Inhibitory effect of corticoids on the proliferative pattern in mouse palatal processes
- 1 April 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Teratology
- Vol. 11 (2), 193-198
- https://doi.org/10.1002/tera.1420110208
Abstract
The formation of the secondary palate in mice is accompanied by intensive mitotic activity, which is mainly concentrated at the medial edges of the palatal processes. In control H‐Velaz randombred fetuses the mitotic activity culminated approximately 24 h before palatal‐shelf horizontalization, so that the period of intensive cell proliferation coincided with the period when cleft palate could be induced by cortisone administration. Effects of teratogenic doses of corticoids, injected directly into amniotic sac of embryos on day 13 (0.3 mg hydrocortisone) or im to pregnant females on day 12 (7.5 mg cortisone acetate), on the proliferative peak in palatal processes were studied using intraamniotic injection of colchicine. Counts of colchicine‐blocked mitoses in histological serial sections revealed both a significant decrease in overall mitotic density and a posterior shift of the proliferative peak in the palatal processes of fetuses treated with doses of corticoids producing cleft palate.Keywords
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