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Elevated blood pressure and enhanced myocardial contractility in mice with severe IGF-1 deficiency.
The Journal of clinical investigation - 1 Dec 1996
Lembo G, Rockman H A, Hunter J J, Steinmetz H, Koch W J, Ma L, Prinz M P, Ross J, Chien K R, Powell-Braxton L
Abstract excerpt
To circumvent the embryonic lethality of a complete deficiency in insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1), we generated mice homozygous for a site-specific insertional event that created a mutant IGF-1 allele (igf1m). These mice have IGF-1 levels 30% of wild type yet survive to adulthood, thereby al...
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