Ethanol-induced limb defects in mice: effect of strain and Ro15-4513.
Ethanol-induced limb defects in mice: effect of strain and Ro15-4513.
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乙醇引起的小鼠肢体缺陷:菌株和 Ro15-4513 的影响。
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10.1002/tera.1420410410
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1990
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Collins,MD
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Zimmerman,EF;ScottJr,WJ;Collins,MD
It is now thought that ethanol exerts many of its behavioral effects in the CNS by interaction with the γ‐aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptor, and it has been shown that the benzodiazepine reverse agonist Ro15–4513 reverses some of the CNS effects produced by ethanol. The hypothesis was tested that ethanol exerts its teratogenic effects through interaction with a putative embryonic GABA receptor by determining whether Ro15‐4513 reverses ethanol‐induced forelimb ectrodactyly in C57BL/6 mice. First, pregnant C57BL/6 dams were injected twice i.p. with ethanol (2.9 g/kg body weight, 4 hr apart) on day 10 of gestation: 49% of the fetuses were resorbed or dead and 46% of the survivors showed forelimb ectrodactyly. In contrast, when SWV mice were treated with ethanol, embryolethality was only 11.9% and no forelimb ectrodactyly was observed. In a second experiment, when ethanol (2.6 g/kg × 2) was administered to C57BL/6 mice, 34% resorptions and 31% forelimb ectrodactyly were observed. Ectrodactyly induced by ethanol was primarily of the forelimb and exclusively postaxial. Ethanol produced an unusual forelimb defect in a small number of instances where there was a postaxial autopod reduction defect coupled with a preaxial zeugopod reduction defect. Ro15‐4513 administered alone (50 mg/kg × 2) was neither embryolethal nor teratogenic in C57BL/6 mice. To attempt to reverse the teratogenic effect of ethanol, dams that were injected 5 min before each ethanol administration with Ro15‐4513 (0.5, 1, 2.5, 5, 10 mg/kg twice) showed no significant change in frequency of forelimb ectrodactyly compared to embryos treated with ethanol alone. However, resorptions increased significantly to 77% and 62% with the 5 and 10 mg/kg doses of Ro15‐4513. Thus there appears to be an embryolethal interaction of Ro15‐4513 with ethanol. Nevertheless, since Ro15‐4513 did not reverse the teratogenic effect induced by ethanol, these results donotsupport the hypothesis that the teratogenic mechanism of ethanol is mediated through a putative embryonic GABA receptor.