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Loss of inner hair cell ribbon synapses and auditory nerve fiber regression in Cldn14 knockout mice.

Abstract：

:Proper functioning of the auditory nerve is of critical importance for auditory rehabilitation by cochlear implants. Here we used the Cldn14-/- mouse to study in detail the effects of Claudin 14 loss on auditory synapses and the auditory nerve. Mutations in the tight junction protein Claudin 14 cause autosomal recessive non-syndromic hearing loss (DFNB29) in humans and mice, due to extensive degeneration of outer and inner hair cells. Here we show that massive inner hair cell loss in Cldn14-/- mice starts after the third postnatal week. Immunohistochemical analysis, using presynaptic Ribeye and postsynaptic GluR2 or PSD 95 as markers, revealed the degeneration of full ribbon synapses in inner hair cells from apical cochlear regions already at postnatal day 12 (P12). At P20, significant reduction in number of ribbon synapses has been observed for all cochlear regions and the loss of synaptic ribbons becomes even more prominent in residual inner hair cells from middle and apical cochlear regions at P45, which by then lost more than 40% of all ribbon synapses. In contrast to excessive noise exposure, loss of Claudin 14 does not cause an increase in "orphan" ribbons with no postsynaptic counterpart due to a reduction of postsynaptic structures. Hair cell loss in Cldn14-/- mice is associated with regression of peripheral auditory nerve processes, especially of outer radial fibers, which normally innervate the outer hair cells. The number of spiral ganglion neurons per area, however, was unchanged between the genotypes. Different effects were observed in the cochlear nucleus complex (CNC), the central projection area of the auditory nerve. While the dorsal cochlear nucleus (DCN) showed a significant 19.7% volume reduction, VGLUT-1 input was reduced by 34.4% in the ventral cochlear nucleus (VCN) but not in the DCN of Cldn14-/- mice. Taken together, massive inner hair cell loss starts after the third postnatal week in Cldn14-/- mice, but is preceded by the loss of ribbon synapses, which may be a first sign of an ongoing degeneration process in otherwise morphologically inconspicuously inner hair cells. In addition to the regression of peripheral nerve processes, reduced levels of VGLUT-1 in the VCN of Cldn14-/- mice suggests that Claudin 14 loss does not only cause hair cell loss but also affects peripheral and central connectivity of the auditory nerve.

journal_name

Hear Res

journal_title

Hearing research

authors

Claußen M,Schulze J,Nothwang HG

doi

10.1016/j.heares.2020.107950

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2020-06-01 00:00:00

pages

107950

eissn

0378-5955

issn

1878-5891

pii

S0378-5955(19)30404-6

journal_volume

391

pub_type

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Loss of inner hair cell ribbon synapses and auditory nerve fiber regression in Cldn14 knockout mice.