Comparative assessments of the effects of alcohol exposure on fetal brain development using optical coherence tomography and ultrasound imaging
The developing fetal brain is vulnerable to a variety of environmental agents including maternal ethanol consumption. Preclinical studies on the development and amelioration of fetal teratology would be significantly facilitated by the application of high resolution imaging technologies like optical coherence tomography (OCT) and high-frequency ultrasound (US). This study investigates the ability of these imaging technologies to measure the effects of maternal ethanol exposure on brain development, ex vivo , in fetal mice. Pregnant mice at gestational day 12.5 were administered ethanol ( 3 g / Kg b.wt.) or water by intragastric gavage, twice daily for three consecutive days. On gestational ...
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