Anatomy of a blastocyst: Cell behaviors driving cell fate choice and morphogenesis in the early mouse embryo

Genesis

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 219-233

  Schrode, Nadine ^a   Xenopoulos, Panagiotis ^a   Piliszek, Anna ^a,b   Frankenberg, Stephen ^c   Plusa, Berenika ^d   Hadjantonakis, Anna Katerina ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND ANIMAL BREEDING   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blastocyst; Cell lineage commitment; Epiblast; Inner cell mass; Morula; Mouse embryo; Preimplantation; Primitive endoderm; Trophectoderm

Indexed keywords

EZRIN; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; PROTEIN KINASE C; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; UVOMORULIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CELL POLARITY; CELL SELECTION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; ECTODERM; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENDODERM; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INNER CELL MASS; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE EMBRYO; NONHUMAN; PLACENTAL MAMMALS; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; MICE; MORPHOGENESIS;

EID: 84876727460     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: 1526968X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvg.22368     Document Type: Article

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