摘要:The work group on cardiovascular and endocrine effects was asked to review the current state of knowledge about children's windows of vulnerability to developmental toxicants and to recommend how that information may be used to improve risk assessment and public health. We considered differences between structural defects, where periods of vulnerability are rather well defined, and functional defects, where periods of vulnerability are quite elusive. Full text Full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version. Get a printable copy (PDF file) of the complete article (706K), or click on a page image below to browse page by page. Links to PubMed are also available for Selected References . 569 570 571