Open AccessMolecular basis of spina bifida: Recent advances and future prospectives
Author(s) -
Prateek Kumar Panda,
Kanhu Charan Mallik,
Ranjankumar Patel,
Mayadhar Barik
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of pediatric neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.247
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1998-3948
pISSN - 1817-1745
DOI - 10.4103/jpn.jpn_20_19
Subject(s) - neural tube , spina bifida , medicine , neural tube defect , gene , mutant , neurulation , closure (psychology) , abnormality , bioinformatics , genetics , computational biology , biology , pediatrics , embryo , embryonic stem cell , psychiatry , gastrulation , economics , market economy
Spina bifida (SB) (spinal neural tube [NT] defects) is basically caused by an abnormality at the closure of the NT.