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Teratogenic risk and contraceptive counselling in psychiatric practice: analysis of anticonvulsant therapy [PDF]

, 2013
<p>Background: Anticonvulsants have been used to manage psychiatric conditions for over 50 years. It is recognised that some, particularly valproate, carbamazepine and lamotrigine, are human teratogens, while others including topiramate require ...
A Basan, A Wieck, Andrea Perry, D Taylor, E Perrucs, EB Samrén, FJE Vajda, H Grunze, JL Heffner, Julie Langan, L Citrome, L James, Maria Oto, N Adab, O Diav-Citrin, PA Lambert, S Fried, S Leucht, S Matalon, Scotland's Population, T Okuma, T Tomson, VK Hiilesmaa, World Health Organisation   +23 more
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Identifying Human Teratogens: An Update

Journal of Pediatric Genetics, 2015
A human teratogen is an agent that alters the growth or structure of the developing embryo or fetus, thereby causing birth defects. The first human teratogen identified in 1941 by an ophthalmologist, Norman Gregg, was maternal rubella infection in ...
S. Alwan, C. Chambers
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Use of psychotropic medications during pregnancy: perception of teratogenic risk among physicians in two Latin American countries

Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry, 2014
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, Laura Lorenzo, Juliane dos A. de Paula, Adrienne Einarson   +3 more
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Risk factors of congenital heart diseases: A hospital-based case-control study in Isfahan, Iran [PDF]

ARYA Atherosclerosis, 2020
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, Mojgan Gharipour, Zohreh Sadat Navabi, Hossein Heydari   +3 more
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A Bmp Reporter Transgene Mouse Embryonic Stem Cell Model as a Tool to Identify and Characterize Chemical Teratogens.

Toxicological Sciences, 2015
Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) were first isolated from mouse embryos more than 30 years ago. They have proven invaluable not only in generating genetically modified mice that allow for analysis of gene function in tissue development and homeostasis but ...
Josephine Kugler, J. Tharmann, S. M. Chuva de Sousa Lopes, R. Kemler, A. Luch, M. Oelgeschläger   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Review of the Teratogenic Factors Effect on Embryo [PDF]

Journal of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, 2016
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, Samira Malekzadeh, Mehrdad Shariati   +2 more
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Adenoviral targeting of malignant melanoma for fluorescence-guided surgery prevents recurrence in orthotopic nude-mouse models. [PDF]

, 2015
Malignant melanoma requires precise resection in order to avoid metastatic recurrence. We report here that the telomerase-dependent, green fluorescent protein (GFP)-containing adenovirus OBP-401 could label malignant melanoma with GFP in situ in ...
Bouvet, Michael, Fujiwara, Toshiyoshi, Hoffman, Robert M, Kagawa, Shunsuke, Kishimoto, Hiroyuki, Takehara, Kiyoto, Urata, Yasuo, Yano, Shuya   +7 more
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A high-throughput screen for teratogens using human pluripotent stem cells.

Toxicological Sciences, 2014
There is need in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries for high-throughput human cell-based assays for identifying hazardous chemicals, thereby reducing the overall reliance on animal studies for predicting the risk of toxic responses in humans ...
Seiji Kameoka, Joshua Babiarz, K. Kolaja, E. Chiao   +3 more
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CAQ Corner: Basic concepts of transplant immunology

, 2022
Liver Transplantation, EarlyView.
Amanda Cheung, Josh Levitsky
wiley   +1 more source

Knowledge regarding teratogens among women of childbearing age at a large tertiary care center in Saudi Arabia

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2020
Aim: To investigate the knowledge of Saudi women regarding the teratogenic effects of environmental agents such as fever, some chronic conditions and medications and its association with certain socio-demographic factors.
Wejdan Alhamdan, Afaf Moukaddem, Nourh AlOtaibi, Adibah Aledrees, Nada Alhatem, Nada Alshehri, Samaher Alfaraj, Maysoon Aladham   +7 more
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