Adults Need To Increase Intake Of Folate; Some Women Should Take More
... Neural tube defects -- such as spina bifida -- result from a disruption during thedevelopment of the fetus's central nervous system in the first month ofpregnancy, when most women do not realize they are pregnant. A common type ofcongenital malformation of the central nervous system, neural t...Fetal Surgery For Spina Bifida Still Under Investigation At VUMC
... procedures, far more than any othercenter. Spina bifida is the most common neurologic birth defect in the ... brain. About 95 percent of babies born with spina bifida require a drainage shuntplaced in the brain to help remove excess fluid. Dr. Joseph P. Bruner, assi...Scientific team identifies gene critical in embryonic development
...lose properly, a defect which is analogousto spina bifida in human beings. The affected animals also showed changes inother genes, leading scientists to theorize that SIL is responsible for guidingthese other "downstream" genes to form the body axis as an organism develops.SIL is a gene expressed in prolife...New mouse model could be key to understanding role of folic acid in preventing birth defects
...ions such as why there is a high incidence ofspina bifida in the Hispanic population. "In some studies, Hispanic women don't seem to get the same benefits from takingfolic acid as do other populations. "If it's validated that in fact Hispanicsdon't benefit, we want to know why they don't benefit. If there's...FDA mandate for folic acid fortification may decrease the incidence of Down syndrome
...ases the risk of neural tube defects such as spina bifida -- the leading causeof childhood paralysis. In 1998, the US-FDA mandated that 140 micrograms of folic acid be added to every 100 grams of enriched grain productssuch as pasta, breakfast cereals, and flour. This mandate was intended to increase the am...Northwestern program aims at revealing genetic causes of spina bifida
...may be linked to mutations in certain genes. Spina bifida affects about four of every 1,000 children born. ... Does and other families whose children have spina bifida to determine which genetic traits are found more often in these families and how these genes interac...Agent Orange might boost the risk of leukemia, UNC researcher says
...sual and debilitating birth defect known as spinal bifida in children, respiratory cancers, prostate cancer, multiple myeloma, both acute and sub-acute transient peripheral neuropathy and porphyria cutanea tarda, another skin disorder, Hertz-Picciotto said. That evidence was weak and inconclusive, however.U...$100,000 prize to pioneers in neural research
...apies for neural tube birth defects, such as spina bifida and anencephaly, and neurological disease such as Alzheimers, Parkinsons, and motor neuron diseases. This includes the possibility that, some day, patients with these disorders or with traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries may be treated by reg...Finding sheds new light into mysterious process of cell movement during development
...o treatments for many birth defects, such as spina bifida that afflicts between 800 to 1,000 babies born each year in the United States. Writing in the August issue of the scientific journal Nature Cell Biology, the researchers report the discovery that a single protein facilitates the movements of cells w...Folic acid supplements not linked to multiple births
... age to prevent neural tube defects--such as spina bifida and anencephaly--in their children. However, results from some small studies have suggested that consumption of vitamins containing folic acid during pregnancy can lead to an increased chance of having a multiple pregnancy--with associated increased ...Sick Kids researchers link maternal folic acid intake to decrease in deadly childhood cancer
...id in preventing neural tube defects such as spina bifida was already known. This study also suggests a link between folic acid and neuroblastoma." Neuroblastoma is the second most common paediatric tumour and the most prevalent solid tumour that occurs outside of the brain in children under the age of five...Cell study leap forward for tissue engineering, diseases
...engineering, as well as for diseases such as spina bifida and cancer. U of T professor Rudolf Winklbauer and postdoctoral fellow Hiromasa Ninomiya, of the Department of Zoology, have found that the mechanism that controls cell differentiation is the same one that controls tissue elongation. The finding, p......ood can dramatically reduce the incidence of spina bifida and other birth defects. A study, published today in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, shows that the proportion of babies born with neural tube defects in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador dropped by 78% after the Canadian Government directed th...