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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... factors 147 Miscellaneous factors 147 EARLY HUMAN STUDIES Introduction: the principal objective 148 X-irradiation Introduction: animal studies 148 Human pelvic irradiation Introduction: early radiation use 148 An irradiation-caused ...
... factors 147 Miscellaneous factors 147 EARLY HUMAN STUDIES Introduction: the principal objective 148 X-irradiation Introduction: animal studies 148 Human pelvic irradiation Introduction: early radiation use 148 An irradiation-caused ...
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... factors. Among the standard “influences in the maternal environment” of toxic, nutritional, and other factors, he included psychological traumata, but not with any great confidence in their reality. With the addition to the genetic ...
... factors. Among the standard “influences in the maternal environment” of toxic, nutritional, and other factors, he included psychological traumata, but not with any great confidence in their reality. With the addition to the genetic ...
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... factors may produce combinations of malformations, whatever such a combination is called—syndrome, anomalad, association, sequence—a matter that had long been debated. Multiple effects, or pleiotropism, had been intensively explored by ...
... factors may produce combinations of malformations, whatever such a combination is called—syndrome, anomalad, association, sequence—a matter that had long been debated. Multiple effects, or pleiotropism, had been intensively explored by ...
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... factors reside in fertilized ova, even though the abnormalities are not expressed till some time during prenatal life. This is not true, it would seem at present at any rate, of the great majority of the commonest major malformations ...
... factors reside in fertilized ova, even though the abnormalities are not expressed till some time during prenatal life. This is not true, it would seem at present at any rate, of the great majority of the commonest major malformations ...
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... factors in the pathogenesis of a disease. Here, however, ascertainment is used as a catchall term applied to the means—the how, where, and when—of obtaining the information used to estimate malformation frequency. Biases, in this sense ...
... factors in the pathogenesis of a disease. Here, however, ascertainment is used as a catchall term applied to the means—the how, where, and when—of obtaining the information used to estimate malformation frequency. Biases, in this sense ...
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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