Spontaneous and induced alterations in the cardiac membranous ventricular septum of fetal, weanling, and adult rats

Teratology
H M SolomonW D Kerns

Abstract

Alterations of the cardiac membranous ventricular septum were studied using macrodissection, scanning electron and light microscopy of fetal, weanling, and adult Sprague-Dawley rats. Membranous ventricular septal defects (VSDs) were observed in 2.0% of fetuses on day 21 postcoitus (pc) but not in weanling or adult rats. The most common observation was a nonpatent depression in the membranous septum with an incidence of 38.1, 10.5, 4.3% for fetuses on days 17, 19, or 21 pc, respectively, 11.8% for weanlings, and 9.1% for adults. VSDs were characterized by a split in the endocardial cushion cells in the interventricular component of the membranous septum. Nonpatent depressions were characterized by a split in the endocardial cushion cells in the atrioventricular component of the septum, and they persisted postnatally as a blind-ended diverticulum directed above the tricuspid valve. The cardiovascular teratogens, trimethadione and trypan blue, produced in fetuses nonpatent depressions and VSDs morphologically similar to untreated fetuses. Maternal diet restriction (25% of controls) lowered fetal (day 21 pc) body weight by 47% but did not affect the incidence of ventricular septal alterations, suggesting that intrauterine growth re...Continue Reading

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