Laboratory Animals > Volume 42, Number 3 > Pp. 320-325

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Normative data of multifrequency tympanometry in rabbits

Martin Stieve ^* , Hans Hedrich , Hamidreza Mojallal ^*, Peter Behrens , Peter Müller  and Thomas Lenarz ^*

^* Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Medical University of Hannover, Carl-Neuberg-Strasse 1, DE-30625 Hannover, Germany; Department of Laboratory Animal Science, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany; Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany; German Research Centre for Biotechnology, Braunschweig, Germany

Correspondence: M Stieve. Email: stieve.martin{at}mh-hannover.de

In an experimental study, we evaluated acoustic immittance in rabbits in order to use these data as normative values for further experimental investigations. This study is the first experimental evaluation of both conventional 226 Hz and multifrequency tympanometry (MFT) in rabbits. For the investigation, we used 33 female New Zealand rabbits weighing 3.2–4.4 kg and aged six months. Bilateral measurements using conventional 226 Hz and MFT were performed under general anaesthetic. A 226 Hz tympanogram was recorded for all animals by conducting an air pressure sweep from +200 to –400 daPa at a rate of 50 daPa/s. Subsequent tympanograms were recorded over a wide frequency range from 250 to 2000 Hz. The acoustic impedance device used in this study provided reproducible and evaluable tympanograms. The applied tone frequency of 226 Hz proved to be especially suitable for determining compliance. Normative data obtained from our study reveal the resonance frequency to be 1368 ± 205 standard deviation (SD) for the right side and 1413 ± 216 SD for the left side. The values for physiological acoustic immittance of the middle ear in the rabbit obtained here can serve as normative data in subsequent experimental animal studies.

Key Words: Animal model • organisms and models • multifrequency tympanometry • acoustic immittance • white rabbit

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