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Behavioral methods for the functional assessment of hair cells in zebrafish

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《医学前沿（英文）》 2017年第11卷第2期页码 178-190 doi: 10.1007/s11684-017-0507-x

摘要：

Zebrafish is an emerging animal model for studies on auditory system. This model presents high comparability with humans, good accessibility to the hearing organ, and high throughput capacity. To better utilize this animal model, methodologies need to be used to quantify the hearing function of the zebrafish. Zebrafish displays a series of innate and robust behavior related to its auditory function. Here, we reviewed the advantage of using zebrafish in auditory research and then introduced three behavioral tests, as follows: the startle response, the vestibular-ocular reflex, and rheotaxis. These tests are discussed in terms of their physiological characteristics, up-to-date technical development, and apparatus description. Test limitation and areas to improve are also introduced. Finally, we revealed the feasibility of these applications in zebrafish behavioral assessment and their potential in the high-throughput screening on hearing-related genes and drugs.

关键词： zebrafish (Danio rerio) behavior auditory startle response vestibular-ocular reflex rheotaxis

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Effects of modafinil on vestibular function during 24 hour sleep deprivation

ZHAN Hao, XIE Sujiang, JIA Hongbo, WEI Sihuang, JING Baisheng

《医学前沿（英文）》 2007年第1卷第2期页码 226-229 doi: 10.1007/s11684-007-0044-0

摘要： The aim of this research was to investigate the effects of modafinil, a new wake-promoting agent, on vestibular function during 24 h sleep deprivation (SD) so as to provide experimental evidence for the rational use of this drug among air crew. Eight young, healthy male volunteers were exposed to two 24 h periods of continuous wakefulness during the crossover experiment. Initially, 200 mg dose of modafinil was given, and one week later, a matching placebo was administered. The SD time started from 08:00 of the first day to 08:00 of the second day. Drugs were given at 0:00 on the second day. Vestibular function was tested at 21:00 on the first day and 1, 3, 5, 7 h after drug administration. The accuracy of saccade tracking and gains in visual-vestibular optokinetic reflex (VVOR) and optokinetic nystagmus (OKN) in the placebo group decreased during 24 h SD, especially at 01:00 05:00 on the second day, while OKN gains in the modafinil group increased significantly. There were no significant differences in the other vestibular functional indices between the modafinil group and placebo group. The 24 h SD can influence vestibular function to a certain degree, but modafinil may improve OKN.

关键词： VVOR modafinil Vestibular function vestibular functional Initially

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A modified chronic ocular hypertension rat model for retinal ganglion cell neuroprotection

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《医学前沿（英文）》 2013年第7卷第3期页码 367-377 doi: 10.1007/s11684-013-0266-2

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This study aimed to modify a chronic ocular hypertension (OHT) rat model to screen for potential compounds to protect retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) from responding to increased intraocular pressure (IOP). A total of 266 rats were prepared and randomly grouped according to different time-points, namely, weeks 3, 8, 16, and 24. Rats were sedated and eye examination was performed to score as the corneal damage on a scale of 1 to 4. The OHT rat model was created via the injection of a hypertonic saline solution into the episcleral veins once weekly for two weeks. OHT was identified when the IOP at week 0 was≥6 mmHg than that at week -2 for the same eye. Viable RGCs were labeled by injecting 4% FluoroGold. Rats were sacrificed, and the eyes were enucleated and fixed. The fixed retinas were dissected to prepare flat whole-mounts. The viable RGCs were visualized and imaged. The IOP (meanβ±βSD) was calculated, and data were analyzed by the paired t-test and one-way ANOVA. The OHT model was created in 234 of 266 rats (87.97%), whereas 32 rats (12.03%) were removed from the study because of the absence of IOP elevation (11.28%) and/or corneal damage scores over 4 (0.75%). IOP was elevated by as much as 81.35% for 24 weeks. The average IOP was (16.68β±β0.98)βmmHg in non-OHT eyes (n = 234), but was (27.95±0.97)βmmHg in OHT eyes (n = 234). Viable RGCs in the OHT eyes were significantly decreased in a time-dependent manner by 29.41%, 38.24%, 55.32%, and 59.30% at weeks 3, 8, 16, and 24, respectively, as compared to viable RGCs in the non-OHT eyes (P<β0.05). The OHT model was successfully created in 88% of the rats. The IOP in the OHT eyes was elevated by approximately 81% for 24 weeks. The number of viable RGCs was decreased by 59% of the rats in a time-dependent manner. The modified OHT model may provide an effective and reliable method for screening drugs to protect RGCs from glaucoma.

