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ArticleScientific reports2015

ERK2 mediates inner hair cell survival and decreases susceptibility to noise-induced hearing loss.

Takaomi Kurioka, Takeshi Matsunobu, Yasushi Satoh, Katsuki Niwa, Shogo Endo, Masato Fujioka, Akihiro Shiotani

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Article in Scientific reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 46 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Takaomi KuriokaDepartment of Otolaryngology, National Defense Medical College, Saitama, Japan.
Takeshi MatsunobuDepartment of Otolaryngology, National Defense Medical College, Saitama, Japan.
Yasushi SatohDepartment of Anesthesiology, National Defense Medical College, Saitama, Japan.
Katsuki NiwaDepartment of Otolaryngology, National Defense Medical College, Saitama, Japan.
Shogo EndoAging Neuroscience Research Team, Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital and Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan.
Masato FujiokaDepartment of Otolaryngology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Akihiro ShiotaniDepartment of Otolaryngology, National Defense Medical College, Saitama, Japan.
National Defense Medical College · JPKeio University · JPTokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital · JP

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) is a member of the family of mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) and coordinately regulates a multitude of cellular processes. In response to a variety of extracellular stimuli, phosphorylation of both threonine and tyrosine residues activates ERK. Recent evidence indicates that ERK is activated in response to cellular stress such as acoustic trauma. However, the specific role of ERK isoforms in auditory function is not fully understood. Here, we show that the isoform ERK2 plays an important role in regulating hair cell (HC) survival and noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) in mice (C57BL/6J). We found that conditional knockout mice deficient for Erk2 in the inner ear HCs had hearing comparable to control mice and exhibited no HC loss under normal conditions. However, we found that these knockout mice were more vulnerable to noise and had blunted recovery from NIHL compared to control mice. Furthermore, we observed a significantly lower survival rate of inner hair cells in these mice compared to control mice. Our results indicate that ERK2 plays important roles in the survival of HC in NIHL.

Indexed as

Disease SusceptibilityAnimalsCell SurvivalCochleaDisease Models, AnimalGene ExpressionHair Cells, Auditory, InnerHearing Loss, Noise-InducedImmunohistochemistryMiceMice, TransgenicMitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 1Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 3NoisePhosphorylationMapk1 protein, mouseMitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 1Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 3

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PMID26577290
PMCPMC4649542
OpenAlexW2218629681

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