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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... increased in conspicuousness), and because of this, they have been long and widely chronicled and thus form a body of record against which comparison and analysis are made (Warkany and Kalter, 1961; Kalter and Warkany, 1983). Ironically ...
... increased in conspicuousness), and because of this, they have been long and widely chronicled and thus form a body of record against which comparison and analysis are made (Warkany and Kalter, 1961; Kalter and Warkany, 1983). Ironically ...
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... increases in their occurrence (due perhaps to the presence of novel teratogens), and to evaluate the efficacy of ... increasing practice in many areas of selective abortion of prenatally diagnosed malformed fetuses may further add to the ...
... increases in their occurrence (due perhaps to the presence of novel teratogens), and to evaluate the efficacy of ... increasing practice in many areas of selective abortion of prenatally diagnosed malformed fetuses may further add to the ...
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... increases in frequencies of certain defects are changed diagnostic methods and criteria. A clear instance of this was ... increased between two periods was VSD (Meberg et al., 1994). Although it had been unclear whether this epidemic of ...
... increases in frequencies of certain defects are changed diagnostic methods and criteria. A clear instance of this was ... increased between two periods was VSD (Meberg et al., 1994). Although it had been unclear whether this epidemic of ...
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... increased in frequency, microcephaly, i.e., significantly reduced head circumference (this is usually defined as being > 2 standard deviations below the mean for age and sex, though Warkany et al., 1981, p. 13, upheld a stricter ...
... increased in frequency, microcephaly, i.e., significantly reduced head circumference (this is usually defined as being > 2 standard deviations below the mean for age and sex, though Warkany et al., 1981, p. 13, upheld a stricter ...
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... increased with dose, i.e., closeness to the explosion (Miller and Blot, 1972). These variables were well depicted in ... increasing cell death, mental retardation in humans. This scheme was later realized to be an oversimplification of ...
... increased with dose, i.e., closeness to the explosion (Miller and Blot, 1972). These variables were well depicted in ... increasing cell death, mental retardation in humans. This scheme was later realized to be an oversimplification of ...
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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