Potentiative interactions between caffeine and various teratogenic agents.

@article{Ritter1982PotentiativeIB,
  title={Potentiative interactions between caffeine and various teratogenic agents.},
  author={E. J. Ritter and William J. Scott and J. Gerald Wilson and P R Mathinos and J. L. Randall},
  journal={Teratology},
  year={1982},
  volume={25 1},
  pages={
          95-100
        }
}
Acetazolamide and inhibitors of DNA synthesis (hydroxyurea, 5-fluoro-2'-deoxyuridine), RNA synthesis (actinomycin D), and protein synthesis (cycloheximide, emetine) were each administered to pregnant rats together with caffeine at doses where each agent alone caused minimal embryotoxicity. Caffeine co-administered with any of the other agents induced a powerful potentiative response. It is not clear from the present experiments whether much lower caffeine dosage, as normally encountered in… 
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