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Neonatal hydrocephalus in the offspring of rats fed during pregnancy non-toxic amounts of tellurium

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Because of the consistency with which a rapidly progressing hydrocephalus internus can be produced in the offspring of rats fed on a diet containing tellurium during pregnancy, this heavy metal appears to be an easy to handle and promising tool for the investigation of certain aspects of the congenital non-obstructive hydrocephalus internus.

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Nachkommen von Ratten, die während der Tragzeit mit geringen, kaum toxisch wirkenden Mengen von Tellur gefüttert wurden, entwickelten einen rasch progredienten Hydrocephalus internus. Tellur erscheint daher als einfaches und vielversprechendes Mittel zur Untersuchung kongenitaler nicht obstruktiver Hydrocephalus-Syndrome.

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  1. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington D.C.

    F. Garro &  A. Pentschew

  2. Dep. of Mental Hygiene, Central Anatomic Laboratory, 700 Fleet Street, 21202, Baltimore 2, Md, USA

    A. Pentschew

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Dedicated toWillibald Scholz, Munich, on the occasion of his 75th birthday.

This investigation was supported by a Research Grant NB-02275 from the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.

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Garro, F., Pentschew, A. Neonatal hydrocephalus in the offspring of rats fed during pregnancy non-toxic amounts of tellurium. Arch. F. Psychiatr. U. Z. Neur. 206, 272–280 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00940754

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