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ArticleScientific reports2021

An antibody to RGMa promotes regeneration of cochlear synapses after noise exposure.

Jerome Nevoux, Mihaela Alexandru, Thomas Bellocq, Lei Tanaka, Yushi Hayashi, Takahisa Watabe, Hanae Lahlou, Kohsuke Tani, Albert S B Edge

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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11 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Jerome NevouxDepartment of Otololaryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Mihaela AlexandruDepartment of Otololaryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Thomas BellocqDepartment of Otololaryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Lei TanakaDepartment of Otololaryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Yushi HayashiDepartment of Otololaryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Takahisa WatabeDepartment of Otololaryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Hanae LahlouDepartment of Otololaryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Kohsuke TaniDepartment of Otololaryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Albert S B EdgeDepartment of Otololaryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA. albert_edge@meei.harvard.edu.
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary · USEaton (United States) · USHarvard University · US

Funding

Cellular therapy for the inner earR01DC007174 · NIDCD · MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY · PI EDGE, ALBERT · 2005 to 2017
$4.6M
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC007174
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Auditory neuropathy is caused by the loss of afferent input to the brainstem via the components of the neural pathway comprising inner hair cells and the first order neurons of the spiral ganglion. Recent work has identified the synapse between cochlear primary afferent neurons and sensory hair cells as a particularly vulnerable component of this pathway. Loss of these synapses due to noise exposure or aging results in the pathology identified as hidden hearing loss, an initial stage of cochlear dysfunction that goes undetected in standard hearing tests. We show here that repulsive axonal guidance molecule a (RGMa) acts to prevent regrowth and synaptogenesis of peripheral auditory nerve fibers with inner hair cells. Treatment of noise-exposed animals with an anti-RGMa blocking antibody regenerated inner hair cell synapses and resulted in recovery of wave-I amplitude of the auditory brainstem response, indicating effective reversal of synaptopathy.

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Acoustic StimulationAnimalsAuditory ThresholdCochleaDisease Models, AnimalFemaleGPI-Linked ProteinsHair Cells, Auditory, InnerHearing Loss, Noise-InducedHumansMaleMiceNerve Tissue ProteinsRegenerationSynapsesGPI-Linked ProteinsNerve Tissue ProteinsRgma protein, mouse

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PMID33536466
PMCPMC7859405
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