Origin of cellular asymmetries in the preimplantation mouse embryo: A hypothesis

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1657, 2014, Pages

  Takaoka, Katsuyoshi ^a   Hamada, Hiroshi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell fate; Epigenetic; Mouse embryo; Pre implantation

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; DNA; EMBRYO; GENOME; RODENT;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLASTOMA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GENOME; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BLASTOMERES; BODY PATTERNING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENOME; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84908253960     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0536     Document Type: Article

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