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Teratology in the Twentieth Century Plus Ten

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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.

List of 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.

Summary

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.

Product details

Authors Harold Kalter
Publisher Springer Netherlands
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.01.2014
 
EAN 9789400794603
ISBN 978-94-0-079460-3
No. of pages 266
Dimensions 155 mm x 17 mm x 234 mm
Weight 438 g
Illustrations XV, 266 p.
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine

B, Medicine, Epidemiology & medical statistics, Life Sciences, Pediatrics, Gynecology, Gynaecology & obstetrics, Life sciences: general issues, Epidemiology, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Life Sciences, general, Biomedicine, general, Biomedical Research, Paediatric medicine

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