Four-cell stage mouse blastomeres have different developmental properties

Development

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 479-490

  Piotrowska Nitsche, Karolina ^a,b   Perea Gomez, Aitana ^a,c   Haraguchi, Seiki ^a,d   Zernicka Goetz, Magdalena ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^b POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^c INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^d SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell fate; Chimaeras; Cleavage pattern; Mouse embryo

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOMERE; CELL DIVISION; CELL FATE; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; MOUSE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY;

ANIMALS; BLASTOMERES; CELL COUNT; CELLS, CULTURED; CHIMERA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; MICE;

ANIMALIA; CHIMAERIFORMES;

EID: 14044260624     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01602     Document Type: Article

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