TURKISH NEUROSURGERY, cilt.19, ss.224-229, 2009 (SCI İndekslerine Giren Dergi)
AIM: Nicotine is a well-known agent among 4000 chemicals in cigarettes. About 70 to 80% of nicotine is converted to cotinine, a major metabolite. The aim of the present study is to investigate the effect of cotinine on neural tube development in a chick embryo model.