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Programmed cell death is affected in the novel mouse mutant Fused toes (Ft).
Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 Sept 1994
van der Hoeven F, Schimmang T, Volkmann A, Mattei M G, Kyewski B, Rüther U
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We have identified a novel dominant mouse mutant that is characterised by fused toes on the fore limbs and a thymic hyperplasia, in heterozygous animals. Homozygosity of the mutation leads to malformation of the developing brain, lost of the genetic control of left-right asymmetry and to death around day 10 of development. Analysis of both limb development and induction of apoptosis in immature thymocytes in...
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