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| Heterozygous Dag1neo2 mice are viable and fertile but homozygous Dag1neo2 embryos exhibit gross developmental abnormalities beginning around 6.5 days of gestation that is due to a disruption of Reichert's membrane  | |
chimaeric mice generated with ES cells targeted for both dystroglycan alleles have skeletal muscles essentially devoid of dystroglycans and develop a progressive muscle pathology with many disrupted neuromuscular junctions |
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brain-selective deletion of dystroglycan in mice is sufficient to cause congenital muscular dystrophie-like brain malformations, including disarray of cerebral cortical layering, fusion of cerebral hemispheres and cerebellar folia, and aberrant migration of granule cells |
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striated muscle-specific disruption of the mouse Dag1 gene results in loss of the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex in differentiated muscle and a remarkably mild muscular dystrophy with hypertrophy and without tissue fibrosis |
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mouse harboring the Dag1 Thr192Met mutation display muscular dystrophy and cognitive impairment |
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Dg morpholino knockdown leads to disruption of epidermal differentiation by affecting the intercalation of multiciliated cells, deposition of laminin, and organization of fibronectin in the extracellular matrix |
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disruption of dystroglycan-Laminin interactions result in decreased filopodial number and length, decreased process length, and decreased numbers of primary and secondary processes |