It's important to know if the agent in question is perfectly safe or has the potential to be lethal or cause limb defects like thalidomide did,» Bushdid said. (southernresearch.org)
Lethal neonatal bone marrow failure syndrome with multiple congenital abnormalities, including limb defects, due to a constitutional deletion of 3 ′ MECOM (haematologica.org)
When asked by Nature for relevant studies, the plaintiffs» lawyers at Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro in Seattle, Washington, pointed to work showing one - sided limb defects in chick embryos exposed to thalidomide and thalidomide analogues (C. Therapontos et al.. (scientificamerican.com)