Developmental potential of aneuploid human embryos cultured beyond implantation
Aneuploidy, abnormal chromosome number, is a major cause of early pregnancy loss. Here the authors determine the extent of post-implantation development of human embryos with common aneuploidies in culture, finding developmental arrest of monosomy 21 ...
Marta N. Shahbazi+11 more
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Deciphering the Mechanisms of Developmental Disorders (DMDD): a new programme for phenotyping embryonic lethal mice [PDF]
International efforts to test gene function in the mouse by the systematic knockout of each gene are creating many lines in which embryonic development is compromised.
Adams+17 more
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Background: Diabetes mellitus could cause numerous complications and health problems including abnormality of endochondral bone formation during embryogenesis. However, the underlying mechanisms still remain obscure.
Xi Liu+9 more
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Liver and pancreas cells arise from a common endoderm progenitor in the embryo, but what regulates their cell fate is unclear. Here, the authors show that expression of the Three-Amino-acid-Loop-Extension (TALE) homeobox TG-interacting factor 2 (TGIF2 ...
Nuria Cerdá-Esteban+9 more
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Transplantation of embryonic spleen tissue reveals a role for adult non-lymphoid cells in initiating lymphoid tissue organization [PDF]
In this report we describe a transplantation system where embryonic spleens are grafted into adult hosts. This model can be used to analyze the cellular and molecular requirements for the development and organization of splenic microenvironments.Whole ...
Aloisi+43 more
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The first digestive movements in the embryo are mediated by mechanosensitive smooth muscle calcium waves [PDF]
Peristalsis enables transport of the food bolus in the gut. Here, I show by dynamic ex-vivo intra-cellular calcium imaging on living embryonic gut transverse sections that the most primitive form of peristalsis that occurs in the embryo is the result of inter-cellular, gap-junction dependent calcium waves that propagate in the circular smooth muscle ...
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Correlation with basic differentiation processes of neurons [PDF]
The development of the spinal cord involves the proliferation of neurons, their migration to well-defined areas, fiber outgrowth and synapse formation. The present study was designed to correlate the spatiotemporal pattern of expression of synaptophysin,
Altman+37 more
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Transcription factor OTX2 silences the expression of cleavage embryo genes and transposable elements
Upon mammalian fertilization, zygotic genome activation (ZGA) and activation of transposable elements (TEs) occur in early embryos to establish totipotency and support embryogenesis.
Shi-meng GUO+3 more
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Immunolocalization of Na+,K+-ATPase in the branchial cavity during the early development of the crayfish Astacus leptodactylus (Crustacea, Decapoda) [PDF]
The ontogeny of osmoregulation was examined in the branchial cavity of embryonic and early post-embryonic stages of the crayfish Astacus leptodactylus maintained in freshwater, at the sub-cellular level through the detection of the sodium-potassium adenosine triphosphatase (Na(+),K(+)-ATPase).
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Background Pre-eclampsia (PE) is one of the leading causes of maternal and fetal morbidity/mortality during pregnancy, and alpha-2-macroglobulin (A2M) is associated with inflammatory signaling; however, the pathophysiological mechanism by which A2M is ...
Jingyun Wang+13 more
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