Maternal trace elements, vitamin B12, vitamin A, folic acid, and fetal malformations

Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 53-57

  Stoll, Claude ^a   Dott, Béatrice ^a   Alembik, Yves ^a   Koehl, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Congenital anomalies; Folic acid; Trace elements; Vitamin A; Vitamin B12

Indexed keywords

COPPER; CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; RETINOL; TRACE ELEMENT; ZINC;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FETUS MALFORMATION; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; SPINA BIFIDA; UROGENITAL TRACT MALFORMATION; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN DEFICIENCY; ZINC DEFICIENCY;

ABNORMALITIES; COPPER; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; HUMANS; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; PREGNANCY; TRACE ELEMENTS; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN B 12; VITAMIN B DEFICIENCY; ZINC;

EID: 0033037814     PISSN: 08906238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0890-6238(98)00058-6     Document Type: Article

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