Meniere's attacks occur in the inner ear with excessive vasopressin type-2 receptors
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Meniere's attacks occur in the inner ear with excessive vasopressin type-2 receptors
Abstract
Meniere's disease is peculiar to humans and is characterised by episodic vertigo, fluctuating hearing loss and tinnitus, and attacks of the affliction occurring under conditions of stress. Its pathology was first revealed to be inner ear hydrops through temporal bone studies in 1938. Although subsequently proposed as a disorder of water metabolism in the inner ear, its pathogenesis remains unsolved. The present study aimed to assess the link between the inner ear pathology in Meniere's disease and vasopressin, an anti-diuretic stress hormone with a potential role in inner ear fluid homeostasis. Blood samples were obtained from Meniere's disease patients in the morning, before any surgical treatment, to examine plasma vasopressin (pAVP) levels, and then from inner ear tissue during surgical treatment, to examine vasopressin type-2 receptor (V2R) in the endolymphatic sac. pAVP and the relative V2R mRNA expression in the endolymphatic sac were examined using a real-time polymerase chain reaction. Relative cAMP activity in the endolymphatic sac was also examined using tissue culture and cAMP assay. Both pAVP (1.6-fold versus controls; P = 0.048) and inner ear V2R mRNA expression (41.5-fold versus controls; P = 0.022) were significantly higher in Meniere's patients. cAMP activity was basally up-regulated (2.1-fold versus controls) and cAMP sensitivity to vasopressin application was largely elevated (4.9-fold versus controls) in Meniere's patients. We conclude that, in the pathogenesis of inner ear hydrops, resulting in Meniere's attacks, elevation of pAVP levels (probably as a result of stress) may present as a matter of consequence, but susceptibility of the V2R-overexpressed and cAMP-hypersensitized inner ear to pAVP elevation might be essential as the basis of this disease. Further experimental and clinical studies are needed to better clarify the relationship between Meniere's disease and stress.
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