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lifeskim:mentions | |
pubmed:issue |
1
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pubmed:dateCreated |
1993-11-2
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pubmed:abstractText |
Mice were exposed to phenobarbital (PhB) prenatally (PreB offspring) by feeding their mothers 3 g/kg PhB in milled food on gestation days 9-18, or neonatally by directly injecting pups of intact mothers with daily dose of 50 mg PhB on postnatal days 2-21 (NeoB offspring). At age 22 or 50 days, the offspring were tested for gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) up take in the hippocampus and in the rest of the brain. In addition, [3H]muscimol and [3H]flunitrazepam binding in the hippocampus and cortex were measured in the offspring at age 22 and 50 days. Long-term decrease in GABA uptake was found in the NeoB group. A 23% decrease was found in 22-day-old mice (P < 0.001) and a 22% decrease in 50-day-old mice (P < 0.05). In addition, there was a 22% decrease in GABA uptake in the brain of 22-day-old PreB mice (P < 0.05). An increase of 52% in [3H]muscimol binding (P < 0.001) and 45% (P < 0.001) in [3H]flunitrazepam binding were measured in the hippocampus in the 22-day-old NeoB mice; no differences were found in affinity. The differences were short-term and could no longer be detected at age 50 days. No differences were found in the cortex; unlike NeoB, PreB mice did not differ from controls. The results suggest upregulation of the GABAergic system in early PhB exposed mice.
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pubmed:commentsCorrections | |
pubmed:language |
eng
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pubmed:journal | |
pubmed:citationSubset |
IM
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pubmed:chemical | |
pubmed:status |
MEDLINE
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pubmed:month |
Jul
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pubmed:issn |
0165-3806
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pubmed:author | |
pubmed:issnType |
Print
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pubmed:day |
16
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pubmed:volume |
74
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pubmed:owner |
NLM
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pubmed:authorsComplete |
Y
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pubmed:pagination |
111-6
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pubmed:dateRevised |
2007-11-14
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pubmed:meshHeading |
pubmed-meshheading:8285945-Animals,
pubmed-meshheading:8285945-Female,
pubmed-meshheading:8285945-Hippocampus,
pubmed-meshheading:8285945-Male,
pubmed-meshheading:8285945-Mice,
pubmed-meshheading:8285945-Phenobarbital,
pubmed-meshheading:8285945-Pregnancy,
pubmed-meshheading:8285945-Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects,
pubmed-meshheading:8285945-Receptors, GABA,
pubmed-meshheading:8285945-Receptors, GABA-A
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pubmed:year |
1993
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pubmed:articleTitle |
Hippocampal gamma-aminobutyric acid and benzodiazepine receptors after early phenobarbital exposure.
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pubmed:affiliation |
Melvin A. and Eleanor Ross Laboratory for Studies in Neural Birth Defects, Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.
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pubmed:publicationType |
Journal Article,
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.,
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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