关键词： chronic ocular hypertension intraocular pressure retinal ganglion cells neuroprotection glaucoma

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Regeneration of hair cells in the mammalian vestibular system

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《医学前沿（英文）》 2016年第10卷第2期页码 143-151 doi: 10.1007/s11684-016-0451-1

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Hair cells regenerate throughout the lifetime of non-mammalian vertebrates, allowing these animals to recover from hearing and balance deficits. Such regeneration does not occur efficiently in humans and other mammals. Thus, balance deficits become permanent and is a common sensory disorder all over the world. Since Forge and Warchol discovered the limited spontaneous regeneration of vestibular hair cells after gentamicin-induced damage in mature mammals, significant efforts have been exerted to trace the origin of the limited vestibular regeneration in mammals after hair cell loss. Moreover, recently many strategies have been developed to promote the hair cell regeneration and subsequent functional recovery of the vestibular system, including manipulating the Wnt, Notch and Atoh1. This article provides an overview of the recent advances in hair cell regeneration in mammalian vestibular epithelia. Furthermore, this review highlights the current limitations of hair cell regeneration and provides the possible solutions to regenerate functional hair cells and to partially restore vestibular function.

关键词： utricle hair cell regeneration Atoh1 Notch Wnt

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Setting up a heart rate alarm limit to decrease oculocardiac reflex during strabismus surgery in children

ZHANG Kangkang, GU Enhua, LU Junjie

《医学前沿（英文）》 2008年第2卷第3期页码 295-297 doi: 10.1007/s11684-008-0056-4

摘要： The aim of this paper is to investigate a method which may decrease the incidence and severity of oculocardiac reflex (OCR) without drugs. One hundred and sixty children undergoing strabismus surgery were allocated to two groups using double-blind randomization. OCR was defined as a decrease of more than 10% from the baseline heart rate during operation. An alarm sounded and a lamp flashed as soon as OCR occurred in group I, and neither of the above happened in group II. OCR occurred (1.151 ± 0.858) times in group I and (2.287 ± 1.371) times in group II ( < 0.05). Heart rate decreased by (23 ± 19) bpm in group I and (35 ± 28) bpm in group II ( < 0.05). The duration of OCR in group I and group II was (4.36 ± 4.26)s and (7.62 ± 6.41)s, respectively ( < 0.05). The recovery time for group I and group II was (15.36 ± 13.28)s and (32.36 ± 19.57)s, respectively ( < 0.05). The numbers of times of interruption were 8 in group I (10%) and 26 in group II (32%) ( < 0.01). This method significantly decreased the incidence and severity of OCR during strabismus surgery in children.

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Spontaneous firing properties of rat medial vestibular nucleus neurons in brain slices by infrared visual

XIA Jiao, KONG Weijia, ZHU Yun, ZHOU Yan, ZHANG Yu, GUO Changkai

《医学前沿（英文）》 2008年第2卷第3期页码 264-268 doi: 10.1007/s11684-008-0050-x

摘要： Domestic application of infrared patch clamp techniques on brain slices is limited. The key of the technique is to prepare high-quality brain slices. The present paper describes the preparation procedure of brainstem slices and the spontaneous firing properties of rat medial vestibular nucleus (MVN) neurons. By infrared differential interference contrast technique, neurons of rat MVN were visualized directly at the depth of 50–100 ?m underneath the surface of slices. Firing activities of MVN neurons were recorded by the whole-cell patch clamp technique in artificial cerebrospinal fluid (ACSF) and low Ca - high Mg fluid. The firing mode was more irregular and depressive in low Ca - high Mg fluid than in ACSF. According to the averaged waveform of action potentials, cells were classified as the neurons with monophasic after-hyperpolarization potential (AHP), and the neurons with biphasic AHP. The resting membrane potential (RMP), input resistance (Rin) and membrane capacitance (Cm) of neurons were recorded and compared between groups. With infrared videomicroscopy, patch clamp recordings could be made under direct observation in freshly prepared brainstem slices. The discharge activities of MVN neurons were spontaneous and the firing mode was modulated by extracellular calcium concentration. The basic membrane properties of two types of neurons were not significantly different, while the differences in waveform might play a role in the segregation between tonic and kinetic cells.

