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No effect of prenatal alcohol exposure on activity in three inbred strains of mice.
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- Early Life Outcomes of Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol and Synthetic Cannabinoids in Mice.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Ethanol Gestational Exposure Impairs Vascular Development and Endothelial Potential to Control BBB-Associated Astrocyte Function in the Developing Cerebral Cortex.Molecular neurobiology · 2021Article
- Anxious Behavior of Adult CD1 Mice Perinatally Exposed to Low Concentrations of Ethanol Correlates With Morphological Changes in Cingulate Cortex and Amygdala.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2020Article
- Mechanisms underlying neuro-inflammation and neurodevelopmental toxicity in the mouse neocortex following prenatal exposure to ethanol.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- The impact of prenatal alcohol exposure on social, cognitive and affective behavioral domains: Insights from rodent models.Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.) · 2016Review
- Implications of genomic signatures in the differential vulnerability to fetal alcohol exposure in C57BL/6 and DBA/2 mice.Frontiers in genetics · 2014Article
- The effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on behavior: rodent and primate studies.Neuropsychology review · 2011Review
- Exploring behavioral phenotypes in a mouse model of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.Developmental neurobiologyArticle
- Strain dependent neurochemical changes induced by embryonic alcohol exposure in zebrafish.Neurotoxicology and teratologyArticle
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Abstract
aimsPrenatal exposure to alcohol can have adverse effects on the developing fetus. Two of the hallmarks of children exposed to alcohol prenatally are attention deficits and hyperactivity. While hyperactivity has been observed in rats following prenatal ethanol exposure, few studies have examined these effects in mice. The present study investigated the effects of prenatal ethanol exposure on activity in mice from three inbred strains: C57BL/6 (B6), Inbred Long Sleep (ILS) and Inbred Short Sleep (ISS).
methodsOn Days 7 through 18 of gestation, mice were intragastrically intubated twice daily with either 3.0 g/kg ethanol (E) or an isocaloric amount of maltose-dextrin (MD); non-intubated control (NIC) litters were also generated. Offspring activity was monitored at 30, 60, 90 and 150 days of age.
resultsWhile results showed no effects of prenatal ethanol exposure on any measures of activity, we did observe differences in baseline activity among the strains. ISS mice were more active than B6 and ILS for all activity measures except stereotypy; B6 mice had higher measures of stereotypy than ILS and ISS. Younger mice were more active than older mice. The only sex effects were on measures of stereotypy, where males had higher scores.
conclusionsMice are an excellent organism to study genetic influences on many phenotypes. However, our study and others have shown few effects of prenatal ethanol exposure on behavior in mice. It appears as if the prenatal period in mice, corresponding to organogenesis, is not a sensitive period for producing behavioral deficits following ethanol exposure. It is likely that the first 2 weeks postnatally, corresponding to the brain growth spurt, are more sensitive for producing behavioral effects.
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