{"title":"Single injection with chlordecone reduces behavioral receptivity and fertility of adult rats.","authors":"L Uphouse","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The effects of chlordecone on fertility were examined in adult, intact female rats. Rats were treated with 25, 50 or 75 mg/kg chlordecone and initial exposure occurred either on the morning before mating or on the morning after mating. When exposure occurred on the morning of proestrus, mating behavior 8 to 9 hours was significantly reduced by 50 or 75 mg/kg chlordecone. Yet, when housed overnight with sexually experienced males, most females showed sperm in the vaginal smear. However, only 23% of the 50 mg/kg group and none of the 75 mg/kg group delivered offspring. Females given 25 mg/kg chlordecone showed behavior and fertility identical to oil injected controls. When females were treated with chlordecone after mating, 41% of the females given 50 mg/kg chlordecone produced litters while 33% of the 75 mg/kg females delivered offspring. Under both conditions, fertility was substantially reduced. In previous studies, chlordecone's reduction of the preovulatory luteinizing hormone (LH) surge has been offered as an explanation for the pesticide's reproductive deficits. The present studies indicate that the failure of chlordecone-treated females to ovulate cannot totally account for the decreased fertility.</p>","PeriodicalId":19112,"journal":{"name":"Neurobehavioral toxicology and teratology","volume":"8 2","pages":"121-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13570682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C L Cunningham, D L Francisco, D Kocarnik, J Metcalfe
{"title":"Autoshaped discrimination learning in chicks incubated under normobaric hyperoxia.","authors":"C L Cunningham, D L Francisco, D Kocarnik, J Metcalfe","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>White Leghorn chicken eggs were exposed to either 60% O2 or room air (21% O2) for the first 19 days of incubation. Chicks that hatched from these eggs were then tested in discrimination learning tasks in which keypecking was autoshaped to colored lights that were paired with either access to food (Experiment 1) or heat (Experiment 2). Chronic prenatal exposure to 60% O2 reduced hatchability but did not affect mean hatching time. Although previous research has shown that hyperoxic treatment accelerates growth in chick embryos until the 18th day of incubation, experimental chicks weighed either the same (Experiment 1) or less (Experiment 2) than controls at hatching. Prenatal exposure to hyperoxia depressed rate of acquisition, but not final performance level in both discrimination tasks. The initial performance deficit appeared to reflect a temporary depression of activity or arousal, possibly due to a relatively greater hypothermia in experimental chicks. This general pattern of results was attributed to premature depletion of essential nutrients within the egg as a result of oxygen-induced growth acceleration.</p>","PeriodicalId":19112,"journal":{"name":"Neurobehavioral toxicology and teratology","volume":"8 2","pages":"163-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14832635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of sodium cyanide upon swimming performance in guinea-pigs and the conferment of protection by pretreatment with p-aminopropiophenone.","authors":"G D D'Mello","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The swimming performance of guinea-pigs was degraded following administration of sodium cyanide (NaCN) at doses which were not lethal for individual animals. Decrements in performance were observed two minutes following subcutaneous administration of NaCN, were maximal at 8-16 minutes and, at the highest dose tested, did not return to control levels until 64-128 minutes. Pretreatment with p-aminopropiophenone (PAPP) at a dose inducing 7-15% methemoglobinemia (met.Hb), 15-90 minutes after administration, protected animals against the effects of NaCN upon swimming performance. However, the protection decreased as the interval between PAPP and NaCN was increased from 15 to 75 minutes. These data suggested that NaCN may affect both motor and cognitive function in guinea-pigs. The relevance of this animal model for predicting the behavioural effects of cyanide poisoning for assessing the protective efficacy of pretreatment with PAPP in humans is discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":19112,"journal":{"name":"Neurobehavioral toxicology and teratology","volume":"8 2","pages":"171-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14832632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of prenatal aluminum exposure on neuromotor maturation in the rat.","authors":"V Bernuzzi, D Desor, P R Lehr","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The oral treatment of pregnant rats with AlCl3 was realized from 8th day of gestation to parturition to determine its influence on the neuromotor development of the young rats with a bank of assessment tests. As the quality of the maternal care has an influence on young rat development, the maternal behavior had also been quantified with different parameters. The results indicated that aluminum, at the two doses (160 and 200 mg/kg), had no effect on food intake, the weight of females and their maternal behavior. On the other hand, pre-weaning mortality was significantly increased in the treated dams' young. Surviving pups showed a delay in their neuromotor development as well as a weight delay during the first postnatal week. Different explicative hypotheses have been considered.