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  Vol. 93 No. 1, January 1975 TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Teratogenicities of ophthalmic drugs. I. Antiviral ophthalmic drugs

M. Itoi, J. W. Gefter, N. Kaneko, Y. Ishii, R. M. Ramer and A. R. Gasset

Nonradioactive idoxuridine (IDU,5-iodo-2'-deoxyuridine), while not teratogenic to rats, does produce fetal maliformations in rabbits when administered topically to the eye in doses similar to those used clinically, 0.1% four times a day for 12 days. These maliformations include exophthalmos and clubbing of the forelegs. By contrast, trifluorothymidine (F3TdR), another highly effective antiherpetic agent currently under investigation but not available for general use, was found not to be teratogenic to rabbits, even when given in concentrations tenfold greater than the doses used to produce idoxuridine teratogenicity.





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