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Cell proliferation in the cochlear nucleus following acoustic trauma in rat

Zheng, Y., Smithies, H., Aitken, P., Gliddon, Catherine, Stiles, L., Darlington, C.L. and Smith, P.F. 2015. Cell proliferation in the cochlear nucleus following acoustic trauma in rat. Neuroscience 303 , pp. 524-534. 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.07.033

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Abstract

Our previous studies have suggested that surgical lesions of the rat cochlea induce cell proliferation in the cochlear nucleus (CN) that may be related to neurogenesis. The aim of the present study was to further investigate the nature of cell proliferation in the CN, following acoustic trauma that has previously been shown to induce tinnitus in rats. Rats were subjected either to a unilateral acoustic trauma (16-kHz pure tone, 115 dB for 1 h under anesthesia) or a sham procedure. Bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) immunohistochemistry was used to measure cell proliferation and newborn cell survival; an antibody to interleukin-6 was used to investigate inflammatory responses; and double immunolabeling for BrdU and Ki-67, BrdU and CD-11b, and BrdU and doublecortin (DCX), was used to investigate the origin of the proliferating cells. There was a time-dependent increase in the number of BrdU+ve cells in the CN following acoustic trauma; however, the number of BrdU+ve cells that survived was comparable to that of control animals at 4 weeks post-trauma. Cell proliferation was unlikely to be due to proliferating inflammatory cells as a result of a trauma-induced inflammatory response as the IL-6 expression level was comparable between sham and exposed groups. Immunolabeling revealed the BrdU+ve cells to co-express Ki-67 and DCX, but not CD-11b. However, there was no difference in DCX expression between sham and exposed animals. The results suggest that DCX-expressing cells in the CN may proliferate in response to acoustic trauma; however, the proportion of cells proliferating and the survival rate of the newborn cells may not support functional neurogenesis in the CN.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Medicine
Publisher: Elsevier
ISSN: 0306-4522
Date of Acceptance: 10 July 2015
Last Modified: 14 Jun 2018 14:27
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/111961

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