Article
[Fetal alcohol syndrome: nervous system damage and clinical phenotype].
Pathologie-biologie - 1 Nov 2001
Vallée L, Cuvellier J C
Abstract excerpt
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...
Topics
- Abnormalities, Drug-Induced
- Biogenic Monoamines
- Brain
- Central Nervous System
- Central Nervous System Diseases
- Craniofacial Abnormalities
- Ethanol
- Female
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
- Growth Disorders
- Humans
- Phenotype
- Pregnancy
- Psychomotor Disorders
