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Malformation of the cerebral cortex of rats caused by embryonal exposure to x-ray

Abstract

200 R x-ray was irradiated to rat embryos, 17 days of age, and changes of the brain were observed histologically from one hour after the irradiation until they grew up. At start, there was not a great damage in the formation of bundles of major and minor hemisphere commissure passing through the terminal plate, although many cells died or fell off in the new brain mantle. After that, callosal fibers did not reach the midline because of the tissue destruction around the midline, and growth of the stem of the corpus callosum was pressed down. Defect of the stem of the corpus callosum was recognized in adult rats. Surviving mother cells gathered irregularly on the wall of the ventricle at the time of the repair of destructed tissues, and they remained as they stood around the midline of the brain mantle without rearrangement. In adult rats, there was abnormal formation of the cerebral cortex within medullary substances. Marked hypoplasia was recognized in the II-IV layer of the new cortex, bundle branches of dendritic processes of pyramidal cells in the V layer were small in number, and the directions of dendritic processes were abnormal. Pyramidal cell layer of the hippocampus fell  More>>
Authors:
Inoue, M [1] 
  1. Nagoya Univ. (Japan). Research Inst. of Environmental Medicine
Publication Date:
Mar 01, 1978
Product Type:
Journal Article
Reference Number:
AIX-10-430031; EDB-79-096409
Resource Relation:
Journal Name: Nagoya Daigaku Kankyo Igaku Kenkyusho Nempo; (Japan); Journal Volume: 29
Subject:
63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.; CEREBRAL CORTEX; GENETIC RADIATION EFFECTS; X RADIATION; FETUSES; MALFORMATIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; PRENATAL IRRADIATION; TIME DEPENDENCE; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; BODY; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBRUM; DISEASES; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; GENETIC EFFECTS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; IRRADIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; ORGANS; PATHOLOGICAL CHANGES; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIATIONS; 560152* - Radiation Effects on Animals- Animals; 560114 - Radiation Effects on Biochemicals- In Animals- (-1987)
OSTI ID:
6186891
Country of Origin:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Other Identifying Numbers:
Journal ID: CODEN: NDKIA
Submitting Site:
INIS
Size:
Pages: 175-178
Announcement Date:
May 01, 1979

Citation Formats

Inoue, M. Malformation of the cerebral cortex of rats caused by embryonal exposure to x-ray. Japan: N. p., 1978. Web.
Inoue, M. Malformation of the cerebral cortex of rats caused by embryonal exposure to x-ray. Japan.
Inoue, M. 1978. "Malformation of the cerebral cortex of rats caused by embryonal exposure to x-ray." Japan.
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title = {Malformation of the cerebral cortex of rats caused by embryonal exposure to x-ray}
author = {Inoue, M}
abstractNote = {200 R x-ray was irradiated to rat embryos, 17 days of age, and changes of the brain were observed histologically from one hour after the irradiation until they grew up. At start, there was not a great damage in the formation of bundles of major and minor hemisphere commissure passing through the terminal plate, although many cells died or fell off in the new brain mantle. After that, callosal fibers did not reach the midline because of the tissue destruction around the midline, and growth of the stem of the corpus callosum was pressed down. Defect of the stem of the corpus callosum was recognized in adult rats. Surviving mother cells gathered irregularly on the wall of the ventricle at the time of the repair of destructed tissues, and they remained as they stood around the midline of the brain mantle without rearrangement. In adult rats, there was abnormal formation of the cerebral cortex within medullary substances. Marked hypoplasia was recognized in the II-IV layer of the new cortex, bundle branches of dendritic processes of pyramidal cells in the V layer were small in number, and the directions of dendritic processes were abnormal. Pyramidal cell layer of the hippocampus fell into disorder and the directions of dendritic processes were irregular. It was demonstrated by the measurement of cubic volume of each part of the brain using reconstruction method that not only marked hypoplasia of the new cortex and the hippocampus but also hypoplasia of the old cortex, the basal ganglion, and the thalamus in which it was thought to be little disorder in the past were clear.}
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