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Conditional deletion of focal adhesion kinase leads to defects in ventricular septation and outflow tract alignment.
Molecular and cellular biology - 1 Aug 2007
Hakim Zeenat S, DiMichele Laura A, Doherty Jason T, Homeister Jonathon W, Beggs Hilary E, Reichardt Louis F, Schwartz Robert J, Brackhan Joseph, Smithies Oliver, Mack Christopher P, Taylor Joan M
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To examine a role for focal adhesion kinase (FAK) in cardiac morphogenesis, we generated a line of mice with a conditional deletion of FAK in nkx2-5-expressing cells (herein termed FAKnk mice). FAKnk mice died shortly after birth, likely resulting from a profound subaortic ventricular septal defe...
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