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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

GABAergic synapses between auditory efferent neurons and type II spiral ganglion afferent neurons in the mouse cochlea.

Julia L Bachman, Siân R Kitcher, Lucas G Vattino, Holly J Beaulac, M Grace Chaves, Israel Hernandez Rivera, Eleonora Katz, Carolina Wedemeyer, Catherine J C Weisz

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Spontaneous Calcium Signalling in the Developing Mammalian Cochlea.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2026
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  6. Co-release of GABA and ACh from Medial Olivocochlear Neurons as a Fine Regulatory Mechanism of Cochlear Efferent Inhibition.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  7. GABAergic synapses between auditory efferent neurons and type II spiral ganglion afferent neurons in the mouse cochlea.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  9. Fast Inhibition Slows and Desynchronizes Mouse Auditory Efferent Neuron Activity.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors.

Julia L Bachman *Section on Neuronal Circuitry, NIH, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, Bethesda, MD 20892.ORCID 0009-0005-3675-9793
Siân R Kitcher *Section on Neuronal Circuitry, NIH, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, Bethesda, MD 20892.
Lucas G VattinoInstituto de Investigaciones en Ingeniería Genética y Biología Molecular, Dr. Héctor N. Torres, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Buenos Aires 1428, Argentina.ORCID 0000-0001-6340-844X
Holly J BeaulacSection on Neuronal Circuitry, NIH, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, Bethesda, MD 20892.ORCID 0000-0002-8168-0444
M Grace ChavesSection on Neuronal Circuitry, NIH, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, Bethesda, MD 20892.
Israel Hernandez RiveraSection on Neuronal Circuitry, NIH, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, Bethesda, MD 20892.
Eleonora KatzInstituto de Investigaciones en Ingeniería Genética y Biología Molecular, Dr. Héctor N. Torres, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Buenos Aires 1428, Argentina.ORCID 0000-0002-5114-2899
Carolina WedemeyerInstituto de Investigaciones en Ingeniería Genética y Biología Molecular, Dr. Héctor N. Torres, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Buenos Aires 1428, Argentina.ORCID 0000-0003-1757-5778
Catherine J C WeiszSection on Neuronal Circuitry, NIH, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, Bethesda, MD 20892.ORCID 0000-0002-2595-835X

Funding

Agencia Nacional de Promoción de la Investigación, el Desarrollo Tecnológico y la Innovación (agenciaidiar) PICT 2018-02531 CW; PICT 2018-01189 EKHHS | NIH | National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) Z01 DC000091
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cochlear outer hair cells (OHCs) are electromotile and implicated in amplification of responses to sound that enhance sound sensitivity and frequency tuning. They send afferent information through glutamatergic synapses onto type II spiral ganglion neurons (SGNs). These synapses are weaker than those from cochlear inner hair cells onto type I SGN, suggesting that type II SGNs respond only to intense sound levels. OHCs also receive efferent innervation from medial olivocochlear (MOC) neurons. MOC neurons are cholinergic yet inhibit OHCs due to the functional coupling of alpha9/alpha10 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) to calcium-activated SK potassium channels. The resulting hyperpolarization reduces OHC activity-evoked electromotility and is implicated in cochlear gain control, protection against acoustic trauma, and attention. MOC neurons also label for markers of GABA and GABA synthesis. GABA

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Cochleagamma-Aminobutyric AcidNeurons, AfferentNeurons, EfferentSpiral GanglionSynapsesAnimalsHair Cells, Auditory, OuterMiceReceptors, Nicotinicgamma-Aminobutyric AcidReceptors, Nicotinicauditorygamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)medial olivocochlear (MOC)spiral ganglion neuron (SGN)synapse

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PMID41401382
PMCPMC11874425

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