Elevation of maternal glucocorticoid hormones alters neurotransmitter phenotypic expression in embryos.
Elevation of maternal glucocorticoid hormones alters neurotransmitter phenotypic expression in embryos.
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母体糖皮质激素的升高会改变胚胎中神经递质的表型表达。
DOI:
10.1016/0012-1606(81)90172-x
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发表时间:
1981
影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
I. Black
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作者:
G. Jonakait;M. Bohn;K. Markey;M. Goldstein;I. Black
Increasing evidence suggests that maternal experience may affect the developing embryo in general, and the developing nervous system in particular. Exposure of pregnant or nursing mothers to antipsychotic agents (Tonge, 1973; Dailey, 1978), opiates (Lau et al., 1977), or reserpine (Kovacic and Robinson, 1966; Bartolome et al., 1976) is associated with neurologic and behavioral abnormalities in the offspring. Moreover, maternal stress or treatments which elevate maternal glucocorticoid hormones may also result in neurologic deficits (Barlow et al., 1978; Ward and Weisz, 1980; Moyer et al., 1978). The molecular mechanisms responsible for these developmental defects have yet to be defined. The possibility that pathologic sequelae derive from abnormalities in neurotransmitter phenotypic expression remains unexplored.We have been studying factors affecting the development of neurotransmitter phenotype in a population of presumptive neuroblasts, located in the embryonic rat gut. This population transiently expresses a number of noradrenergic phenotypic characters during normal gestation (Cochard et al., 1978, 1979; Teitelman et al., 1979). These remarkably plastic cells provide a useful model for addressing a number of these issues. This population of cells initially exhibits catecholamine (CA) fluorescence and immunoreactivity to the CA biosynthetic enzymes, tyrosine hydroxylase (T-OH) and dopamine-P-hydroxylase(DBH), on gestational Day 11.5 (E11. 5; 27-30 somites)(Cochard et al., 1978, 1979; Teitelman et al., 1979). By El25 (37-41 somites), the cells have increased in number and express an additional noradrenergic trait: the specific, high-affinity uptake of norepinephrine (NE; Jonakait et al., 1979). However, by E13. 5 (48-50 somites) endogenous CA and synthetic enzymes have almost completely disappeared. In contrast, NE uptake persists, suggesting that the
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.78.2.1269
发表时间:
1981
影响因子:
11.1
作者:
Baetge,EE;Kaplan,BB;Reis,DJ;Joh,TH
通讯作者:
Joh,TH