Neural tube defects: Risk factors and preventive measures.

abstract：:Many of the effects of dioxins, which are potent environmental pollutants and teratogens, are mediated through the aryl hydrocarbon receptor, also known as the dioxin receptor. The purpose of the present study was to characterize dioxin-responsive genes in a comprehensive manner using two complementary approaches: bio...

journal_title：Congenital anomalies

authors： Fujita H,Samejima H,Kitagawa N,Mitsuhashi T,Washio T,Yonemoto J,Tomita M,Takahashi T,Kosaki K

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Down syndrome (DS) is the most common cause of mental retardation. Several DS mouse models with partial trisomy 16 homologous to human chromosome 21 have been developed, and our research group has been studying those mouse models. We have shown a dosage-dependent overexpression of genes in the trisomic region of the m...

journal_title：Congenital anomalies

authors： Yamakawa K

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galectins are β-galactoside-binding lectins that participate in a wide range of biological processes. Galectins are distributed both inside and outside cells and are believed to have roles in both intra- and extracellular milieus. One of the well-recognized functions of galectins is stabilization of glycoproteins on t...

journal_title：Congenital anomalies

authors： Arikawa T,Simamura E,Shimada H,Nakamura T,Hatta T,Shoji H

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the overall prevalence of typical orofacial clefts and the potential risks for nonsyndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate in a university hospital from West México. For the prevalence, 227 liveborn infants with typical orofacial clefts were included from a total of 81,193 births occurred during ...

journal_title：Congenital anomalies

authors： Corona-Rivera JR,Bobadilla-Morales L,Corona-Rivera A,Peña-Padilla C,Olvera-Molina S,Orozco-Martín MA,García-Cruz D,Ríos-Flores IM,Gómez-Rodríguez BG,Rivas-Soto G,Pérez-Molina JJ

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetal ventriculomegaly development leads to neurological, motor, and/or cognitive impairment, and is presently diagnosed based on the width of the atrium in the lateral ventricle. But in this study, we have tried to assess the relationship between the development of calcarine sulcus and width of fetal lateral ventricl...

journal_title：Congenital anomalies

authors： Li H,Liang H,Wu H

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonic stem (ES) cells or induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells are expected as a surrogate cell source for regenerative medicine. Many researchers have reported the differentiation method of insulin-expressing pancreatic β cells from ES or iPS cells. However, the detailed molecular mechanisms underlying the differe...

journal_title：Congenital anomalies

authors： Higuchi Y,Shiraki N,Kume S

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined immunohistochemically the expression of an enzymatically active form of tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), phosphorylated TH at Ser40 (phospho-TH), in the cerebellum of ataxic mutant mice, rolling mouse Nagoya (RMN) and dilute-lethal (DL). TH immunostaining appeared in some Purkinje cells in RMN and DL, bu...

journal_title：Congenital anomalies

authors： Sawada K,Ando M,Sakata-Haga H,Sun XZ,Jeong YG,Hisano S,Takeda N,Fukui Y

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent development of biomedical engineering as well as basic biology and medicine has enabled us to induce cell-based regeneration of body tissue to self-repair defective tissue or substitute biological functions of damaged organs. For successful tissue regeneration, it is indispensable to give cells an environment s...

journal_title：Congenital anomalies

authors： Tabata Y

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human genome harbors approximately 2000 genes that encode microRNAs (miRNAs), small non-coding RNAs of approximately 20-22 nt that mediate post-transcriptional gene silencing. MiRNAs are generated from long transcripts through stepwise processing by the Drosha/DGCR8, Exportin-5/RanGTP and Dicer/TRBP complexes. Giv...

journal_title：Congenital anomalies

authors： Kawahara Y

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid rise in the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and other psychiatric disorders displaying similar traits has increased the need to elucidate their molecular mechanisms. Epidemiological studies have shown that maternal infection during mid-pregnancy is associated with increased risk of neurodevelop...

