Article
Levels of mesenchymal FGFR2 signaling modulate smooth muscle progenitor cell commitment in the lung.
Developmental biology - 1 Nov 2006
De Langhe Stijn P, Carraro Gianni, Warburton David, Hajihosseini Mohammad K, Bellusci Saverio
Abstract excerpt
Fibroblast growth factor (FGF) signaling has been shown to regulate lung epithelial development but its influence on mesenchymal differentiation has been poorly investigated. To study the role of mesenchymal FGF signaling in the differentiation of the mesenchyme and its impact on epithelial morphogenesis, we took advantage of Fgfr2c(+/Delta) mice, which due to a splicing switch express Fgfr2b in mesenchymal...
Topics
- Animals
- Animals, Newborn
- Autocrine Communication
- Cell Differentiation
- Epithelial Cells
- Fibroblast Growth Factor 10
- Fibronectins
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- Heterozygote
- Lung
