Publication Date:
1978-07-07
Description:
The immunosuppressive drug 6-mercaptopurine is embryotoxic in mice. Of the surviving female offspring of mice treated with low doses of 6-mercaptopurine during pregnancy, despite normal body weight and general appearance, many were either sterile or, if they became pregnant, had smaller litters and more dead fetuses as compared to offspring of mothers that had not received the drug.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Reimers, T J -- Sluss, P M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1978 Jul 7;201(4350):65-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/663638" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
6-Mercaptopurine/*pharmacology
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Animals
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Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
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Female
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Fetal Death/*chemically induced
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Fetus/drug effects
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Germ Cells/*drug effects
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Infertility, Female/*chemically induced
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Litter Size/drug effects
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Mice
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Ovary/cytology/drug effects/embryology
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Pregnancy
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Pregnancy, Animal/*drug effects
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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