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Functional Connectivity Alterations and Molecular Characterization of the Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Tinnitus Pathology without Hearing Loss.

ABSTRACT: Compared with individuals with hearing loss, tinnitus patients without hearing loss have more psychological or emotional problems. Tinnitus is closely associated to abnormal metabolism and function of the limbic system, a key brain region for emotion experience, but the underlying molecular mechanism remains unknown. Using whole-brain microvasculature dynamics imaging, the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is identified as a key brain region of limbic system involve in the onset of salicylate-induced tinnitus in mice. In the tinnitus group, there is enhanced purine metabolism, oxidative phosphorylation, and a distinct pattern of phosphorylation in glutamatergic synaptic pathway according to the metabolome profiles, quantitative proteomic, and phosphoproteomic data of mice ACC tissue. Electroencephalogram in tinnitus patients with normal hearing thresholds show that the functional connectivity between pregenual anterior cingulate cortex and the primary auditory cortex is significantly increased for high-gamma frequency band, which is positively correlated with the serum glutamate level. These findings indicate that ACC plays an important role in the pathophysiology of tinnitus by interacting with the primary auditory cortex and provide potential molecular targets in the ACC for tinnitus treatment.

SUBMITTER: Fan T

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10797451 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Functional Connectivity Alterations and Molecular Characterization of the Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Tinnitus Pathology without Hearing Loss.

Fan Ting T Guan Peng-Fei PF Zhong Xiao-Fang XF Xiang Meng-Ya MY Peng Ying-Qiu YQ Zhou Ruo-Qiao RQ Gong Jia-Min JM Zheng Yu-Qing YQ Dai A-Qiang AQ Feng Jia-Ling JL Yu Hong-Zhe HZ Li Jian J Li Hua-Wei HW Wang Yun-Feng YF

Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) 20231127 3

Compared with individuals with hearing loss, tinnitus patients without hearing loss have more psychological or emotional problems. Tinnitus is closely associated to abnormal metabolism and function of the limbic system, a key brain region for emotion experience, but the underlying molecular mechanism remains unknown. Using whole-brain microvasculature dynamics imaging, the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is identified as a key brain region of limbic system involve in the onset of salicylate-indu ...[more]

PMID: 38009798

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Project description:BackgroundTinnitus can interfere with a patient's speech discrimination, but whether tinnitus itself or the accompanying sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) causes this interference is still unclear. We analyzed event-related electroencephalograms (EEGs) to observe auditory-related brain function and explore the possible effects of SNHL on auditory processing in tinnitus patients.MethodsSpeech discrimination scores (SDSs) were recorded in 21 healthy control subjects, 24 tinnitus patients, 24 SNHL patients, and 27 patients with both SNHL and tinnitus. EEGs were collected under an oddball paradigm. Then, the mismatch negativity (MMN) amplitude and latency, the clustering coefficient and average path length of the whole network in the tinnitus and SNHL groups were compared with those in the control group. Additionally, we analyzed the intergroup differences in functional connectivity among the primary auditory cortex (AC), parahippocampal gyrus (PHG), and inferior frontal gyrus (IFG).ResultsSNHL patients with or without tinnitus had lower SDSs than the control subjects. Compared with control subjects, tinnitus patients with or without SNHL had decreased MMN amplitudes, and SNHL patients had longer MMN latencies. Tinnitus patients without SNHL had a smaller clustering coefficient and a longer whole-brain average path length than the control subjects. SNHL patients with or without tinnitus had a smaller clustering coefficient and a longer average path length than patients with tinnitus alone. The connectivity strength from the AC to the PHG and IFG was lower on the affected side in tinnitus patients than that in control subjects; the connectivity strength from the PHG to the IFG was also lower on the affected side in tinnitus patients than that in control subjects. However, the connectivity strength from the IFG to the AC was stronger in tinnitus patients than that in the control subjects. In SNHL patients with or without tinnitus, these changes were magnified.ConclusionChanges in auditory processing in tinnitus patients do not influence SDSs. Instead, SNHL might cause the activity of the AC, PHG and IFG to change, resulting in impaired speech recognition in tinnitus patients with SNHL.

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Functional Connectivity Alterations and Molecular Characterization of the Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Tinnitus Pathology without Hearing Loss.

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Functional Connectivity Alterations and Molecular Characterization of the Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Tinnitus Pathology without Hearing Loss.

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