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Developmental Toxicology

Autor Keith Snell
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 mar 2012
Since the 1930s and the work of Hale and Warkany on birth defects produced by variations in dietary vitamin A, it has been recognised that the developing fetus is particularly vulnerable to adverse influences in the environment. . Studies of malformations at birth remained largely in the hands of paediatricians who, for instance, quickly established the con­ nection between rubella infection in early pregnancy and the birth of severely affected infants. However, it was through the tragic events of 1962, when dramatic increases in the incidence of phocomelia in newborn infants in Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, and other countries were traced to the use of the apparently non-toxic sedative thalidomide by pregnant women, that toxicologists were brought face to face with the devastating possibility of chemically-induced developmental abnormalities. It had been shown earlier that chemotherapeutic agents could cause damage to the developing organism, but the absence of any known examples of drug-induced birth defects had produced an air of complacency which was reinforced by the lack of any specific regulatory requirements for safety evaluation in this area. The magnitude of the thalidomide tragedy, affecting some 10000 malformed children, was sufficient to cause an immediate, and some would say hasty, reaction by government drug regulatory agencies throughout the world to construct a test protocol which would detect potential teratogenic substances that might give rise to anatomical malformations.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781461597926
ISBN-10: 1461597927
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 350 p. 27 illus.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:1982
Editura: Springer Us
Colecția Springer
Locul publicării:New York, NY, United States

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Cuprins

1. Model Systems in Teratology Research.- 2. The In Vitro Approach to Teratogenicity Testing.- 3. The Use of Cell Culture Methods for Exploring Teratogenic Susceptibility.- 4. Biochemical Mechanisms of Teratogenesis.- 5. The Distribution of Drugs and Other Agents in the Fetus.- 6. The Differentiation of Drug Metabolism in Relation to Developmental Toxicology.- 7. The Role of the Placenta in Developmental Toxicology.- 8. Developmental Carcinogenicity.- 9. Behavioural Teratogenicity.- 10. Developmental Enzyme Pathology.- Notes on Contributors.