Mechanisms of alcohol damage in utero / editors, Ruth Porter, Maeve O'Connor, Julie Whelan.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Porter, Ruth.

O'Connor, Maeve.

Whelan, Julie.

Conference Name:

Symposium on Mechanisms of Alcohol Damage in Utero (1983 : Ciba Foundation)

Series:

Ciba Foundation symposium ; 105.

Ciba Foundation symposium ; 105

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders--Congresses.

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.

Fetus--Effect of drugs on--Congresses.

Fetus.

Alcoholism in pregnancy--Congresses.

Alcoholism in pregnancy.

Pathology, Experimental--Congresses.

Pathology, Experimental.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Pitman ; Newark, N.J. : Distributed in North America by CIBA Pharmaceutical Co., Medical Education Division, 1984.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well known to scientists and clinicians around the world.

Contents:

Mechanisms of alcohol damage in utero; Contents; Chairman's introduction: what do we know of the mechanisms of alcohol damage in utero?; Prenatal and early postnatal exposure to ethanol permanently alters the rat hippocampus; Discussion; Effects of alcohol on functional development of the auditory pathway in the brainstem of infants and chick embryos; Discussion; Altered stress responsiveness in adult rats exposed to ethanol in utero: neuroendocrine mechanisms; Discussion; General discussion I; Neuronal migration; Fetal breathing

Interaction of ethanol with neural cells in culture: a model of intoxication, tolerance and withdrawal Discussion; Growth, enzymes and hormonal changes in offspring of alcohol-fed rats; Discussion; Interactions between trace elements and alcohol in rats; Discussion; Critical periods for alcohol teratogenesis in mice, with special reference to the gastrulation stage of embryogenesis; Discussion; Range of alcohol-induced damage in the developing central nervous system; Discussion; Measures of alcohol damage in utero in the pigtailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina); Discussion

General discussion 2 Are results from different animal models consistent'? Alcohol exposure in utero and functional deficits in children during the first four years of life; Discussion; Clinical, psychopathological and developmental aspects in children with the fetal alcohol syndrome: a four-year follow-up study; Discussion; Growth of rat embryos in the serum of alcohol drinkers; Discussion; General discussion 3 What do we want from animal models?; Effects of moderate alcohol consumption and smoking on fetal outcome; Discussion

Preventing fetal alcohol effects: effectiveness of a demonstration project Discussion; Final general discussion; Prenatal diagnosis and counselling; Ethanol and teratogenic mechanisms; The importance of understanding the mechanism of alcohol damage to the brain in utero; Index of contributors; Subject index

Notes:

"Editors, Ruth Porter (organizer), Maeve O'Connor, and Julie Whelan"--P. v.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613694515

9781280784125

1280784121

9780470720868

0470720867

9780470718568

0470718560

OCLC:

797918519