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Fibronectins are essential for heart and blood vessel morphogenesis but are dispensable for initial specification of precursor cells.
Blood - 15 Oct 1997
George E L, Baldwin H S, Hynes R O
Abstract excerpt
The underlying mechanisms of lethal cardiovascular defects associated with the fibronectin-null (FN.null) mutation in mouse embryos were investigated by lineage analysis of myocardial, endocardial, and endothelial cells. A wide variation in phenotype was observed on two genetic backgrounds. In the less severe class (C57/BL6 background), FN.null embryos display a defective heart. Myocardial cells express the...
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