Mice That Lack Thrombospondin 2 Display Connective Tissue Abnormalities That Are Associated with Disordered Collagen Fibrillogenesis, an Increased Vascular Density, and a Bleeding Diathesis
Kyriakides T, Zhu Y, Smith L, Bain S, Yang Z, Lin M, Danielson K, Iozzo R, LaMarca M, McKinney C, Ginns E, Bornstein P. Mice That Lack Thrombospondin 2 Display Connective Tissue Abnormalities That Are Associated with Disordered Collagen Fibrillogenesis, an Increased Vascular Density, and a Bleeding Diathesis. Journal Of Cell Biology 1998, 140: 419-430. PMID: 9442117, PMCID: PMC2132586, DOI: 10.1083/jcb.140.2.419.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTSP2-null miceEmbryonic stem cellsCollagen fibrillogenesisGenetic disorder resultsCell surface propertiesHomologous recombinationExtracellular proteinsMutant animalsBlastocyst injectionAppropriate breedingStructural roleMendelian frequencyMouse tissuesMesenchymal cellsStem cellsUnusual phenotypeCell functionMutant miceThrombospondin-2TSP2Von Willebrand factorSkin fibroblastsConnective tissue abnormalitiesLarge fibrilsWillebrand factor