The direct measurement of embryogenic volume and nucleo-cytoplasmic ratio during mouse pre-implantation development

Reproduction

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 527-535

  Aiken, Catherine E M ^a   Swoboda, Peter P L ^a   Skepper, Jeremy N ^a   Johnson, Martin H ^a  

^a Department of Anatomy ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SIZE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CELL VOLUME; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DATA ANALYSIS; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ECTODERM; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; TROPHOBLAST; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; BLASTOMERES; CELL COUNT; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SIZE; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; TROPHOBLASTS;

MAMMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 12344329678     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/rep.1.00281     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Barlow P, Owen DA & Graham C 1972 DNA synthesis in the preimplantation mouse embryo. Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology 27 431-445.
2. Bemark M, Khamlichi AA, Davies SL & Neuberger MS 2000 Disruption of mouse polymerase zeta (Rev3) leads to embryonic lethality and impairs blastocyst development in vitro. Current Biology 10 1213-1216.
3. Borland RM, Biggers JD & Lechene CP 1977 Studies on the composition and formation of mouse blastocoele fluid using electron probe microanalysis. Developmental Biology 55 1-8.
4. Chisholm JC 1988 Analysis of the fifth cell cycle of mouse development. Journal of Reproduction and Fertility 84 29-36.
5. Chisholm JC, Johnson MH, Warren PD, Fleming TP & Pickering SJ 1985 Developmental variability within and between mouse expanding blastocysts and their ICMs. Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology 86 311-336.
6. +: an embryonic clock? Reproduction Fertility, and Development 13 69-79.
7. Epstein CJ 1975 Gene expression and macromolecular synthesis during preimplantation embryonic development. Biology of Reproduction 12 82-105.
8. Fingar DC, Richardson CJ, Tee AR, Cheatham L, Tsou C & Blenis J 2004 mTOR controls cell cycle progresion through its cell growth effectors S6K1 and 4E-BP1/eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E. Molecular and Cellular Biology 24 200-216.
9. Fleming TP 1987 A quantitative analysis of cell allocation to trophectoderm and inner cell mass in the mouse blastocyst. Developmental Biology 119 520-531.
10. Fleming TP, Cannon PM & Pickering SJ 1986 The cytoskeleton, endocytosis and cell polarity in the mouse preimplantation embryo. Developmental Biology 113 406-419.
11. Fulka J Jr, First NL, Fulka J & Moor RM 1999 Checkpoint control of the G2/M phase transition during the first mitotic cycle in mammalian eggs. Human Reproduction 14 1582-1587.
12. Gardner DK, Pool TB & Lane M 2000 Embryo nutrition and energy metabolism and its relationship to embryo growth, differentiation, and viability. Seminars in Reproductive Medicine 18 205-218.
13. Gunderson H & Jenson EB 1987 The efficiency of systematic sampling in stereology and its prediction. Microscopy 147 229-263.
14. Handyside AH 1980 Distribution of antibody- and lectin-binding sites on dissociated blastomeres from mouse morulae: evidence for polarization at compaction. Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology 60 99-116.
15. Howlett SK, Webb M, Maro B & Johnson MH 1985 Meiosis II, mitosis I and the linking interphase: a study of the cytoskeleton in the fertilised mouse egg. Cytobios 43 295-305.
16. Johnson MH & Ziomek CA 1981 The foundation of two distinct cell lineages within the mouse morula. Cell 24 71-80.
17. Johnson MH & Selwood L 1996 Nomenclature of early development in mammals. Reproduction, Fertility, and Development 8 759-764.
18. Johnson M & Day M 2000 Egg timers: how is developmental time measured in the early vertebrate embryo? Bioessays 22 57-63.
19. Johnson M & McConnell JM 2004 Lineage allocation and cell polarity during mouse embryogenesis. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology 15 583-597.
20. Kellogg DR 2003 Wee1-dependent mechanisms required for coordination of cell growth and cell division. Journal of Cell Science 116 4883-4890.
21. Kolajova M, Hammer MA, Collins IL & Baltz JM 2001 Developmentally regulated cell cycle dependence of swelling-activated anion channel activity in the mouse embryo. Development 128 3427-3434.
22. Lane M & Gardner DK 2000 Regulation of ionic homeostasis by mammalian embryos. Seminars in Reproductive Medicine 18 195-204.
