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ReviewFrontiers in cell and developmental biology2018

Transmission Disrupted: Modeling Auditory Synaptopathy in Zebrafish.

Katie S Kindt, Lavinia Sheets

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Review in Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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40citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed, 53 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Katie S KindtSection on Sensory Cell Development and Function, NIDCD/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States.
Lavinia SheetsDepartment of Otolaryngology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States.
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders · USWashington University in St. Louis · US

Funding

In vivo investigation of sensory hair cell function and developmentZIADC000085 · NIDCD · NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS · PI KINDT, KATIE · 2014 to 2025
$21.4M
Roles of the Synapse in Hair-Cell PathologyR01DC016066 · NIDCD · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI Lavinia Sheets · 2017 to 2026
$3.6M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA DC000085NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC016066
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sensorineural hearing loss is the most common form of hearing loss in humans, and results from either dysfunction in hair cells, the sensory receptors of sound, or the neurons that innervate hair cells. A specific type of sensorineural hearing loss, referred to as auditory synaptopathy, occurs when hair cells are able to detect sound but fail to transmit sound stimuli at the hair-cell synapse. Auditory synaptopathy can originate from genetic alterations that specifically disrupt hair-cell synapse function. Additionally, environmental factors such as noise exposure can leave hair cells intact but result in loss of hair-cell synapses, and represent an acquired form of auditory synaptopathy. The zebrafish model has emerged as a valuable system for studies of hair-cell function, and specifically hair-cell synaptopathy. In this review, we describe the experimental tools that have been developed to study hair-cell synapses in zebrafish. We discuss how zebrafish genetics has helped identify and define the roles of hair-cell synaptic proteins crucial for hearing in humans, and highlight how studies in zebrafish have contributed to our understanding of hair-cell synapse formation and function. In addition, we also discuss work that has used noise exposure or pharmacological mimic of noise-induced excitotoxicity in zebrafish to define cellular mechanisms underlying noise-induced hair-cell damage and synapse loss. Lastly, we highlight how future studies in zebrafish could enhance our understanding of the pathological processes underlying synapse loss in both genetic and acquired auditory synaptopathy. This knowledge is critical in order to develop therapies that protect or repair auditory synaptic contacts.

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deafness/hearing losshair cells (HCs)ribbon synapsesynaptic transmissionzebrafish model system

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PMID30258843
PMCPMC6143809
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