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Region-specific role for Pten in maintenance of epithelial phenotype and integrity.
American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology - 1 Jan 2017
Flodby Per, Liebler Janice M, Sunohara Mitsuhiro, Castillo Dan R, McConnell Alicia M, Krishnaveni Manda S, Banfalvi Agnes, Li Min, Stripp Barry, Zhou Beiyun, Crandall Edward D, Minoo Parviz, Borok Zea
Abstract excerpt
Previous studies have demonstrated resistance to naphthalene-induced injury in proximal airways of mice with lung epithelial-specific deletion of the tumor-suppressor gene Pten, attributed to increased proliferation of airway progenitors. We tested effects of Pten loss following bleomycin injury, a model typically used to study distal lung epithelial injury, in conditional PtenSFTPC-cre knockout mice....
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