Biochemical Basis of Functional Neuroteratology
Elsevier (Publisher)
Published on 1. July 1988
581 pages
978-0-08-086198-2 (ISBN)
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Biochemical Basis of Functional Neuroteratology
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G.J. Boer | M.G.P. Feenstra | M. Mirmiran
Biochemical Basis of Functional Neuroteratology
Permanent Effects of Chemicals on the Developing Brain - International Summer School Proceedings
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- Front Cover
- Biochemical Basis of Functional Neuroteratology: Permanent Effects of Chemicals on the Developing Brain
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Section I: Outlines of Functional Neuroteratology
- Chapter 1. Concept of functional neuroteratology and the importance of neurochemistry
- Chapter 2. Defects of neuronal migration and the pathogenesis of cortical malformations
- Chapter 3. Implications of behavioral teratology for assessing the risks posed by environmental and therapeutic chemicals
- Chapter 4. Problems in studying functional teratogenicity in man
- Chapter 5. Behavioural teratology of exogenous substances: regulation aspects
- Section II: Lasting Effects of Early Hormone Imbalance
- Chapter 6. Teratogenic mechanisms of dysthyroidism in the central nervous system
- Chapter 7. The role of the insulin-like growth factors in the regulation of brain development
- Chapter 8. Stress, glucocorticoids and development
- Chapter 9. Actions of sex hormones on the brain: 'organization' and 'activation' in relation to functional teratology
- Section III: Neuroactive Drugs as Functional Teratogens
- Chapter 10. Prenatal adverse effects of nicotine on the developing brain
- Chapter 11. Functional deprivation of noradrenaline neurotransmission: effects of clonidine on brain development
- Chapter 12. Long-lasting changes after perinatal exposure to antidepressants
- Chapter 13. Placental and blood element neurotransmitter receptor regulation in humans : potential models for studying neurochemical mechanisms underlying behavioral teratology
- Chapter 14. Benzodiazepines: influence on the developing brain
- Chapter 15. Anticonvulsants and brain development
- Chapter 16. Neuropeptides and functional neuroteratology
- Chapter 17. Perinatal exposure to methadone: how do early biochemical alterations cause neurofunctional disturbances?
- Section IV: Food and Environmental Factors
- Chapter 18. Excitotoxic food additives: functional teratological aspects
- Chapter 19. Organometals and brain development
- Chapter 20. Alcohol as a social teratogen
- Chapter 21. Prenatal stress effects on functional development of the offspring
- Section V: Neurochemical Mechanisms
- Chapter 22. Structural-functional relationships in experimentally induced brain damage
- Chapter 23. Coordination of cell development by the ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) /polyamine pathway as an underlying mechanism in developmental neurotoxic events
- Chapter 24. Neurotransmitters as morphogens
- Chapter 25. Brain cell acquisition and neurotropic drugs with special reference to functional teratogenesis
- Chapter 26. Reorganization of noradrenergic neuronal systems following neonatal chemical and surgical injury
- Chapter 27. Use of toxins to disrupt neurotransmitter circuitry in the developing brain
- Chapter 28. Metabolic imbalance and nerve cell damage in the brain
- Chapter 29. Humoral and surface-anchored factors in development and repair of the nervous system
- Chapter 30. Gangliosides as cell adhesion factors in the formation of selective connections within the nervous system
- Chapter 31. Prenatal neurotransmitter programming of postnatal receptor function
- Chapter 32. Neuropeptide influences on the development of their receptors
- Chapter 33. Transgenerational effects of drug and hormonal treatments in mammals: a review of observations and ideas
- Subject Index
