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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... exposure toxicity 201 Exposure of Vietnamese nationals 201 Exposure of US military 201 Ranch handers and ... exposed American children 208 Love Canal: a study in political teratology A chronology 209 The mounting hysteria 209 ...
... exposure toxicity 201 Exposure of Vietnamese nationals 201 Exposure of US military 201 Ranch handers and ... exposed American children 208 Love Canal: a study in political teratology A chronology 209 The mounting hysteria 209 ...
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... exposed prenatally to certain drugs had 1 or more of 104 unnamed physical features, designated minor malformations (Holmes et al., 1985). Other studies have similarly found that some large fraction of infants have such minor physical ...
... exposed prenatally to certain drugs had 1 or more of 104 unnamed physical features, designated minor malformations (Holmes et al., 1985). Other studies have similarly found that some large fraction of infants have such minor physical ...
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... exposed, and the genetic constitution—maternal and fetal—of the subjects concerned, with understanding of the interrelation of dose and stage becoming ever more refined with time. These interrelations have been defined only vaguely for ...
... exposed, and the genetic constitution—maternal and fetal—of the subjects concerned, with understanding of the interrelation of dose and stage becoming ever more refined with time. These interrelations have been defined only vaguely for ...
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... exposed to therapeutic pelvic radium therapy or roentgen irradiation, a sufficient number for a close examination of the data (Murphy, 1928). An objective analysis required that the ill health of children of women irradiated before as ...
... exposed to therapeutic pelvic radium therapy or roentgen irradiation, a sufficient number for a close examination of the data (Murphy, 1928). An objective analysis required that the ill health of children of women irradiated before as ...
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... exposed. The purpose of the Commission, established in 1946 by US presidential directive, was to undertake long-term investigations of the medical and biological effects of radiation in atomic-bomb survivors. 5.2.3.2. What these studies ...
... exposed. The purpose of the Commission, established in 1946 by US presidential directive, was to undertake long-term investigations of the medical and biological effects of radiation in atomic-bomb survivors. 5.2.3.2. What these studies ...
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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