Comments on: How Thalidomide causes birth defects https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/03/12/how-thalidomide-causes-birth-d/ Thu, 25 Mar 2010 01:48:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: I.N. https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/03/12/how-thalidomide-causes-birth-d/#comment-515810 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 01:48:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/03/12/how-thalidomide-causes-birth-d/#comment-515810 Birth defects occur during fetal development. Most of them appear in the first trimester and alter the aspect and the functionality of the body. Various organs are affected( brain and head malformations, heart, lungs, liver, digestive system) and also bones.

]]> By: daedalus2u https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/03/12/how-thalidomide-causes-birth-d/#comment-515809 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:07:32 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/03/12/how-thalidomide-causes-birth-d/#comment-515809 Maybe. But thalidomide interferes with NO signaling too.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19912234

I suspect that is how thalidomide causes autism in a very narrow time window.

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