Population
Mouse model of palatal fusion
Design
Preclinical
Authors
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Hypothesis-generating for periostin in palatal EMT; leaves open human cleft palate relevance.
Periostin expression in the basement membrane and select medial edge epithelia suggests it plays a role in regulating epithelial-mesenchymal transition during palatal fusion.
Kitase et al. (2010) studied this question.
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