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Name Katayama Keiichi
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researchmap researcher code B000305947
researchmap agency Okayama University of Science

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Hydroxyurea(HU)-induced apoptosis in the mouse fetal tissues

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GH Woo
K Katayama
JY Jung
K Uetsuka
EJ Bak
H Nakayama
K Doi

Summary

Hydroxyurea (HU), a ribonucleotide reductase inhibitor, induces morphological anomalies in the central nervous system (CNS), craniofacial tissues and limb buds in animals, and neonatal respiratory distress in humans. In the present study, pregnant mice were treated with 400 mg/kg of HU at day 13 of gestation, and their fetuses were examined from I to 48 hours after treatment (HAT) to find a clue to clarify the mechanisms of HU-induced fetotoxicity and teratogenecity. At 6 and 12 HAT, a moderate to marked increase in the number of pyknotic cells was detected in the CNS and lung. A mild increase in the number of pyknotic cells was also found in the craniofacial mesenchymal tissues, limb buds and so on. These pyknotic cells had nuclei positively stained by the TUNEL method, which is widely used for the detection of apoptotic nuclei, and they also showed electron microscopic characteristics identical to those of apoptotic cells. The present results suggest that the HU-induced fetotoxicity is characterized by excess apoptotic cell death in the fetal tissues, and that such excess cell death in the fetal CNS, lung, craniofacial tissue and limb bud may have a certain relation to the later occurrence of morphological or functional anomalies reported in these tissues following HU-administration.

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HISTOLOGY AND HISTOPATHOLOGY

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F HERNANDEZ

Volume

18

Number Of Pages

2

StartingPage

387

EndingPage

392

Date of Issue

2003-04

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English

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