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Dicer Is Required for Normal Cerebellar Development and to Restrain Medulloblastoma Formation.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Zindy Frederique, Lee Youngsoo, Kawauchi Daisuke, Ayrault Olivier, Merzoug Leila Ben, Li Yang, McKinnon Peter J, Roussel Martine F
Abstract excerpt
Dicer, a ribonuclease III enzyme, is required for the maturation of microRNAs. To assess its role in cerebellar and medulloblastoma development, we genetically deleted Dicer in Nestin-positive neural progenitors and in mice lacking one copy for the Sonic Hedgehog receptor, Patched 1. We found that conditional loss of Dicer in mouse neural progenitors induced massive Trp53-independent apoptosis in all...
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