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Transgenic mice provide new insights into the role of TGF-alpha during epidermal development and differentiation.
Genes & development - 1 May 1991
Vassar R, Fuchs E
Abstract excerpt
Transforming growth factor-alpha (TGF-alpha) is thought to be the major autocrine factor controlling growth in epidermal cells. To explore further the role of TGF-alpha in epidermal growth and differentiation, we used a human keratin K14 promoter to target expression of rat TGF-alpha cDNA to the stratified squamous epithelia of transgenic mice. Unexpectedly, the only regions of epidermis especially responsive to...
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