Neural tube defects in rodents caused by a tap water contaminant
In May of 2006, the Hrubec group suddenly began to observe neural tube defects (NTDs) in embryos of untreated control mice. Unintentional exposure to a teratogenic agent in tap water was identified as the cause. We aimed to identify the contaminant, but first we demonstrated that the NTDs were pat...
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Virginia Tech
2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/76879 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10122011-072952/ |