[The effect of benzine and formaldehyde on the prenatal development of rats with induced iron trace-element disorder]

Iron-deficiency anemia induced in the maternal organism markedly enhances embryotoxic and teratogenic effects of the studied pollutants: gasoline and formaldehyde. The prenatal effects of these drugs against the background of iron-deficiency state in pregnant females leads to development of the main feature of the tissue hypoxia, decompensated metabolic acidosis, in both the maternal organism and 20-day embryos.