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T1alpha, a lung type I cell differentiation gene, is required for normal lung cell proliferation and alveolus formation at birth.
Developmental biology - 1 Apr 2003
Ramirez Maria I, Millien Guetchyn, Hinds Anne, Cao YuXia, Seldin David C, Williams Mary C
Abstract excerpt
T1alpha, a differentiation gene of lung alveolar epithelial type I cells, is developmentally regulated and encodes an apical membrane protein of unknown function. Morphological differentiation of type I cells to form the air-blood barrier starts in the last few days of gestation and continues postnatally. Although T1alpha is expressed in the foregut endoderm before the lung buds, T1alpha mRNA and protein levels...
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