mortality/aging
• embryos die around E6 due to a failure of inner cell mass expansion, shortly after implantation and prior to gastrulation and blood cell development
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embryo
• significantly higher number of TUNEL positive nuclei in the ICM
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• mutant blastocysts fail to exhibit outgrowth of the ICM, both in vitro and in vivo
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• embryos implant but do not undergo the proliferative burst that leads to formation of the egg cylinder
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cellular
• significantly higher number of TUNEL positive nuclei in the ICM
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• mutant blastocysts fail to exhibit outgrowth of the ICM, both in vitro and in vivo
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