Resolution of spontaneous bleeding events but failure of pregnancy in fibrinogen-deficient mice.

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To explore the role of the key coagulation factor, fibrinogen, in development, hemostasis, wound repair, and disease pathogenesis, we disrupted the fibrinogen A alpha chain gene in mice. Homozygous, A alpha chain-deficient (A alpha-/-) mice are born normal in appearance, and there is no evidence of fetal loss of these animals based on the Mendelian pattern of transmission of the mutant A alpha chain allele. All...

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