A Quarter Century of Thalidomide Embryopathy
β Scribed by Mitsushiro KIDA
- Book ID
- 114824995
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 415 KB
- Volume
- 28
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0914-3505
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## Abstract Thalidomide is the best known human teratogen. Although withdrawn from the market in 1961, thalidomide was remarketed after 1965 in several countries, for the treatment of erythema nodosum leprosum. Thalidomide has a potent immunomodulatory property and has now a number of approved and