This is a review of the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Neural Tube Defects. This was an interdisciplinary meeting with the common emphasis on neural tube defects research. The ...

In vertebrate embryos, the process of neurulation, which transforms a flat neural plate into a three-dimensionally patterned tube, relies on a sequence of morphogenetic events that are tightly ...

In those precious weeks before a woman even realizes she's pregnant, an embryo will have already developed a neural tube, a hollow structure made of cells which will eventually become the brain and ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) mandated folic acid fortification of all enriched cereal grains in 1996, and this regulation resulted in a reduction of neural tube defect (NTD)–affected ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) mandated folic acid fortification of all enriched cereal grains in 1996, and this regulation resulted in a reduction of neural tube defect (NTD)–affected ...

Polytomous logistic regression as a tool for exploring heterogeneity across birth defect subtypes: an example using anencephaly and spina bifida. An update to the list of mouse mutants with neural ...

Scanning for serious structural issues in fetuses during the first trimester can result in earlier detection of these issues, reports a new study led by Aris Papageorghiou at the University of Oxford, ...

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The planar cell polarity (PCP) genes have recently been associated with increased risks of both neural tube and craniofacial malformations. In humans, polymorphisms in the PCP gene VANGL1 were found ...

A multi-institutional research team has developed a novel folic acid-resistant neural tube defect mouse model of the human condition by silencing the Slc25a32 gene, and, in most of the mutant mice, ...

The Department of Neurological Sciences and Spinal Dysraphism Clinic of Christian Medical College (CMC) will organise a public awareness and an exhibition on periconceptional folic acid ...