氨基糖苷类抗生素因其抗菌谱广、抗菌能力强,半个多世纪以来一直是临床上常用的抗菌素之一。但氨基糖苷类抗生素具有很强的耳毒和肾毒作用,在药物致聋因素中排在首位。本研究以庆大霉素(gentamycin)、新霉素(neomycin)、链霉素(streptom...氨基糖苷类抗生素因其抗菌谱广、抗菌能力强,半个多世纪以来一直是临床上常用的抗菌素之一。但氨基糖苷类抗生素具有很强的耳毒和肾毒作用,在药物致聋因素中排在首位。本研究以庆大霉素(gentamycin)、新霉素(neomycin)、链霉素(streptomycin)等3种氨基糖苷类抗生素为代表性药物,研究其对斑马鱼胚胎发育的毒性作用和对幼体毛细胞的损伤作用,并探索了该损伤与听觉相关基因之间的联系。结果显示:①3种药物的致死作用都具有明显的浓度依赖性,其致死作用的强弱顺序为链霉素>新霉素>庆大霉素;②3种药物处理的5 dpf(day past fertilization)幼体出现身体失衡及体位异常,以及耳囊结构的异常变化;③毛细胞染色实验可观察到,3种药物作用的毛细胞和神经丘均出现明显的损伤和数量减少;④与听觉器官发育相关的基因eya1、val、otx2、dlx6a均随3种抗生素药物浓度的升高,出现差异性的表达水平下调。本研究首次探索了这3种耳毒性氨基糖苷类抗生素处理与斑马鱼听囊结构和听觉基因表达的相关性;并证明利用斑马鱼建立简便、准确、直观、快速地检测药物耳毒性的模型和检测方法的可行性。展开更多
Carboplatin, a second-generation platinum chemotherapeutic drug, is considerably less ototoxic than cisplatin. While common laboratory species such as mice, guinea pigs and rats are highly resistant to carboplatin oto...Carboplatin, a second-generation platinum chemotherapeutic drug, is considerably less ototoxic than cisplatin. While common laboratory species such as mice, guinea pigs and rats are highly resistant to carboplatin ototoxicity, the chinchilla stands out as highly susceptible. Moreover, carboplatin causes an unusual gradient of cell death in chinchillas. Moderate doses selectively damage type I spiral ganglion neurons (SGN) and inner hair cells (IHC) and the lesion tends to be relatively uniform along the length of the cochlea. Higher doses eventually damage outer hair cells (OHC), but the lesion follows the traditional gradient in which damage is more severe in the base than the apex. While carboplatin ototoxicity has been well documented in adult animals in vivo, little is known about its in vitro toxicity. To elucidate the ototoxic effects of carboplatin in vitro, we prepared cochlear and vestibular organotypic cultures from postnatal day 3 rats and adult chinchillas. Chinchilla cochlear and vestibular cultures were treated with carboplatin concentrations ranging from 50 μM to 10 mM for 48 h. Consistent with in vivo data, carboplatin selectively damaged IHC at low concentrations (50-100 μM). Surprisingly, IHC loss decreased at higher doses and IHC were intact at doses exceeding 500 μM. The mechanisms underlying this nonlinear response are unclear but could be related to a decrease in carboplatin uptake via active transport mechanisms (e.g., copper). Unlike the cochlea, the carboplatin dose-response function increased with dose with the highest dose destroying all chinchilla vestibular hair cells. Cochlear hair cells and auditory nerve fibers in rat cochlear organotypic cultures were unaffected by carboplatin concentrations <10 μM; however, the damage in OHC were more severe than IHC once the dose reached 100 μM. A dose at 500 μM destroyed all the cochlear hair cells, but hair cell loss decreased at high concentrations and nearly all the cochlear hair cells were present at the highest dose, 5 mM. Unlike the展开更多
It is well known that ethacrynic acid (EA) can potentiate the ototoxicity of aminoglycoside antibiotics (AmAn) such as kanamycin (KM),if they were applied at the same time.Currently,to create the model of EA-KMinduced...It is well known that ethacrynic acid (EA) can potentiate the ototoxicity of aminoglycoside antibiotics (AmAn) such as kanamycin (KM),if they were applied at the same time.Currently,to create the model of EA-KMinduced cochlear lesion in rats,adult rats received a single injection of EA (75 mg/kg,intravenous injection),or followed immediately by KM (500 mg/kg,intramuscular injection).The hearing function was assessed by auditory brainstem response (ABR) measurement in response to click and/or tone bursts at 4,8,12,16,20,24,and 32 kHz.The static microcirculation status in the stria vascularis after a single EA injection was evaluated with eosin staining.The pathological changes in cochlear and vestibular hair cells were also quantified after co-administration of EA and KM.After a single EA injection,blood flow in vessels supplying the stria vascularis rapidly diminished.However,the blood supply to the cochlear lateral wall partially recovered 5 h after EA treatment.Threshold changes in ABR were basically parallel to the microcirculation changes in stria vascularis after single EA treatment.Importantly,disposable co-administration of EA and KM resulted in a permanent hearing loss and severe damage to the cochlear hair cells,but spared the vestibular hair cells.Since the cochlear lateral wall is the important part of the blood-cochlea barrier,EA-induced anoxic damage to the epithelium of stria vascularis may enhance the entry of KM to the cochlea.Thus,experimental animal model of selective cochlear damage with normal vestibular systems can be reliably created through co-administration of EA and KM.展开更多
