Role of environmental factors in axial skeletal dysmorphogenesis

Birth Defects Research Part C - Embryo Today: Reviews

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 118-132

  Alexander, Peter G ^a   Tuan, Rocky S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenital scoliosis; Somitogenesis; Teratogens

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ALCOHOL; ARSENIC; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; CADHERIN; CARBON MONOXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE; NOTCH RECEPTOR; RETINOIC ACID; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR; TERATOGENIC AGENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NRF2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9; VALPROIC ACID;

ACETYLATION; AIR POLLUTION; ALAGILLE SYNDROME; APOPTOSIS; AXIS; BIRTH DEFECT; BLOOD PLACENTA BARRIER; BONE GROWTH; BONE METABOLISM; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL CYCLE; CELL DAMAGE; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; CELL INTERACTION; CELL POPULATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CHROMOSOME DAMAGE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; DERMATOME; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECTODERM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENZYMATIC ASSAY; EPIGENETICS; EPITHELIZATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; FETUS MORTALITY; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; GROWTH RETARDATION; HEAT SHOCK RESPONSE; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; HYPOXIA; INCIDENCE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; JARCHO LEVIN SYNDROME; KABUKI MAKEUP SYNDROME; KLIPPEL FEIL SYNDROME; LIVE BIRTH; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MESENCHYME CELL; MESODERM; MORBIDITY; MORPHOGENESIS; MYOTOME; NEURAL CREST CELL; NEURAL TUBE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; NUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS; ORGANOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SCLEROTOME; SCOLIOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKELETON; SKELETON MALFORMATION; SOMITE; SPINA BIFIDA; SPINE; STEM CELL; TERATOGENESIS; TERATOLOGY; UPREGULATION; VASOCONSTRICTION; VERTEBRA; VERTEBRA BODY; WATER POLLUTION;

BONE AND BONES; CHILD; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MUTAGENESIS; SPINE; TERATOGENS;

EID: 77953511820     PISSN: 1542975X     EISSN: 15429768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdrc.20179     Document Type: Review

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