Cell signalling during blastocyst morphogenesis

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 843, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-21

  Eckert, Judith J ^a   Velazquez, Miguel A ^a   Fleming, Tom P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AMPK signalling; Blastocyst; Epithelial differentiation; Fatty acid signalling; Inner cell mass; Maternal nutrition; Methyl groups; MTORC signalling; Pluripotency; Trophectoderm

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE KINASE; AMINO ACID; FATTY ACID; INSULIN; LIPID; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE KINASE; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL DIVISION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MIGRATION; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; FERTILIZATION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INSULIN METABOLISM; LIPID METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOUSE; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA;

AMP-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FATTY ACIDS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; INSULIN; LIPID METABOLISM; MICE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; ZYGOTE;

EID: 84929145132     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: 22148019     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2480-6_1     Document Type: Article

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