METHODS (see also 50,78) 



Symposium reports 

 111. 



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 pa- 

 pers) , 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 current- 

 ly 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 tech- 

 niques, both established and new ones, demonstrated at the workshop in a 

 series of 47 brief papers with charts, diagrams and other illustrative mate- 

 rial. 



Twenty- two of the 37 first authors are from West Germany, many among them 

 from the Institut fur Toxikologie und Embryonal-Pharmakologie , Free Universi- 

 ty, 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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