title: Spina bifida, exencephaly, and cranial bleb produced in hamsters by the solanum alkaloid solasodine.
abstract: Solasodine, one of the spirosolone structured solanum alkaloids, was gavaged to hamsters at 1184 - 1628 mg/kg once on the 7th or 8th day of gestation. About one-third of all litters from surviving, pregnant dams had one or more deformed offspring. There were 50 abnormals among 727 offspring from 84 dams at sacrifice. Abnormalities included 9 spina bifida, 13 major exencephaly, 25 cranial bleb, 2 hare lip, and 1 anophthalmic types. There were 5 abnormals among 1948 total offspring from 192 control dams. Malformation incidence in controls was 1/10 that in solasodine-gavaged animals. Solasodine gavage also resulted in a large increase in resorptions. Spina bifidas had a protuberance of the skin and other soft tissue in the dorsal mid-line of the lumbosacral region of the fetus. Exencephalics had a prominent dorsocranial defect that fully exposed the brain. Cranial blebs consisted of a soft protuberance of the skin in the mid-line of the interparietal region. The solasodine analogs tomatidine and diosgenin were not teratogenic at dose levels twice as high as the teratogenic dose of solasodine.
mesh_terms: D000014:Abnormalities, Drug-Induced / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D000470:Alkaloids / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000473:pathology; D006224:Cricetinae; D005260:Female; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D011247:Pregnancy; D012991:Solanaceous Alkaloids; D016135:Spinal Dysraphism / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000473:pathology; D013150:Spirostans / Q000494:pharmacology*; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D000470:Alkaloids; D012991:Solanaceous Alkaloids; D013150:Spirostans; C012037:solasodine