Deletion of SHP-2 in mesenchymal stem cells causes growth retardation, limb and chest deformity, and calvarial defects in mice

• Hlavní autoři: Philip E. Lapinski (Autor), Melissa F. Meyer (Autor), Gen-Sheng Feng (Autor), Nobuhiro Kamiya (Autor), Philip D. King (Autor)
• Médium: Kniha
• Vydáno: The Company of Biologists, 2013-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Témata: article
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SUMMARY In mice, induced global disruption of the Ptpn11 gene, which encodes the SHP-2 tyrosine phosphatase, results in severe skeletal abnormalities. To understand the extent to which skeletal abnormalities can be attributed to perturbation of SHP-2 function in bone-forming osteoblasts and chondroc...