</p>","PeriodicalId":19112,"journal":{"name":"Neurobehavioral toxicology and teratology","volume":"8 2","pages":"115-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14832633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tetrachloroethylene: levels of DNA and S-100 in the gerbil CNS after chronic exposure.","authors":"L E Rosengren, P Kjellstrand, K G Haglid","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Concentrations of the astroglial protein S-100, DNA and protein were studied in different regions of the gerbil CNS after chronic tetrachloroethylene exposure. The animals were exposed by continuous inhalation at 60 or 320 ppm for three months, followed by a four month solvent-free period. Increased concentrations of S-100, indicative of astroglial hypertrophy and/or proliferation, were found not only in the hippocampus and in the cerebral occipital cortex, but also in the cerebellar areas. In the frontal cerebral cortex, decreased S-100 and DNA concentrations were found to be concomitant with a decreased wet weight of the area, suggesting an atrophy which also affects the astroglial cells. This atrophy also is reflected in decreased DNA concentrations found after exposure at 60 ppm in this region of the brain. These results are consistent with the observation that tetrachloroethylene is a potent neurotoxin, as changes in the gerbil brain were found even at exposure levels as low as 60 ppm.</p>","PeriodicalId":19112,"journal":{"name":"Neurobehavioral toxicology and teratology","volume":"8 2","pages":"201-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14832638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D C Rees, E M Coggeshall, Y Dragan, T J Breen, R L Balster
{"title":"Acute effects of some volatile nitrites on motor performance and lethality in mice.","authors":"D C Rees, E M Coggeshall, Y Dragan, T J Breen, R L Balster","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mice were examined for effects on lethality and motor performance on an inverted screen test following inhalation exposure to isoamyl, n-butyl and isobutyl nitrite. All three nitrites produced concentration-related effects on both measures, with EC50s for motor performance only about one-half of the LC50s for lethality. Isoamyl and isobutyl nitrite were equally potent on both lethality and motor performance measures, whereas n-butyl nitrite was significantly more potent than isoamyl and isobutyl for lethality. Slope estimates of the concentration-effect curves for lethality were significantly greater than those of the motor performance measure. The steepness of the concentration-effect curves and low LC50/EC50 ratios relative to abused organic solvents suggest that behaviorally active concentrations of volatile nitrites may put users at risk to other health consequences.</p>","PeriodicalId":19112,"journal":{"name":"Neurobehavioral toxicology and teratology","volume":"8 2","pages":"139-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14009901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Behavioral evaluation of perinatal PCB exposure in rhesus monkeys: fixed-interval performance and reinforcement-omission.","authors":"P C Mele, R E Bowman, E D Levin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Two experiments were conducted to examine the prolonged behavioral effects of perinatal exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs, Aroclor 1248) in rhesus monkeys. Experiment I involved testing a group of three monkeys whose mothers had been fed 2.5 ppm PCBs in their diets both before and throughout gestation and nursing (concurrent exposure condition), and a group of three control monkeys whose mothers had received no added dietary PCBs. These offspring began testing at approximately 60 months of age. In experiment II the same group of female breeders which were fed PCBs in experiment I underwent a second round of breeding after being off the contaminated diet for an average of 20 months (postexposure condition). Additionally, another group of female monkeys underwent breeding while receiving concurrent exposure to 0.5 ppm PCBs in their diet. Control female monkeys received no added dietary PCBs. Four offspring from the 2.5 ppm postexposure condition, four from the 0.5 ppm concurrent exposure condition and five control offspring survived to begin testing here at approximately 40 months of age. All monkeys from experiments I and II were tested under a series of fixed-interval schedules of food reinforcement consisting of FI 30 sec (10 sessions) and FI 60, 300 and 600 sec (15 sessions each). Performance measures included overall response rate, index of curvature (IC) and postreinforcement pause (PRP). There were no consistent differences in FI performance between PCB and respective control groups except for a slightly though significantly lower IC in the PCB groups of experiment II under FI 300 and 600.