Journal
ACTA OTO-LARYNGOLOGICA
Volume 138, Issue 7, Pages 610-616Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00016489.2018.1438659
Keywords
Dexamethasone phosphate; guinea pigs; hearing loss; noise-induced; hydrogel; liposomes
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- Fondation pour la Recherche Medicale
- Association des Anciens Internes des Hopitaux de Paris
- INSERM
- UPMC
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Objectives: Intratympanic injection of corticosteroids membrane after noise-induced hearing loss is an accepted alternative to general administration. We investigated the effect on hearing of a hyaluronic acid gel with liposomes loaded with dexamethasone (DexP) administered into the middle ear. Methods: An acute acoustic trauma was performed to 13 guinea pigs for a period of 1 h on Day -2. Two 2 days after the noise trauma, the animals were then assigned randomly to four experimental groups: control without gel, gel injection, gel-containing free DexP, gel-containing DexP loaded into liposomes. Auditory thresholds were measured with Auditory Brainstem Response before Day -2 and at Day 0, Day 7 and Day 30 after noise trauma. Results: Seven days after, a complete hearing recovery was observed in the control group at all frequencies apart from 8 kHz, and no recovery was observed in the three groups receiving a gel injection. Thirty days after trauma, all of the animals had recovered normal hearing, apart from at the 8-kHz frequency, with similar auditory thresholds. Conclusions: Local DexP administration 48 h after a mild acoustic trauma did not improve hearing recovery, even with a sustained release in a specific gel formulation designed for inner ear therapy.
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