IMPAIRED SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY IN SMOOTHELIN DEFICIENT MICE RESULTS IN LETHALITY
consecutive weeks. The day after the last injection, mice were euthanized, perfused and the abdominal wall muscle dissected and tested for betaRETENTION MOTIF DEFICIENT MICE-IDENTIFICATION OF NOVEL MESANGIAL CELL SPECIFIC GENES been introduced upstream of a bacterial beta-galactosidase (Lac Z) reporter gene. Activity of Cre recombinase in the offspring (age 10–12 weeks) was examined after intraperitoneal injection of 2 mg of tamoxifen for 3