We found in homozygous IHCs a significant increase in ICa but no change in Ca2+ efficiency in triggering exocytosis. Environmental insults such as noise exposure, middle ear injection of KCl solution and systemic application of furosemide all exacerbated the pathological phenotype in homozygous mice. We conclude that this Gjb2 mutation-induced hearing loss results from 1) reduced cochlear amplifier caused by lowered EP, 2) IHCs excitotoxicity associated with potassium accumulation around hair cells, and 3) progression induced by environmental insults.
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- Xin Lin
- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200011, China.,Ear Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200125, China.,Shanghai Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine on Ear and Nose diseases, Shanghai 200125, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200011, China.,Ear Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200125, China.,Shanghai Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine on Ear and Nose diseases, Shanghai 200125, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200011, China.,Ear Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200125, China.,Shanghai Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine on Ear and Nose diseases, Shanghai 200125, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200011, China.,Ear Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200125, China.,Shanghai Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine on Ear and Nose diseases, Shanghai 200125, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200011, China.,Ear Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200125, China.,Shanghai Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine on Ear and Nose diseases, Shanghai 200125, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200011, China.,Ear Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200125, China.,Shanghai Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine on Ear and Nose diseases, Shanghai 200125, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200011, China.,Ear Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200125, China.,Shanghai Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine on Ear and Nose diseases, Shanghai 200125, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200011, China.,Ear Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200125, China.,Shanghai Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine on Ear and Nose diseases, Shanghai 200125, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200011, China.,Ear Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200125, China.,Shanghai Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine on Ear and Nose diseases, Shanghai 200125, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200011, China.,Ear Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200125, China.,Shanghai Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine on Ear and Nose diseases, Shanghai 200125, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200011, China.,Ear Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200125, China.,Shanghai Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine on Ear and Nose diseases, Shanghai 200125, China
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Abstract
Insect hearing has independently evolved multiple times in the context of intraspecific communication and predator detection by transforming proprioceptive organs into ears. Research over the past decade, ranging from the biophysics of sound reception to molecular aspects of auditory transduction to the neuronal mechanisms of auditory signal processing, has greatly advanced our understanding of how insects hear. Apart from evolutionary innovations that seem unique to insect hearing, parallels between insect and vertebrate auditory systems have been uncovered, and the auditory sensory cells of insects and vertebrates turned out to be evolutionarily related. This review summarizes our current understanding of insect hearing. It also discusses recent advances in insect auditory research, which have put forward insect auditory systems for studying biological aspects that extend beyond hearing, such as cilium function, neuronal signal computation, and sensory system evolution.
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- Martin C Göpfert
- Department of Cellular Neurobiology, University of Göttingen, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany;
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- Department of Biology, Behavioral Physiology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-10115 Berlin, Germany;
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Watson CJ, Lies SM, Minich RR, Tempel BL. Changes in cochlear PMCA2 expression correlate with the maturation of auditory sensitivity. J Assoc Res Otolaryngol 2014; 15:543-54. [PMID: 24799196 PMCID: PMC4141437 DOI: 10.1007/s10162-014-0454-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2014] [Accepted: 03/26/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
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The plasma membrane Ca(2+) ATPase 2 (PMCA2) is necessary for auditory transduction and serves as the primary Ca(2+) extrusion mechanism in auditory stereocilia bundles. To date, studies examining PMCA2 in auditory function using mutant mice have focused on the phenotype of late adolescent and adult mice. Here, we focus on the changes of PMCA2 in the maturation of auditory sensitivity by comparing auditory responses to RNA and protein expression levels in haploinsufficient PMCA2 and wild-type mice from P16 into adulthood. Auditory sensitivity in wild-type mice improves between P16 and 3 weeks of age, when it becomes stable through adolescence. In haploinsufficient mice, there are frequency-dependent loss of sensitivity and subsequent recovery of thresholds between P16 and adulthood. RNA analysis demonstrates that α-Atp2b2 transcript levels increase in both wild-type and heterozygous cochleae between P16 and 5 weeks. The increases reported for the α-Atp2b2 transcript type during this stage in development support the requisite usage of this transcript for mature auditory transduction. PMCA2 expression also increases in wild-type cochleae between P16 and 5 weeks suggesting that this critical auditory protein may be involved in normal maturation of auditory sensitivity after the onset of hearing. We also characterize expression levels of two long noncoding RNA genes, Gm15082 (lnc82) and Gm15083 (lnc83), which are transcribed on the opposite strand in the 5' region of Atp2b2 and propose that the lnc83 transcript may be involved in regulating α-Atp2b2 expression.
