Elevated blood pressure in the embryonic chick induced by a teratogenic dose of dextroamphetamine sulfate
- 1 February 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Teratology
- Vol. 29 (1) , 87-92
- https://doi.org/10.1002/tera.1420290110
Abstract
Previous work has demonstrated the cardiovascular terato genicity of dextroamphetamine sulfate (0.25 mg/egg) in the 4‐day (stage 24) chick embryo. Our current studies indicate that embryos treated with this teratogenic dose of d‐amphetamine exhibit a mean ventricular blood pressure (MVBP) elevation for 1 hour at 4 hours after treatment. The mean MVBP value 4 hours after d‐amphetamine treatment significantly exceeded the mean MVBP value for combined untreated and saline controls by 30%. Furthermore, d‐amphetamine significantly decreased heart rate relative to controls by 6–9% at 2, 3, and 5 hours after administration. Elevation of embryonic blood pres sure (measured by a water manometer system) during a critical period of aortic arch and ventricular septal morphogenesis is suggested as an etiological factor in the genesis of malformations of these structures.This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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