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Extraembryonic expression of EPCR is essential for embryonic viability.
Blood - 15 Oct 2005
Li Weihong, Zheng Xunzhen, Gu Jian-Ming, Ferrell Gary L, Brady Mingming, Esmon Naomi L, Esmon Charles T
Abstract excerpt
The endothelial cell protein C receptor (EPCR) augments protein C activation by the thrombin-thrombomodulin complex. Deletion of the EPCR gene (Procr) in mice leads to embryonic lethality before embryonic day 10 (E10.0). EPCR is detected in the giant trophoblast cells at the feto-maternal boundary from E7.5 and weakly in embryonic aortic endothelial cells from E13.5, suggesting that extraembryonic EPCR expression...
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