Retinal dysplasia and degeneration in RARβ2/RARγ2 compound mutant mice

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The eye is the organ whose development is the most frequently altered in response to maternal vitamin A deficiency [VAD; Warkany, J. and Schraffenberger, S. (1946). Archs Ophthalmol. 35, 150-169]. With the exception of prenatal retinal dysplasia, all the ocular abnormalities of the fetal VAD syndrome are recapitulated in mouse mutants lacking either RARalpha and RARbeta2, RARalpha and RARgamma, RARgamma and...

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