Congenital malformations in rats with the semilethal mutation fused pulmonary lobes.

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It has been demonstrated that an autosomal recessive gene, fused pulmonary lobes (fpl), causes fusion of the right pulmonary lobes with several associated malformations and a high incidence of death in homozygous newborns (Aoyama et al. Teratology 1988; 37:159-166). The aim of the present study was to investigate whether the deaths of fpl/fpl newborns were caused by functional abnormalities of the malformed lung...

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