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Congenital cytomegalovirus infection alters olfaction prior to hearing deterioration in mice.
Journal of Neuroscience 2018 October 20
In developed countries, cytomegalovirus (CMV)-infected newborns are at high risk of developing sensorineural handicaps, such as hearing loss, requiring extensive follow-up. However early prognostic tools for auditory damage in children are not yet available. In the fetus, CMV infection leads to early olfactory bulb (OB) damage, suggesting that olfaction might represent a valuable prognosis for neurological outcome of this viral infection. Here, we demonstrate that in utero CMV inoculation causes fetal infection and growth retardation in mice of both sexes. It disrupts OB normal development, leading to disproportionate OB cell layers and rapid major olfactory deficits. Olfaction is impaired as early as day 6 post-birth in both sexes, long before the emergence of auditory deficits. Olfactometry in males reveals a long-lasting alteration in olfactory perception and discrimination, particularly in binary mixtures of monomolecular odorants. While sensory inputs to the OB remain unchanged, hallmarks of autophagy are increased in the OB of 3-postnatal week-old mice, leading to local neuroinflammation and loss of neurons expressing thyrosine hydroxylase and calbindin. At the cellular level, we found CMV-infected cells and an increased number of apoptotic cells scattered throughout all the OB layers while cell proliferation in the neurogenic subventricular zone was decreased. These cellular observations were long-lasting since they persist up to 16 weeks after birth in both males and females, thus providing a mechanism supporting olfactory loss. Despite obvious differences in neurogenesis between human and mouse, these findings offer new strategies aimed at early detection of neurological dysfunctions caused by congenital infections. Significance Statement In developed countries, congenital CMV infected newborns are at high risk of developing sensory handicaps such as hearing loss thus requiring prolonged follow-up. In this study, we describe, for the first time, the functional impact of congenital CMV infection on the olfactory system and its associated sense of smell. We demonstrate that a mouse model of congenital CMV infection shows defects in OB normal development and pronounced olfactory deficits, affecting acuity and discrimination of odorants. These major olfactory deficits occur long before the emergence of auditory deficits, through the upregulation of OB autophagy inducing local neuroinflammation and altered neuron content. Our findings provide new opportunities for designing olfactory means to monitor the possible neurological outcome during congenital CMV infection.
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