High exogenous homocysteine modifies eye development in early chick embryos

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 35-40

  Maestro de las Casas, Carmen ^a   Epeldegui, Marta ^a   Tudela, Consuelo ^a   Varela Moreiras, Gregorio ^b   Pérez Miguelsanz, Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD SAN PABLO CEU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; EOSIN; FIBRILLIN; HEMATOXYLIN; HOMOCYSTEINE; HOMOCYSTEINE THIOLACTONE; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CHICK EMBRYO; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EYE DEVELOPMENT; FIBER; LENS LUXATION; MICROPHTHALMIA; NEURAL CREST CELL; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NONHUMAN; OPTIC DISK CUP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DRUG EFFECT; EYE; EYE MALFORMATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LENS CAPSULE; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CHICK EMBRYO; EYE; EYE ABNORMALITIES; HOMOCYSTEINE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LENS CAPSULE, CRYSTALLINE; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROPHTHALMOS; MORPHOGENESIS; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS;

EID: 0038809872     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.10014     Document Type: Article

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