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Acid Phosphatase Activity in Spiral Ganglion Neurons of C57BL/6 Mice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2020

Glenn M. Cohen
Glenn M. Cohen*
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Department of Biological Sciences, Troy State University, Troy, Alabama36082
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C57BL/6 mice, along with several other mouse genotypes, have served as models for human presbycusis (age-related hearing losses). C57BL/6 mice and their genetic substrain C57/M6 show progressively severe hearing losses, starting as early as 30 days postnatally. The hearing losses result from sweeping degeneration of sensory (hair) cells and neurons that begins in the basal end of the cochlea and advances apically. Although the underlying mechanisms orchestrating sensory and neural degeneration are not known, it is possible to correlate degenerative events with the cytoplasmic levels and distribution patterns of a marker molecule, such as acid phosphatase (AP). AP, a representative lysosomal enzyme, plays a role in both normal cellular metabolism and degenerative changes (trauma and senescence). AP activity is visualized histochemically at the light and electron microscopic levels by the presence of dense deposits within lysosomes.

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Cytochemistry (Light and Electron Histochemistry)
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Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 4 , Issue S2: Proceedings: Microscopy & Microanalysis '98, Microscopy Society of America 56th Annual Meeting, Microbeam Analysis Society 32nd Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia July 12-16, 1998 , July 1998 , pp. 1104 - 1105
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