mortality/aging
• death by E8.5
• by E8.75, the egg cylinder was mostly resorbed
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embryo
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• no evidence of extraembryonic tissue dysmorphology
• no evidence of defective interaction between conceptus and the decidua
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• at E6.5, embryonic endoderm morphology resembled that of visceral extraembryonic endoderm, consisting of large, columnar cells containing vacuoles, rather than the normal squamous cells
• at E7.5, the endoderm was crowded and formed occasional bulges
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• at E7.5, littermate controls had undergone gastrulation, while homozygous mutant mice had not
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• evident by E7.5
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• undetectable at E7.5
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growth/size/body
• evident by E7.5
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