23. MacQueen HA & Johnson MH 1983 The fifth cell cycle of the mouse embryo is longer for smaller cells than for larger cells. Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology 77 297-308.
24. Moore GD, Ayabe T, Kopf GS & Schultz RM 1996 Temporal patterns of gene expression of G1-S cyclins and cdks during the first and second mitotic cell cycles in mouse embryos. Molecular Reproduction and Development 45 264-275.
25. Newport J & Kirschner M 1982a A major developmental transition in early Xenopus embryos: II. Control of the onset of transcription. Cell 30 687-696.
26. Newport J & Kirschner M 1982b A major developmental transition in early Xenopus embryos: I. characterization and timing of cellular changes at the midblastula stage. Cell 30 675-686.
27. Newport J & Kirschner M 1984 Regulation of the cell cycle during early Xenopus development. Cell 37 731-742.
28. O'Farrell P 2004 Embryonic cleavage cycles: how is a mouse like a fly? Current Biology 14 R35-R45.
29. Prioleau M-N, Huet J, Sentenac A & Mechali M 1994 Competition between chromatin and transcription complex assembly regulates gene expression during early development. Cell 77 439-449.
30. Reeve WJ & Kelly FP 1983 Nuclear position in the cells of the mouse early embryo. Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology 75 117-139.
31. Roberts N, Cruz-Orive LM, Reid NM, Brodie DA, Bourne M & Edwards RH 1993 Unbiased estimation of human body composition by the Cavalieri method using magnetic resonance imaging. Journal of Microscopy 171 239-253.
32. Roberts N, Garden AS, Cruz-Orive LM, Whitehouse GH & Edwards RH 1994 Estimation of fetal volume by magnetic resonance imaging and stereology. British Journal of Radiology 67 1067-1077.
33. Rossant J 1986 Development of extraembryonic lineages. In Experimental Appoaches to Mammalian Development, 1st edn. Eds J Rossant & R Pederson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
34. Schultz RM 2002 The molecular foundations of the maternal to zygotic transition in the preimplantation embryo. Human Reproduction Update 8 323-331.
35. Sible J, Anderson J, Lewellyn A & Maller J 1997 Zygotic transcription is required to block a maternal programme of apoptosis in Xenopus embryos. Developmental Biology 189 335-346.
36. Smith R & McLaren A 1977 Factors affecting the time of formation of the mouse blastocoele. Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology 41 79-92.
37. Smith R & Johnson MH 1986 Analysis of the third and fourth cell cycles of mouse early development. Journal of Reproduction and Fertility 76 393-399.
38. Solter D & Knowles BB 1975 Immunosurgery of mouse blastocyst. PNAS 72 5099-5102.
39. Stack J & Newport J 1997 Developmentally regulated activation of apoptosis early in Xenopus gastrulation results in cyclin A degration during interphase of the cell cycle. Development 124 3185-3195.
40. Streffer C, van Beuningen D, Molls M, Zamboglou N & Schulz S 1980 Kinetics of cell proliferation in the pre-implanted mouse embryo in vivo and in vitro. Cell Tissue Kinetics 13 135-143.
41. Surani MA & Barton SC 1984 Spatial distribution of blastomeres is dependent on cell division order and interactions in mouse morulae. Developmental Biology 102 335-343.
42. Smanson JA, Lee F & Knapp PE 1991 Cellular dimensions affecting the nucleocytoplasmic volume ratio. Journal of Cell Biology 115 941-948.
43. Takai H, Tominaga K, Motoyama N, Minamishima YA, Nagahama H, Tsukiyama T, Ikeda K, Nakayama K & Nakanishi M 2000 Aberrant cell cycle checkpoint function and early embryonic death in Chk1(-/-) mice. Genes and Development 14 1439-1447.
44. Telford NA, Hogan A, Franz CR & Schultz GA 1990 Expression of genes for insulin and insulin-like growth faaws and receptors in early postimplantation mouse embryos and embryonal carcinoma cells. Molecular Reproduction and Development 27 81-92.
45. Turner K, Goldstein DJ & Rogers AW 1992 Variation in the dry mass of mouse embryos throughout the preimplantation period. Human Reproduction 7 112-116.
46. Waclaw RR & Chatot CL 2004 Patterns of expression of cyclins A, B1, D, E and cdk 2 in preimplantation mouse embryos. Zygote 12 19-30.
47. Wales RG & Hunter J 1990 Participation of glucose in the synthesis of glycoproteins in preimplantation mouse embryos. Reproduction, Fertility, and Development 2 35-50.
48. Wiley LM 1984 Cavitation in the mouse preimplantation embryo: Na/K-ATPase and the origin of nascent blastocoele fluid. Developmental Biology 105 330-342.
49. Ziomek CA, Johnson MH & Handyside AH 1982 The developmental potential of mouse 16-cell blastomeres. Journal of Experimental Zoology 221 345-355.