PMID: 2091804Jan 1, 1990Paper

Teratogenic effects of nicotine on palate formation in mice

Biological Structures and Morphogenesis
A Y SaadJ L Hiatt

Abstract

Fetuses of pregnant CD-1 mice, exposed to intraperitoneal injection of 0.1% nicotine sulfate at a dose of 1.67 mg/kg body weight/day on gestational days 6-15, were compared with control (saline injected and non-injected) fetuses to assess the effects of nicotine on fetal growth in general and palatogenesis in particular. A total of 59 pregnant females (18 experimental and 41 control) were sacrificed on the 18 th gestational day and their fetuses were examined gross morphologically and histologically (using serial sections through the head in the frontal plane). Data analysis revealed that maternal weight gain, crown-rump length, fetal weight and head dimensions were significantly reduced in nicoted treated animals when compared to those of the controls. Histological examination revealed that 9.6% of fetuses of nicotine injected mothers presented clefts of the palate, whereas none of the control fetuses had that anomaly. It was concluded that nicotine has a detrimental effect on general growth and development as well as on palatogenesis of mice.

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