title: Evidence for reopening of the cranial neural tube in mouse embryos treated with cadmium chloride.
abstract: Use of the whole-embryo culture technique resulted in experimental evidence that the pathogenesis of exencephaly in mouse embryos after cadmium chloride treatment results from reopening of the cranial neural tube.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002104:Cadmium / Q000633:toxicity*; D004477:Ectogenesis; D051379:Mice; D009436:Neural Tube Defects / Q000139:chemically induced*; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D002104:Cadmium