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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... earliest months in human pregnancy and equivalent times in other mammalian species and thus exclude conditions such as ... Early examination as well allows the recording of neonatally lethal conditions which will not yet have been lost ...
... earliest months in human pregnancy and equivalent times in other mammalian species and thus exclude conditions such as ... Early examination as well allows the recording of neonatally lethal conditions which will not yet have been lost ...
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... early foray into this then-uncharted field found that 14.7% of unselected newborn infants had at least 1 of 26 different “minor anomalies,” mostly of the external ear and hand, and in addition, 14.3% had 1 or more of 14 “normal ...
... early foray into this then-uncharted field found that 14.7% of unselected newborn infants had at least 1 of 26 different “minor anomalies,” mostly of the external ear and hand, and in addition, 14.3% had 1 or more of 14 “normal ...
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... early experiments with embryos of rodents, birds, amphibians, and other laboratory creatures, a list hardly enlarged upon even today. An addition to this overall scheme was offered by Penrose (1951) with a theoretically important ...
... early experiments with embryos of rodents, birds, amphibians, and other laboratory creatures, a list hardly enlarged upon even today. An addition to this overall scheme was offered by Penrose (1951) with a theoretically important ...
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... early led the way when he considered that “distinctive terms for those congenital malformations which originate in the organogenetic period. . . and for those caused in the period offetal growth...would be useful.” Yet later, he ...
... early led the way when he considered that “distinctive terms for those congenital malformations which originate in the organogenetic period. . . and for those caused in the period offetal growth...would be useful.” Yet later, he ...
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... biologic differences in the populations studied”; but instead any number H. Kalter / Neurotoxicology and Teratology 25 (2003) 131–282 143 The developmental field concept CHAPTER 4. FREQUENCY Introduction: early findings.
... biologic differences in the populations studied”; but instead any number H. Kalter / Neurotoxicology and Teratology 25 (2003) 131–282 143 The developmental field concept CHAPTER 4. FREQUENCY Introduction: early findings.
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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