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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-8-26
pubmed:abstractText
Pregnant ICR/JCL mice were given 4 daily subcutaneous injections of 0.2-2000 micrograms diethylstilbestrol (DES) starting on day 15 of gestation. Offspring of mothers given DES were killed at 1-10 days of age and examined for nodules of enlarged polygonal cells under the epithelium of the Müllerian (upper) vagina. Some offspring were ovariectomised at 30 days and killed at 120 days. The nodules which appeared in the prenatally DES-exposed mice (2-2000 micrograms/day) at 3-7 days were not connected with the epithelium of the sinus vagina and reacted positively to an antibody to epidermal growth factor. Nodule formation may prove to be prodromic of later ovary-independent vaginal changes in the DES-exposed mice. Epithelial stratification (2-2000 micrograms/day) and downgrowths and/or pegs (20-2000 micrograms/day) occurred in vaginae of ovariectomized mice exposed prenatally to DES; however, adenosis-like lesions occurred only in the offspring of mothers given the highest prenatal injections of 2000 micrograms DES. Wolffian remnants and hypospadias (2-2000 micrograms/day) were also encountered in the DES-exposed mice. Ovary-independent stratification of the uterine epithelium (20-2000 micrograms/day) and disorganization of the circular musculature (2-2000 micrograms/day) were also observed in the DES-exposed mice. None of these changes was found in ovariectomised 0.2 micrograms DES-exposed and control mice.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0304-3835
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
4
pubmed:volume
58
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
167-75
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1991
pubmed:articleTitle
Postnatal vaginal nodules induced by prenatal diethylstilbestrol treatment correlate with later development of ovary-independent vaginal and uterine changes in mice.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biology, Yokohama City University, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't