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Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) is important for embryo implantation in mice.
Molecular and cellular endocrinology - 2 Jan 2008
Isaac Emma R, Sherwood Nancy M
Abstract excerpt
Mice lacking pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) show high mortality during the postnatal period, as well as impaired reproduction in females. This study characterizes the reproductive phenotype in female mice lacking PACAP due to targeted disruption (knockout) of the single copy pacap gene (Adcyap1) to determine the site(s) of action of PACAP in the cascade of reproductive events. PACAP...
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