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  • Title: Production of congenital limb defects with retinoic acid: phenomenological evidence of progressive differentiation during limb morphogenesis.
    Author: Kwasigroch TE, Kochhar DM.
    Journal: Anat Embryol (Berl); 1980; 161(1):105-13. PubMed ID: 7447042.
    Abstract:
    Maternal administration of a single dose of retinoic acid (vitamin A acid, 100 mg/kg) on either the 11th, 11 1/2, 12th, 12 1/2, 13th or 13 1/2 day of gestation produced phocomelia or partial phocomelia in ICR/DUB fetuses. The results depended upon the time of treatment and two gradients of effect were produced: 1) cranio-caudal gradient, since forelimb defects resulted from between days 11 and 13, while similar hindlimb abnormalities were produced by administration of retinoic acid 12 to 24 hours later: 2) proximo-distal gradient, due to the heterogenous sensitivity among individual bones of the limb. In the forelimb, early treatment (11th day) produced humero-unlar defects and later treatment (12th day) ulnoradial defects. A similar proximo-distal gradient was observed in the hindlimb. The use of teratological studies as a tool to assist morphogenetic investigation is discussed.
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