Placentation defects are highly prevalent in embryonic lethal mouse mutants

Nature

Volumn 555, Issue 7697, 2018, Pages 463-468

  Perez Garcia, Vicente ^a,b   Fineberg, Elena ^a,b   Wilson, Robert ^c   Murray, Alexander ^a,b   Mazzeo, Cecilia Icoresi ^d   Tudor, Catherine ^d   Sienerth, Arnold ^a,b   White, Jacqueline K ^d   Tuck, Elizabeth ^d   Ryder, Edward J ^d   Gleeson, Diane ^d   Siragher, Emma ^d   Wardle Jones, Hannah ^d   Staudt, Nicole ^d   Wali, Neha ^d   Collins, John ^d   Geyer, Stefan ^e   Busch Nentwich, Elisabeth M ^b,d   Galli, Antonella ^d   Smith, James C ^c   Robertson, Elizabeth ^f   Adams, David J ^d   Weninger, Wolfgang J ^e   Mohun, Timothy ^c   Hemberger, Myriam ^a,b   more..

^a BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c THE FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e Medical University of Vienna   (Austria)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CELL; EMBRYO; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; PHENOTYPE;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE KNOCKOUT; GENE MUTATION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; LETHAL MUTANT; LETHALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PLACENTA DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERATOLOGY; TROPHOBLAST; ANIMAL; EMBRYO DEATH; FEMALE; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO LOSS; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTATION; PLACENTA; PLACENTATION; PREGNANCY; STEM CELLS; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 85044339235     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature26002     Document Type: Article

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