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- Claire J. Watson
- />Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, University of Washington, Box 356515, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
- />Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington, Box 357280, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
- />The Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center, University of Washington, Box 357923, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
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- />Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Washington, 1417 NE 42nd St., Seattle, WA 98105 USA
- />The Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center, University of Washington, Box 357923, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
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- />Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington, Box 357280, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
- />The Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center, University of Washington, Box 357923, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
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- />Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, University of Washington, Box 356515, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
- />Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington, Box 357280, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
- />The Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center, University of Washington, Box 357923, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
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de Hoz L, Nelken I. Frequency tuning in the behaving mouse: different bandwidths for discrimination and generalization. PLoS One 2014; 9:e91676. [PMID: 24632841 PMCID: PMC3954732 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2013] [Accepted: 02/14/2014] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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When faced with sensory stimuli, an organism may be required to detect very small differences in a physical parameter (discrimination), while in other situations it may have to generalize over many possible values of the same physical parameter. This decision may be based both on learned information and on sensory aspects of perception. In the present study we describe frequency processing in the behaving mouse using both discrimination and generalization as two key aspects of behaviour. We used a novel naturalistic behavioural apparatus designed for mice, the Audiobox, and paradigm contingencies that were identical for both auditory discrimination and generalization, the latter measured using latent inhibition. Mice learned to discriminate between frequencies that were an octave apart in a single trial. They showed significant discrimination between tone frequencies that were as close as 4–7%, and had d' of about 1 for ΔF of around 10%. In contrast, pre-exposure frequencies that were half an octave or less below the conditioned tone elicited latent inhibition, showing a generalization bandwidth of at least half an octave. Thus, in the same apparatus and using the same general memory paradigm, mice showed generalization gradients that were considerably wider than their discrimination threshold, indicating that environmental requirements and previous experience can determine whether the same two frequencies will be considered same or different. Remarkably, generalization gradients paralleled the typical bandwidths established in the auditory periphery and midbrain, suggesting that frequencies may be considered similar when falling within the same critical band.
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- Livia de Hoz
- Department of Neurobiology, the Silberman Institute for Life Sciences, and the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
- Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Neurobiology, the Silberman Institute for Life Sciences, and the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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Xia A, Song Y, Wang R, Gao SS, Clifton W, Raphael P, Chao SI, Pereira FA, Groves AK, Oghalai JS. Prestin regulation and function in residual outer hair cells after noise-induced hearing loss. PLoS One 2013; 8:e82602. [PMID: 24376553 PMCID: PMC3869702 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2013] [Accepted: 10/25/2013] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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The outer hair cell (OHC) motor protein prestin is necessary for electromotility, which drives cochlear amplification and produces exquisitely sharp frequency tuning. TectaC1509G transgenic mice have hearing loss, and surprisingly have increased OHC prestin levels. We hypothesized, therefore, that prestin up-regulation may represent a generalized response to compensate for a state of hearing loss. In the present study, we sought to determine the effects of noise-induced hearing loss on prestin expression. After noise exposure, we performed cytocochleograms and observed OHC loss only in the basal region of the cochlea. Next, we patch clamped OHCs from the apical turn (9–12 kHz region), where no OHCs were lost, in noise-exposed and age-matched control mice. The non-linear capacitance was significantly higher in noise-exposed mice, consistent with higher functional prestin levels. We then measured prestin protein and mRNA levels in whole-cochlea specimens. Both Western blot and qPCR studies demonstrated increased prestin expression after noise exposure. Finally, we examined the effect of the prestin increase in vivo following noise damage. Immediately after noise exposure, ABR and DPOAE thresholds were elevated by 30–40 dB. While most of the temporary threshold shifts recovered within 3 days, there were additional improvements over the next month. However, DPOAE magnitudes, basilar membrane vibration, and CAP tuning curve measurements from the 9–12 kHz cochlear region demonstrated no differences between noise-exposed mice and control mice. Taken together, these data indicate that prestin is up-regulated by 32–58% in residual OHCs after noise exposure and that the prestin is functional. These findings are consistent with the notion that prestin increases in an attempt to partially compensate for reduced force production because of missing OHCs. However, in regions where there is no OHC loss, the cochlea is able to compensate for the excess prestin in order to maintain stable auditory thresholds and frequency discrimination.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Cochlear Microphonic Potentials
- Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Outer/metabolism
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Outer/pathology
- Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced/metabolism
- Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced/pathology
- Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced/physiopathology
- Mice
- Models, Biological
- Molecular Motor Proteins/genetics
- Molecular Motor Proteins/metabolism
- Noise
- Otoacoustic Emissions, Spontaneous
- Patch-Clamp Techniques
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
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- Anping Xia
- Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
- Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Bobby R. Alford Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
- Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Chosun University, Gwangju, South Korea
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- Bobby R. Alford Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
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Identifying microRNAs involved in degeneration of the organ of corti during age-related hearing loss. PLoS One 2013; 8:e62786. [PMID: 23646144 PMCID: PMC3640032 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062786] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2013] [Accepted: 03/25/2013] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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MicroRNAs (miRNAs), a class of short non-coding RNAs that regulate the expression of mRNA targets, are important regulators of cellular senescence and aging. We questioned which miRNAs are involved in age-related degeneration of the organ of Corti (OC), the auditory sensory epithelium that transduces mechanical stimuli to electrical activity in the inner ear. Degeneration of the OC is generally accepted as the main cause of age-related hearing loss (ARHL), a progressive loss of hearing in individuals as they grow older. To determine which miRNAs are involved in the onset and progression of ARHL, miRNA gene expression in the OC of two mouse strains, C57BL/6J and CBA/J, was compared at three different ages using GeneChip miRNA microarray and was validated by real-time PCR. We showed that 111 and 71 miRNAs exhibited differential expression in the C57 and CBA mice, respectively, and that downregulated miRNAs substantially outnumbered upregulated miRNAs during aging. miRNAs that had approximately 2-fold upregulation included members of miR-29 family and miR-34 family, which are known regulators of pro-apoptotic pathways. In contrast, miRNAs that were downregulated by about 2-fold were members of the miR-181 family and miR-183 family, which are known to be important for proliferation and differentiation, respectively. The shift of miRNA expression favoring apoptosis occurred earlier than detectable hearing threshold elevation and hair cell loss. Our study suggests that changes in miRNA expression precede morphological and functional changes, and that upregulation of pro-apoptotic miRNAs and downregulation of miRNAs promoting proliferation and differentiation are both involved in age-related degeneration of the OC.
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Lina IA, Lauer AM. Rapid measurement of auditory filter shape in mice using the auditory brainstem response and notched noise. Hear Res 2013; 298:73-9. [PMID: 23347916 PMCID: PMC3639490 DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2013.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2012] [Revised: 12/27/2012] [Accepted: 01/07/2013] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
Abstract
The notched noise method is an effective procedure for measuring frequency resolution and auditory filter shapes in both human and animal models of hearing. Briefly, auditory filter shape and bandwidth estimates are derived from masked thresholds for tones presented in noise containing widening spectral notches. As the spectral notch widens, increasingly less of the noise falls within the auditory filter and the tone becomes more detectible until the notch width exceeds the filter bandwidth. Behavioral procedures have been used for the derivation of notched noise auditory filter shapes in mice; however, the time and effort needed to train and test animals on these tasks renders a constraint on the widespread application of this testing method. As an alternative procedure, we combined relatively non-invasive auditory brainstem response (ABR) measurements and the notched noise method to estimate auditory filters in normal-hearing mice at center frequencies of 8, 11.2, and 16 kHz. A complete set of simultaneous masked thresholds for a particular tone frequency were obtained in about an hour. ABR-derived filter bandwidths broadened with increasing frequency, consistent with previous studies. The ABR notched noise procedure provides a fast alternative to estimating frequency selectivity in mice that is well-suited to high through-put or time-sensitive screening.
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- Ioan A. Lina
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Otolaryngology – HNS, Center for Hearing and Balance, 515 Traylor, 720 Rutland Ave., Baltimore, MD 21205, United States
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- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Otolaryngology – HNS, Center for Hearing and Balance, 515 Traylor, 720 Rutland Ave., Baltimore, MD 21205, United States
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Wang Y, Ren C. Effects of repeated "benign" noise exposures in young CBA mice: shedding light on age-related hearing loss. J Assoc Res Otolaryngol 2012; 13:505-15. [PMID: 22532192 DOI: 10.1007/s10162-012-0329-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2010] [Accepted: 03/28/2012] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
Abstract
Temporary hearing threshold shift (TTS) resulting from a "benign" noise exposure can cause irreversible auditory nerve afferent terminal damage and retraction. While hearing thresholds and acute tissue injury recover within 1-2 weeks after a noise overexposure, it is not clear if multiple TTS noise exposures would result in cumulative damage even though sufficient TTS recovery time is provided. Here, we tested whether repeated TTS noise exposures affected permanent hearing thresholds and examined how that related to inner ear histopathology. Despite a peak 35-40 dB TTS 24 hours after each noise exposure, a double dose (2 weeks apart) of 100 dB noise (8-16 kHz) exposures to young (4-week-old) CBA mice resulted in no permanent threshold shifts (PTS) and abnormal distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAE). However, although auditory brainstem response (ABR) thresholds recovered fully in once- and twice-exposed animals, the growth function of ABR wave 1( p-p ) amplitude (synchronized spiral ganglion cell activity) was significantly reduced to a similar extent, suggesting that damage resulting from a second dose of the exposure was not proportional to that observed after the initial exposure. Estimate of surviving inner hair cell afferent terminals using immunostaining of presynaptic ribbons revealed ribbon loss of ∼ 40 % at the ∼ 23 kHz region after the first round of noise exposure, but no additional loss of ribbons after the second exposure. In contrast, a third dose of the same noise exposure resulted in not only TTS, but also PTS even in regions where DPOAEs were not affected. The pattern of PTS seen was not entirely tonotopically related to the noise band used. Instead, it resembled more to that of age-related hearing loss, i.e., high frequency hearing impairment towards the base of the cochlea. Interestingly, after a 3rd dose of the noise exposure, additional loss of ribbons (another ≈ 25 %) was observed, suggesting a cumulative detrimental effect from individual "benign" noise exposures, which should result in a significant deficit in central temporal processing.
