Prenatal exposure to low concentrations of carbon monoxide (CO, 75 and 150 ppm from day 0 to day 20 of gestation), resulting in maternal blood HbCO concentrations equivalent to those maintained by human cigarette smokers, leads to subtle myelin alterations in the sciatic nerve of male rat offspring. The rapid growth spurt in pup body weight was related to the period of maximal increase in myelin sheath thickness in both control and GO-exposed animals. A significant reduction in myelin sheath thickness of sciatic nerve fibers, paralleled by changes in the frequency distribution, occurred in both 40- and 90-day-old rats exposed in utero to CO (75 and 150 ppm), Myelin deficit observed in 75 and 150 ppm GO-exposed animals showed up only after the major spurt in myelination but not early during development. The subtle myelin alterations observed in GO-exposed offspring were not accompanied by changes in developmental pattern of axon diameters and did not result in a gross impairment of motor activity, These results suggest that the myelination process is selectively targeted by a prenatal exposure model simulating the CO exposure observed in human cigarette smokers. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.

Prenatal exposure to low levels of carbon monoxide alters sciatic nerve myelination in rat offspring / M. R., Carratu; R., Cagiano; S., De Santis; M., Labate; M., Tattoli; L., Trabace; Cuomo, Vincenzo. - In: LIFE SCIENCES. - ISSN 0024-3205. - STAMPA. - 67:14(2000), pp. 1759-1772. [10.1016/s0024-3205(00)00761-x]

Prenatal exposure to low levels of carbon monoxide alters sciatic nerve myelination in rat offspring

CUOMO, VINCENZO
2000

Abstract

Prenatal exposure to low concentrations of carbon monoxide (CO, 75 and 150 ppm from day 0 to day 20 of gestation), resulting in maternal blood HbCO concentrations equivalent to those maintained by human cigarette smokers, leads to subtle myelin alterations in the sciatic nerve of male rat offspring. The rapid growth spurt in pup body weight was related to the period of maximal increase in myelin sheath thickness in both control and GO-exposed animals. A significant reduction in myelin sheath thickness of sciatic nerve fibers, paralleled by changes in the frequency distribution, occurred in both 40- and 90-day-old rats exposed in utero to CO (75 and 150 ppm), Myelin deficit observed in 75 and 150 ppm GO-exposed animals showed up only after the major spurt in myelination but not early during development. The subtle myelin alterations observed in GO-exposed offspring were not accompanied by changes in developmental pattern of axon diameters and did not result in a gross impairment of motor activity, These results suggest that the myelination process is selectively targeted by a prenatal exposure model simulating the CO exposure observed in human cigarette smokers. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.
2000
motor activity; myelin; prenatal carbon monoxide exposure; rat; sciatic nerve
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Prenatal exposure to low levels of carbon monoxide alters sciatic nerve myelination in rat offspring / M. R., Carratu; R., Cagiano; S., De Santis; M., Labate; M., Tattoli; L., Trabace; Cuomo, Vincenzo. - In: LIFE SCIENCES. - ISSN 0024-3205. - STAMPA. - 67:14(2000), pp. 1759-1772. [10.1016/s0024-3205(00)00761-x]
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