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Absence of the blood-clotting regulator thrombomodulin causes embryonic lethality in mice before development of a functional cardiovascular system.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 31 Jan 1995
Healy A M, Rayburn H B, Rosenberg R D, Weiler H
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We have targeted the murine thrombomodulin (TM) gene in embryonic stem cells and generated embryos as well as mice with TM deficiency. The heterozygous TM-deficient (TM+/-) mice as compared to wild-type (TM+/+) littermates exhibit 50% reductions in the levels of TM mRNA and TM protein. However, TM+/- mice appear normal and are free of thrombotic complications. The homozygous TM-deficient (TM-/-) embryos die...
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