Diss. (sammanfattning) Linköping : Univ., 2001. / Härtill 5 uppsatser.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Cornell University, May, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 162-189).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1999. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 68-82).

Diss. (sammanfattning) Umeå : Umeå universitet, 2009. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.

Thesis (doctoral)--Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 1982. / Extra t.p. with thesis statement inserted. Includes bibliographical references (p. 20-28).

Thesis (doctoral)--Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 1982. / Extra t.p. with thesis statement inserted. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (p. 20-28).

Orientador: Vital Paulino Costa / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-23T06:08:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cremasco_Fernanda_D.pdf: 5564009 bytes, checksum: bb04dfbdd0809568c204a7076f6df39f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: Esta pesquisa teve por finalidade avaliar a variabilidade intrasessão, intersessão e interexaminador das medidas de espessura da camada de fibras nervosas da retina peripapilar (CFNRP) com a Tomografia de Coerência Óptica de Domínio Espectral (TCO-DE). Foi incluído no estudo apenas um olho de 32 indivíduos saudáveis e de 34 pacientes com glaucoma. As medidas da CFNRP foram obtidas com o Cirrus HD-OCT 4000 (Carl Zeiss Meditec, Dublin, Califórnia, EUA) cinco vezes no mesmo dia, por um único examinador, para avaliação da variabilidade intrasessão. O mesmo examinador realizou medidas de espessura da CFNRP nos mesmos sujeitos em cinco dias diferentes, para avaliação da variabilidade intersessão. Um segundo examinador realizou medidas da espessura da CFNRP nos mesmos pacientes para avaliação da variabilidade interexaminador. O coeficiente de variação (CDV) e o coeficiente de correlação intraclasse (CCI) foram obtidos para os seguintes parâmetros: espessura média, espessura nos quadrantes e espessuras setoriais. Em relação à variabilidade intrasessão, em pacientes com glaucoma, os CDVs variaram de 4,51% a 11,84% e os CCIs variaram de 0,74 a 0,99; em indivíduos saudáveis, os CDVs variaram de 2,92% a 6,99% e os CCIs variaram de 0,89 a 0,98. Na análise da variabilidade intersessão observou-se que, em pacientes com glaucoma, os CDVs variaram de 3,68% a 10,50% e os CCIs variaram de 0,82 a 0,99; em indivíduos saudáveis, os CDVs variaram de 3,13% a 6,92% e os CCIs variaram de 0,87 a 0,99. Em relação à variabilidade interexaminador, em pacientes com glaucoma, os CDVs variaram de 2,62% a 14,94% e os CCIs variaram de 0,55 a 0,98; em indivíduos saudáveis, os CDVs variaram de 2,04% a 7,31% e os CCIs variaram de 0,86 a 0,98. Estes resultados indicam que as medidas de espessura da CFNRP com a TCO-DE apresentam reprodutibilidade excelente, com baixa variabilidade intrasessão, intersessão e interexaminador / Abstract: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the intrasession, intersession and interexaminer variabilities of peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (PRNFL) thickness measurements with Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography. One eye of 32 healthy individuals and 34 patients with glaucoma were included in the study. The PRNFL measurements were obtained with the Cirrus HD-OCT Model 4000 (Carl Zeiss Meditec, Dublin, Califórnia, USA) five times during the same sitting by one examiner to assess intrasession variability. The same examiner performed PRNFL measurements in the same patients in five different days to assess intersession variability. A second examiner performed PRNFL measurements in the same patients to assess interexaminer variability. The coefficient of variation (COV) and the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) were obtained for the following parameters: average thickness, quadrant thickness and clock-hour thickness measurements. The analysis of the intrasession variability, in glaucoma patients, showed that COVs ranged from 4.51% to 11.84% and ICCs varied from 0.74 to 0.99, whereas in healthy individuals, COVs ranged from 2.92% to 6.99% and ICCs varied from 0.89 to 0.98. Regarding the intersession variability, in glaucoma patients COVs ranged from 3.68% to 10.50% and ICCs varied from 0.82 to 0.99; whereas in healthy individuals, COVs ranged from 3.13% to 6.92% and ICCs varied from 0.87 to 0.99. In interexaminer variability, between glaucoma patients, COVs ranged from 2.62% to 14.94% and ICCs varied from 0.55 to 0.98, whereas in healthy individuals, COVs ranged from 2.04% to 7.31% and ICCs varied from 0.86 to 0.98. These findings indicate that PRNFL measurements with Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography display excellent reproducibility, with low intrasession, intersession and interexaminer variabilities / Doutorado / Oftalmologia / Doutor em Ciências Médicas