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)</p>","PeriodicalId":19112,"journal":{"name":"Neurobehavioral toxicology and teratology","volume":"8 2","pages":"131-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14218864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prenatal ethanol exposure in rats does not alter maze exploration or impair visual discrimination with or without distracting stimuli.","authors":"L W Means, R D Russ, C W Medlin, S L Gray","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The effects of in utero exposure to ethanol on maze exploration and visual discrimination and reversal with and without distracting tactile stimuli present were examined in rats. Three groups were compared on all measures. An ethanol treated group was the offspring of dams receiving a liquid diet throughout pregnancy with 35% of the calories supplied as ethanol. Subjects in a pair-fed group were the offspring of dams fed the same diet except that the caloric equivalent of maltose-dextrin was substituted for the ethanol. Subjects in a third group were the offspring of dams fed ad lib lab chow and water throughout pregnancy. All pups were nursed by foster mothers who received ad lib lab chow and water throughout pregnancy and nursing. Relative to the control groups, the ethanol treated group was not found to be significantly more active in the maze at 41-45 days of age or deficient in visual discrimination or reversal with or without the distracting stimuli present at 46-77 days of age. These results are consistent with many studies suggesting that behavioral deficits resulting from in utero ethanol exposure become less evident with age.</p>","PeriodicalId":19112,"journal":{"name":"Neurobehavioral toxicology and teratology","volume":"8 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14822072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R F Smith, G G Wharton, S L Kurtz, K M Mattran, A R Hollenbeck
{"title":"Behavioral effects of mid-pregnancy administration of lidocaine and mepivacaine in the rat.","authors":"R F Smith, G G Wharton, S L Kurtz, K M Mattran, A R Hollenbeck","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sperm-positive female Long-Evans hooded rats were injected with 6 mg/kg lidocaine (with epinephrine), 6 mg/kg mepivacaine, or saline, into the masseter muscle of the jaw on Day 11 of gestation. Birth, growth, and litter composition were unaffected by the drug treatment, as was shuttle box acquisition. Offspring of drug-treated dams had longer latencies than controls on the first day of negative geotaxis training, and were more sensitive to electric footshock. Lidocaine-dosed offspring responded less in the presence of the correct cue in the visual discrimination task, and mepivacaine-dosed animals were hypoactive in the open field. In a second study, offspring of lidocaine-dosed dams were slower to develop the righting reflex, made more errors in acquiring a water maze, had longer suppression times in a conditioned suppression task, and had longer latencies in the tail flick test. Dosing had no effect upon birth and growth, shuttle box, or footshock sensitivity. These data demonstrate that midgestational exposure to lidocaine or mepivacaine at a dose near the limits of permissible human exposure produces significant behavioral changes in the offspring. This preliminary study suggests that development of some portion of the central nervous system is altered by such exposure. Further work is required to determine the parameters and the extent of the effect.</p>","PeriodicalId":19112,"journal":{"name":"Neurobehavioral toxicology and teratology","volume":"8 1","pages":"61-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14822858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Regulation and evolving science: neurobehavioral toxicology.","authors":"N S Buckholtz, S Panem","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A number of policy and scientific issues are associated with the introduction of emerging or non-traditional scientific disciplines into the governmental regulatory apparatus. The present discussion derives from the issue of the extent of toxicological testing required for the evaluation of the health and safety aspects of pesticides and other compounds at the Environmental Protection Agency. The area of neurobehavioral toxicology is used as a case study for the introduction of a new biological endpoint into the regulatory arena. In that context, this paper addresses the following policy/regulatory issues: why expand the endpoints for toxicity testing from those currently in use; what is the current regulatory situation; what are the alternative means by which a new endpoint could be incorporated into the regulatory process; what would be the consequences of requiring examination of new endpoints? In the process of evaluating those issues, scientific issues involved with the selection of test systems are discussed. They include the selection of particular tests, the testing strategy, and the validity, reliability and sensitivity of the tests.</p>","PeriodicalId":19112,"journal":{"name":"Neurobehavioral toxicology and teratology","volume":"8 1","pages":"89-96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14822738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}