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Holoprosencephaly in a fetal macaque (Macaca nemestrina) following weekly exposure to ethanol.

Abstract
Previous studies in rodents have indicated that the facial changes of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) closely resemble those of a mild form of holoprosencephaly. In order to examine this relationship in non-human primates, we evaluated a 133-day gestation macaque (Macaca nemestrina) with holoprosencephaly, median cleft lip and palate, and encephalocele. The mother had been given ethanol once per week (1.8 g/kg body weight) from weeks 2 to 19 postconception. Diagnosis of holoprosencephaly was made following ultrasound evaluation for polyhydramnios and delivery of the female fetus by caesarean section. Another fetus of identical age was delivered by caesarean section for use as a control. Both fetuses were studied by anthropometric, gross, radiographic, and histologic techniques. In the fetus exposed to alcohol, no extracranial anomalies were identified and the karyotype was normal. The brain was micrencephalic, with absent olfactory bulbs, tracts, optic nerves and chiasma, fused frontal lobes, and a single, dilated lateral ventricle; a parietooccipital encephalocele consisted of thin, dysplastic cortex bordering the ventricle; the cerebellum was dysplastic and superiorly displaced. Within the craniofacial complex, anophthalmia was bilateral; premaxillary components were absent, palatal shelves separate, the maxillae closeset, and the ethmoid bone small and deformed. Most of these defects are similar to those encountered in humans with holoprosencephaly and support the hypothesis of shared etiologic and pathogenetic relations between the facial anomalies of fetal alcohol syndrome and holoprosencephaly.
AuthorsJ R Siebert, S J Astley, S K Clarren
JournalTeratology (Teratology) Vol. 44 Issue 1 Pg. 29-36 (Jul 1991) ISSN: 0040-3709 [Print] United States
PMID1957260 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.)
Chemical References
  • Ethanol
Topics
  • Animals
  • Cohort Studies
  • Drug Administration Schedule
  • Ethanol (toxicity)
  • Female
  • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (pathology)
  • Holoprosencephaly (chemically induced, diagnostic imaging, pathology)
  • Macaca nemestrina
  • Pregnancy
  • Radiography
  • Random Allocation

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