mortality/aging
• preimplantation embryos are detected at E3.5; however, all appear abnormal
• no embryos are detected at E7.5 to E13.5
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embryo
• after E1.5, embryo development is retarded and embryos often fail to progress to the 8-cell stage
• at E3.5, embryos exhibit abnormal morphology
• at E3.5, cell and nucleus size are heterogeneous
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• at E3.5, cells of the inner cell mass are dispersed with visible cell boundaries instead of densely aggregated as in wild-type embryos
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• at E3.5, embryos lack the trophectoderm epithelium
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cellular
• at E3.5, all mice have abnormal nuclei
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• at E3.5, embryonic cells have defective cell-cell adhesion
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• at E2.0, fewer cells are undergoing mitosis than in wild-type embryos
• E3.5 cells do not proliferate in culture and fail to enter M phase of mitosis
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