Aminoglycosides(Am An) are widely used for their great efficiency against gram-negative bacterial infections. However, they can also induce ototoxic hearing loss, which has affected millions of people around the world...Aminoglycosides(Am An) are widely used for their great efficiency against gram-negative bacterial infections. However, they can also induce ototoxic hearing loss, which has affected millions of people around the world. As previously reported, individuals bearing mitochondrial DNA mutations in the 12 S rRNA gene, such as m.1555A>G and m.1494C>T, are more prone to Am An-induced ototoxicity. These mutations cause human mitochondrial ribosomes to more closely resemble bacterial ribosomes and enable a stronger aminoglycoside interaction. Consequently,exposure to Am An can induce or worsen hearing loss in these individuals. Furthermore, a wide range of severity and penetrance of hearing loss was observed among families carrying these mutations. Studies have revealed that these mitochondria mutations are the primary molecular mechanism of genetic susceptibility to Am An ototoxicity, though nuclear modifier genes and mitochondrial haplotypes are known to modulate the phenotypic manifestation.展开更多
Cisplatin belongs to platinum-based drugs and is widely used in cancer chemotherapy.Ototoxicity is one of the major dose limiting side-effects of cisplatin.For toxicity to occur cisplatin must first be transported fro...Cisplatin belongs to platinum-based drugs and is widely used in cancer chemotherapy.Ototoxicity is one of the major dose limiting side-effects of cisplatin.For toxicity to occur cisplatin must first be transported from the bloodstream into cochlear cells.Three copper transporters are considered pathways for regulating the uptake and translocation of cisplatin into cells:Ctr1,ATP7A and ATP7B.Our recent study with cochlear organotypic cultures shows that cochlear hair cells can be destroyed by cisplatin at low concentrations from 10μm to 100μn.However,high doses of cisplatin cannot damage hair cells,maybe due to intrinsic feedback reactions that increase export of platinum by ATP7B when the platinum concentration is high in extracellular space.Cimitidine is a specific copper transporter inhibitor that can block the entrance of copper and platinum,and may prevent cisplatin-induced cochlear hair cell injury.To evaluate this hypothesis,we treated cochlear organotypic cultures with cisplatin (10 μm or 50 μm) alone,or cisplatin combined with cimitidine at concentrations ranging from 10-2000 μm for 48 hours.cisplatin at 10 μm damaged about 20% hair cells.In contrast,when cimitidine (10 μm,100 μm and 2000 μm) was added to the culture,near 100% cochlear hair cell survived.At higher concentration (50 μm),cisplatin destroyed about 80% of cochlear hair cells.However,100 μmcimitidine rescued about 50% hair cells from cisplatin damage,and 2000μm cimitidine protected about 80% hair cells.The data of western blot showed that CTR1 and ATP7B expressions were increased in cisplatin treated cochlear tissue,but cimitidine significantly reduced CTR1 and ATP7B.In addition,ATP7A expression was depressed a little after cisplatin treatment.Considering that Ctr1 is involved in copper and platinum influx,but the ATP7A and ATP7B are copper export transporters,the results suggest that cimitidine can effectively block the entrance by copper transporters and stop the influx of cisplatin.展开更多
