Models of neural tube defects

Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 285-290

  Brouns, Madeleine R ^a   van Straaten, Henny W M ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; FOLIC ACID; VALPROIC ACID;

ANENCEPHALUS; ANIMAL MODEL; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MODEL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIMARY PREVENTION; REVIEW; SPINA BIFIDA; TERATOGENICITY;

EID: 30444455288     PISSN: 17406757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ddmod.2005.11.005     Document Type: Review

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