Maternal-zygotic knockout reveals a critical role of Cdx2 in the morula to blastocyst transition

Developmental Biology

Volumn 398, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 147-152

  Jedrusik, Agnieszka ^a   Cox, Andy ^a   Wicher, Krzysztof ^a   Glover, David M ^a   Zernicka Goetz, Magdalena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cdx2; Maternal zygotic knockout; Mouse embryo; Trophectoderm

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CDX2 GENE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENOTYPE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MORULA; MOTHER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PHENOTYPE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ZYGOTE; ANIMAL; BREEDING; CYTOLOGY; DEFICIENCY; ECTODERM; MALE; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS;

CDX2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; BODY PATTERNING; BREEDING; CELL DEATH; ECTODERM; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MORULA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZYGOTE;

EID: 84922733411     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2014.12.004     Document Type: Article

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