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PERK is essential for neonatal skeletal development to regulate osteoblast proliferation and differentiation.
Journal of cellular physiology - 1 Dec 2008
Wei Jianwen, Sheng Xiaoyi, Feng Daorong, McGrath Barbara, Cavener Douglas R
Abstract excerpt
Loss of function mutations of Perk (eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2 alpha kinase 3) in humans and mice cause severe neonatal developmental defects, including diabetes, growth retardation and multiple skeletal dysplasias. Comprehensive analyses on bone tissue, at the cellular and molecular level in PERK-deficient mice demonstrated that neonatal Perk-/- mice are severely osteopenic, which is caused by a...
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