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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... important details 159 Cautions and critics 159 7. EARLY EXPERIMENTS Introduction: new needs and ideas 159 Principles of teratology 160 Vitamin A and diaphragmatic hernia 160 Power of genetics 161 Basis of diaphragmatic hernia 161 Early ...
... important details 159 Cautions and critics 159 7. EARLY EXPERIMENTS Introduction: new needs and ideas 159 Principles of teratology 160 Vitamin A and diaphragmatic hernia 160 Power of genetics 161 Basis of diaphragmatic hernia 161 Early ...
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... important respects, and in so doing, some commonality will emerge from them. To wit: Congenital malformations are structural defects present at birth. They may be gross or microscopic, on the surface of the body or within it, familial ...
... important respects, and in so doing, some commonality will emerge from them. To wit: Congenital malformations are structural defects present at birth. They may be gross or microscopic, on the surface of the body or within it, familial ...
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... importance. Understandably, the major abnormalities have been a focus of the medical and investigational world, as well as of the lay public (growing since about mid-20th century, as other causes of neonatal urgency abated and they thus ...
... importance. Understandably, the major abnormalities have been a focus of the medical and investigational world, as well as of the lay public (growing since about mid-20th century, as other causes of neonatal urgency abated and they thus ...
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... importance. A trendsetting attempt was made by arbitrarily dividing them into those occurring in more or less than a ... important as the necessity of defining entities is that of putting them into an orderly arrangement, i.e., of ...
... importance. A trendsetting attempt was made by arbitrarily dividing them into those occurring in more or less than a ... important as the necessity of defining entities is that of putting them into an orderly arrangement, i.e., of ...
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... important, though still conjectural, consideration: “interactions between mother and foetus of both hereditary and environmental origin,” such as antigenic incompatibility and biomaternal factors. Among the standard “influences in the ...
... important, though still conjectural, consideration: “interactions between mother and foetus of both hereditary and environmental origin,” such as antigenic incompatibility and biomaternal factors. Among the standard “influences in the ...
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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