Articles of Potential Interest
September 2008*

Ahmad FU, Dwarakanath S, Sharma BS, Mahapatra AK. 2008. Multiple neural tube defects: a clinical series of seven cases and their embryological basis. Pediatr Neurosurg 44(4): 280-287. Abstract

Boulet SL, Yang Q, Mai C, Kirby RS, Collins JS, Robbins JM, Meyer R, Canfield MA. 2008. Mulinare J. 2008. Trends in the postfortification prevalence of spina bifida and anencephaly in the United States. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 82(7): 527-532. Abstract

Castilla EE, Mastroiacovo P, Orioli IM. 2008. Gastroschisis: international epidemiology and public health perspectives. Am J Med Genet C Semin Med Genet 148C(3): 162-179. Abstract

Chi WX, Wang JF, Li XH, Zheng XY, Liao YL. 2008. Analysis of geographical clustering of birth defects in Heshun county Shanxi province. Int J Environ Health Res 18(4): 243-252. Abstract

de Jong-van den Berg LTW. 2008. Monitoring of the folic acid supplementation program in the Netherlands. Food Nutr Bull 29(2): S210-S213. Abstract

Gelineau-van Waes J, Heller S, Bauer LK, Wilberding J, Maddox JR, Aleman F, Rosenquist TH, Finnell RH. 2008. Embryonic development in the reduced folate carrier knockout mouse is modulated by maternal folate supplementation. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 82(7): 494-507. Abstract

Grewal J, Carmichael SL, Ma C, Lammer EJ, Shaw GM. 2008. Maternal periconceptional smoking and alcohol consumption and risk for select congenital anomalies. 2008. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 82(7): 519-526. Abstract

Hertrampf E, Cortes F. 2008. National food-fortification program with folic acid in Chile. Food Nutr Bull 29(2): S231-S237. Abstract

Hwang BF, Jaakkola JJK, Guo HR. 2008. Water disinfection by-products and the risk of specific birth defects: a population-based cross-sectional study in Taiwan. Environ Health 7: 23. Abstract

Jia DY, Liu HJ, Wang FW, Liu SM, Ling EA, Liu K, Hao AJ. 2008. Folic acid supplementation affects apoptosis and differentiation of embryonic neural stem cells exposed to high glucose. Neurosci Lett 440(1): 27-31. Abstract

Jugessur A, Rahimov F, Lie RT, Wilcox AJ, Gjessing HK, Nilsen RM, Nguyen TT, Murray JC. 2008. Genetic variants in IRF6 and the risk of facial clefts: single-marker and haplotype-based analyses in a population-based case-control study of facial clefts in Norway. Genet Epidemiol 32(5): 413-424. Abstract

Khoshnood B, De Vigan C, Blondel B, Vodovar V, Cadio E, Goffinet F. 2008. Long-term trends for socio-economic differences in prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome: diffusion of services or persistence of disparities? BJOG 115(9): 1087-1095. Abstract

Lapolla A, Dalfra MG, Di Cianni G, Bonomo M, Parretti E, Mello G. 2008. A multicenter Italian study on pregnancy outcome in women with diabetes. Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis 18(4): 291-297. Abstract

Little J, Gilmour M, Mossey PA, FitzPatrick D, Cardy A, Clayton-Smith J, Fryer AE. 2008. Folate and clefts of the lip and palate - A UK-based case-control study: part I: dietary and supplemental folate. Cleft Palate Craniofac J 45(4): 420-427. Abstract

Little J, Gilmour M, Mossey PA, FitzPatrick D, Cardy A, Clayton-Smith J, Hill A, Duthie SJ, Fryer AE, Molloy AM, Scott JM. 2008. Folate and clefts of the lip and palate - A UK-based case-control study: part II: biochemical and genetic analysis. Cleft Palate Craniofac J 45(4): 428-438. Abstract

Nguyen P, Grajeda R, Melgar P, Marcinkevage J, Flores R, Martorell R. 2008. Weekly may be as efficacious as daily folic acid supplementation in improving folate status and lowering serum homocysteine concentrations in Guatemalan women. J Nutr 138(8): 1491-1498. Abstract

Njamnshi AK, Djientcheu VD, Lekoubou A, Guemse M, Obama MT, Mbu R, Takongmo S, Kago I. 2008. Neural tube defects are rare among black Americans but not in sub-Saharan black Africans: the case of Yaounde – Cameroon. J Neurol Sci 270(1-2): 13-17. Abstract

Olsen SF, Knudsen VK. 2008. Folic acid for the prevention of neural tube defects: the Danish experience. Food Nutr Bull 29(2): S205-S209. Abstract

Rasmussen SA, Frias JL. 2008. Non-genetic risk factors for gastroschisis. Am J Med Genet C Semin Med Genet 148C(3): 199-212. Abstract

Ray JG. 2008. Efficacy of Canadian folic acid food fortification. Food Nutr Bull 29(2): S225-S230. Abstract

Rosenthal J, Milla G, Flores A, Yon M, Pfeiffer C, Umana E, Skerrette N, Barahona F. 2008. Effect of different dosage and administration schedules of folic acid on blood folate levels in a population of Honduran women of reproductive age. Public Health Nutr 11(8): 822-830. Abstract

Ryan MAK, Gumbs GR, Conlin AMS, Sevick CJ, Jacobson IG, Snell KJ, Spooner CN, Smith TC. 2008. Evaluation of preterm births and birth defects in liveborn infants of US military women who received smallpox vaccine. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 82(7): 533-539. Abstract

Ryan MAK, Smith TC, Sevick CJ, Honner WK, Loach RA, Moore CA, Erickson JD. 2008. Birth defects among infants born to women who received anthrax vaccine in pregnancy. Am J Epidemiol 168(4): 434-442. Abstract

Sadler TW, Feldkamp ML. 2008. The embryology of body wall closure: relevance to gastroschisis and other ventral body wall defects. Am J Med Genet C Semin Med Genet 148C(3): 180-185. Abstract

Wikner BN, Sparre LS, Stiller CO, Kallen B, Asker C. 2008. Maternal use of thyroid hormones in pregnancy and neonatal outcome. Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand 87(6): 617-627. Abstract

Woodhouse CRJ. 2008. Myelomeningocele: neglected aspects. Pediatr Nephrol 23(8): 1223-1231. Abstract

Zabala R, Waisman I, Corelli M, Tobler B. 2008. Folic acid for neural tube defects prevention: consumption and information in fertil-age women in Centro Cuyo Region. Arch Argent Pediatr 106(4): 295-301. Abstract

Zhang HY, Luo GA, Liang QL, Wang Y, Yang HH, Wang YM, Zheng XY, Song XM, Chen G, Zhang T, Wu JX. 2008. Neural tube defects and disturbed maternal folate- and homocysteine-mediated one-carbon metabolism. Exp Neurol 212(2): 515-521. Abstract

Zhu L, Ling H. 2008. National neural tube defects prevention program in China.  Food Nutr Bull  29(2): S196-S204. Abstract

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