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Cortical dysplasia resembling human type 2 lissencephaly in mice lacking all three APP family members.
The EMBO journal - 13 Oct 2004
Herms Jochen, Anliker Brigitte, Heber Sabine, Ring Sabine, Fuhrmann Martin, Kretzschmar Hans, Sisodia Sangram, Müller Ulrike
Abstract excerpt
The Alzheimer's disease beta-amyloid precursor protein (APP) is a member of a larger gene family that includes the amyloid precursor-like proteins, termed APLP1 and APLP2. We previously documented that APLP2-/-APLP1-/- and APLP2-/-APP-/- mice die postnatally, while APLP1-/-APP-/- mice and single mutants were viable. We now report that mice lacking all three APP/APLP family members survive through embryonic...
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