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Journal of Applied Physiology
Vol. 83, No. 2, pp. 338-347, August 1997
CONTROL OF BREATHING, CIRCULATION, AND TEMPERATURE

Pathogenesis of nitrofen-induced congenital diaphragmatic hernia in fetal rats

Douglas W. Allan and John J. Greer

Department of Physiology, Division of Neuroscience, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2S2, Canada

Received 30 October 1996; accepted in final form 21 March 1997.

Allan, Douglas W., and John J. Greer. Pathogenesis of nitrofen-induced congenital diaphragmatic hernia in fetal rats. J. Appl. Physiol. 83(2): 338-347, 1997.---Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is a developmental anomaly characterized by the malformation of the diaphragm and impaired lung development. In the present study, we tested several hypotheses regarding the pathogenesis of CDH, including those suggesting that the primary defect is due to abnormal 1) lung development, 2) phrenic nerve formation, 3) developmental processes underlying diaphragmatic myotube formation, 4) pleuroperitoneal canal closure, or 5) formation of the primordial diaphragm within the pleuroperitoneal fold. The 2,4-dichloro-phenyl-p-nitrophenyl ether (nitrofen)-induced CDH rat model was used for this study. The following parameters were compared between normal and herniated fetal rats at various stages of development: 1) weight, protein, and DNA content of lungs; 2) phrenic nerve diameter, axonal number, and motoneuron distribution; 3) formation of the phrenic nerve intramuscular branching pattern and diaphragmatic myotube formation; and 4) formation of the precursor of the diaphragmatic musculature, the pleuroperitoneal fold. We demonstrated that previously proposed theories regarding the primary role of the lung, phrenic nerve, myotube formation, and the closure of pleuroperitoneal canal in the pathogenesis of CDH are incorrect. Rather, the primary defect associated with CDH, at least in the nitrofen rat model, occurs at the earliest stage of diaphragm development, the formation of the pleuroperitoneal fold.

breathing; lung; phrenic

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