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Morell M, Lenoir M, Shadwick RE, Jauniaux T, Dabin W, Begeman L, Ferreira M, Maestre I, Degollada E, Hernandez-Milian G, Cazevieille C, Fortuño JM, Vogl W, Puel JL, André M. Ultrastructure of the Odontocete organ of Corti: scanning and transmission electron microscopy. J Comp Neurol 2014; 523:431-48. [PMID: 25269663 DOI: 10.1002/cne.23688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2013] [Accepted: 09/26/2014] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The morphological study of the Odontocete organ of Corti, together with possible alterations associated with damage from sound exposure, represents a key conservation approach to assess the effects of acoustic pollution on marine ecosystems. By collaborating with stranding networks from several European countries, 150 ears from 13 species of Odontocetes were collected and analyzed by scanning (SEM) and transmission (TEM) electron microscopy. Based on our analyses, we first describe and compare Odontocete cochlear structures and then propose a diagnostic method to identify inner ear alterations in stranded individuals. The two species analyzed by TEM (Phocoena phocoena and Stenella coeruleoalba) showed morphological characteristics in the lower basal turn of high-frequency hearing species. Among other striking features, outer hair cell bodies were extremely small and were strongly attached to Deiters cells. Such morphological characteristics, shared with horseshoe bats, suggest that there has been convergent evolution of sound reception mechanisms among echolocating species. Despite possible autolytic artifacts due to technical and experimental constraints, the SEM analysis allowed us to detect the presence of scarring processes resulting from the disappearance of outer hair cells from the epithelium. In addition, in contrast to the rapid decomposition process of the sensory epithelium after death (especially of the inner hair cells), the tectorial membrane appeared to be more resistant to postmortem autolysis effects. Analysis of the stereocilia imprint pattern at the undersurface of the tectorial membrane may provide a way to detect possible ultrastructural alterations of the hair cell stereocilia by mirroring them on the tectorial membrane.
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- Maria Morell
- Laboratory of Applied Bio-Acoustics, Technological Center of Vilanova i la Geltrú, Technical University of Catalonia-Barcelona Tech, 08800, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Barcelona, Spain; Zoology Department, The University of British Columbia, V6T 1Z4 Vancouver, Canada
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Murillo-Cuesta S, Rodríguez-de la Rosa L, Cediel R, Lassaletta L, Varela-Nieto I. The role of insulin-like growth factor-I in the physiopathology of hearing. Front Mol Neurosci 2011; 4:11. [PMID: 21845174 PMCID: PMC3146045 DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2011.00011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2011] [Accepted: 07/11/2011] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) belongs to the family of polypeptides of insulin, which play a central role in embryonic development and adult nervous system homeostasis by endocrine, autocrine, and paracrine mechanisms. IGF-I is fundamental for the regulation of cochlear development, growth, and differentiation, and its mutations are associated with hearing loss in mice and men. Low levels of IGF-I have been shown to correlate with different human syndromes showing hearing loss and with presbyacusis. Animal models are fundamental to understand the genetic, epigenetic, and environmental factors that contribute to human hearing loss. In the mouse, IGF-I serum levels decrease with aging and there is a concomitant hearing loss and retinal degeneration. In the Igf1(-/-) null mouse, hearing loss is due to neuronal loss, poor innervation of the sensory hair cells, and age-related stria vascularis alterations. In the inner ear, IGF-I actions are mediated by intracellular signaling networks, RAF, AKT, and p38 MAPK protein kinases modulate the expression and activity of transcription factors, as AP1, MEF2, FoxM1, and FoxP3, leading to the regulation of cell cycle and metabolism. Therapy with rhIGF-I has been approved in humans for the treatment of poor linear growth and certain neurodegenerative diseases. This review will discuss these findings and their implications in new IGF-I-based treatments for the protection or repair of hearing loss.
