Nucleotide precursors prevent folic acid-resistant neural tube defects in the mouse

Brain

Volumn 136, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2836-2841

  Leung, Kit Yi ^a   De Castro, Sandra C P ^a   Savery, Dawn ^a   Copp, Andrew J ^a   Greene, Nicholas D E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

curly tail; embryo; neural tube defects; nucleotides; spina bifida

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; ADENINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; ADENOSINE PHOSPHATE; FOLIC ACID; GUANOSINE PHOSPHATE; HYPOXANTHINE; HYPOXANTHINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; INOSINE PHOSPHATE; PURINE NUCLEOTIDE; PYRIMIDINE; THYMIDINE; THYMIDINE KINASE; THYMIDINE PHOSPHATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EXENCEPHALY; FOLATE METABOLISM; LITTER SIZE; MOUSE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURINE SYNTHESIS; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM;

EID: 84883340087     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awt209     Document Type: Article

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