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Drugs and the Developing Brain
. Ed(S): Vernadakis, Antonia (U./Co, Dept/Pharm&Psychiatry)
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paperback. Editor(s): Vernadakis, Antonia (U./CO, Dept/Pharm&Psychiatry). Series: Advances in Behavioral Biology. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: MBN; MBPM; MMBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 28. Weight in Grams: 943.
The thalidomide tragedy which occurred slightly more than a decade ago made public officials and the general public acutely aware of the teratogenic potential of drugs. Although specialists in pharmacology and developmental biology had been studying this problem many years before, this catastrophic episode triggered the passage of legislation which required that information about the teratogenicity of drugs be produced before the drugs could be available to the general public. Gross deformities in man produced by drugs are frequently difficult to reproduce in experimental animals and the changes which are produced in other animals are frequently not translatable to humans. ... Read more
The thalidomide tragedy which occurred slightly more than a decade ago made public officials and the general public acutely aware of the teratogenic potential of drugs. Although specialists in pharmacology and developmental biology had been studying this problem many years before, this catastrophic episode triggered the passage of legislation which required that information about the teratogenicity of drugs be produced before the drugs could be available to the general public. Gross deformities in man produced by drugs are frequently difficult to reproduce in experimental animals and the changes which are produced in other animals are frequently not translatable to humans. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer United States
Condition
New
Series
Advances in Behavioral Biology
Number of Pages
538
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781468430653
SKU
V9781468430653
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99-15
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