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- Silvia Murillo-Cuesta
- Servicio de Evaluación Neurofuncional no Invasiva, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas Alberto Sols, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Madrid, Spain
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Simmons DD, Tong B, Schrader AD, Hornak AJ. Oncomodulin identifies different hair cell types in the mammalian inner ear. J Comp Neurol 2010; 518:3785-802. [PMID: 20653034 DOI: 10.1002/cne.22424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The tight regulation of Ca(2+) is essential for inner ear function, and yet the role of Ca(2+) binding proteins (CaBPs) remains elusive. By using immunofluorescence and reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), we investigated the expression of oncomodulin (Ocm), a member of the parvalbumin family, relative to other EF-hand CaBPs in cochlear and vestibular organs in the mouse. In the mouse cochlea, Ocm is found only in outer hair cells and is localized preferentially to the basolateral outer hair cell membrane and to the base of the hair bundle. Developmentally, Ocm immunoreactivity begins as early as postnatal day (P) 2 and shows preferential localization to the basolateral membrane and hair bundle after P8. Unlike the cochlea, Ocm expression is substantially reduced in vestibular tissues at older adult ages. In vestibular organs, Ocm is found in type I striolar or central hair cells, and has a more diffuse subcellular localization throughout the hair cell body. Additionally, Ocm immunoreactivity in vestibular hair cells is present as early as E18 and is not obviously affected by mutations that cause a disruption of hair bundle polarity. We also find Ocm expression in striolar hair cells across mammalian species. These data suggest that Ocm may have distinct functional roles in cochlear and vestibular hair cells.
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- Dwayne D Simmons
- Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology and the Brain Research Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.
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Farahbakhsh NA, Narins PM. Slow motility in hair cells of the frog amphibian papilla: myosin light chain-mediated shape change. Hear Res 2008; 241:7-17. [PMID: 18534795 PMCID: PMC2516351 DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2008.04.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2007] [Revised: 04/10/2008] [Accepted: 04/14/2008] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Using video, fluorescence and confocal microscopy, quantitative analysis and modeling, we investigated intracellular processes mediating the calcium/calmodulin (Ca(2+)/CaM)-dependent slow motility in hair cells dissociated from the rostral region of amphibian papilla, one of the two auditory organs in frogs. The time course of shape changes in these hair cells during the period of pretreatment with several specific inhibitors, as well as their response to the calcium ionophore, ionomycin, were recorded and compared. These cells respond to ionomycin with a tri-phasic shape change: an initial phase of iso-volumetric length decrease; a period of concurrent shortening and swelling; and the final phase of increase in both length and volume. We found that both the myosin light chain kinase inhibitor, ML-7, and antagonists of the multifunctional Ca(2+)/CaM-dependent kinases, KN-62 and KN-93, inhibit the iso-volumetric shortening phase of the response to ionomycin. The type 1 protein phosphatase inhibitors, calyculin A and okadaic acid induce minor shortening on their own, but do not significantly alter phase 1 response. However, they appear to counter effects of the inhibitors of Ca(2+)/CaM-dependent kinases. We hypothesize that an active actomyosin-based process mediates the iso-volumetric shortening in the frog rostral amphibian papillar hair cells.
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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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O’Beirne GA, Patuzzi RB. Mathematical model of outer hair cell regulation including ion transport and cell motility. Hear Res 2007; 234:29-51. [DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2007.09.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2006] [Revised: 08/10/2007] [Accepted: 09/14/2007] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Ogura T, Margolskee RF, Tallini YN, Shui B, Kotlikoff MI, Lin W. Immuno-localization of vesicular acetylcholine transporter in mouse taste cells and adjacent nerve fibers: indication of acetylcholine release. Cell Tissue Res 2007; 330:17-28. [PMID: 17704949 DOI: 10.1007/s00441-007-0470-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2006] [Accepted: 07/11/2007] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Acetylcholine (ACh) is well established as a neurotransmitter and/or neuromodulator in various organs. Previously, it has been shown by Ogura (J Neurophysiol 87:2643-2649, 2002) that in both physiological and immunohistochemical studies the muscarinic acetylcholine (ACh) receptor is present in taste receptor cells. However, it has not been determined if ACh is released locally from taste receptor cells and/or surrounding nerve fibers. In this study we investigated the sites of ACh release in mouse taste tissue using the antisera against vesicular ACh transporter (VAChT), a key element of ACh-containing vesicles. Our data show that VAChT-immunoreactivity is present in many taste receptor cells, including cells expressing the transient receptor potential channel M5 (TRPM5). In taste cells, VAChT-immunoreactivity was colocalized with the immunoreactivity to choline-acetyltransferase (ChAT), which synthesizes ACh. Additionally, enhanced green fluorescent protein (eGFP) was detected in the taste cells of BAC-transgenic mice, in which eGFP was placed under the control of endogenous ChAT transcriptional regulatory elements (ChAT(BAC)-eGFP mice). Furthermore, many ChAT-immunolabeled taste cells also reacted to an antibody against the vesicle-associated membrane protein synaptobrevin-2. These data suggest that ACh-containing vesicles are present in taste receptor cells and ACh release from taste cells may play a role in autocrine and/or paracrine cell-to-cell communication. In addition, certain nerve fibers surrounding or within taste buds were immunoreactive for the VAChT antibody. Some of these fibers were also immunolabeled with antibody against calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), a marker for trigeminal peptidergic fibers. Thus, functions of taste receptor cells could be modulated by trigeminal fibers via ACh release as well.
