[Fetal alcohol syndrome: nervous system damage and clinical phenotype].

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Alcohol is much more slowly eliminated in the fetus than in the mother (< 50%). The ethanol and its derivative the acetaldehyde have a constant dose-effect on the development of the nervous system central. The individual susceptibility to alchol teratogenic effect in utero is responsible of variable clinical phenotype. This teratogenicity is constant during all the development of the central nervous system. The...

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