| Description |
xiv, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Maternal nutritional factors and neural tube defects in experimental animals / Mary J. Seller -- The use of whole embryo culture of the rat in the experimental study of human birth defects / Felix Beck -- Prevention of neural tube defects by vitamin supplements / R.W. Smithells -- The role of improvement in the maternal diet and preconceptional folic acid supplementation in the prevention of neural tube defects / K.M. Laurence, H. Campbell, and Nansi E. James -- Prevention of neural tube defects in an area of high incidence / Norman C. Nevin -- Epidemiological clues to the causation of neural tube defects / Ian Leck -- Maternal diet and nutrition during early pregnancy and after delivery in North London / Ian Leck ... [et al.] -- Economic aspects of the prevention of neural tube defects / Ron Akehurst -- The possible prevention of neural tube defects by vitamin supplementation / Nicholas Wald |
| Analysis |
Children Spine Spina bifida Prevention |
| Notes |
"Based on a workshop sponsored by Rybar Laboratories, Ltd. and held at the Lygon Arms, Broadway, Worcestershire, England, 3-6 October, 1982"--P. i |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Subject |
Folic acid in human nutrition -- Congresses.
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Pregnancy -- Nutritional aspects -- Congresses.
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Skull -- Abnormalities -- Prevention -- Congresses.
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Spina bifida -- Prevention -- Congresses.
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Spinal cord -- Abnormalities -- Prevention -- Congresses.
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Spine -- Abnormalities -- Prevention -- Congresses.
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Vitamins in human nutrition -- Congresses.
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Neural Tube Defects.
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Spina Bifida Occulta.
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| Author |
Dobbing, John.
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Rybar Laboratories.
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| LC no. |
83070170 |
| ISBN |
0122188608 |
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