Inositol- and folate-resistant neural tube defects in mice lacking the epithelial-specific factor Grhl-3

Nature Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1513-1519

  Ting, Stephen B ^a   Wilanowski, Tomasz ^a   Auden, Alana ^a   Hall, Mark ^a   Voss, Anne K ^b   Thomas, Tim ^b   Parekh, Vishwas ^c   Cunningham, John M ^c   Jane, Stephen M ^a  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^c ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; INOSITOL;

ALLELE; ANENCEPHALUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; GENE; GENE MAPPING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GRAINYHEAD GENE; GRAINYHEAD LIKE 3 GENE; MOUSE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT STRAIN; SPINA BIFIDA;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; HUMANS; INOSITOL; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0348107340     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm961     Document Type: Article

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