Establishment of trophectoderm and inner cell mass lineages in the mouse embryo

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 76, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1019-1032

  Marikawa, Yusuke ^a   Alarcón, Vernadeth B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CDX2;

BLASTOCYST; BLASTOMERE; CELL CYCLE; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; EMBRYO (ANATOMY); EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPITHELIUM; EPITHELIZATION; INNER CELL MASS; MOUSE EMBRYO; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; TROPHECTODERM;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST INNER CELL MASS; BLASTOMERES; CELL LINEAGE; ECTODERM; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TROPHOBLASTS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 70349288430     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.21057     Document Type: Review

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