Congenital Anomalies

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Radiological protection for diagnostic examination of pregnant women
Tomoko Kusama and Katumasa Ota

PSK, a biological response modifier, modifies p53 expression, mitosis and apoptosis in X-ray irradiated mouse embryos: Possible cellular mechanism of the anti-terato-genic effect
Yukiko Kagohashi, Hiroyuki Naora, et al.

Developmental abnormalities induced by ionizing and nonionizing radiation
Minoru Inouye and Xue Zhi Sun

Measurement of DNA Damage in ICR Mouse Embryos at Preimplantation Stage Using a Comet Assay
Asako Maruyama and Tomoko Kusama

Radiation-Induced Apoptosis and Developmental Disturbance of the Brain
Minoru Inouye

Radiation-induced Anomalies: Report of a Study Conducted in Chernobyl
Yukio Satow, Gennady Lazjuk, et al.

Stage Differences in Developmental Disorders in ICR Mouse Embryos Irradiated with Gamma-Rays
Tomoko Kusama and Yasunari Hasegawa

Prenatal Exposure to Atomic Radiation and Brain Damage
Masanori Otake, Hiroshi Yoshimaru, et al.

Avoidance Learning Deficits in Prenatally Gamma-Ray Irradiated Rats
Yoshitaka Tamaki, Kiyoshi Hoshino, et al.

Abnormal Cerebral Vascularity in Mice with Histogenetic Disorders of the Cerebral Cortex and Postnatal Manifestation of Hydrocephalus
Shoko Kimura, Yoshihiro Fukui, et al.

Teratogenicity of Tritium Water to Rat Embryos
Yukio Satow, Juing-Yi Lee, et al.

High Sensitivity of Fertilized Eggs to Radiation and Chemicals in Mice: Comparison with that of Germ Cells and Embryos at Organogenesis
Taisei NOMURA

Conotruncal Anomalies Induced in Chick Embryos by 2 MeV Neutron Radiation
Tsukasa Kawamura

Transplacental and transgenerational late effects of radiation and chemicals
Nomura Taisei

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Down syndrome and personalized medicine: Changing paradigms from genotype to phenotype to treatment
Linda L. McCabe and Edward R. B. McCabe

Pelizaeus–Merzbacher disease as a chromosomal disorder
Toshiyuki Yamamoto and Keiko Shimojima

Towards the understanding of Down syndrome using mouse models
Kazuhiro Yamakawa

Sonic hedgehog signaling coordinates the proliferation and differentiation of neural stem/progenitor cells by regulating cell cycle kinetics during development of the neocortex
Munekazu Komada

Causes of birth defects: Lessons from history
Paul A. L. Lancaster

In vitro models of pancreatic differentiation using embryonic stem or induced pluripotent stem cells
Yuichiro Higuchi, Nobuaki Shiraki, et al.

Birth defects caused by mutations in human GLI3 and mouse Gli3 genes
Ichiro Naruse, Etsuko Ueta, et al.

Drug safety in pregnancy: Utopia or achievable prospect? Risk information, risk research and advocacy in Teratology Information Services
Christof Schaefer

Role of rare cases in deciphering the mechanisms of congenital anomalies: CHARGE syndrome research
Kenjiro Kosaki

Second lineage of heart forming region provides new understanding of conotruncal heart defects
Yuji Nakajima

Distribution of the longevity gene product, SIRT1, in developing mouse organs
Tetsuo Ogawa, Chizu Wakai, et al.

Individual variation in organ histogenesis as a causative factor in the developmental origins of health and disease: Unnoticed congenital anomalies?
Hiroki Otani, Jun Udagawa, et al.

Formal genesis of the outflow tracts of the heart revisited: Previous works in the light of recent observations
Naomasa Okamoto, Naotaka Akimoto, et al.

Effects of melanocortins on fetal development
Eriko Simamura, Hiroki Shimada, Hiroki Shoji, et al.