Pregnant rats injected with 60ju,g lead nitrate/gm body weight on day 8 of gestation showed a significant fetal resorption and reduced size of gonads on day 13.5 gestation. Incidence of fetal death and fetal resorption ...

Cadmium chloride was injected in doses of 5, 10, 15 and 20 /xg/egg into the yolk sac of 4—day—old chick embryos. Mortality due to cadmium intaxication increased with dose increase. The mortality rate of chick embryos ...

Pregnant rats were forced to ingest 0.015 ml of 25% ethanol/gm body weight daily starting from day 7 (D7-group) or day 9 (D9-group) until day 15 of gestation. The number of surviving embryos significantly decreased and ...

Hydrocortisone treatment of chick embryos caused acceleration of epidermis thickening and keratinization, decrease in dermal cell number and increase of dermal collagenous fibres. The hormone also caused a marked increase ...