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Heads or tails? Retinoic acid will decide.
BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology - 1 Oct 1999
Maden M
Abstract excerpt
A recent study (Niederreither et al. Nat Genet 1999;21:444-448 [Ref. 1]) describes the phenotype of a gene knockout for an enzyme, retinaldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (RALDH-2), that synthesizes retinoic acid (RA) in the early embryo. The effects generated by this single enzyme mutation are remarkably similar to those previously described in vitamin A-deprivation studies and compound retinoic acid receptor knockouts,...
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