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A Bizarre Craniofacial Anomaly in the Long Evans Rat
Jack CHAMBERLAIN.G
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1978 Volume 18 Issue 1 Pages 33-40

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Gross and light microscopic craniofacial features of a severely malformed, day 21 rat fetus are described. The holoprosencephalic-type of anomaly illustrated resulted from a single maternal injection of the niacin anti-metabolite, 6-aminonicotinamide (6-AN), on day 9 of gestation. Twenty-four hours later a countertherapy injection of nicotinamide (NAM) was similarly given. The markedly defective fetus had primarily right-sided anomalies of the face, eye and brain combined with pituitary agenesis. Proposed fetal hemorrhage and neural crest cell damage are discussed.

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