Generating different genetic expression patterns in the early embryo: Insights from the mouse model

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 586-592

  Bruce, Alexander W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

cell fate; preimplantation embryo; probabilistic; regulative development; stochastic; transcription

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; STAT4 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CDX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2;

ARTICLE; ASYMMETRIC CELL DIVISION; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOMA; CELL CONTACT; CELL DENSITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LINEAGE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTERNALIZATION; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

CELL FATE; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PROBABILISTIC; REGULATIVE DEVELOPMENT; STOCHASTIC; TRANSCRIPTION;

ANIMALS; BLASTOMERES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MOVEMENT; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84889083553     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2013.03.024     Document Type: Review

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