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- Tatsuya Ogura
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA.
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Sziklai I. The significance of the calcium signal in the outer hair cells and its possible role in tinnitus of cochlear origin. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol 2004; 261:517-25. [PMID: 15609110 DOI: 10.1007/s00405-004-0745-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2003] [Accepted: 12/11/2003] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Finely tuned changes in intracellular Ca(2+) concentration modulate a variety of cellular functions in eukaryotic cells. The cytosolic Ca(2+) concentration is also tightly controlled in the outer hair cells (OHCs), the highly specialized receptor and effector cells in the mammalian auditory epithelium, which are responsible for high sensitivity and sharp frequency discrimination in hearing. OHCs possess a complex system of transporters, pumps, exchangers, channels and binding proteins to develop and to halt the regulatory Ca(2+) signal. The crucial role of elevated intracellular Ca(2+) concentration in OHCs is to increase the efficacy of the electromechanical (electromotile) feedback via remodeling of the cortical cytoskeleton. Anomalies in the Ca(2+) signaling pathway may lead to hypersensitivity of the cochlear amplifier and subsequently trigger tinnitus of cochlear origin. This review describes the dynamics of Ca(2+) signaling in the OHCs and a model that may convey a putative mechanism of development of subjective idiopathic cochlear tinnitus.
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- István Sziklai
- Clinic of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Debrecen University Health Science Center, Nagyerdei krt. 98, 4012 Debrecen, Hungary.
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Clapp TR, Yang R, Stoick CL, Kinnamon SC, Kinnamon JC. Morphologic characterization of rat taste receptor cells that express components of the phospholipase C signaling pathway. J Comp Neurol 2004; 468:311-21. [PMID: 14681927 DOI: 10.1002/cne.10963] [Citation(s) in RCA: 177] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Rat taste buds contain three morphologically distinct cell types that are candidates for taste transduction. The physiologic roles of these cells are, however, not clear. Inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate (IP(3)) has been implicated as an important second messenger in bitter, sweet, and umami taste transductions. Previously, we identified the type III IP(3) receptor (IP(3)R3) as the dominant isoform in taste receptor cells. In addition, a recent study showed that phospholipase Cbeta(2) (PLCbeta(2)) is essential for the transduction of bitter, sweet, and umami stimuli. IP(3)R3 and PLCbeta(2) are expressed in the same subset of cells. To identify the taste cell types that express proteins involved in PLC signal transduction, we used 3,3'diaminobenzidine tetrahydrochloride immunoelectron microscopy and fluorescence microscopy to identify cells with IP(3)R3. Confocal microscopy was used to compare IP(3)R3 or PLCbeta(2) immunoreactivity with that of some known cell type markers such as serotonin, protein gene-regulated product 9.5, and neural cell adhesion molecule. Here we show that a large subset of type II cells and a small subset of type III cells display IP(3)R3 immunoreactivity within their cytoplasm. These data suggest that type II cells are the principal transducers of bitter, sweet, and umami taste transduction. However, we did not observe synapses between type II taste cells and nerve fibers. Interestingly, we observed subsurface cisternae of smooth endoplasmic reticulum at the close appositions between the plasma membrane of type II taste cells and nerve processes. We speculate that some type II cells may communicate to the nervous system via subsurface cisternae of smooth endoplasmic reticulum in lieu of conventional synapses.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Calcium Channels/analysis
- Calcium Channels/metabolism
- Endoplasmic Reticulum, Smooth/ultrastructure
- Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate/metabolism
- Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate Receptors
- Isoenzymes/analysis
- Isoenzymes/metabolism
- Male
- Microscopy, Confocal
- Microscopy, Fluorescence
- Microscopy, Immunoelectron
- Neural Cell Adhesion Molecules/analysis
- Phospholipase C beta
- Rats
- Rats, Sprague-Dawley
- Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear/analysis
- Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear/metabolism
- Serotonin/analysis
- Signal Transduction
- Synapses/ultrastructure
- Taste
- Taste Buds/chemistry
- Taste Buds/cytology
