title: Magnetic resonance microscopy-based analyses of the neuroanatomical effects of gestational day 9 ethanol exposure in mice.
abstract: Animal model-based studies have shown that ethanol exposure during early gestation induces developmental stage-specific abnormalities of the face and brain. The exposure time-dependent variability in ethanol's teratogenic outcomes is expected to contribute significantly to the wide spectrum of effects observed in humans with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). The work presented here employs a mouse FASD model and magnetic resonance microscopy (MRM; high resolution magnetic resonance imaging) in studies designed to further our understanding of the developmental stage-specific defects of the brain that are induced by ethanol. At neurulation stages, i.e. at the beginning of gestational day (GD) 9 and again 4 hours later, time-mated C57Bl/6J dams were intraperitoneally administered 2.9 g/kg ethanol or vehicle. Ethanol-exposed fetuses were collected on GD 17, processed for MRM analysis, and results compared to comparably staged controls. Linear and volume measurements as well as shape changes for numerous individual brain regions were determined. GD 9 ethanol exposure resulted in significantly increased septal region width, reduction of cerebellar volume, and enlargement of all of the ventricles. Additionally, the results of shape analyses showed that many areas of the ethanol-exposed brains including the cerebral cortex, hippocampus and right striatum were significantly misshapen. These data demonstrate that ethanol can induce dysmorphology that may not be obvious based on volumetric analyses alone, highlight the asymmetric aspects of ethanol-induced defects, and add to our understanding of ethanol's developmental stage-dependent neuroteratogenesis.
authors.affiliation: Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. Electronic address: sparnell@med.unc.edu.
authors.forename: Scott E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Parnell
authors.forename: Hunter T
authors.initials: HT
authors.lastname: Holloway
authors.forename: Shonagh K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: O'Leary-Moore
authors.forename: Deborah B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Dehart
authors.forename: Beatriz
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Paniaqua
authors.forename: Ipek
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Oguz
authors.forename: Francois
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Budin
authors.forename: Martin A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Styner
authors.forename: G Allan
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: Kathleen K
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Sulik
mesh_terms: D000014:Abnormalities, Drug-Induced / Q000473:pathology*; D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000002:abnormalities*; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D000431:Ethanol / Q000633:toxicity*; D005260:Female; D063647:Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders / Q000473:pathology*; D005865:Gestational Age; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D059906:Neuroimaging; D011247:Pregnancy
chemical_list: D000431:Ethanol
keywords: Brain; Ethanol; Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder; MRI; Mouse; Shape analysis
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