Nature Medicine
3, 24 - 25 (1997)
doi:10.1038/nm0197-24
Give the embryo a chanceJudith G. HallDepartment of Pediatrics British Columbia's Children's Hospital Vancouver, BC, Canada V6H 3V4 Inositol prevents neural tube defects in a mouse model of folate-resistant spina bifida (pages 60−66).
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