Fol. Biol. 2014, 60, 244-251

https://doi.org/10.14712/fb2014060050244

Does Folic Acid Supplementation Rescue Defects in ECE-1-Deficient Mouse Embryos?

A. Haque1, B. Šaňková1,2, A. Kvasilová1, E. Krejčí1,2, David Sedmera1,2

1Institute of Anatomy, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
2Department of Cardiovascular Morphogenesis, Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic

Received March 2014
Accepted April 2014

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