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Epidermal growth factor receptor in mice and men--any applications to clinical practice?
Annals of medicine - 1 Dec 1997
Miettinen P J
Abstract excerpt
The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGF-R) is perhaps the best studied member of tyrosine kinase receptors. Its inactivation by homologous recombination results in three different phenotypes ranging from peri-implantation lethality to postnatal lethality. The mildest form of EGF-R inactivation leads to epithelial immaturity and postnatal death due to respiratory failure and necrotizing enterocolitis-like...
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