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NPJ AGING AND MECHANISMS OF DISEASE
Volume 3, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41514-017-0002-2
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- JSPS KAKENHI [26253081, 26111506, 15K10743]
- Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare of Japan
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26253081, 26111506, 15K10743] Funding Source: KAKEN
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We aimed at determining the mitochondrial function in premature senescence model of auditory cells. Short exposure to H2O2 (1 h, 0.1 mM) induced premature cellular senescence in House Ear Institute-Organ of Corti 1 auditory cells. The transmission electron microscopy analysis revealed that damaged mitochondria and autophagosomes containing dense organelles appeared in the auditory cells after short exposure to H2O2. The branch and junction parameters of the skeletonized image of the mitochondria were found to decrease significantly in H2O2-treated cells. A branched reticulum of tubules was poorly formed, featuring coexistence of numerous tiny clusters along with few relatively large entities in the H2O2-treated cells. In terms of bioenergetics, H2O2-treatment led to the dose-dependent decrease in mitochondrial membrane potential in the auditory cells. The fragmented mitochondria (fusion < fission) were in a low potential. In addition, the potential of hyperfused mitochondria (fusion > fission) was slightly lower than the control cells. The short-time exposure of live auditory cells to H2O2 damaged the mitochondrial respiratory capacity without any effect on the baseline ATP production rates. The vulnerability of the mitochondrial membrane potential to the uncoupling reagent was increased after H2O2 treatment. Our findings indicated that the mitochondrial dysfunction due to the decline in the O-2 consumption rate should be the first event of premature senescence process in the auditory cells, resulting in the imbalance of mitochondrial fusion/fission and the collapse of the mitochondrial network.
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