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ArticleFrontiers in cell and developmental biology2021

Treatment With Calcineurin Inhibitor FK506 Attenuates Noise-Induced Hearing Loss.

Zu-Hong He, Song Pan, Hong-Wei Zheng, Qiao-Jun Fang, Kayla Hill, Su-Hua Sha

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Article in Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Zu-Hong HeDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States.
Song PanDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States.
Hong-Wei ZhengDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States.
Qiao-Jun FangDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States.
Kayla HillDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States.
Su-Hua ShaDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States.
Medical University of South Carolina · US

Funding

Molecular Mechanisms in Noise-Induced Hearing LossR01DC009222 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI Su-Hua Sha · 2010 to 2026
$5.5M
MUSC FACIL EXPANSION &RENOV: SLE C06RR015455 · NCRR · MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA · PI RAYMOND, JOHN R · 2002 to 2002
$2.0M
RENOVATION TO SUPPORT SENSORY NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCHC06RR014516 · NCRR · MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA · PI RAYMOND, JOHN R · 1999 to 1999
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NCRR NIH HHS C06 RR014516NCRR NIH HHS C06 RR015455NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC009222
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Attenuation of noise-induced hair cell loss and noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) by treatment with FK506 (tacrolimus), a calcineurin (CaN/PP2B) inhibitor used clinically as an immunosuppressant, has been previously reported, but the downstream mechanisms of FK506-attenuated NIHL remain unknown. Here we showed that CaN immunolabeling in outer hair cells (OHCs) and nuclear factor of activated T-cells isoform c4 (NFATc4/NFAT3) in OHC nuclei are significantly increased after moderate noise exposure in adult CBA/J mice. Consequently, treatment with FK506 significantly reduces moderate-noise-induced loss of OHCs and NIHL. Furthermore, induction of reactive oxygen species (ROS) by moderate noise was significantly diminished by treatment with FK506. In agreement with our previous finding that autophagy marker microtubule-associated protein light chain 3B (LC3B) does not change in OHCs under conditions of moderate-noise-induced permanent threshold shifts, treatment with FK506 increases LC3B immunolabeling in OHCs after exposure to moderate noise. Additionally, prevention of NIHL by treatment with FK506 was partially abolished by pretreatment with LC3B small interfering RNA. Taken together, these results indicate that attenuation of moderate-noise-induced OHC loss and hearing loss by FK506 treatment occurs not only

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autophagycalcineurin inhibitornoise-induced hearing lossnuclear factor of activated T-cells isoform c4reactive oxygen species

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