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- Title
CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN, ALPHA FETOPROTEIN AND FOLIC ACID LEVELS IN PREGNANT WOMEN AND FETUSES WITH ANENCEPHALY.
- Authors
Al Otbi, Firyal Khalifa Salman; al-Dulaimy, Abbas Fadhel Jawad; Jameel, Ghassan H.
- Abstract
Anencephaly is one of the lethalbirth defects that is due to failure in closingof neural tube in embryonic development result in central nervous system damage predispose to early death of fetuses. The current results showed significant depression at (P<0.05) in the level of carcinoembryonic antigen in the serum of infected children with anencephaly when compared with control group. However, there was no significant differences in the carcinoembryonic antigen in the serum of pregnant mother when compared with control group. Also the study showed no significant differences in the level of alpha fetoprotein of infected children. Regarding mothers, the results showed that alpha fetoprotein was increased to 100% when compared with control group. For the folic acid, it does not show significant differences regard to infected children compared to control group. For mothers, there were statistically significant differences in the level of folic acid when compared with control group.
- Subjects
CARCINOEMBRYONIC antigen; ALPHA fetoproteins; FOLIC acid; ANENCEPHALY; DEPRESSION in women
- Publication
Biochemical & Cellular Archives, 2019, Vol 19, Issue 1, p1713
- ISSN
0972-5075
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.35124/bca.2019.19.1.1713