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Teratology in the Twentieth Century Plus Ten [electronic resource] / by Harold Kalter.

By: Kalter, Harold [author.].
Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010Description: XV, 266p. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789048188208.Subject(s): Medicine | Gynecology | Pediatrics | Epidemiology | Life sciences | Biomedicine | Biomedicine general | Life Sciences, general | Pediatrics | Gynecology | EpidemiologyDDC classification: 610 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Introductory Matters -- Pioneering Studies -- Pioneering Experimental Studies -- Early Experiments -- New Challenges -- Thalidomide -- Testing for Teratogenicity -- Teratological Detours -- Surveillance of Congenital Malformations -- Epidemiology of Congenital Malformations -- Human Disease as Teratogen -- Environmental Hazards and Disasters -- Disease Medication and Teratogenesis -- Folic Acid and Congenital Malformation -- Alcohol Consumption During Pregnancy -- The Accomplishment and the Expectation.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: Serious congenital malformations are a major contributor to the infant death rate worldwide. Their nonhereditary causes are multiple and complex, and include infectious and metabolic dangers, disease medication, nutritional inadequacy, medicinal products, environmental agents and pollutants, among them. The cause of many however is still unknown. The wide range of these causes makes the defects of interest to those of a wide range of medical and investigatory backgrounds, especialy clinicians, fundamental scientists, and environmentalists.
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Introductory Matters -- Pioneering Studies -- Pioneering Experimental Studies -- Early Experiments -- New Challenges -- Thalidomide -- Testing for Teratogenicity -- Teratological Detours -- Surveillance of Congenital Malformations -- Epidemiology of Congenital Malformations -- Human Disease as Teratogen -- Environmental Hazards and Disasters -- Disease Medication and Teratogenesis -- Folic Acid and Congenital Malformation -- Alcohol Consumption During Pregnancy -- The Accomplishment and the Expectation.

Serious congenital malformations are a major contributor to the infant death rate worldwide. Their nonhereditary causes are multiple and complex, and include infectious and metabolic dangers, disease medication, nutritional inadequacy, medicinal products, environmental agents and pollutants, among them. The cause of many however is still unknown. The wide range of these causes makes the defects of interest to those of a wide range of medical and investigatory backgrounds, especialy clinicians, fundamental scientists, and environmentalists.

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