Combination therapy with folic acid and methionine in the prevention of retinoic acid-induced cleft palate in mice

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 168-173

  Reynolds, Paul R ^a,b   Schaalje, G Bruce ^a   Seegmiller, Robert E ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CINCINNATI CHILDREN S HOSPITAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth defects; Cleft palate; Craniofacial; Folic acid; Methionine; Mouse; Prevention; Retinoic acid; Rodent

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; METHIONINE; RETINOIC ACID; TERATOGENIC AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BIRTH DEFECT; CLEFT PALATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; LIMB DEFECT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAIL; TERATOGENESIS;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; CLEFT PALATE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG SYNERGISM; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; METHIONINE; MICE; PREGNANCY; TERATOGENS; TRETINOIN;

RODENTIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 187;

EID: 0141960444     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.10036     Document Type: Article

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