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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2026

Folic acid prevention of neural tube defects requires retinoic acid produced by ALDH1L1.

Tamir Edri, Tali Abbou-Levy, Dor Cohen, José M Inácio, Yehuda Shabtai, Graciela Pillemer, José António Belo, Abraham Fainsod

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Retinoic acid in health and disease.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Tamir Edri *Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9112102, Israel.ORCID 0000-0001-8772-6100
Tali Abbou-Levy *Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9112102, Israel.
Dor CohenDepartment of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9112102, Israel.ORCID 0009-0008-7466-8376
José M InácioStem Cells and Development Laboratory, iNOVA4Health, NOVA Medical School, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisboa 1150-082, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-9790-8335
Yehuda ShabtaiDepartment of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9112102, Israel.
Graciela PillemerDepartment of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9112102, Israel.
José António BeloStem Cells and Development Laboratory, iNOVA4Health, NOVA Medical School, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisboa 1150-082, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0001-7384-0949
Abraham FainsodDepartment of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9112102, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-6368-0416

Funding

Eliyahu Pen Memorial Fund NAiNOVA4Health; FCT-IP UID/04462Israel Science Foundation (ISF) 668/17LS4FUTURE; FCT-IP LA/P/0087/2020Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries (MBLL) RG-003-21United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) 2017199Wolfson Family Charitable Trust (WFCT) NA
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Folic acid (FA) supplementation during pregnancy is the commonly accepted treatment to prevent neural tube defects. The mechanism by which FA prevents neural tube defects (NTDs) remains unclear. FA also prevents other developmental malformations, including alcohol-induced malformations in Fetal Alcohol Syndrome models. We show that FA acts through a metabolic link to retinoic acid (RA) signaling. Using a

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Aldehyde DehydrogenaseFolic AcidFormyltetrahydrofolate DehydrogenaseNeural Tube DefectsTretinoinAldehyde Dehydrogenase 1 FamilyAnimalsFemaleHumansPAX3 Transcription FactorPregnancySignal TransductionXenopus laevisAldehyde DehydrogenaseAldehyde Dehydrogenase 1 FamilyFolic AcidFormyltetrahydrofolate DehydrogenasePAX3 Transcription FactorTretinoinALDH1L1fetal alcohol syndromefolic acid supplementationneural tube defectsretinoic acid signaling

Identifiers

PMID42531027
PMCPMC13438623

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