Abstract:
PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Environmental factors, such as drugs, chemicals, or abnormal concentrations of natural metabolites, induce birth defects. Environmental effects on cardiogenesis have been little studied in contrast to neurogenesis. This review presents evidence on three environmental factors: alcohol, the drug lithium, and the metabolite homocysteine, impacting the Wnt/β-catenin pathway during cardiac development and folate protection. RECENT FINDINGS:Animal and epidemiological studies have shown that folate protects the embryo from birth defects. New animal studies demonstrate that folate prevents cardiovascular defects induced by the drug lithium, homocysteine, or alcohol, but protection occurs at a higher concentration than currently used in vitamin supplements. The data indicate that folate in combination with myo-inositol may further reduce the risk of birth defects. Discussion is presented of the cell specification stages that are impacted resulting in cardiac defects, how Wnt/β-catenin signaling is involved, and how folate and myo-inositol additively may protect embryonic pathways. The possible epigenetic role of folate in Wnt/β-catenin signaling is described. SUMMARY:This review will enable better counseling of women by defining, during early pregnancy, a susceptible window of embryonic exposure leading to a high risk of cardiac defects, and provides a therapeutic means and the necessary timing for prevention of environmentally induced birth defects.
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Curr Opin Pediatrjournal_title
Current opinion in pediatricsauthors
Linask KK,Huhta Jdoi
10.1097/MOP.0b013e32833e2723subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2010-10-01 00:00:00pages
561-6issue
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1040-8703issn
1531-698Xpii
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journal_title:Current opinion in pediatrics
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更新日期:2013-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Current opinion in pediatrics
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doi:10.1097/00008480-199810060-00011
更新日期:1998-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Current opinion in pediatrics
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更新日期:1999-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Current opinion in pediatrics
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更新日期:2004-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Current opinion in pediatrics
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doi:10.1097/MOP.0b013e3283223db7
更新日期:2009-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Current opinion in pediatrics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/MOP.0b013e328352de97
更新日期:2012-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Current opinion in pediatrics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:2018-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Current opinion in pediatrics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:2009-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Current opinion in pediatrics
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更新日期:2013-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Current opinion in pediatrics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:2005-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Current opinion in pediatrics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/MOP.0000000000000041
更新日期:2014-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Current opinion in pediatrics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/MOP.0000000000000595
更新日期:2018-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Current opinion in pediatrics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/01.mop.0000125070.51974.9d
更新日期:2004-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Current opinion in pediatrics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/MOP.0000000000000257
更新日期:2015-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Current opinion in pediatrics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00008480-199610000-00012
更新日期:1996-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Current opinion in pediatrics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/MOP.0b013e32833502e7
更新日期:2010-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Current opinion in pediatrics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00008480-199802000-00012
更新日期:1998-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Current opinion in pediatrics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00008480-199702000-00006
更新日期:1997-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Current opinion in pediatrics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/MOP.0000000000000053
更新日期:2014-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Current opinion in pediatrics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/MOP.0000000000000904
更新日期:2020-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Current opinion in pediatrics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/MOP.0000000000000819
更新日期:2019-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Current opinion in pediatrics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00008480-199606000-00019
更新日期:1996-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Current opinion in pediatrics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/MOP.0b013e328318c529
更新日期:2008-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Current opinion in pediatrics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/MOP.0b013e32834dfc92
更新日期:2012-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Current opinion in pediatrics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/MOP.0b013e32833f5f6e
更新日期:2010-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Current opinion in pediatrics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:1993-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Current opinion in pediatrics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/MOP.0000000000000903
更新日期:2020-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Current opinion in pediatrics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00008480-199702000-00017
更新日期:1997-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Current opinion in pediatrics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00008480-200104000-00014
更新日期:2001-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Current opinion in pediatrics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:2017-06-01 00:00:00