Abstract:
:Clinical and basic research in the area of drugs of abuse are of utmost importance since they provide the necessary background for health programs in one of the main problems of contemporary society. The available data in this field demonstrate that acute, subacute and/or chronic abuse of illicit drugs, e.g., cocaine, alters the neurochemistry and functioning of the neural circuitries. Although recent works demonstrated that the visual system is lesioned after exposure to cocaine during the active periods of development, no studies have provided detailed information on the effects of these substances on the development of this sensory system. The present paper will report: 1) the vulnerability of the developing visual system to gestational exposure to cocaine; 2) the effects of cocaine in the visual system during the more active periods of development in humans and, as far as possible, the establishment of homologies with animal models where exposure is made in corresponding periods of human gestation, and 3) the characterization of the vascular disruption caused by ischemic/hypoxic mechanisms. The clinical study focused the ophthalmologic evaluation of newborns exposed in utero to illicit drugs. Newborns exposed to cocaine in utero showed marked vascular disruption in the retina: superficial and deep hemorrhages that, although morphologically similar to neonatal retinal hemorrhages, presented a longer reabsorption time when compared with the neonatal hemorrhagic lesions due to birth trauma in the general population. Prolonged eyelid edema was also a prominent finding. The animal study was conducted in Wistar rats exposed prenatally (gestational days 8 to 22) and postnatally (postnatal days 1-6, 1-13 and 1-29) to 60 mg/kg body weight/day and 15 mg/kg body weight/day, respectively, to cocaine hydrochloride administered subcutaneously; control groups included pair-feeding during the same experimental periods. Similar alterations to those observed in the newborns where exposure to cocaine was affirmative, were found: intraretinal hemorrhages allied to signs of chronic ischemia both in the outer retina-photoreceptor rosettes and in the inner retina-epiretinal glial membranes. Taking into consideration that the visual system is one of the more important sensory systems, the identification and characterization of these alterations, the similarity between animal and human findings, and their relation with cocaine per se, can provide a sound data base for illicit drug prevention programs.
journal_name
Ann N Y Acad Scijournal_title
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciencesauthors
Silva-Araújo A,Tavares MAdoi
10.1111/j.1749-6632.1996.tb17448.xsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1996-10-31 00:00:00pages
274-88eissn
0077-8923issn
1749-6632journal_volume
801pub_type
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