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Severe Intestinal Inflammation in the Small Intestine of Mice Induced by Controllable Deletion of Claudin-7.
Digestive diseases and sciences - 1 May 2018
Li Wen-Jing, Xu Chang, Wang Kun, Li Teng-Yan, Wang Xiao-Nan, Yang Hui, Xing Tiaosi, Li Wen-Xia, Chen Yan-Hua, Gao Hong, Ding Lei
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: As a potential tumor suppressor gene, Claudin-7 (Cldn7), which is a component of tight junctions, may play an important role in colorectal cancer occurrence and development. AIMS: To generate a knockout mouse model of inducible conditional Cldn7 in the intestine and analyze the phenotype of the mice after induction with tamoxifen. METHODS: We constructed Cldn7-flox transgenic mice and crossed them...
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