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Impaired posterior frontal sutural fusion in the biglycan/decorin double deficient mice.
Bone - 1 Apr 2007
Wadhwa Sunil, Bi Yanming, Ortiz Ana T, Embree Mildred C, Kilts Tina, Iozzo Renato, Opperman Lynne A, Young Marian F
Abstract excerpt
Biglycan (Bgn) and decorin (Dcn) are highly expressed in numerous tissues in the craniofacial complex. However, their expression and function in the cranial sutures are unknown. In order to study this, we first examined the expression of biglycan and decorin in the posterior frontal suture (PFS), which predictably fuses between 21 and 45 days post-natal and in the non-fusing sagittal (S) suture from wild-type...
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