Delayed and disturbed morphogenesis of t
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Amatul Mateen Ahmad; Jason Burns; Richard Gardner; Chris Graham
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Article
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2005
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Insulin-like growth factor-II (IGF-II) deficiency occurs when a conceptus inherits an inactive gene from the father (Igf2m؉/p؊): fetal wet weight is reduced to 60% of wild-type, with the decline starting at E11. The umbilical cord vessels of mutant and wild-type were compared. At E8.0 -E8.5, the tim