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Expression of Hoxb‐5 during human lung development and in congenital lung malformations
1 Aug 2003
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BACKGROUND: We have previously shown that the Hox gene Hoxb-5 is necessary for normal mouse lung branching morphogenesis. Abnormal Hoxb-5 regulation causes specific alterations in airway branching. We hypothesized that Hoxb-5 is similarly involved in human lung branching morphogenesis, and is abnormally expressed in bronchopulmonary sequestration (BPS) and congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation (CCAM), both...
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