mortality/aging
• homozygotes die following implantation and the induction of decidualization
• histological sections of 7.5-dpc deciduae from heterozygous intercrosses revealed two distinct classes: those containing embryos of normal appearance that were readily identified as either heterozygous or wild-type, and those that were empty or contained insufficient embryonic material for genotyping
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embryo
• in vitro, 10 of 19 mutant preimplantation blastocysts cultured on mouse feeder layer cells displayed poor proliferation of inner cell mass during the first few days after hatching, and complete cessation of growth thereafter
• 7 of the remaining 9 failed to hatch or attach to the feeder layer and two exhibited poor trophoblast outgrowth and no identifiable inner cell mass
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cellular
• in vitro, 10 of 19 mutant preimplantation blastocysts cultured on mouse feeder layer cells displayed poor proliferation of inner cell mass during the first few days after hatching, and complete cessation of growth thereafter
• 7 of the remaining 9 failed to hatch or attach to the feeder layer and two exhibited poor trophoblast outgrowth and no identifiable inner cell mass
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