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Neutral sphingomyelinase 2 deficiency is associated with lung anomalies similar to emphysema.
Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society - 1 Dec 2012
Poirier Christophe, Berdyshev Evgeny V, Dimitropoulou Christiana, Bogatcheva Natalia V, Biddinger Paul W, Verin Alexander D
Abstract excerpt
Neutral sphingomyelinase 2 (nSMase2) upregulation was recently demonstrated to serve as a molecular link between smoke inhalation and emphysematous changes in lungs. Here we report that nSMase2 deficit impairs lung development in mice. We have shown previously that fragilitas ossium (fro) mice ca...
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