Defining the molecular pathologies in cloaca malformation: similarities between mouse and human

• Main Authors: Laura A. Runck (Author), Anna Method (Author), Andrea Bischoff (Author), Marc Levitt (Author), Alberto Peña (Author), Margaret H. Collins (Author), Anita Gupta (Author), Shiva Shanmukhappa (Author), James M. Wells (Author), Géraldine Guasch (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The Company of Biologists, 2014-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Anorectal malformations are congenital anomalies that form a spectrum of disorders, from the most benign type with excellent functional prognosis, to very complex, such as cloaca malformation in females in which the rectum, vagina and urethra fail to develop separately and instead drain via a single...