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METHODS (see also 50,78)
Symposium reports
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D.NEUBERT, H.-J.MERKER and T.E.KWASIGROCH, eds. 1977. METHODS IN PRENATAL
TOXICOLOGY; evaluation of embryotoxic effects in experimental animals
Thieme, Stuttgart. XII, 474 pp., 267 figs., 44 tabs., subject index. DM 30.00
Contents: I. Planning of experiments and choice of animal species (8 papers)
, II. Evaluation of teratogenic effects on organ systems and the
skeleton (8) , III. Evaluation of postnatal manifestation of prenatally in-
duced lesions (4) , IV. The use of in vitro techniques in teratology (7)
V. Special methods of drug application (2), VI. Methods used to detect
alterations in genetic material (2), VII. The use of special morphological
techniques in teratology (8), VIII. The use of special biochemical and
toxicological techniques in teratology (8)
This book is the result of the first European Teratology Workshop, held in
April 1977 in West Berlin. Its aims were, first, to provide newcomers to the
field with an opportunity to gain an overview of the research methods currently
in wide use; and second, to give the scientist with more experience in
these fields the means by which he might broaden his horizons by learning
additional scientific methods. The volume collects all the methods and techniques,
both established and new ones, demonstrated at the workshop in a
series of 47 brief papers with charts, diagrams and other illustrative material.
Twenty- two of the 37 first authors are from West Germany, many among them
from the Institut fur Toxikologie und Embryonal-Pharmakologie , Free University,
Berlin, where the workshop was held. The other authors are from various
other European countries. Almost all papers in the sections IV, VII and VIII
are by German authors.
All papers are in English. The volume is well produced and the photographic
illustrations, several of them in colour, are reproduced on art paper.
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