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Placental overgrowth and fertility defects in mice with a hypermorphic allele of epidermal growth factor receptor.
Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society - 1 Jun 2009
Dackor Jennifer, Li Manyu, Threadgill David W
Abstract excerpt
Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is a member of the ERBB family of receptor tyrosine kinases that has been shown to play an important developmental and physiologic role in many aspects of pregnancy. We have previously shown in mice that Egfr(tm1Mag) nullizygous placentas have fewer proliferative trophoblasts than wild-type and exhibit strain-specific defects in the spongiotrophoblast and labyrinth layers....
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