Mechanisms of trophectoderm fate specification in preimplantation mouse development

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 263-273

  Sasaki, Hiroshi ^a  

^a RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cdx2; Hippo signal; Tead; Tead4; Trophectoderm; Yap

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; RAS PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CDX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TEAD4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BLASTOCYST; CELL CONTACT; CELL DIVISION; CELL FATE; CELL POLARITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERM LAYER; INNER CELL MASS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOCYST INNER CELL MASS; CELL LINEAGE; CELL POLARITY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ECTODERM; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE PROTEINS; PREGNANCY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 77950223473     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2009.01158.x     Document Type: Review

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