title: Prenatal exposure model simulating CO inhalation in human cigarette smokers: sphingomyelin alterations in the rat sciatic nerve.
abstract: Prenatal exposure to low concentrations of carbon monoxide (CO, 150 ppm) causes long-term alterations in sphingomyelin (SM) homeostasis in peripheral nervous system, but not brain of male rat offspring. In particular, unlike sphinganine (intermediate of complex sphingolipid biosynthesis de novo), the concentrations of sphingosine (intermediate of complex sphingolipid turnover) were increased by 2.35-fold in the sciatic nerve of CO-exposed offspring with respect to controls (P<0.05, overall one-way ANOVA). These subtle alterations were not accompanied by changes in motor activity (F=0.25, df=1/10, n.s., overall one-way-ANOVA). The results suggest that the SM homeostasis in the sciatic nerve is particularly susceptible to prenatal CO exposure resulting in maternal carboxyhaemoglobin (HbCO) levels equivalent to those found in human cigarette smokers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology and Human Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Bari, Policinico-Piazza Giulio Cesare 11, 70124, Bari, Italy.
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Carratù
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cagiano
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tattoli
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Trabace
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Borracci
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Cuomo
mesh_terms: D000280:Administration, Inhalation; D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000633:toxicity*; D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D002248:Carbon Monoxide / Q000633:toxicity*; D002263:Carboxyhemoglobin / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000187:drug effects; D011247:Pregnancy; D011297:Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects; D051381:Rats; D012584:Sciatic Nerve / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D013109:Sphingomyelins / Q000378:metabolism; D013110:Sphingosine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000378:metabolism; D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution
chemical_list: D000393:Air Pollutants; D013109:Sphingomyelins; D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution; D002248:Carbon Monoxide; D002263:Carboxyhemoglobin; D013110:Sphingosine; C005682:safingol