scholarly journals Measurement of Fluid Movement in Scala Vestibuli

2018 ◽  
Vol 114 (3) ◽  
pp. 671a-672a
Author(s):  
Eli Elyas ◽  
William E. Brownell ◽  
Anders Fridberger
Cancers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 3128
Author(s):  
Thomas R. Coughlin ◽  
Ali Sana ◽  
Kevin Voss ◽  
Abhilash Gadi ◽  
Upal Basu-Roy ◽  
...  

Osteosarcoma (OS) is an aggressive bone cancer originating in the mesenchymal lineage. Prognosis for metastatic disease is poor, with a mortality rate of approximately 40%; OS is an aggressive disease for which new treatments are needed. All bone cells are sensitive to their mechanical/physical surroundings and changes in these surroundings can affect their behavior. However, it is not well understood how OS cells specifically respond to fluid movement, or substrate stiffness—two stimuli of relevance in the tumor microenvironment. We used cells from spontaneous OS tumors in a mouse engineered to have a bone-specific knockout of pRb-1 and p53 in the osteoblast lineage. We silenced Sox2 (which regulates YAP) and tested the effect of fluid flow shear stress (FFSS) and substrate stiffness on YAP expression/activity—which was significantly reduced by loss of Sox2, but that effect was reversed by FFSS but not by substrate stiffness. Osteogenic gene expression was also reduced in the absence of Sox2 but again this was reversed by FFSS and remained largely unaffected by substrate stiffness. Thus we described the effect of two distinct stimuli on the mechanosensory and osteogenic profiles of OS cells. Taken together, these data suggest that modulation of fluid movement through, or stiffness levels within, OS tumors could represent a novel consideration in the development of new treatments to prevent their progression.


1971 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 358-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. S. LEE ◽  
L. H. SMAJE ◽  
B. W. ZWEIFACH
Keyword(s):  

1989 ◽  
pp. 203-217
Author(s):  
Perry L. Blackshear ◽  
Gertrude L. Blackshear ◽  
Paul F. Emerson

1988 ◽  
Vol 33 (9) ◽  
pp. 1153-1158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrich M. Farack ◽  
Rupert Gerzer ◽  
Therese M. Keravis ◽  
Klaus Loeschke

1987 ◽  
Vol 253 (1) ◽  
pp. F50-F58 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Sterkers ◽  
E. Ferrary ◽  
G. Saumon ◽  
C. Amiel

Kinetics of hydrophilic solute entry into endolymph (EL), perilymph (PL), and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) were studied after intravenous administration (sodium, urea, glycerol, mannitol, sucrose) and cerebral lateral ventricle injection (urea, sucrose) of tracers in anesthetized rats. Samples of cochlear EL, PL of scala vestibuli (PLV), PL of scala tympani (PLT), and cisternal CSF were obtained. The data showed slow entry of tracers in PLV, PLT, and CSF as follows: Na greater than urea greater than mannitol approximately sucrose; slower entry of mannitol and sucrose in PLT and CSF than in PLV; 1 h delayed peak of radioactivity in PLV compared with the immediate peaks in PLT and CSF after CSF injection, and the value of PLV peak was 13% that in CSF; extremely slow entry of nonelectrolytes in EL. These results indicate that PLV originates mainly from plasma across a blood-perilymph barrier that restricts the entry of small hydrophilic solutes. The blood-perilymph barrier is most likely composed of an endothelial barrier associated with an epithelial secretion. The latter could be located at the vasculo-epithelial zone of the spiral limbus.


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