PMID- 34528732 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220310 LR - 20220310 IS - 1873-474X (Electronic) IS - 0736-5748 (Linking) VI - 81 IP - 8 DP - 2021 Dec TI - Maternal LiCl exposure disrupts thyroid-cerebral axis in neonatal albino rats. PG - 741-758 LID - 10.1002/jdn.10151 [doi] AB - This work aimed to elucidate whether maternal lithium chloride (LiCl) exposure disturbs the thyroid-cerebral axis in neonatal albino rats. 50 mg of LiCl/kg b.wt. is orally given for pregnant Wistar rats from gestational day (GD) 1 to lactation day (LD) 28. The maternal administration of LiCl induced follicular dilatation and degeneration, hyperplasia, lumen obliteration and colloid vacuolation in the maternal and neonatal thyroid gland at postnatal days (PNDs) 14, 21 and 28. Neuronal degeneration (spongiform), gliosis, nuclear pyknosis, perivascular oedema, and meningeal hyperaemia were observed in the neonatal cerebral cortex of the maternal LiCl-treated group at examined PNDs. This disturbance appears to depend on intensification in the neonatal cerebral malondialdehyde (MDA), nitric oxide (NO), and hydrogen peroxide (H(2) O(2) ) levels, and attenuation in the glutathione (GSH), total thiol (t-SH), catalase (CAT), and superoxide dismutase (SOD) levels. In the neonatal cerebrum, the fold change in the relative mRNA expression of deiodinases (DII and DIII) increased significantly at PNDs 21 and 14, respectively, in the maternal LiCl-treated group. These data suggest that maternal LiCl may perturb the thyroid-cerebrum axis generating neonatal neurodevelopmental disorder. CI - (c) 2021 International Society for Developmental Neuroscience. FAU - Mohammed, Dena A E AU - Mohammed DAE AD - Division of Anatomy and Embryology, Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt. FAU - Ahmed, Rasha R AU - Ahmed RR AD - Division of Histology and Cytology, Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt. FAU - R G, Ahmed AU - R G A AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5644-8291 AD - Division of Anatomy and Embryology, Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt. LA - eng GR - YRP38/Beni-Suef University/ PT - Journal Article DEP - 20211007 PL - United States TA - Int J Dev Neurosci JT - International journal of developmental neuroscience : the official journal of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience JID - 8401784 RN - 4Y8F71G49Q (Malondialdehyde) RN - EC 1.11.1.6 (Catalase) RN - EC 1.15.1.1 (Superoxide Dismutase) RN - G4962QA067 (Lithium Chloride) RN - GAN16C9B8O (Glutathione) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Animals, Newborn MH - Catalase/metabolism MH - Cerebral Cortex/*drug effects/metabolism MH - Glutathione/metabolism MH - Lithium Chloride/*pharmacology MH - Malondialdehyde/metabolism MH - Oxidative Stress/*drug effects MH - Rats MH - Rats, Wistar MH - Superoxide Dismutase/metabolism MH - Thyroid Gland/*drug effects/metabolism OTO - NOTNLM OT - antioxidants OT - cerebrum OT - dams OT - deiodinases OT - lithium chloride OT - neonates OT - prooxidants OT - thyroid EDAT- 2021/09/17 06:00 MHDA- 2022/03/11 06:00 CRDT- 2021/09/16 09:02 PHST- 2021/07/23 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2021/06/07 00:00 [received] PHST- 2021/09/08 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2021/09/17 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/03/11 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2021/09/16 09:02 [entrez] AID - 10.1002/jdn.10151 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Int J Dev Neurosci. 2021 Dec;81(8):741-758. doi: 10.1002/jdn.10151. Epub 2021 Oct 7.