Experimental fetal alcohol syndrome: Proposed pathogenic basis for a variety of associated facial and brain anomalies

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Acute teratogenic exposure of C57Bl/6J mouse embryos to ethanol in vivo results, within 12 hours of initial insult, in excessive cell death in selected cell populations. The patterns of excessive cell death observed following exposure of gestational day 8 embryos (late presomite--approximately 5 somite pair stages) vary somewhat temporospatially, but primarily involve the cell populations at the rim of the...

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