Embryonic exposure to propylthiouracil disrupts left-right patterning in Xenopus embryos

FASEB Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 684-691

  Van Veenendaal, Nicole R ^a,c   Ulmer, Bärbel ^b   Boskovski, Marko T ^a   Fang, Xiefan ^a,d   Khokha, Mustafa K ^a   Wendler, Christopher C ^a,d   Blum, Martin ^b   Rivkees, Scott A ^a,d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Graves' disease; Methimazole; Situs; Teratogenicity; Thyroid

Indexed keywords

PROPYLTHIOURACIL; THIAMAZOLE;

ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; BLASTULA; CILIARY MOTILITY; COCO GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EXPOSURE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EUKARYOTIC FLAGELLUM; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GASTRULATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; PITX2C GENE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERATOGENICITY; XENOPUS TROPICALIS;

ANIMALS; ANTITHYROID AGENTS; BODY PATTERNING; CILIA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GRAVES DISEASE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; METHIMAZOLE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; TERATOGENS; TIME FACTORS; TRIIODOTHYRONINE; XENOPUS;

EID: 84873482855     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.12-218073     Document Type: Article

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