Effects of Age at Onset of Deafness and Electrical Stimulation on the Developing Cochlear Nucleus in Cats
| Autor: | Olga Stakhovskaya, Russell L. Snyder, Gary T. Hradek, Patricia A. Leake |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Cochlear Nucleus
medicine.medical_specialty Hearing loss Central nervous system Stimulation Audiology Deafness Cochlear nucleus Article medicine Carnivora otorhinolaryngologic diseases Evoked Potentials Auditory Brain Stem Animals Humans Age of Onset Child CATS biology business.industry Fissipedia Age Factors Neomycin biology.organism_classification Sensory Systems Electric Stimulation Disease Models Animal medicine.anatomical_structure Cochlear Implants Animals Newborn Cats Implant sense organs medicine.symptom business |
| Popis: | This study examined the effects of deafness and intracochlear electrical stimulation on the anatomy of the cochlear nucleus (CN) after a brief period of normal auditory development early in life. Kittens were deafened by systemic ototoxic drug injections either as neonates or starting at postnatal day 30. Total CN volume, individual CN subdivision volumes, and cross-sectional areas of spherical cell somata in the anteroventral CN (AVCN) were compared in neonatally deafened and 30-day deafened groups at 8 weeks of age and in young adults after approximately 6 months of electrical stimulation initiated at 8 weeks of age. Both neonatal and early acquired hearing loss resulted in a reduction in CN volume as compared to normal hearing cats. Comparison of 8- and 32-week old groups indicated that the CN continued to grow in both deafened groups despite the absence of auditory input. Preserving normal auditory input for 30 days resulted in a significant increase in both total CN volume and cross-sectional areas of spherical cell somata, as compared to neonatally deafened animals. Restoring auditory input in these developing animals by unilateral intracochlear electrical stimulation did not elicit any difference in CN volume between the two sides, but resulted in 7% larger spherical cell size on the stimulated side. Overall, the brief period of normal auditory development and subsequent electrical stimulation maintained CN volume at 80% of normal and spherical cell size at 86% of normal ipsilateral to the implant as compared to 67% and 74%, respectively, in the neonatally deafened group. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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