关键词： resistance infrared infrared videomicroscopy depressive after-hyperpolarization potential

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Fast removal of ocular artifacts from electroencephalogram signals using spatial constraint independent

Bang-hua YANG,Liang-fei HE,Lin LIN,Qian WANG

《信息与电子工程前沿（英文）》 2015年第16卷第6期页码 486-496 doi: 10.1631/FITEE.1400299

摘要： Ocular artifacts cause the main interfering signals within electroencephalogram (EEG) signal measurements. An adaptive filter based on reference signals from an electrooculogram (EOG) can reduce ocular interference, but collecting EOG signals during a long-term EEG recording is inconvenient and uncomfortable for the subject. To remove ocular artifacts from EEG in brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), a method named spatial constraint independent component analysis based recursive least squares (SCICA-RLS) is proposed. The method consists of two stages. In the first stage, independent component analysis (ICA) is used to decompose multiple EEG channels into an equal number of independent components (ICs). Ocular ICs are identified by an automatic artifact detection method based on kurtosis. Then empirical mode decomposition (EMD) is employed to remove any cerebral activity from the identified ocular ICs to obtain exact artifact ICs. In the second stage, first, SCICA applies exact artifact ICs obtained in the first stage as a constraint to extract artifact ICs from the given EEG signal. These extracted ICs are called spatial constraint ICs (SC-ICs). Then the RLS based adaptive filter uses SC-ICs as reference signals to reduce interference, which avoids the need for parallel EOG recordings. In addition, the proposed method has the ability of fast computation as it is not necessary for SCICA to identify all ICs like ICA. Based on the EEG data recorded from seven subjects, the new approach can lead to average classification accuracies of 3.3% and 12.6% higher than those of the standard ICA and raw EEG, respectively. In addition, the proposed method has 83.5% and 83.8% reduction in time-consumption compared with the standard ICA and ICA-RLS, respectively, which demonstrates a better and faster OA reduction.

关键词： Ocular artifacts Electroencephalogram (EEG) Electrooculogram (EOG) Brain-computer interface (BCI) Spatial constraint independent component analysis based recursive least squares (SCICA-RLS)

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Distinct roles of ASIC3 and TRPV1 receptors in electroacupuncture-induced segmental and systemic analgesia

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《医学前沿（英文）》 2016年第10卷第4期页码 465-472 doi: 10.1007/s11684-016-0482-7

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Previous studies have demonstrated the effects of different afferent fibers on electroacupuncture (EA)-induced analgesia. However, contributions of functional receptors expressed on afferent fibers to the EA analgesia remain unclear. This study investigates the roles of acid-sensing ion channel 3 (ASIC3) and transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) receptors in EA-induced segmental and systemic analgesia. Effects of EA at acupoint ST36 with different intensities on the C-fiber reflex and mechanical and thermal pain thresholds were measured among the ASIC3⁻^/⁻, TRPV1⁻^/⁻, and C57BL/6 mice. Compared with C57BL/6 mice, the ipsilateral inhibition of EA with 0.8 C-fiber threshold (0.8Tc) intensity on C-fiber reflex was markedly reduced in ASIC3⁻^/⁻ mice, whereas the bilateral inhibition of 1.0 and 2.0Tc EA was significantly decreased in TRPV1⁻^/⁻ mice. The segmental increase in pain thresholds induced by 0.3 mA EA was significantly reduced in ASIC3⁻^/⁻ mice, whereas the systemic enhancement of 1.0 mA EA was markedly decreased in TRPV1⁻^/⁻ mice. Thus, segmental analgesia of EA with lower intensity is partially mediated by ASIC3 receptor on Aβ-fiber, whereas systemic analgesia induced by EA with higher intensity is more likely induced by TRPV1 receptor on Ad- and C-fibers.