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II. Changes in Aging SHR/N-cp Rats

Kevin R. Rust; Jiri Prazma, MD, PhD; Rudolph J. Triana, MD; Otho E. Michaelis, IV, PhD; Harold C. Pillsbury, MD

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1992;118(4):397-400.

Abstract
• The congenic spontaneous hypertensive/National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Md)–corpulent rat (SHR/N-cp) is a model for non–insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. A previous study in our laboratory found significant loss of outer hair cells (OHC) in diabetic rats at 5.0 months of age. Our present study was designed to further evaluate the effects of the diabetic state on the inner ear in 10.5-month-old rats. The following comparisons were made: diabetic vs euglycemic control animals; obese vs lean phenotypes; and sucrose vs starch as the source of dietary carbohydrate. Cochleas were removed, fixed, stained, mounted on slides, and analyzed for OHC loss. We found a significant OHC loss in the cochleas of all diabetic animals. No statistical difference was found when comparing obese and lean phenotypes. Increased OHC loss was observed in all sucrose-fed vs starch-fed diabetic animals, although this increase was not statistically significant. Compared with an earlier study, an increase in OHC loss was also noted in the 10.5-month-old lean SHR/N-cp animals. Our results indicate that there is a relationship between non–insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and inner ear damage and suggest that OHC loss is related to hyperglycemia and a genetic predisposition for glucose intolerance.

(Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1992;118:397-400)

Author Affiliations
From the Division of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill (Drs Rust, Prazma, Triana, and Pillsbury), and the Beltsville (Md) Human Nutrition Research Center, Agriculture Research Service, US Department of Agriculture (Dr Michaelis).

Footnotes
Accepted for publication May 29, 1991.

Reprint requests to Division of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, 610 Burnett Womack Bldg, CB# 7070, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7070 (Dr Prazma).

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