Objective To investigate the occurrence and possible mechanisms of apoptosis in cochlear epithelium and spiral ganglion neurons after mefloquine treatment. Methods We used quantitative RT-PCR apoptosis-focused gene ar...Objective To investigate the occurrence and possible mechanisms of apoptosis in cochlear epithelium and spiral ganglion neurons after mefloquine treatment. Methods We used quantitative RT-PCR apoptosis-focused gene arrays （96-well, 84 apoptosis related genes） to assess changes of gene expression in the cochlear basilar membrane （hair cells-supporting cells） and spiral ganglion neurons of rat cochlear organotypic cultures treated with 100 IxM mefloquine for 3 h. Results Significant up-or down-regulation in gene expression was detected in 23 genes in the cochlear basilar membrane, and in 32 genes in the spiral ganglion neurons compared with time-matched controls. The responding genes could be classified as pro-or anti-apoptotic, and were mainly implicated in the Bcl-2, Caspase, Card, IAP, TNF ligand / TNF receptor, Death domain / Death effector domain, DNA damage / p53, and NF-kappa B families. Synthetic analysis suggested that these families could be revised to two major pathways mainly involved in t]he death receptor-mediated signaling pathway and apoptotic mitochondrial pathway. In addition, it was found that numerous anti-apoptotic genes such as Bcl2al, Birclb, Birc3, Birc4, Bnipl, Cflar, II10, Lhx4, Mcll, Nfkbl, Prlr, Prok2, and TNF were greatly up-regulated in the cochlear tissue, which might imply the co-existence of protective response in the ceils at the early stage of mefloquine-induced damage.展开更多
Cisplatin damages cochlear hair cells and spiral ganglion neurons through cell death signaling pathways that are not fully understood. We used focused apoptosis gene microarrays to study early changes in gene expres- ...Cisplatin damages cochlear hair cells and spiral ganglion neurons through cell death signaling pathways that are not fully understood. We used focused apoptosis gene microarrays to study early changes in gene expres- sion in cochlear cultures from P3 neonatal rats treated with cisplatin (0.2 mM). After 12 hours of cisplatin treat- ment, more than 50% of the 96 genes on the array showed a significant decrease in expression, consistent with widespread cell death. However, after 3 hours of cisplatin treatment, 10 genes showed significant increase in ex- pression in total cochlear tissue. In experiments with subsets of cochlear tissues, at 3h, cisplatin induced increased expression of 12 genes in the cochlear sensory epithelium (basilar membrane) and 11 genes in the spiral ganglion (tissue of Rosenthal’s canal, containing the spiral ganglion). These included pro- and anti-apoptotic genes in- volved in the p53 signaling pathway, TNF receptor family, NF-kappaB pathway, death domain family, death effec- tor domain family, Bcl-2 family, CARD family, TRAF family, and GTP signal transduction. Although the changes in gene expression showed an overlap between basilar membrane and spiral ganglion, other changes, which may reflect the unique response of each tissue, were also observed. Pifithrin-α blocked cisplatin-induced up-regulation of genes in the p53 signaling pathway when assayed by both superarray and real time PCR. The data add to our understanding of the involvement of p53 in cisplatin-induced ototoxicity and otoprotection, conferred by the p53 inhibitor Pifithrin-α.展开更多
文摘氨基糖苷类抗生素因其抗菌谱广、抗菌能力强,半个多世纪以来一直是临床上常用的抗菌素之一。但氨基糖苷类抗生素具有很强的耳毒和肾毒作用,在药物致聋因素中排在首位。本研究以庆大霉素(gentamycin)、新霉素(neomycin)、链霉素(streptomycin)等3种氨基糖苷类抗生素为代表性药物,研究其对斑马鱼胚胎发育的毒性作用和对幼体毛细胞的损伤作用,并探索了该损伤与听觉相关基因之间的联系。结果显示:①3种药物的致死作用都具有明显的浓度依赖性,其致死作用的强弱顺序为链霉素>新霉素>庆大霉素;②3种药物处理的5 dpf(day past fertilization)幼体出现身体失衡及体位异常,以及耳囊结构的异常变化;③毛细胞染色实验可观察到,3种药物作用的毛细胞和神经丘均出现明显的损伤和数量减少;④与听觉器官发育相关的基因eya1、val、otx2、dlx6a均随3种抗生素药物浓度的升高,出现差异性的表达水平下调。本研究首次探索了这3种耳毒性氨基糖苷类抗生素处理与斑马鱼听囊结构和听觉基因表达的相关性;并证明利用斑马鱼建立简便、准确、直观、快速地检测药物耳毒性的模型和检测方法的可行性。
