TY - BOOK AU - Kalter,Harold ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Teratology in the Twentieth Century Plus Ten SN - 9789048188208 AV - R-RZ U1 - 610 23 PY - 2010/// CY - Dordrecht PB - Springer Netherlands, Imprint: Springer KW - Medicine KW - Gynecology KW - Pediatrics KW - Epidemiology KW - Life sciences KW - Biomedicine KW - Biomedicine general KW - Life Sciences, general N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - http://148.231.10.114:2048/login?url=http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-90-481-8820-8 ER -