Teratology in the Twentieth Century: Congenital Malformations in Humans and How their Environmental Causes were EstablishedElsevier, 2003 M06 6 - 166 pages This book is an an up-to-date survey and summary of present knowledge and future expectations regarding the environmental causes of congenital malformations in human beings, beginning with the earliest discoveries of the 20th century up to the latest ideas and problems at its end, presents views and comments on the progress made over the century in understanding human prenatal maldevelopment. |
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Page 135
... evidence. Systematic attempts to sum up the knowledge of what is known and what is left to know about the causation of congenital malformations have all pretty much come to the same 'bottom line.” No further evaluation with any ...
... evidence. Systematic attempts to sum up the knowledge of what is known and what is left to know about the causation of congenital malformations have all pretty much come to the same 'bottom line.” No further evaluation with any ...
Page 142
... evidence obtained by studying abnormal embryonic development of mice. Abnormal morphogenetic pathways, he would have maintained, are not to be revealed by examining newborn malformed individuals. This conclusion was accepted, with a ...
... evidence obtained by studying abnormal embryonic development of mice. Abnormal morphogenetic pathways, he would have maintained, are not to be revealed by examining newborn malformed individuals. This conclusion was accepted, with a ...
Page 143
... evidence that they do stem from a common primary developmental error...” How these and the other newly introduced terms could have “relevance to diagnosis, management, and counseling” was not easy to See. 3.7. The developmental field ...
... evidence that they do stem from a common primary developmental error...” How these and the other newly introduced terms could have “relevance to diagnosis, management, and counseling” was not easy to See. 3.7. The developmental field ...
Page 148
... evidence and opinions: was the target the pregnant animal or embryos themselves? In the embryo was the damage due to mitotic damage, somatic mutation, cell death, tissue repair, etc.? All of these, to one extent or another, may be ...
... evidence and opinions: was the target the pregnant animal or embryos themselves? In the embryo was the damage due to mitotic damage, somatic mutation, cell death, tissue repair, etc.? All of these, to one extent or another, may be ...
Page 155
... evidence that rubella in the course of pregnancy is a source of danger to the fetus.” (Wesselhoeft, 1947), though it was occasionally postulated, looking backwards, that outbreaks of births of deaf children had been associated with ...
... evidence that rubella in the course of pregnancy is a source of danger to the fetus.” (Wesselhoeft, 1947), though it was occasionally postulated, looking backwards, that outbreaks of births of deaf children had been associated with ...
Contents
CHAPTER 12 SURVEILLANCE OF CONGENITAL MALFORMATIONS | 181 |
CHAPTER 13 EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CONGENITAL MALFORMATIONS | 182 |
CHAPTER 14 HUMAN DISEASE AS TERATOGEN | 185 |
CHAPTER 15 ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS AND DISASTERS | 197 |
CHAPTER 16 DISEASE MEDICATION AND TERATOGENESIS | 210 |
CHAPTER 17 FOLIC ACID AND HUMAN MALFORMATIONS | 224 |
CHAPTER 18 ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION DURING PREGNANCY | 237 |
CHAPTER 19 THE ACCOMPLISHMENT AND THE EXPECTATION | 255 |
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CHAPTER 10 TESTING FOR TERATOGENICITY | 173 |
CHAPTER 11 TERATOLOGICAL DETOURS | 175 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 256 |
INDEX | 283 |
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