thalidomide in English

noun
1
a drug formerly used as a sedative, but withdrawn in the early 1960s after it was found to cause congenital malformation or absence of limbs in children whose mothers took the drug during early pregnancy.
Kevin is one of the many people born with shortened limbs after his mother took thalidomide to treat morning sickness during pregnancy.

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1. Thalidomide is a Chiral molecule

2. 17 Consider the partially analogous case of those disfigured by thalidomide.

3. The results refute the hypothesis of the action of thalidomide as an acylating agent responsible for the embryotoxic and teratogenic effect.

4. Curcumin Circumvents chemoresistance in vitro and potentiates the effect of thalidomide and bortezomib against human multiple myeloma in nude mice model

5. In three discordant pairs of twins anal atresia formed a part of complex malformations (acardius amorphus, sireniform monopodia, thalidomide-induced anomalies of the upper extremities).

6. Now, as I was training in clinical medicine and hematology and oncology and stem-cell transplantation, what we had instead, cascading through the regulatory network at the FDA, were these substances: arsenic, thalidomide, and this chemical derivative of nitrogen mustard gas.

7. Based on new insights into the pathobiology of MDS, additional treatment approaches have been developed in recent years including differentiation therapy with hematopoietic growth factors and retinoids, immunosuppressive therapy with antithymocyte globulin or cyclosporine, cytokine inhibition by amifostine, pentoxifylline or soluble TNF-α receptor as well as angiogenesis inhibition by thalidomide.