Fetal alcohol syndrome and DiGeorge anomaly: critical ethanol exposure periods for craniofacial malformations as illustrated in an animal model.
Fetal alcohol syndrome and DiGeorge anomaly: critical ethanol exposure periods for craniofacial malformations as illustrated in an animal model.
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胎儿酒精综合症和迪乔治异常:动物模型中所示的颅面畸形的关键乙醇暴露期。
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10.1002/ajmg.1320250614
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发表时间:
1986
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Dehart,DB
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Sulik,KK;Johnston,MC;Daft,PA;Russell,WE;Dehart,DB
Acute maternal ethanl (alcohol) administration induces different craniofacial anomalies in the offspring of experimental animals, depending on the gestational day of teratogen exposure. Previous studies in our laboratories have illustrated the sequence of developmental changes leading to the “typical” fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) craniofacial phenotype which results from teratogen exposure during gastrulation. These facial features are accompanied by deficiencies in median forebrain derivatives. Ethanol teratogenesis at this time apparently results in a loss of midline territory of the embryonic disc with little effect on neural crest‐dependent laterally derived structures including the visceral arches. Acute ethanol exposure in mice 1 ½ days later, at a time when neural crest cells are populating the frontonasal prominence and the visceral arches, results in a craniofacial phenotype that is similar to that noted in the DiGeorge anomaly or sequence. Sequential scanning electron microscopic analysis in our laboratory of embryos exposed on day 8 ½ have illustrated deficiencies in the developing facial prominences and the visceral arches. The developing forebrain and midbrain appear hypoplastic. We have also observed heart, great vessel, and thymus abnormalities in these fetuses. Histologic analyses indicate that a common pathogenetic basis for the above‐mentioned (day 8 ½‐induced) fetal alcohol effects appears to be an interference with the integrity of the cranial (including occipital) neural crest. Other discrete cell populations may also be involved since we have observed abnormalities in other regions, including placodal and closing membrane tissues.This animal model provides evidence liking maternal ethanol abuse during the 3rd or 4th weeks of himan gestation to the development in the conceptus of FAS or DiGeorge anomally craniofacial characteristics, respectively. As the DiGeorge anomaly has been noted in the offspring of alcoholic women, this animal model indicates that ethanol and/or its metabolities is, in these cases, the causative agent.