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ID Number 2177
Study Type In Vivo
Model 50 Hz exposure to chick eggs and analysis of teratogenic effects.
Details

Chicken eggs(n = 50) were exposed to 50 Hz at 1.33, 2.66, 5.52, or 7.32 milliT for 24 hours prior to incubation and evaluated upon hatching for liver histopathology and ultra-structural changes. The authors report an increase in developmental abnormalities (exencephalic, asymmetrical faces, crossed beak, shorter upper beak, deformed hind limbs, gastroschesis, anophthalmia, and microphthalmia) with exposure. Histology also indicated pathology in liver samples (cell membrane damage, fibrotic bands, steatohepatitis, vacuolizations, swollen and electron-dense mitochondria, reduced invisible cristae, crystalized mitochondria with degenerated cristae, myelin-like figures, macrophages engulfing adjacent cells, dentated nuclei, nuclei with irregular envelopes, degenerated hepatocytes, abnormal lipid accumulations, lipid droplets pushing hepatocytes' nuclei to the corner of the cells, abundant cellular infiltrations cellular infiltrations inside sinusoid and around central veins, disrupted reticulin plexus, and release of chromatin into cytosol with partially regular water layers).

Findings Effects
Status Completed With Publication
Principal Investigator Shahid-Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
Funding Agency Private/Instit.
Country IRAN (ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF)
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