Article: Compounds prevent alcohol's disruption of important developmental process.(fetal alchohol syndrome)

2002 OCT 31 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Two experimental compounds prevent one of the cellular events that is a likely contributor to fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), according to a new study supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA).

A report of the study, by scientists at Harvard Medical School and the National Institute on Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), appears in the October 2002 issue of the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.

"This important finding helps to strengthen our understanding of one way that alcohol damages the fetus and brings us a step closer to finding effective ...

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