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Fibronectin and integrin alpha 5 play requisite roles in cardiac morphogenesis.
Developmental biology - 1 Sept 2013
Mittal Ashok, Pulina Maria, Hou Shuan-Yu, Astrof Sophie
Abstract excerpt
Fibronectin and its major receptor, integrin α5β1 are required for embryogenesis. These mutants have similar phenotypes, although, defects in integrin α5-deficient mice are milder. In this paper, we examined heart development in those mutants, in which the heart is formed, and discovered that both fibronectin and integrin α5 were required for cardiac morphogenesis, and in particular, for the formation of the...
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