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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2014

Spatiotemporal pattern of action potential firing in developing inner hair cells of the mouse cochlea.

Gaston Sendin, Jérôme Bourien, François Rassendren, Jean-Luc Puel, Régis Nouvian

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers.

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51citing papers in PubMed
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51 citing papers in PubMed, 71 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Spontaneous Calcium Signalling in the Developing Mammalian Cochlea.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2026
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  3. Spontaneous CaExperimental physiology · 2026
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  6. Medial Olivocochlear Efferent Modulation of Cochlear Micromechanics Requires P2X4 Receptor in Outer Hair Cells.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  7. 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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  10. In vivo spontaneous CaNature communications · 2025
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  16. The CleLife · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Gaston SendinInstitut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1051, Institut des Neurosciences de Montpellier, 34091 Montpellier, France.
Jérôme Bourien
François Rassendren
Jean-Luc Puel
Régis Nouvian
Inserm · FR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inner hair cells (IHCs) are the primary transducer for sound encoding in the cochlea. In contrast to the graded receptor potential of adult IHCs, immature hair cells fire spontaneous calcium action potentials during the first postnatal week. This spiking activity has been proposed to shape the tonotopic map along the ascending auditory pathway. Using perforated patch-clamp recordings, we show that developing IHCs fire spontaneous bursts of action potentials and that this pattern is indistinguishable along the basoapical gradient of the developing cochlea. In both apical and basal IHCs, the spiking behavior undergoes developmental changes, where the bursts of action potential tend to occur at a regular time interval and have a similar length toward the end of the first postnatal week. Although disruption of purinergic signaling does not interfere with the action potential firing pattern, pharmacological ablation of the α9α10 nicotinic receptor elicits an increase in the discharge rate. We therefore suggest that in addition to carrying place information to the ascending auditory nuclei, the IHCs firing pattern controlled by the α9α10 receptor conveys a temporal signature of the cochlear development.

Indexed as

Spatio-Temporal AnalysisAction PotentialsAdenosine TriphosphateAnimalsAnimals, NewbornCholinergic NeuronsHair Cells, Auditory, InnerMiceMice, Inbred C57BLSignal TransductionAdenosine Triphosphateacetylcholine receptorATP receptorauditory systemelectrical activity

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PMID24429348
PMCPMC3918831
OpenAlexW2014514014

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