文摘Carboplatin, a second-generation platinum chemotherapeutic drug, is considerably less ototoxic than cisplatin. While common laboratory species such as mice, guinea pigs and rats are highly resistant to carboplatin ototoxicity, the chinchilla stands out as highly susceptible. Moreover, carboplatin causes an unusual gradient of cell death in chinchillas. Moderate doses selectively damage type I spiral ganglion neurons (SGN) and inner hair cells (IHC) and the lesion tends to be relatively uniform along the length of the cochlea. Higher doses eventually damage outer hair cells (OHC), but the lesion follows the traditional gradient in which damage is more severe in the base than the apex. While carboplatin ototoxicity has been well documented in adult animals in vivo, little is known about its in vitro toxicity. To elucidate the ototoxic effects of carboplatin in vitro, we prepared cochlear and vestibular organotypic cultures from postnatal day 3 rats and adult chinchillas. Chinchilla cochlear and vestibular cultures were treated with carboplatin concentrations ranging from 50 μM to 10 mM for 48 h. Consistent with in vivo data, carboplatin selectively damaged IHC at low concentrations (50-100 μM). Surprisingly, IHC loss decreased at higher doses and IHC were intact at doses exceeding 500 μM. The mechanisms underlying this nonlinear response are unclear but could be related to a decrease in carboplatin uptake via active transport mechanisms (e.g., copper). Unlike the cochlea, the carboplatin dose-response function increased with dose with the highest dose destroying all chinchilla vestibular hair cells. Cochlear hair cells and auditory nerve fibers in rat cochlear organotypic cultures were unaffected by carboplatin concentrations <10 μM; however, the damage in OHC were more severe than IHC once the dose reached 100 μM. A dose at 500 μM destroyed all the cochlear hair cells, but hair cell loss decreased at high concentrations and nearly all the cochlear hair cells were present at the highest dose, 5 mM. Unlike the
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文摘It is well known that ethacrynic acid (EA) can potentiate the ototoxicity of aminoglycoside antibiotics (AmAn) such as kanamycin (KM),if they were applied at the same time.Currently,to create the model of EA-KMinduced cochlear lesion in rats,adult rats received a single injection of EA (75 mg/kg,intravenous injection),or followed immediately by KM (500 mg/kg,intramuscular injection).The hearing function was assessed by auditory brainstem response (ABR) measurement in response to click and/or tone bursts at 4,8,12,16,20,24,and 32 kHz.The static microcirculation status in the stria vascularis after a single EA injection was evaluated with eosin staining.The pathological changes in cochlear and vestibular hair cells were also quantified after co-administration of EA and KM.After a single EA injection,blood flow in vessels supplying the stria vascularis rapidly diminished.However,the blood supply to the cochlear lateral wall partially recovered 5 h after EA treatment.Threshold changes in ABR were basically parallel to the microcirculation changes in stria vascularis after single EA treatment.Importantly,disposable co-administration of EA and KM resulted in a permanent hearing loss and severe damage to the cochlear hair cells,but spared the vestibular hair cells.Since the cochlear lateral wall is the important part of the blood-cochlea barrier,EA-induced anoxic damage to the epithelium of stria vascularis may enhance the entry of KM to the cochlea.Thus,experimental animal model of selective cochlear damage with normal vestibular systems can be reliably created through co-administration of EA and KM.
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文摘Aminoglycosides(Am An) are widely used for their great efficiency against gram-negative bacterial infections. However, they can also induce ototoxic hearing loss, which has affected millions of people around the world. As previously reported, individuals bearing mitochondrial DNA mutations in the 12 S rRNA gene, such as m.1555A>G and m.1494C>T, are more prone to Am An-induced ototoxicity. These mutations cause human mitochondrial ribosomes to more closely resemble bacterial ribosomes and enable a stronger aminoglycoside interaction. Consequently,exposure to Am An can induce or worsen hearing loss in these individuals. Furthermore, a wide range of severity and penetrance of hearing loss was observed among families carrying these mutations. Studies have revealed that these mitochondria mutations are the primary molecular mechanism of genetic susceptibility to Am An ototoxicity, though nuclear modifier genes and mitochondrial haplotypes are known to modulate the phenotypic manifestation.
