Neural tube closure in humans initiates at multiple sites: Evidence from human embryos and implications for the pathogenesis of neural tube defects

Anatomy and Embryology

Volumn 201, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 455-466

  Nakatsu, Tomoko ^a   Uwabe, Chigako ^a   Shiota, Kohei ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Human embryo; Multi site closure model; Neural tube closure; Neural tube defects

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSRAPHISM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO MORTALITY; FOREBRAIN; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MESENCEPHALON; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UTERINE CERVIX;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; EMBRYO; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; PREGNANCY; RABBITS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034116757     PISSN: 03402061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004290050332     Document Type: Article

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