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MicroRNAs Related to Cognitive Impairment After Hearing Loss.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Our research group has previously demonstrated that hearing loss might be a risk factor for synaptic loss within the hippocampus and impairment of cognition using an animal model of Alzheimer disease. In this study, after inducing hearing loss in a rat model of Alzheimer disease, the associations of various microRNAs (miRNAs) with cognitive impairment were investigated.

Methods

Rats were divided randomly into two experimental groups: the control group, which underwent sham surgery and subthreshold amyloid-? infusion and the deaf group, which underwent bilateral cochlear ablation and subthreshold amyloid-? infusion. All rats completed several cognitive function assessments 11 weeks after surgery, including the object-in-place task (OPT), the novel object recognition task (NOR), the object location task (OLT), and the Y-maze test. After the rats completed these tests, hippocampus tissue samples were assessed using miRNA microarrays. Candidate miRNAs were selected based on the results and then validated with quantitative reverse transcriptionpolymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) analyses.

Results

The deaf group showed considerably lower scores on the OPT, OLT, and Y-maze test than the control group. The microarray analysis revealed that miR-29b-3p, -30e-5p, -153-3p, -376a-3p, -598-3p, -652-5p, and -873-3p were candidate miRNAs, and qRT-PCR showed significantly higher levels of miR-376a-3p and miR-598-3p in the deaf group.

Conclusion

These results indicate that miR-376a-3p and miR-598-3p were related to cognitive impairment after hearing loss.

SUBMITTER: Mun SK

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7904421 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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MicroRNAs Related to Cognitive Impairment After Hearing Loss.

Mun Seog-Kyun SK Chae Hyunkyu H Piao Xian-Yu XY Lee Hyun-Jin HJ Kim Young-Kook YK Oh Seung-Ha SH Chang Munyoung M

Clinical and experimental otorhinolaryngology 20200711 1

<h4>Objectives</h4>Our research group has previously demonstrated that hearing loss might be a risk factor for synaptic loss within the hippocampus and impairment of cognition using an animal model of Alzheimer disease. In this study, after inducing hearing loss in a rat model of Alzheimer disease, the associations of various microRNAs (miRNAs) with cognitive impairment were investigated.<h4>Methods</h4>Rats were divided randomly into two experimental groups: the control group, which underwent s ...[more]

PMID: 32646202

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MicroRNAs Related to Cognitive Impairment After Hearing Loss.

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