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Comparative processing and function of human and ferret cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 22 Jun 2012
Fisher John T, Liu Xiaoming, Yan Ziying, Luo Meihui, Zhang Yulong, Zhou Weihong, Lee Ben J, Song Yi, Guo Chenhong, Wang Yujiong, Lukacs Gergely L, Engelhardt John F
Abstract excerpt
The most common cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene mutation is ΔF508, and this causes cystic fibrosis (CF). New CF models in the pig and ferret have been generated that develop lung, pancreatic, liver, and intestinal pathologies that reflect disease in CF patients. Sp...
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