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Arch Neurocien 2013; 18 (3)

Developmental neurotoxicity by environmental chemicals substances

Gómez-Chavarín M, Martínez-Guerra JC, Esquivel-Franco DC, Báez-Saldaña A, Gutiérrez-Ospina G

Language: Spanish
References: 39
Page: 154-160
PDF size: 88.03 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Developmental neurotoxicity constitutes effects occurring in the offspring primarily as a result of exposure of the mother during pregnancy and lactation. To exert their effect, these chemicals or their metabolites must cross the placenta and/or the blood-brain barrier. In experimental animals, exposures to neurotoxic chemicals during critical periods of brain development induce permanent functional disturbances in the CNS. Available data exist using proper animal models, although only few chemicals have been tested. Neurotoxicity testing is not required by national authorities for classification of chemicals. Epidemiological evidence is very limited, but severe irreversible effects have been observed in humans following in utero exposures to a few known developmental neurotoxicants. The large number of chemicals with a potential for developmental neurotoxicity in humans stresses the importance of generating basic kinetic data on these chemicals based on relevant experimental models. First of all, data are needed on their ability to pass the placenta and the developing blood-brain barrier, to accumulate, and to be metabolized in the placenta and/or the fetus. These kinetic data will be essential in establishing a scientifically based hazard evaluation and risk assessment.


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