Contexte : La compréhension de la parole dans le silence est dépendante des mécanismes de codage de l’enveloppe temporelle du signal sonore. Une anomalie du codage (d’origine infectieuse, immunitaire, génétique, tumorale, ou environnementale) entraine irrémédiablement une diminution des performances audiométriques vocales. Les méthodes d’exploration fonctionnelle de la cochlée (potentiels d’action composite du nerf auditif, potentiel évoqués auditifs précoces) utilisent des stimuli sonores simples (clics, bouffées tonales) pour détecter une anomalie de codage des indices temporels. Le but de cette étude était de développer une méthode électrophysiologique capable de mesurer les réponses du nerf auditif à des stimuli modulés en amplitude.Matériel et méthodes : La réponse électrophysiologique du nerf auditif a été mesurée à l’aide d’une électrode placée sur la niche de la fenêtre ronde de la cochlée de gerbilles et de rats vieillissants. Les stimuli acoustiques consistaient en des bandes de bruit de 20 secondes modulées sinusoïdalement en amplitude et centrées sur 4, 8 et 16 kHz. Nous avons étudié le niveau, la profondeur de modulation, la fréquence de modulation et la fréquence porteuse.Résultats : Notre étude sur le modèle de perte sélective neuronale (ouabain) montre que l’analyse des potentiels globaux cochléaires permet de détecter une perte de fibres à basse activité spontanée dans le nerf auditif, résultat important car indétectable (« surdités cachées ») actuellement avec les tests utilisés en routine en clinique (EcoG et PEA) (Batrel, Huet, Hasselmann et al, Plos One 2017). Ensuite, en combinant le stimulus de cette étude avec une fonction sinusoïdale, nous avons développé et validé une méthode pour évaluer la qualité de codage de l’enveloppe par le nerf auditif. Nous avons appliqué cette méthode sur un modèle de vieillissement (rat Sprague-Dawley). Nos résultats suggèrent que le viellissement entraine une modifcation du phénotype des fibres du nerf auditif sans pertes de fibres associées (article Occelli, Hasselmann et al, soumis à eNeuro). Conclusion : Notre travail démontre qu’il est indispensable d’élargir le nombre de techniques d’exploration fonctionnelle de la cochlée car les tests utilisés en routine en clinique ne permettent pas de déceler des déficits subtils d’encodage dans le nerf auditif. La mesure de l’activité soutenue des fibres permet de détecter la perte sélective des neurones à basse activité spontanée, indétectable avec les méthodes classiques. Le changement de phénotype des fibres observé au cours du vieillissement du rat Sprague-Dawley est détectable avec notre méthode alors qu’il ne l’est pas avec le potentiel d’action composite du nerf auditif. / Background: Speech intelligibility in quiet is critically dependent on the temporal envelope of a sound signal. An abnormal coding of this temporal cue (due to infectious, immune, genetic, tumoral or environmental of origin) implies a decrease of speech recognition scores. The current proxy to probe deafness in clinical framework (Compound Action Potential of the auditory nerve, auditory brainstem responses) uses simplistic stimuli (clicks, tone bursts) to detect a such abnormal coding of the temporal cues. The aim of this study was to develop a new electrophysiology method in murins able to measure the auditory nerve responses to amplitude-modulation stimuli.Material and methods: The electrophysiology response of the auditory nerve was recorded using an electrode implanted onto the round window niche on normal-hearing gerbil cochlea and aging rat cochlea. The acoustical stimuli consisted of 20 seconds sinusoidally amplitude-modulated noise-band centered on 4, 8 and 16 kHz. We have studied varying sound level, the modulation depth, the modulation frequency and the carrier frequency.Results: Our study on the selective fiber loss ouabain model show the mass potentials recorded at the round window enable the detection of low spontaneous rate fibers in gerbil auditory nerve. This result is important because the current clinical used tests aren’t enough sensitive to detect a such coding impairment (CAP, ABR) (Batrel, Huet, Hasselmann et al., 2017). Then we combined the stimulus of this previous study with a sinusoidal function to develop a new method to assess the envelope coding by the auditory nerve. We validated this new method. Last, we used our method on an aging model (Sprague-Dawley rat). Our results suggest aging leads to a phenotype change of auditory nerve fibers without associated fiber loss (article Occelli, Hasselmann et al, submitted to eNeuro).Conclusion: Our study shows it’s indispensable to expand the number of tools to probe the cochlea because the current clinical used tests aren’t enough sensitive to detect subtle deficits of encoding in the auditory nerve. The recording of the fiber sustained activity enable to detect the selective loss of low-spontaneous rate neurons. A such loss is undetectable with classical clinical tools. The phenotype change of fibers we observed in aging Sprague-Dawley rats is detectable with our method whereas it’s not using the compound action potential of the auditory nerve.

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<p> The carotid body (CB) is the main peripheral chemoreceptor organ that maintains homeostatic control of the O2, CO2, glucose and pH levels in the blood. It is innervated by nerve fibers from the carotid sinus nerve (CSN) that consists of sensory afferents from the petrosal ganglion (PG) and "inhibitory" efferents from the glossopharyngeal nerve (GPN). The efferent innervation forms an elaborate network that is immuno-positive for neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS), and is thought to inhibit the CB via release of nitric oxide (NO). The purpose of this study is to further understand the underlying mechanisms of this inhibition. Since the CB possesses various neurotransmitters, including the excitatory neurotransmitter, acetylcholine (ACh), I tested the hypothesis that the CB drives its own modulation during chemoexcitation by secreting ACh, which would directly act on receptors located on the GPN neurons (GPNs) and lead to nNOS activation via calcium entry and the subsequent release of NO. To address this, molecular and calcium imaging techniques were used to demonstrate the specific types of nicotinic ACh receptors (nAChRs) expressed in GPN neurons. It was shown that GPN neurons expressed the mRNA for ten subunits: α2-α9, excluding α8 and β2-β4 and they responded to ACh and nicotine, a nAChR agonist, in a dose-dependent manner via an increase in intracellular calcium. The EC50 for ACh and nicotine were ~ 9.9 and 20.5 μM respectively. The nicotine-induced calcium transients were inhibited by mecamylamine, a nAChR competitive antagonist, with an IC50 of ~ 1.2 μM. Studies using subunit-specific antagonists, dihydro-β-erythroidine (specific for α4β2 and α3β4 in particular dose ranges) and methyllycaconitine (MLA) and α-bungarotoxin (BTX; both specific for α7) revealed that the major functional nAChR expressed in GPNs were the α4β2 and α3β4 nAChRs. The results of this study show that GPN neurons respond to ACh stimulation with an increase in intracellular calcium and thus raise the possibility that ACh secreted after stimulation/activation of receptors on the CB may contribute to the synthesis of NO and negative feedback inhibition of CB function via stimulation of GPN efferent nerve fibers.</p> / Thesis / Master of Science (MSc)