- Taste Buds/ultrastructure
- Type C Phospholipases/analysis
- Type C Phospholipases/metabolism
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- Tod R Clapp
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Anatomy and Neurobiology Section, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA
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Localization of calmodulin, a calcium binding protein, was identified in adult gerbil cochleas using paraffin section immunohistochemistry and immunogold electron microscopy with monoclonal antibody against bovine calmodulin. Immunoreactive calmodulin was abundant in inner hair cells (IHCs), outer hair cells (OHCs) and Boettcher cells of the cochleas. Other cell types containing calmodulin were marginal cells and basal cells of the stria vascularis, fibrocytes in the spiral ligament, spiral ganglion neurons and vascular smooth muscle cells. Immunogold labeling for calmodulin was observed in cuticular plate, stereocilia, and within cytoplasm of IHCs and OHCs. In OHCs the labeling was mostly observed in the region underlying lateral wall corresponding to subsurface cisterna. In IHCs the staining was diffuse in the cytoplasm and denser than that in OHCs. Boettcher cells showed dense staining along the microvillous projections facing to the intercellular spaces between Boettcher cells and Claudius cells and between the neighboring Boettcher cells. These distributions of calmodulin in the hair cells consist with the assumption that IHCs act as a true neurotransducer and OHCs as an active bi-directional mechanotransducer. The rich presence of calmodulin in Boettcher cells suggests that the cells may involve in mediating Ca(2+) regulation and play a distinctive active role in ion transport.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antibodies, Monoclonal
- Calcium/metabolism
- Calmodulin/immunology
- Calmodulin/metabolism
- Cattle
- Cochlea/metabolism
- Cochlea/ultrastructure
- Gerbillinae
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Inner/metabolism
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Inner/ultrastructure
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Outer/metabolism
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Outer/ultrastructure
- Immunohistochemistry
- Microscopy, Immunoelectron
- Spiral Ganglion/metabolism
- Spiral Ganglion/ultrastructure
- Stria Vascularis/metabolism
- Stria Vascularis/ultrastructure
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- K Nakazawa
- Department of Pathology, Shinshu University School of Medicine, 3-1-1 Asahi, 390-8621, Matsumoto, Japan.
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Two distinct Ca(2+)-dependent signaling pathways regulate the motor output of cochlear outer hair cells. J Neurosci 2000. [PMID: 10934241 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.20-16-05940.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The outer hair cells (OHCs) of the cochlea have an electromotility mechanism, based on conformational changes of voltage-sensitive "motor" proteins in the lateral plasma membrane. The translocation of electrical charges across the membrane that accompanies electromotility imparts a voltage dependency to the membrane capacitance. We used capacitance measurements to investigate whether electromotility may be influenced by different manipulations known to affect intracellular Ca(2+) or Ca(2+)-dependent protein phosphorylation. Application of acetylcholine (ACh) to the synaptic pole of isolated OHCs evoked a Ca(2+)-activated apamin-sensitive outward K(+) current. It also enhanced electromotility, probably because of a phosphorylation-dependent decrease of the cell's axial stiffness. However, ACh did not change the voltage-dependent capacitance either in conventional whole-cell experiments or under perforated-patch conditions. The effects produced by the Ca(2+) ionophore ionomycin mimicked those produced by ACh. Hyperpolarizing shifts of the voltage dependence of capacitance and electromotility were induced by okadaic acid, a promoter of protein phosphorylation, whereas trifluoperazine and W-7, antagonists of calmodulin, caused opposite depolarizing shifts. Components of the protein phosphorylation cascade-IP(3) receptors and calmodulin-dependent protein kinase type IV-were immunolocalized to the lateral wall of the OHC. Our results suggest that two different Ca(2+)-dependent pathways may control the OHC motor output. The first pathway modulates cytoskeletal stiffness and can be activated by ACh. The second pathway shifts the voltage sensitivity of the OHC electromotile mechanism and may be activated by the release of Ca(2+) from intracellular stores located in the proximity of the lateral plasma membrane.
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