Kanamycin ototoxicity in glutamate transporter knockout mice

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• 作者：Shimizu ; Yoshitaka ; Hakuba ; Nobuhiro ; Hyodo ; Jun ; Taniguchi ; Masafumi ; Gyo ; Kiyofumi
• 关键词：Aminoglycoside ; Hair cell ; Glutamate transporter ; Auditory brainstem response
• 刊名：Neuroscience Letters
• 出版年：2005
• 出版时间：June 3, 2005
• 年：2005
• 卷：380
• 期：3
• 页码：243-246
• 全文大小：196 K

文摘

Glutamate-aspartate transporter (GLAST), a powerful glutamate uptake system, removes released glutamate from the synaptic cleft and facilitates the re-use of glutamate as a neurotransmitter recycling system. Aminoglycoside-induced hearing loss is mediated via a glutamate excitotoxic process. We investigated the effect of aminoglycoside ototoxicity in GLAST knockout mice using the recorded auditory brainstem response (ABR) and number of hair cells in the cochlea. Kanamycin (100 mg/mL) was injected directly into the posterior semicircular canal of mice. Before the kanamycin treatment, there was no difference in the ABR threshold average between the wild-type and knockout mice. Kanamycin injection aggravated the ABR threshold in the GLAST knockout mice compared with the wild-type mice, and the IHC degeneration was more severe in the GLAST knockout mice. These findings suggest that GLAST plays an important role in preventing the degeneration of inner hair cells in aminoglycoside ototoxicity.