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Growth-promoting interaction of IGF-II with the insulin receptor during mouse embryonic development.
Developmental biology - 1 Sept 1997
Louvi A, Accili D, Efstratiadis A
Abstract excerpt
Genetic analyses of dwarfing phenotypes resulting from targeted mutagenesis of the genes encoding the insulin-like growth factors (IGF-I and IGF-II) and their cognate type 1 IGF receptor (IGF1R) have demonstrated that this signaling system is a major determinant of mouse embryonic growth. Of the two IGF ligands, IGF-I interacts exclusively with IGF1R, whereas IGF-II recognizes an additional receptor (XR), because...
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