Salicylate decreases the spontaneous firing rate of guinea pig auditory nerve fibres

Wallace, MN, Sumner, CJ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2573-7418, Berger, JI, McNaughton, PA and Palmer, AR, 2021. Salicylate decreases the spontaneous firing rate of guinea pig auditory nerve fibres. Neuroscience Letters, 747: 135705. ISSN 0304-3940

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Abstract

Tinnitus has similarities to chronic neuropathic pain where there are changes in the firing rate of different types of afferent neurons. We postulated that one possible cause of tinnitus is a change in the distribution of spontaneous firing rates in at least one type of afferent auditory nerve fibre in anaesthetised guinea pigs. In control animals there was a bimodal distribution of spontaneous rates, but the position of the second mode was different depending upon whether the fibres responded best to high (> 4 kHz) or low (≤4 kHz) frequency tonal stimulation. The simplest and most reliable way of inducing tinnitus in experimental animals is to administer a high dose of sodium salicylate. The distribution of the spontaneous firing rates was different when salicylate (350 mg/kg) was administered, even when the sample was matched for the distribution of characteristic frequencies in the control population. The proportion of medium spontaneous rate fibres (MSR, 1≤ spikes/s ≤20) increased while the proportion of the highest, high spontaneous firing rate fibres (HSR, > 80 spikes/s) decreased following salicylate. The median rate fell from 64.7 spikes/s (control) to 35.4 spikes/s (salicylate); a highly significant change (Kruskal-Wallis test p < 0.001). When the changes were compared with various models of statistical probability, the most accurate model was one where most HSR fibres decreased their firing rate by 32 spikes/s. Thus, we have shown a reduction in the firing rate of HSR fibres that may be related to tinnitus.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Neuroscience Letters
Creators:	Wallace, M.N., Sumner, C.J., Berger, J.I., McNaughton, P.A. and Palmer, A.R.
Publisher:	Elsevier BV
Date:	16 March 2021
Volume:	747
ISSN:	0304-3940
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1016/j.neulet.2021.135705 DOI S0304394021000835 Publisher Item Identifier 1424984 Other
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Linda Sullivan
Date Added:	09 Feb 2022 09:42
Last Modified:	09 Feb 2022 09:42
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/45569

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