The Influence of Ethyl Alcohol on the Development of the Chondrocranium of Gallus gallus / Edition 1

by Marise Heyns

Overview

According to Jones and Smith (1973) the potential adverse effect of maternal alcoholism on the development of the offspring has been referred to in early Greek and Roman mythology. In a Carthaginian ritual, the bridal couple was forbidden to drink wine on their wedding night in order that defective children might not be conceived (Haggard and Jellinek 1942). Also, according to lones and Smith (1973,1975), the British House of Commons indicated in 1834, in a report by a select committee investigating drunk­ enness, that infants born to alcoholic mothers sometimes had a starved, shrivelled and imperfect look. According to Librizzi (1982) the first documented observations appeared in 1849 with the publication of the essay by Carpenter entitled "The Use and Abuse of Alcoholic Liquors in Health and Disease". He stated that habitual intemperance is the most potent of all causes of insanity because it aggravates the operation in other causes. Sullivan (1990) recorded increased abortion and stillbirth rates among chronically al­ coholic mothers in a Liverpool prison and an increased incidence of epilepsy in their surviving offspring. Various investigators including Ladraque (1901), Roe (1944). Le­ comte (1950), Christiaens et al. (1960) and Lemoine et al. (1967) have since then reported increased incidence of abnormalities and decreased weight of surviving children born to chronic alcoholic mothers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540617099
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	02/14/1997
Series:	Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology , #134
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Heyns, Marise (Univ of Stellenbosch, South Africa)

Table of Contents

1 Introduction.- 2 Material and Technique.- 3 Description of the Normal Stages of Early Development.- 3.1 Stage I.- 3.2 Stage II.- 3.3 Stage III.- 3.4 Stage IV.- 3.5 Stage V.- 3.6 Stage VI.- 4 Description of the Experimental Stages of Early Development.- 4.1 Stage I.- 4.2 Stage II.- 4.3 Stage III.- 4.4 Stage IV.- 4.5 Stage V.- 4.6 Stage VI.- 5 Résumé and Discussion.- 5.1 General.- 5.2 Histological Investigations.- 5.3 Embryogenic Review.- 6 Summary and Comparison with Results of Vorster (1989).- 7 References.

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Frederick Wezeman, PhD (Loyola University Medical Center)
Description: This specialized monograph, authored by a zoologist, reports the findings of an investigation into the effects of alcohol on avian skull development.
Purpose: The teratogenic effects of alcohol on developing tissues and organs have been a focus of study by developmental biologists for decades. The chick embryo is a very convenient model for such studies, and alcohol administration causes stage-specific damage to the development of various components of face and cranium. The hypothesis of the study is that ethanol exposure during early development of the embryo inducts abnormal formation (teratological changes) in cranial tissues. The author presents a detailed account of the effects of alcohol and clearly documents the findings in numerous photomicrographs and drawings. In addition, the data are compared to previously published information on the normal development of the avian skull. The data are comprehensive, completely descriptive, and clearly presented.
Audience: Because of its highly technical content, this book is appropriate only for professional anatomists, embryologists, zoologists, and developmental biologists. Interpretive reading of the text requires a significant understanding of anatomy and embryology.
Features: The book is organized nicely into sections that deal with introductory information, materials and techniques, a description of the normal stages to which is compared the experimental data, a concise discussion, and a summary with further comparisons to previously published work. A subject index conveniently assists the reader with finding specific anatomical structures.
Assessment: This book would be a good supplement to other holdings on embryo-toxicity, fetal alcohol syndrome, and teratology.

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Reviewer: Frederick Wezeman, PhD(Loyola University Medical Center)
Description: This specialized monograph, authored by a zoologist, reports the findings of an investigation into the effects of alcohol on avian skull development.
Purpose: The teratogenic effects of alcohol on developing tissues and organs have been a focus of study by developmental biologists for decades. The chick embryo is a very convenient model for such studies, and alcohol administration causes stage-specific damage to the development of various components of face and cranium. The hypothesis of the study is that ethanol exposure during early development of the embryo inducts abnormal formation (teratological changes) in cranial tissues. The author presents a detailed account of the effects of alcohol and clearly documents the findings in numerous photomicrographs and drawings. In addition, the data are compared to previously published information on the normal development of the avian skull. The data are comprehensive, completely descriptive, and clearly presented.
Audience: Because of its highly technical content, this book is appropriate only for professional anatomists, embryologists, zoologists, and developmental biologists. Interpretive reading of the text requires a significant understanding of anatomy and embryology.
Features: The book is organized nicely into sections that deal with introductory information, materials and techniques, a description of the normal stages to which is compared the experimental data, a concise discussion, and a summary with further comparisons to previously published work. A subject index conveniently assists the reader with finding specific anatomical structures.
Assessment: This book would be a good supplement to other holdings on embryo-toxicity, fetal alcohol syndrome, and teratology.

This specialized monograph, authored by a zoologist, reports the findings of an investigation into the effects of alcohol on avian skull development. The teratogenic effects of alcohol on developing tissues and organs have been a focus of study by developmental biologists for decades. The chick embryo is a very convenient model for such studies, and alcohol administration causes stage-specific damage to the development of various components of face and cranium. The hypothesis of the study is that ethanol exposure during early development of the embryo inducts abnormal formation (teratological changes) in cranial tissues. The author presents a detailed account of the effects of alcohol and clearly documents the findings in numerous photomicrographs and drawings. In addition, the data are compared to previously published information on the normal development of the avian skull. The data are comprehensive, completely descriptive, and clearly presented. Because of its highly technical content, this book is appropriate only for professional anatomists, embryologists, zoologists, and developmental biologists. Interpretive reading of the text requires a significant understanding of anatomy and embryology. The book is organized nicely into sections that deal with introductory information, materials and techniques, a description of the normal stages to which is compared the experimental data, a concise discussion, and a summary with further comparisons to previously published work. A subject index conveniently assists the reader with finding specific anatomical structures. This book would be a good supplement to other holdings on embryo-toxicity, fetal alcohol syndrome, and teratology.

Frederick Wezeman