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Developmental changes in the responsiveness of rat spiral ganglion neurons to neurotrophic factors in dissociated culture: differential responses for survival, neuritogenesis and neuronal morphology |
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| Authors: | Yulian Jin Kenji Kondo Munetaka Ushio Kimitaka Kaga Allen F. Ryan Tatsuya Yamasoba |
| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan 2. Department of Otolaryngology, Yanbian University Hospital, Yanji, China 3. National Institute of Sensory Organs, Tokyo, Japan 4. Department of Surgery, Division of Otolaryngology and Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, Calif., USA 5. Veterans Administration Medical Center, La Jolla, Calif., USA |
| Abstract: | The way that the development of the inner ear innervation is regulated by various neurotrophic factors and/or their combinations at different postnatal developmental stages remains largely unclear. Moreover, survival and neuritogenesis in deafferented adult neurons is important for cochlear implant function. To address these issues, developmental changes in the responsiveness of postnatal rat spiral ganglion neurons (SGNs) to neurotrophin-3 (NT-3), brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) were examined by using a dissociated cell culture system. SGNs at postnatal day (P) 0, P5 and P20 (young adult) were cultured with the addition of NT-3, BDNF, or LIF or of a combination of NT-3 and BDNF (N + B) or of NT-3, BDNF and LIF (ALL factors). SGNs were analyzed for three parameters: survival, longest neurite length (LNL) and neuronal morphology. At P0, SGNs required exposure to N + B or ALL factors for enhanced survival and the ALL factors combination showed a synergistic effect much greater than the sum of the individual factors. At P5, SGNs responded to a wider range of treatment conditions for enhanced survival and combinations showed only an additive improvement over individual factors. The survival percentage of untreated SGNs was highest at P20 but combinations of neurotrophic factors were no more effective than individual factors. LNL of each SGN was enhanced by LIF alone or ALL factors at P0 and P5 but was suppressed by NT-3, BDNF and N + B at P5 in a dose-dependent manner. The LNL at P20 was enhanced by ALL factors and suppressed by N + B. Treatment with ALL factors increased the proportion of SGNs that had two or more primary neurites in all age groups. These findings suggest that NT-3, BDNF, LIF and their combinations predominantly support different ontogenetic events at different developmental stages in the innervation of the inner ear. |
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