journal_title：Congenital anomalies

authors： Tsukada T,Shimada H,Sakata-Haga H,Iizuka H,Hatta T

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The WDR62 gene encodes a scaffold protein of the c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) pathway. It plays a critical role in laying out various cellular layers in the cerebral cortex during embryogenesis, and hence the dramatic clinical features resulting from WDR62 mutations. These mutations are associated with autosomal rece...

journal_title：Congenital anomalies

authors： Bastaki F,Mohamed M,Nair P,Saif F,Tawfiq N,Aithala G,El-Halik M,Al-Ali M,Hamzeh AR

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Even though from preclinical testing to drug risk labeling, the situation with drugs in pregnancy has improved substantially since the thalidomide scandal, there is still an increasing need to provide healthcare professionals and patients with updated individualized risk information for clinical decision making. For t...

journal_title：Congenital anomalies

authors： Schaefer C

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Report of a female fetus aborted at the 25th week of gestation, with severe microcephalus, trigonocephaly, median cleft lip and palate, arhinia, and anophthalmia. On opening of the skull the cranial cavity seemed to be occupied only by hindbrain structures. The forebrain, including the tentorium cerebelli and the falx...

journal_title：Congenital anomalies

authors： Schmitt HP,Born IA

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eye is a sensory organ that primarily captures light and provides the sense of sight, as well as delivering non-visual light information involving biological rhythms and neurophysiological activities to the brain. Since the early 1990s, rapid advances in molecular biology have enabled the identification of develop...

journal_title：Congenital anomalies

authors： Ohuchi H,Sato K,Habuta M,Fujita H,Bando T

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microdeletion of 2q31 involving the HOXD gene cluster is a rare syndrome. The deletion of the HOXD gene cluster is thought to result in skeletal anomalies in these patients. HOX genes encode highly conserved transcription factors that control cell fate and the regional identities along the primary body and limb axes. ...

journal_title：Congenital anomalies

authors： Okamoto N,Kimura S,Shimojima K,Yamamoto T

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the abnormalities that are specific to administration of flucytosine at one time point during embryonic organogenesis, flucytosine was administered orally to pregnant Sprague Dawley (SD) rats in a single dose on day 11 of pregnancy at 25 or 35 mg/kg. Fetuses on day 20 of pregnancy were externally, visce...

journal_title：Congenital anomalies

authors： Fujii S,Yabe K,Kariwano-Kimura Y,Furukawa M,Itoh K,Matsuura M,Horimoto M

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Choroid plexus, a fetal organ developing approximately from the sixth week of gestation, plays a fundamental role in developing fetal brain organization. As relatively little is known about the relationship between anomalies of choroid plexuses structure and their role in brain function, we examined cases of bifid cho...

journal_title：Congenital anomalies

authors： Centini G,Imperatore A,Morelli M,Rosignoli L,Passamonti U,Caprioli F,Lituania M

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that the developing serotonergic system is one of the targets of ethanol teratogenicity. Because serotonin has multiple functions in both mature and immature brains, disturbance of the serotonergic system by ethanol exposure in utero can be cause of a wide range of psychiatric problems in adulthood. In the...

journal_title：Congenital anomalies

authors： Ohta K,Sakata-Haga H,Fukui Y

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Omphalocele-exstrophy of the bladder (cloaca)-imperforate anus-spinal defects (OEIS) complex describes a rare grouping of more commonly occurring component malformations. We report two cases of OEIS complex diagnosed prenatally by ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In both cases, OEIS complex was suspect...

journal_title：Congenital anomalies

authors： Goto S,Suzumori N,Obayashi S,Mizutani E,Hayashi Y,Sugiura-Ogasawara M

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Müllerian duct anomalies are infrequently encountered clinical problems and often present with difficulty in diagnosis. A high level of suspicion is the key to diagnosis, which is usually made soon after menarche. However, this is the first reported case of uterus didelphys with obstructed hemivagina and pyocolpos wit...

