Recent advances in the development and function of type II spiral ganglion neurons in the mammalian inner ear

KD Zhang, TM Coate - Seminars in cell & developmental biology, 2017 - Elsevier
In hearing, mechanically sensitive hair cells (HCs) in the cochlea release glutamate onto
spiral ganglion neurons (SGNs) to relay auditory information to the central nervous system …

Outer hair cell glutamate signaling through type II spiral ganglion afferents activates neurons in the cochlear nucleus in response to nondamaging sounds

CJC Weisz, SPG Williams, CS Eckard… - Journal of …, 2021 - Soc Neuroscience
Cochlear outer hair cells (OHCs) are known to uniquely participate in auditory processing
through their electromotility, and like inner hair cells, are also capable of releasing vesicular …

[HTML][HTML] Hair cell mechanotransduction regulates spontaneous activity and spiral ganglion subtype specification in the auditory system

S Sun, T Babola, G Pregernig, KS So, M Nguyen… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Type I spiral ganglion neurons (SGNs) transmit sound information from cochlear hair cells to
the CNS. Using transcriptome analysis of thousands of single neurons, we demonstrate that …

[HTML][HTML] Sensory neuron diversity in the inner ear is shaped by activity

BR Shrestha, C Chia, L Wu, SG Kujawa, MC Liberman… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
In the auditory system, type I spiral ganglion neurons (SGNs) convey complex acoustic
information from inner hair cells (IHCs) to the brainstem. Although SGNs exhibit variation in …

Molecular signatures define subtypes of auditory afferents with distinct peripheral projection patterns and physiological properties

C Siebald, PFY Vincent, RT Bottom… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Type I spiral ganglion neurons (SGNs) are the auditory afferents that transmit sound
information from cochlear inner hair cells (IHCs) to the brainstem. These afferents consist of …

[HTML][HTML] The afferent signaling complex: regulation of type I spiral ganglion neuron responses in the auditory periphery

DOJ Reijntjes, SJ Pyott - Hearing Research, 2016 - Elsevier
The spiral ganglion neurons (SGNs) are the first action potential generating neurons in the
auditory pathway. The type I SGNs contact the sensory inner hair cells via their peripheral …

Making connections in the inner ear: recent insights into the development of spiral ganglion neurons and their connectivity with sensory hair cells

TM Coate, MW Kelley - Seminars in cell & developmental biology, 2013 - Elsevier
In mammals, auditory information is processed by the hair cells (HCs) located in the cochlea
and then rapidly transmitted to the CNS via a specialized cluster of bipolar afferent …

[HTML][HTML] Single-Cell RNA Analysis of Type I Spiral Ganglion Neurons Reveals a Lmx1a Population in the Cochlea

FC Grandi, L De Tomasi, M Mustapha - Frontiers in molecular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In the mature cochlea, each inner hair cell (IHC) is innervated by multiple spiral ganglion
neurons of type I (SGNI). SGNIs are morphologically and electro-physiologically diverse …

The ribbon synapse between type I spiral ganglion neurons and inner hair cells

MA Rutherford, T Moser - The primary auditory neurons of the mammalian …, 2016 - Springer
This chapter provides an overview of the first auditory synapses, in the cochlea where sound
is encoded. We review insights into the development, structure, and function of the excitatory …

Concurrent maturation of inner hair cell synaptic Ca2+ influx and auditory nerve spontaneous activity around hearing onset in mice

AB Wong, Z Jing, MA Rutherford, T Frank… - Journal of …, 2013 - Soc Neuroscience
Hearing over a wide range of sound intensities is thought to require complementary coding
by functionally diverse spiral ganglion neurons (SGNs), each changing activity only over a …