Articles of Potential Interest
December 2008*

Cena ER, Joy AB, Heneman K, Espinosa-Hall G, Garcia L, Schneider C, Swanson PCW, Hudes M, Zidenberg-Cherr S. 2008. Learner-centered nutrition education improves folate intake and food-related behaviors in nonpregnant, low-income women of childbearing age. J Am Diet Assoc 108(10): 1627-1635. Abstract

Deak KL, Siegel DG, George TM, Gregory S, Ashley-Koch A, Speer MC. 2008. Further evidence for a maternal genetic effect and a sex-influenced effect contributing to risk for human neural tube defects. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 82(10): 662-669. Abstract

Delgado CEF. 2008. Undergraduate student awareness of issues related to preconception health and pregnancy. Matern Child Health J 12(6): 774-782. Abstract

Diav-Citrin O, Shechtman S, Weinbaum D, Wajnberg R, Avgil M, Di Gianantonio E, Clementi M, Weber-Schoendorfer C, Schaefer C, Ornoy A. 2008. Paroxetine and fluoxetine in pregnancy: a prospective, multicentre, controlled, observational study. Br J Clin Pharmacol 66(5): 695-705. Abstract

Eric M, Sabo A. 2008. Teratogenicity of antibacterial agents. Coll Antropol 32(3): 919-925. Abstract

Glass HC, Shaw GM, Ma C, Sherr EH. 2008. Agenesis of the corpus callosum in California 1983-2003: a population-based study. Am J Med Genet A 146A(19): 2495-2500. Abstract

Gustavsson P, Copp AJ, Greene NDE. 2008. Grainyhead genes and mammalian neural tube closure. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 82(10): 728-735. Abstract

Hwang BF, Jaakkola JJK. 2008. Ozone and other air pollutants and the risk of oral clefts. Environ Health Perspect 116(10): 1411-1415. Abstract

Li WY, Dudas M, Kaartinen V. 2008. Signaling through Tgf-beta type I receptor Alk5 is required for upper lip fusion. Mech Dev 125(9-10): 874-882. Abstract

Li ZW, Ren AG, Liu JM, Zhang L, Ye RW, Li S, Li Z. 2008. High prevalence of orofacial clefts in Shanxi province in northern China, 2003-2004. Am J Med Genet A 146A(20): 2637-2643. Abstract

Lu ZY, Morales M, Khartulyari S, Mei MH, Murphy KM, Stanislawska-Sachadyn A, Summers CM, Huang YH, Von Feldt JM, Blair IA, Mitchell LE, Whitehead AS. 2008. Genetic and biochemical determinants of serum concentrations of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1, a potential neural tube defect risk factor. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 82(10): 736-741. Abstract

May PA, Miller JH, Goodhart KA, Maestas OR, Buckley D, Trujillo PM, Gossage JP. 2008. Enhanced case management to prevent fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in northern plains communities. Matern Child Health J 12(6): 747-759. Abstract

McNally RJQ, Rankin J, Shirley MDF, Rushton SP, Pless-Mulloli T. 2008. Space-time analysis of Down syndrome: results consistent with transient pre-disposing contagious agent. Int J Epidemiol 37(5): 1169-1179. Abstract

Pangilinan F, Geiler K, Dolle J, Troendle J, Swanson DA, Molloy AM, Sutton M, Conley M, Kirke PN, Scott JM, Mills JL, Brody LC. 2008. Construction of a high resolution linkage disequilibrium map to evaluate common genetic variation in TP53 and neural tube defect risk in an Irish population. Am J Med Genet A 146A(20): 2617-2625. Abstract

Pavlinkova G, Salbaum JM, Kappen C. 2008. Wnt signaling in caudal dysgenesis and diabetic embryopathy. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 82(10): 710-719. Abstract

Poretti A, Anbeier T, Zimmermann R, Boltshauser E. 2008. Neural tube defects in Switzerland from 2001 to 2007: are periconceptual folic acid recommendations being followed? Swiss Med Wkly 138(41-42): 608-613. Abstract

Rawashdeh MA, Abu-Hawas BJ. 2008. Congenital associated malformations in a sample of Jordanian patients with cleft lip and palate. J Oral Maxillofac Surg 66(10): 2035-2041. Abstract

Rivera AF, Torres RRD, Rodriguez AMP, de Longo IM, Peralta JJG. 2008. Exploratory study: knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding and barriers for initiation in mothers of children with spina bifida. Matern Child Health J 12(6): 734-738. Abstract

Shaw GM, Carmichael SL, Laurent C, Siega-Riz AM. 2008. Periconceptional glycaemic load and intake of sugars and their association with neural tube defects in offspring. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 22(6): 514-519. Abstract

Smedts HPM, Rakhshandehroo M, Verkleij-Hagoort AC, de Vries JHM, Ottenkamp J, Steegers EAP, Steegers-Theunissen RPM. 2008. Maternal intake of fat, riboflavin and nicotinamide and the risk of having offspring with congenital heart defects. Eur J Nutr 47(7): 357-365. Abstract

Stoate KL, Harris MJ, Juriloff DM. 2008. Accelerated embryonic development associated with increased risk of neural tube defects induced by maternal diet in offspring of SELH/Bc Mice. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 82(10): 720-727. Abstract

Sutton M, Daly LE, Kirke PN. 2008. Survival and disability in a cohort of neural tube defect births in Dublin, Ireland. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 82(10): 701-709. Abstract

Tan KBL, Tan KH, Yeo GSH. 2008. Cleft deformities in Singapore: a population-based series 1993-2002. Singapore Med J 49(9): 710-714. Abstract

Targoff KL, Schell T, Yelon D. 2008. Nkx genes regulate heart tube extension and exert differential effects on ventricular and atrial cell number. Dev Biol 322(2): 314-321. Abstract

Timmermans S, Jaddoe VWV, Mackenbach JP, Hofman A, Steegers-Theunissen RPM, Steegers EAP. 2008. Determinants of folic acid use in early pregnancy in a multi-ethnic urban population in the Netherlands: the generation R study. Prev Med 47(4): 427-432. Abstract

Van Beynum IM, Mooij C, Kapusta L, Heil S, den Heijer M, Blom HJ. 2008. Common 894G > T single nucleotide polymorphism in the gene coding for endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) and risk of congenital heart defects. Clin Chem Lab Med 46(10): 1369-1375. Abstract

van der Linden IJM, Heil SG, Petersen MV, van Straaten HW, den Heijer M, Blom HJ. 2008. Inhibition of methylation and changes in gene expression in relation to neural tube defects. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 82(10): 676-683. Abstract

Wiwanitkit V. 2008. Identification of biomarker change in spina bifida by meta-analysis on reference expression database. J Neurol Sci Turk 25(1): 32-36. Abstract

*This list was compiled from searches of articles published in November 2008. Questions or comments about this list may be sent to webmaster@nbdpn.org.