journal_title：Congenital anomalies

authors： Rana R,Pasrija S,Puri M

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a boy with a de novo partial monosomy 16p13-pter and partial trisomy 16q22-qter detected by fluorescence in situ hybridization using subtelomeric probes for 16p and 16q. The boy had facial characteristics, skeletal features, congenital heart defects, an imperforate anus, urogenital malformations,...

journal_title：Congenital anomalies

authors： Yamada K,Uchiyama A,Arai M,Kubodera K,Yamamoto Y,Orii KO,Nagasawa H,Masuno M,Kohno Y

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal diabetes mellitus is associated with increased fetal teratogenesis, including cardiovascular defects. Non-specific maternal immune stimulation with Freund's complete adjuvant (FCA) or interferon gamma (IFNgamma) has been associated with protection against birth malformations. Using a diabetic mouse model, lat...

journal_title：Congenital anomalies

authors： Claudio Gutierrez J,Prater MR,Hrubec TC,Smith BJ,Freeman LE,Holladay SD

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous studies have shown the importance of the mesocorticolimbic dopamine system in the pathophysiology of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. However, there has been inconsistency in the findings of those studies. Varied and sometimes contradictory interpretation has been made on the basis of similar results...

journal_title：Congenital anomalies

authors： Ohno M

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a novel de novo heterozygous variant in SYNGAP1 (c.1741C>T, p.R581W), identified through targeted resequencing in an 8-year-old boy with intellectual disability, autism spectrum disorder, distinctive dysmorphic features, and no seizures. Our data strongly suggest that the SYNGAP1 variant is causative of in...

journal_title：Congenital anomalies

authors： Kimura Y,Akahira-Azuma M,Harada N,Enomoto Y,Tsurusaki Y,Kurosawa K

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Semaphorins and their receptors, neuropilins and plexins, were initially characterized as a modulator of axonal guidance during development, but are now recognized as a regulator of a wide range of developmental events including morphogenesis and angiogenesis, and activities of the immune system. Owing to the developm...

journal_title：Congenital anomalies

authors： Masuda T,Taniguchi M

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The time of origin of motor neurons and their distribution in the spinal cord was studied in rat embryos by combining whole-embryo culture and the Islet-1 immunostaining technique. Cells immunostained for Islet-1 appeared in the trunk neural tube by 27 hours (corresponding to E10.625) in culture of E9.5 embryos, at wh...

journal_title：Congenital anomalies

authors： Matsuda M

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An early second-trimester prenatal ultrasound diagnosis of an arthrogryposis multiplex congenita-like syndrome associated with median clefts is reported. A molecular biological work-up was performed to search for a potentially overlapping syndrome and dysostosis. Autopsy and postmortem radiogram were performed to conf...

journal_title：Congenital anomalies

authors： Tonni G,Lituania M

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indium, a precious metal classified in group 13 (IIIB) in the periodic table, has been used increasingly in the semiconductor industry. Because indium is a rare metal, technology for indium recycling from transparent conducting films for liquid crystal displays is desired, and its safety evaluation is becoming increas...

journal_title：Congenital anomalies

authors： Nakajima M,Usami M,Nakazawa K,Arishima K,Yamamoto M

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome (WHS) is a subtelomeric deletion syndrome affecting the short arm of chromosome 4. The main clinical features are a typical craniofacial appearance, growth deficiency, developmental delays, and seizures. Previous genotype-phenotype correlation analyses showed some candidate regions for each cl...

journal_title：Congenital anomalies

authors： Yamamoto-Shimojima K,Kouwaki M,Kawashima Y,Itomi K,Momosaki K,Ozasa S,Okamoto N,Yokochi K,Yamamoto T

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The "Kyoto Collection of Human Embryos" at Kyoto University was begun in 1961. Although morphological analyses of samples in the Kyoto Collection have been performed, these embryos have been considered difficult to genetically analyze because they have been preserved in formalin or Bouin's solution for 20-50 years. Ow...

journal_title：Congenital anomalies

authors： Nagai M,Minegishi K,Komada M,Tsuchiya M,Kameda T,Yamada S

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00