This historical control data project is the first joint effort of MARTA, the Middle Atlantic Reproduction and Teratology Association, and MTA, the Midwest Teratology Association, to collect and summarize data from developmental toxicity and perinatal-postnatal studies conducted at laboratories of member companies. Previous MARTA projects include an abstract on Sprague-Dawley (CD) rats reproduction and spontaneous malformations(Woo and Hoar, Teratology 19: 54A,1979), an abstract on New Zealand White (NZW) rabbit reproduction and spontaneous malformations (Woo and Hoar, Teratology 25:82A, 1982). The following summaries were distributed to the MARTA membership: CD rat and NZW rabbit reproduction in 1990, external anomalies of CD rats in1991, and in 1993 the most recent and comprehensive project included reproduction, natural delivery, and external, visceral, and skeletal findings in CD rats and NZW rabbits from 1989 to 1992. Previous MTA projects included an abstract on CD rat, CD-1 mouse, and NZW rabbit reproduction data (Clemens, et al., Teratology 45:485-6, 1992), an abstract on external and visceral malformations in the CD rat and NZW rabbit (Clemens, etal., Teratology 49: 388-9, 1994), and an abstract on skeletal findings in the CD rat and NZW rabbit and natural delivery data on the CD rat (Clemens, et al.. Teratology 51:182, 1995).Summaries of the latter two projects were distributed to the MTA membership. There have been very few other comprehensive compilations of these type of data in the open literature. A list of available references for rodents and rabbits is provided in this document
