arsenic is an important environmental toxicant which is usually found in drinking water in inorganic form. the hypothesis tested in this investigation is; arsenic exposure causes neural tube defects (ntds) andthese defects of the central nervous system are more likely related to folate deficiency during fetal life. in this study, sodium arsenate was administered via intraperitoneal route at a r...

F52 is a myristoylated, alanine-rich substrate for protein kinase C. We have generated F52-deficient mice by the gene targeting technique. These mutant mice manifest severe neural tube defects that are not associated with other complex malformations, a phenotype reminiscent of common human neural tube defects. The neural tube defects observed include both exencephaly and spina bifida, and the p...

Arsenic is an important environmental toxicant which is usually found in drinking water in inorganic form. The hypothesis tested in this investigation is; arsenic exposure causes neural tube defects (NTDs) andthese defects of the central nervous system are more likely related to folate deficiency during fetal life. In this study, sodium arsenate was administered via intraperitoneal route at a r...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship of neurotoxic inorganic elements in the hair of patients with the diagnosis of Neural Tube Defects. Our initial hypothesis was that neurotoxic inorganic elements were associated with Neural Tube Defects. METHODS Twenty-three samples of hair from newborns were obtained from the General Hospital, "Aurelio Valdivieso" in the ci...

OBJECTIVE To determine an optimal population red blood cell (RBC) folate concentration for the prevention of neural tube birth defects. DESIGN Bayesian model. SETTING Data from two population based studies in China. PARTICIPANTS 247,831 participants in a prospective community intervention project in China (1993-95) to prevent neural tube defects with 400 μg/day folic acid supplementation ...

lower limbs and other major organ malformations.4 Complex dysraphic states due to aberrant integration of the notochord include split cord malformation (SCM) or diastematomyelia: a congenital spinal anomaly in which there is longitudinal splitting of the spinal cord.5,6 Causes of NTDs are multifactorial and defects in several different genes can underlie the genetic basis of this disease.1 Howe...