文摘Cisplatin belongs to platinum-based drugs and is widely used in cancer chemotherapy.Ototoxicity is one of the major dose limiting side-effects of cisplatin.For toxicity to occur cisplatin must first be transported from the bloodstream into cochlear cells.Three copper transporters are considered pathways for regulating the uptake and translocation of cisplatin into cells:Ctr1,ATP7A and ATP7B.Our recent study with cochlear organotypic cultures shows that cochlear hair cells can be destroyed by cisplatin at low concentrations from 10μm to 100μn.However,high doses of cisplatin cannot damage hair cells,maybe due to intrinsic feedback reactions that increase export of platinum by ATP7B when the platinum concentration is high in extracellular space.Cimitidine is a specific copper transporter inhibitor that can block the entrance of copper and platinum,and may prevent cisplatin-induced cochlear hair cell injury.To evaluate this hypothesis,we treated cochlear organotypic cultures with cisplatin (10 μm or 50 μm) alone,or cisplatin combined with cimitidine at concentrations ranging from 10-2000 μm for 48 hours.cisplatin at 10 μm damaged about 20% hair cells.In contrast,when cimitidine (10 μm,100 μm and 2000 μm) was added to the culture,near 100% cochlear hair cell survived.At higher concentration (50 μm),cisplatin destroyed about 80% of cochlear hair cells.However,100 μmcimitidine rescued about 50% hair cells from cisplatin damage,and 2000μm cimitidine protected about 80% hair cells.The data of western blot showed that CTR1 and ATP7B expressions were increased in cisplatin treated cochlear tissue,but cimitidine significantly reduced CTR1 and ATP7B.In addition,ATP7A expression was depressed a little after cisplatin treatment.Considering that Ctr1 is involved in copper and platinum influx,but the ATP7A and ATP7B are copper export transporters,the results suggest that cimitidine can effectively block the entrance by copper transporters and stop the influx of cisplatin.
文摘Objective To investigate the occurrence and possible mechanisms of apoptosis in cochlear epithelium and spiral ganglion neurons after mefloquine treatment. Methods We used quantitative RT-PCR apoptosis-focused gene arrays （96-well, 84 apoptosis related genes） to assess changes of gene expression in the cochlear basilar membrane （hair cells-supporting cells） and spiral ganglion neurons of rat cochlear organotypic cultures treated with 100 IxM mefloquine for 3 h. Results Significant up-or down-regulation in gene expression was detected in 23 genes in the cochlear basilar membrane, and in 32 genes in the spiral ganglion neurons compared with time-matched controls. The responding genes could be classified as pro-or anti-apoptotic, and were mainly implicated in the Bcl-2, Caspase, Card, IAP, TNF ligand / TNF receptor, Death domain / Death effector domain, DNA damage / p53, and NF-kappa B families. Synthetic analysis suggested that these families could be revised to two major pathways mainly involved in t]he death receptor-mediated signaling pathway and apoptotic mitochondrial pathway. In addition, it was found that numerous anti-apoptotic genes such as Bcl2al, Birclb, Birc3, Birc4, Bnipl, Cflar, II10, Lhx4, Mcll, Nfkbl, Prlr, Prok2, and TNF were greatly up-regulated in the cochlear tissue, which might imply the co-existence of protective response in the ceils at the early stage of mefloquine-induced damage.
文摘Cisplatin damages cochlear hair cells and spiral ganglion neurons through cell death signaling pathways that are not fully understood. We used focused apoptosis gene microarrays to study early changes in gene expres- sion in cochlear cultures from P3 neonatal rats treated with cisplatin (0.2 mM). After 12 hours of cisplatin treat- ment, more than 50% of the 96 genes on the array showed a significant decrease in expression, consistent with widespread cell death. However, after 3 hours of cisplatin treatment, 10 genes showed significant increase in ex- pression in total cochlear tissue. In experiments with subsets of cochlear tissues, at 3h, cisplatin induced increased expression of 12 genes in the cochlear sensory epithelium (basilar membrane) and 11 genes in the spiral ganglion (tissue of Rosenthal’s canal, containing the spiral ganglion). These included pro- and anti-apoptotic genes in- volved in the p53 signaling pathway, TNF receptor family, NF-kappaB pathway, death domain family, death effec- tor domain family, Bcl-2 family, CARD family, TRAF family, and GTP signal transduction. Although the changes in gene expression showed an overlap between basilar membrane and spiral ganglion, other changes, which may reflect the unique response of each tissue, were also observed. Pifithrin-α blocked cisplatin-induced up-regulation of genes in the p53 signaling pathway when assayed by both superarray and real time PCR. The data add to our understanding of the involvement of p53 in cisplatin-induced ototoxicity and otoprotection, conferred by the p53 inhibitor Pifithrin-α.
