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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Anne Moon
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-22893 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Developmental biology 20100819 1
The fibroblast growth factor, FGF8, has been shown to be essential for vertebrate cardiovascular, craniofacial, brain and limb development. Here we report that Fgf8 function is required for normal progression through the late fetal stages of lung development that culminate in alveolar formation. Budding, lobation and branching morphogenesis are unaffected in early stage Fgf8 hypomorphic and conditional mutant lungs. Excess proliferation during fetal development disrupts distal airspace formation ...[more]