...David G. McLone; Paul A. Knepper Extracellular and cell-coat complex carbohydrates play a major role in critical cellular functions, e.g., cell recognition and cell-to-cell adherence, which are involved in neurulation. To date, available evidence suggests that neurulation is a combination...

... tube defect Neurulation Intrauterine surgery Animal model We have come to accept that in children born paraplegic from myelomeningocele, i.e. open spinal neural tube defects (NTD), this is the result of aberrant primary neural tube closure. Recent evidence has suggested that the neurological...