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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 8.
Published in final edited form as: Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2012 May 7;422(3):393–397. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2012.04.160

Figure 1.

Figure 1

CMG2 is not required for mouse embryonic development but is essential for parturition. (A) Body weight changes of pregnant CMG2+/+ and CMG2−/− female mice at days post coitum (DPC). Upon delivering pups at DPC 20, the CMG2+/+ female showed a dramatic decrease in body weight. The CMG2−/− females failed to deliver pups atfull term gestation, and instead exhibited slower decreases in body weight accompanied by fetal reabsorption. (B) Successful delivery of pups carried by CMG2−/− females by Cesarean sections at DPC 22. All pups were raised by foster mothers and survived to adulthood.