DEVELOPMENTAL EFFECTS OF CONGENITAL HYDROCEPHALUS (CH) IN MOUSE
DEVELOPMENTAL EFFECTS OF CONGENITAL HYDROCEPHALUS (CH) IN MOUSE
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DOI:
10.1016/0012-1606(70)90142-9
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发表时间:
1970-01-01
影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
GREEN, MC
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作者:
GREEN, MC
The recessive mutant gene congenital hydrocephalus (ch) causes severe embryonic hydrocephalus and widespread skeletal defects. In this study it is shown also to cause defects of the urogenital system. The urogenital defects trace to the formation in 10-day embryos of excess mesonephric tubules filling the whole region between the normal mesonephros and the kidney. In the medial adjacent region at the same stage, there is a deficiency of precursor cells of the celiac ganglion. The possibility that the deficiency of ganglion cells may cause the formation of excess tubules is discussed. Hydrocephalus begins at the 11-day stage at about the time the cerebrospinal fluid normally begins to flow through the foramen anterius in the roof of the hindbrain into the prospective subarachnoid space. In ch ch embryos, the cerebral hemispheres and later other parts of the brain become abnormally dilated and the subarachnoid space does not develop. Cerebrospinal fluid apparently fails to flow into the subarachnoid space, but the reason for this is not obvious. The mutant gene in heterozygotes (ch+) causes a low frequency of abnormalities of the urogenital system and skeleton similar to those of homozygotes but less severe. No satisfactory hypothesis of unitary gene action has been found.