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ArticleNeuroscience letters2021

Salicylate decreases the spontaneous firing rate of guinea pig auditory nerve fibres.

Mark N Wallace, Christian J Sumner, Joel I Berger, Peter A McNaughton, Alan R Palmer

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Article in Neuroscience letters, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 38% of its field
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4 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Mark N WallaceMedical Research Council Institute of Hearing Research, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK; Hearing Sciences, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK. Electronic address: mark.wallace@nottingham.ac.uk.
Christian J SumnerMedical Research Council Institute of Hearing Research, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK; Hearing Sciences, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
Joel I BergerMedical Research Council Institute of Hearing Research, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
Peter A McNaughtonWolfson Centre for Age-Related Disease, King's College London, London, UK.
Alan R PalmerMedical Research Council Institute of Hearing Research, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK; Hearing Sciences, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
University of Nottingham · GBKing's College London · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_U135084112Medical Research Council MC_U135097127Medical Research Council MC_UU_00010/1Medical Research Council MC_UU_00010/5
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tinnitus has similarities to chronic neuropathic pain where there are changes in the firing rate of different types of afferent neurons. We postulated that one possible cause of tinnitus is a change in the distribution of spontaneous firing rates in at least one type of afferent auditory nerve fibre in anaesthetised guinea pigs. In control animals there was a bimodal distribution of spontaneous rates, but the position of the second mode was different depending upon whether the fibres responded best to high (> 4 kHz) or low (≤4 kHz) frequency tonal stimulation. The simplest and most reliable way of inducing tinnitus in experimental animals is to administer a high dose of sodium salicylate. The distribution of the spontaneous firing rates was different when salicylate (350 mg/kg) was administered, even when the sample was matched for the distribution of characteristic frequencies in the control population. The proportion of medium spontaneous rate fibres (MSR, 1≤ spikes/s ≤20) increased while the proportion of the highest, high spontaneous firing rate fibres (HSR, > 80 spikes/s) decreased following salicylate. The median rate fell from 64.7 spikes/s (control) to 35.4 spikes/s (salicylate); a highly significant change (Kruskal-Wallis test p < 0.001). When the changes were compared with various models of statistical probability, the most accurate model was one where most HSR fibres decreased their firing rate by 32 spikes/s. Thus, we have shown a reduction in the firing rate of HSR fibres that may be related to tinnitus.

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Action PotentialsAnimalsAuditory CortexAuditory ThresholdCochlear NerveEvoked Potentials, AuditoryGuinea PigsSalicylatesSalicylatesOtotoxicityPhantom limb sensationTemporary tinnitusTinnitus mechanismsVestibulocochlear nerve

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PMID33548408
PMCPMC7957321
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