neural tube defects
Determination of Risk Factors Associated with Neural Tube Defects in Infants
... Neural tube defect is the main cause of mortality, morbidity, and disabilities in infants, lack of knowledge regarding the risk factor of neural tube defects are ...of neural ...
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Spinal Arteriovenous Vascular Malformations in Patients with Neural Tube Defects
... Clinical and imaging follow-up ranged from to 2 to 14 months. Four patients clinically improved with regression of sen- sory symptoms after treatment. However, recovery of bladder and/or bowel function was slower ...
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Folic acid supplementation for the prevention of neural tube defects: promotion and use
... Abstract: Observational and randomized controlled studies have shown that periconceptional folic acid (FA) supplementation can significantly reduce the risk of neural tube defects (NTDs). Countries ...
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Prevalence of Neural Tube Defects: Moroccan Study 2008 2011
... Background: Neural tube defects have a considerable importance because they can be prevented by supplementing Folic acid & Vitamin B12 during periconceptional period and fortification of staple ...
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Epidemiological study of neural tube defects in Jammu division, India
... of neural tube defects in different geographical regions can give valuable information regarding its determinants which may further aid in proper planning of health ...
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Genetic analysis of Wnt/PCP genes in neural tube defects
... Background: Mouse homozygous mutants in Wnt/planar cell polarity (PCP) pathway genes have been shown to cause neural tube defects (NTDs) through the disruption of normal morphogenetic processes ...
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Urinary Anomalies in Fetus with Neural Tube Defects
... We observed only 1 case of pelvic kidney and one case of renal anomaly of rotation among the 17 fetuses with NTDs analyzed. Simple renalectopia varies in autopsy series from 1 to 1200 [20] and the pelvic kidney is one of ...
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Analysis of the MTHFD1 promoter and risk of neural tube defects
... methenyltetrahydrofolate cyclohydrolase/ 10-formyltetrahydrofolate synthetase), an important folate metabolic enzyme, are associated with a number of common diseases, including neural tube defects ...
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Metabolic Syndrome features and risk of neural tube defects
... The risk of neural tube defects (NTD) – spina bifida and anencephaly – is significantly reduced by a periconcep- tional intake of folic acid [1]. While a large proportion of NTD may be preventable, ...
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1. Risk factors of neural tube defects: a study
... urinogenital defects, and neural tube defects (Meador, ...these defects (Rose and Mennuti, ...mainly neural tube defects, cardiovascular and urinary tract ...
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Mediterranean diet, folic acid, and neural tube defects
... The Mediterranean diet has been for a very long time the basis of food habits all over the countries of the Mediterranean basin, originally founded on rural models and low consumption of meat products and ...
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Lack of Association between Folate Receptor Autoantibodies and Neural Tube Defects
... a neural-tube defect–affected pregnancy (case mothers) contained autoantibodies against folate receptors, whereas autoantibodies were detected in samples from only 2 of 20 controls ...folate-responsive ...
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Folic Acid for the Prevention of Neural Tube Defects
... ABSTRACT. The American Academy of Pediatrics en- dorses the US Public Health Service (USPHS) recommen- dation that all women capable of becoming pregnant consume 400 m g of folic acid daily to prevent neural ...
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Prevalence of congenital defects including selected neural tube defects in Nepal: results from a health survey
... severe defects that can be prevented is neural tube defects ...birth defects of the brain and spine, which can be prevented by the supply of folic acid before and during pregnancy ...
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The identification and validation of neural tube defects in the General Practice Research Database
... birth defects is complicated by a number of ...obtain. Neural tube defects (NTDs) are a group of severe central nervous system birth defects that occur when the neural ...
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Neural Tube Defects: A Two-Pronged Approach to Primary Prevention
... Neural Tube Defects: A Two-Pronged Approach to Primary Prevention. Services[r] ...
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Profiling placental and fetal DNA methylation in human neural tube defects
... Background: The incidence of neural tube defects (NTDs) declined by about 40 % in Canada with the introduction of a national folic acid (FA) fortification program. Despite the fact that few Canadians ...
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Survival of Infants With Neural Tube Defects in the Presence of Folic Acid Fortification
... OBJECTIVE. Neural tube defects (NTDs) are preventable through preconceptional and periconceptional folic acid intake. Although decreases in the prevalence of NTDs have been reported since folic acid ...
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Multiple Sites of Anterior Neural Tube Closure in Humans: Evidence From Anterior Neural Tube Defects (Anencephaly)
... pothesis that humans, like other species, have multiple sites of anterior neural tube closure. Furthermore, the data provide evidence for two mechanisms leading to anterior neural tube d[r] ...
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p53 Mutant p53N236S Induces Neural Tube Defects in Female Embryos
... of neural tube closure, some of the cells in the neural tube escape from the cell cycle and enter neuronal differentiation[36], thus suggesting that a balance between continual neuronal cell ...
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