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- Yong Wang
- Division of Otolaryngology and Program in Neuroscience, University of Utah, 30 North, 1900 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84132-0002, USA.
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Abdala C, Keefe DH. Morphological and Functional Ear Development. HUMAN AUDITORY DEVELOPMENT 2012. [DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-1421-6_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/12/2023]
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Bian S, Koo BW, Kelleher S, Santos-Sacchi J, Navaratnam DS. A highly expressing Tet-inducible cell line recapitulates in situ developmental changes in prestin's Boltzmann characteristics and reveals early maturational events. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2010; 299:C828-35. [PMID: 20631244 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00182.2010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Prestin is the motor protein within the lateral membrane of outer hair cells (OHCs), and it is required for mammalian cochlear amplification. Expression of prestin precedes the onset of hearing in mice, and it has been suggested that prestin undergoes a functional maturation within the membrane coincident with the onset of hearing. We have developed a tetracycline-inducible prestin-expressing cell line that we have used to model prestin's functional maturation. We used prestin's voltage-dependent nonlinear charge movement (or nonlinear capacitance) as a test of function and correlated it to biochemical measures of prestin expressed on the cell surface. An initial stage of slow growth in charge density is accompanied by a rapid increase in our estimate of charge carried by an individual motor. A rapid growth in charge density follows and strongly correlates with an increasing ratio between an apparently larger and smaller monomer, suggesting that the latter exerts a dominant-negative effect on function. Finally, there is a gradual depolarizing shift in the voltage of peak capacitance, similar to that observed in developing OHCs. This inducible system offers many opportunities for detailed studies of prestin.
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- Shumin Bian
- Department of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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Song L, McGee J, Walsh EJ. The influence of thyroid hormone deficiency on the development of cochlear nonlinearities. J Assoc Res Otolaryngol 2008; 9:464-76. [PMID: 18855071 DOI: 10.1007/s10162-008-0140-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2007] [Accepted: 09/11/2008] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
Abstract
It is well known that failure to treat severe congenital hypothyroidism leads to profound auditory disability, and it has been suggested that an intracochlear defect, or defects, associated with the condition diminishes the efficacy of an active, physiologically vulnerable nonlinear transduction process commonly referred to as cochlear amplification. We address this question directly by tracking the development of threshold-frequency (tuning) curves and two-tone suppression in hypothyroid, Tshr mutant mice born to hypothyroid dams and comparing those findings with findings observed in euthyroid mice. Like sharp tuning, two-tone suppression is a product of transduction nonlinearity and is a useful indicator of the functional status of cochlear amplification. In contrast to euthyroid mice that acquire sharp tuning, normal two-tone suppression, and adultlike sensitivity by the end of the third postnatal week, as shown in earlier studies, hypothyroid mice remained grossly insensitive to sound throughout life. In addition, tuning was generally broad in hypothyroid mice, tuning curve "tips" were frequently missing, and two-tone suppression was rarely observed. However, unlike tip thresholds, tuning curve "tail" thresholds, a feature that reflects the functional status of passive elements of transduction, acquired normal values over a roughly 2-month postnatal time period. These observations collectively suggest that active transduction micromechanics, at least in the frequency region studied here, are profoundly affected by thyroid hormone and support speculation that abnormal outer hair cell function may be the cause of the primary, enduring peripheral auditory defect associated with profound, congenital hypothyroidism in the Tshr mutant mouse.
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- Lei Song
- Developmental Auditory Physiology Laboratory, Boys Town National Research Hospital, 555 North 30th Street, Omaha, NE 68131, USA
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