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Culture of Embryonic Mouse Cochlear Explants and Gene Transfer by Electroporation
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2015
We present a method that describes isolation and culture of cochlear explants from embryonic mouse inner ear. We also demonstrate a method for gene transfer into cochlear explants via square-wave electroporation. The in vitro explant culture coupled with gene transfer technique enables researchers to study the effects of altering gene expression during development.
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Developing a Cerebral Blood Flow Atlas for Blood Flow Mapping
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2025
Source: Tan, Z., et al., Construction and Application of Cerebral Functional Region-Based Cerebral Blood Flow Atlas Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Arterial Spin Labeling. J. Vis. Exp. (2024).This video demonstrates the method to construct a cerebral blood flow atlas by integrating magnetic resonance imaging or MRI-arterial spin labeling data with segmented brain regions, visualizing blood flow patterns, and quantifying flow levels across functional areas.
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Blood Flow
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2025
Blood is pumped by the heart into the aorta, the largest artery in the body, and then into increasingly smaller arteries, arterioles, and capillaries. The velocity of blood flow decreases with increased cross-sectional blood vessel area. As blood returns to the heart through venules and veins, its velocity increases. The movement of blood is encouraged by smooth muscle in the vessel walls, the movement of skeletal muscle surrounding the vessels, and one-way valves that prevent backflow. Slow...
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Autoregulation of Blood Flow
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2024
Autoregulation mechanisms are characterized by their inherent capacity for self-regulation without necessitating specific nervous stimulation or endocrine control. These mechanisms facilitate the adjustment of blood flow and, therefore, perfusion specific to each tissue region. This self-regulation encompasses chemical signals and myogenic controls. Chemical Signaling in Autoregulation Chemical signaling operates at the precapillary sphincter level, inciting either contraction or relaxation.
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Direct Visualization of the Murine Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus for Optogenetic Stimulation of the Auditory Pathway
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2015
The goal of this protocol is to outline a surgical approach to provide direct access to the dorsal cochlear nucleus in a murine model.
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The labyrinthine arterial supply delivers blood to a specialized microvascular network within cochlear tissues. Regulated exchange across this network provides oxygen and nutrients, removes metabolic waste, and helps sustain the chemical gradients required for sensory transduction. These functions connect vascular delivery directly with the ability of auditory sensory structures to convert sound-related stimuli into neural signals.
Cochlear hair cells and supporting tissues have limited tolerance for oxygen deprivation. Because these structures depend on continuous delivery and waste removal, reduced circulation can disturb the conditions needed for normal function. This vulnerability makes oxygen availability an important consideration in research examining hearing loss, vascular disorders, and injuries that may compromise auditory performance.
The microvascular network regulates exchange between the circulation and cochlear tissues rather than serving only as a passive transport route. Its activity supports nutrient and oxygen delivery while clearing metabolic waste, helping preserve the local environment for sensory transduction. Studying this exchange provides a mechanism for linking vascular changes with altered cochlear function.
Measurements can help researchers examine how changes in cochlear circulation relate to auditory injury or dysfunction. The resulting information is relevant to studies of hearing loss, noise injury, ototoxicity, and vascular disorders. It can also support investigations of whether an intervention is associated with protection or restoration of auditory function, without relying solely on structural or functional observations.
Researchers measure cochlear blood flow as part of investigations into noise injury and ototoxicity, two contexts identified as relevant to auditory damage. Comparing circulation-related findings with cochlear function can help clarify whether altered vascular support accompanies these conditions. This approach broadens the analysis beyond sensory structures alone and focuses attention on the tissue environment required for hearing.
Cochlear blood flow is relevant to therapies designed to protect or restore auditory function because vascular support helps maintain the conditions required by cochlear tissues. Measuring circulation can therefore contribute to research evaluating such approaches, particularly when hearing problems are studied alongside vascular disorders, oxygen deprivation, noise injury, or ototoxicity.