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Objective: Pregnant women and their health care professionals commonly believe that use of medications during pregnancy may be harmful to the unborn fetus.
Amaury Cantilino +3 more
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Hormonal Contraceptives: What if Exposed During Pregnancy?
Objective: Hormonal contraceptives are contraindicated in pregnancy. However, some women may become pregnant while using contraceptives to prevent pregnancy.
Duygun Altıntaş Aykan, Yusuf Ergün
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From the Farm to the Lab: How Chicken Embryos Contribute to the Field of Teratology
Congenital anomalies and its causes, particularly, by external factors are the aim of the field called teratology. The external factors studied by teratology are known as teratogens and can be biological or environmental factors for example, chemicals ...
Gabriela Elis Wachholz +10 more
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Evaluation of Teratogenic Activity of Antiepileptic Drug Lamotrigine in Mouse Fetuses
Background: Use of antiepileptic drugs during pregnancy can be associated with an increased risk of teratogenicity as well as congenital abnormalities. However, there are numerous discrepancies to determine whether lamotrigine, as an antiepileptic drug ...
Mobini Gholam Reza +3 more
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A Review of the Teratogenic Factors Effect on Embryo [PDF]
Background & Objectives: Teratology is a branch of embryology science that studies causes, mechanisms and abnormal pattern development. Embryo growth traumatic factors during pregnancy are called teratogens that some teratogens pass the placental barrier
Manzarbanoo Shojaei fard +2 more
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Risk factors of congenital heart diseases: A hospital-based case-control study in Isfahan, Iran [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Improving knowledge towards risk factors for congenital heart disease (CHD) is important because of its high mortality and morbidity and trying for prevention of occurrence of CHD.METHODS: This case-control study was conducted on a total of ...
Alireza Ahmadi +3 more
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This presentation aims to give a concise overview and foundation on the topic of teratogens. Teratogens are toxins that cause birth defects. In this presentation I cover what teratogens are, the categories they are divided into, along with the most ...
Almeida, Isabel
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The role of teratogens in neural crest development
The neural crest (NC), discovered by Wilhelm His 150 years ago, gives rise to a multipotent migratory embryonic cell population that generates a remarkably diverse and important array of cell types during the development of the vertebrate embryo.
Cerrizuela, Santiago +5 more
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Human-relevant tests to predict developmental toxicity are urgently needed. A currently intensively studied approach makes use of differentiating human stem cells to measure chemically-induced deviations of the normal developmental program, as in a ...
Florian Seidel +18 more
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Teratogenicity and Teratogenic Factors
Teratology is the science that investigates the congenital malformations and their causes Intrauterine exposure to a toxicant particularly in early pregnancy induces embryonic and fetal changes ranging from none up to malformations and stillbirths The teratogenic agents include some viral spirochetal and protozoal infections physical agents as ionizing
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