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ArticleJournal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO2013

Retrograde facilitation of efferent synapses on cochlear hair cells.

Jee-Hyun Kong, Stephen Zachary, Kevin N Rohmann, Paul Albert Fuchs

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Article in Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Co-release of GABA and ACh from Medial Olivocochlear Neurons as a Fine Regulatory Mechanism of Cochlear Efferent Inhibition.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  3. Genetic tools for studying cochlear inhibition.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2024
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  8. Developmental Synaptic Changes at the Transient Olivocochlear-Inner Hair Cell Synapse.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2019
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  9. Efferent Inhibition of the Cochlea.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine · 2019
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  11. Voltage-Gated Calcium Influx Modifies Cholinergic Inhibition of Inner Hair Cells in the Immature Rat Cochlea.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2018
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  13. Activated inhibition in regulating excitability.The Journal of physiology · 2017
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  14. Synaptic calcium regulation in hair cells of the chicken basilar papilla.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2014
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jee-Hyun KongOtolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. jhntyo@gmail.com
Stephen Zachary
Kevin N Rohmann
Paul Albert Fuchs
Johns Hopkins University · US

Funding

THE CHOLINERGIC RESPONSE OF COCHLEAR HAIR CELLSR01DC001508 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI Amanda M. Lauer · 1992 to 2026
$13.2M
The Histology CoreP30DC005211 · NIDCD · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI YOUNG, ERIC DANIEL · 2002 to 2016
$9.1M
Training Program in Hearing and BalanceT32DC000023 · NIDCD · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI CULLEN, KATHLEEN E · 1989 to 2025
$8.7M
RESEARCH TRAINING IN OTOLARYNGOLOGYT32DC000027 · NIDCD · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI CAREY, JOHN PATRICK · 1989 to 2023
$5.5M
Neuroscience Training ProgramT32EY017203 · NEI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI BERGLES, DWIGHT E · 2005 to 2014
$2.9M
NEI NIH HHS T32 EY017203NIDCD NIH HHS P30 DC005211NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC001508NIDCD NIH HHS T32 DC000023NIDCD NIH HHS T32 DC000027
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cochlear inner hair cells (IHCs) are temporarily innervated by efferent cholinergic fibers prior to the onset of hearing. During low-frequency firing, these efferent synapses have a relatively low probability of transmitter release but facilitate strongly with repetitive stimulation. A retrograde signal from the hair cell to the efferent terminal contributes to this facilitation. When IHCs were treated with the ryanodine receptor agonist, cyclic adenosine phosphoribose (cADPR), release probability of the efferent terminal rose. This effect was quantified by computing the quantum content from a train of 100 suprathreshold stimuli to the efferent fibers. Quantum content was sevenfold higher when IHCs were treated with 100 μM cADPR (applied in the recording pipette). Since cADPR is membrane impermeant, this result implies that an extracellular messenger travels from the hair cell to the efferent terminal. cADPR is presumed to generate this messenger by increasing cytoplasmic calcium. Consistent with this presumption, voltage-gated calcium flux into the IHC also caused retrograde facilitation of efferent transmission. Retrograde facilitation was observed in IHCs of a vesicular glutamate transporter (VGlut3) null mouse and for wild-type rat hair cells subject to wide-spectrum glutamate receptor blockade, demonstrating that glutamate was unlikely to be the extracellular messenger. Rather, bath application of nitric oxide (NO) donors caused an increase in potassium-evoked efferent transmitter release while the NO scavenger carboxy-PTIO was able to prevent retrograde facilitation produced by cADPR or IHC depolarization. Thus, hair cell activity can drive retrograde facilitation of efferent input via calcium-dependent production of NO.

Indexed as

Acoustic StimulationAmino Acid Transport Systems, AcidicAnimalsCalciumCalcium Channel AgonistsDose-Response Relationship, DrugHair Cells, Auditory, InnerMiceMice, KnockoutModels, AnimalNeurons, EfferentNitric OxideNitric Oxide DonorsRatsRats, Inbred StrainsSynapsesAmino Acid Transport Systems, AcidicCalciumCalcium Channel AgonistsNitric OxideNitric Oxide DonorsSlc17a8 protein, mouse

Identifiers

PMID23183877
PMCPMC3540278
OpenAlexW2137626982

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