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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Page 151
... specific type, among the later conceived children of atomic-bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, i.e., of malformations due to mutations induced in parental gonads (Neel and Schull, 1991). 5.2.4. Other radiation sources Innumerable ...
... specific type, among the later conceived children of atomic-bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, i.e., of malformations due to mutations induced in parental gonads (Neel and Schull, 1991). 5.2.4. Other radiation sources Innumerable ...
Page 152
... specific and characteristic in form, in his opinion differed morphologically from congenital lenticular opacities that had been depicted previously. The process causing the cataracts, because they seemed to involve all but the outermost ...
... specific and characteristic in form, in his opinion differed morphologically from congenital lenticular opacities that had been depicted previously. The process causing the cataracts, because they seemed to involve all but the outermost ...
Page 153
... specific types, did not appear to be narrowly time restricted. There are several reasons for these fuzzy temporal relations: poor knowledge of pregnancy onset, of the exact time of maternal infection during pregnancy, of when the virus ...
... specific types, did not appear to be narrowly time restricted. There are several reasons for these fuzzy temporal relations: poor knowledge of pregnancy onset, of the exact time of maternal infection during pregnancy, of when the virus ...
Page 154
... Specific influence of a given agent is in many instances more important than the exact time with which it acts, particularly because [this is an important point] some of these agents apparently act for a long period of time.” The ...
... Specific influence of a given agent is in many instances more important than the exact time with which it acts, particularly because [this is an important point] some of these agents apparently act for a long period of time.” The ...
Page 158
... specific pattern (Warkany and Nelson, 1940, 1941). 6.2.2.1. Searching for the cause. The basis of this novel outcome was then sought. It was not absence of iodine, as the maternal goiter suggested, since iodized salt added to the diet ...
... specific pattern (Warkany and Nelson, 1940, 1941). 6.2.2.1. Searching for the cause. The basis of this novel outcome was then sought. It was not absence of iodine, as the maternal goiter suggested, since iodized salt added to the diet ...
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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