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Fetal and postnatal lung defects reveal a novel and required role for Fgf8 in lung development.
Developmental biology - 1 Nov 2010
Yu Shibin, Poe Bryan, Schwarz Margaret, Elliot Sarah A, Albertine Kurt H, Fenton Stephen, Garg Vidu, Moon Anne M
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The fibroblast growth factor, FGF8, has been shown to be essential for vertebrate cardiovascular, craniofacial, brain and limb development. Here we report that Fgf8 function is required for normal progression through the late fetal stages of lung development that culminate in alveolar formation. Budding, lobation and branching morphogenesis are unaffected in early stage Fgf8 hypomorphic and conditional mutant...
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