Supplementation with vitamin D3 during pregnancy protects against lipopolysaccharide-induced neural tube defects through improving placental folate transportation

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 90-97

  Chen, Yuan Hua ^a   Yu, Zhen ^a   Fu, Lin ^a   Xia, Mi Zhen ^a   Zhao, Mei ^a   Wang, Hua ^a   Zhang, Cheng ^a   Hu, Yong Fang ^a   Tao, Fang Biao ^a   Xu, De Xiang ^a  

^a ANHUI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Folic acid; Lipopolysaccharide; Neural tube defects; Proton coupled folate transporter; Reduced folate carrier; vitamin D3

Indexed keywords

COLECALCIFEROL; FOLIC ACID; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MESSENGER RNA; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; PROTON COUPLED FOLATE TRANSPORTER; REDUCED FOLATE CARRIER; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE;

AMNION FLUID; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CIRCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FETUS; MALE; MATERNAL CIRCULATION; MATERNAL SERUM; MOUSE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NONHUMAN; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PREGNANCY; UPREGULATION; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; ANIMAL; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; METABOLISM; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; PLACENTA;

MUS;

ANIMALS; CHEMOKINES; CHOLECALCIFEROL; CYTOKINES; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84929669547     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: 10960929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfv036     Document Type: Article

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