mortality/aging
• no mice are present by E4.5 and only 50% of expected embryos are present at E3.5
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embryo
• at E3.5, 36 of 85 embryos exhibit developmental arrest and all embryos fail to develop in culture compared to only 30% of wild-type embryos
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• in culture blastocysts fail to attach to a gelatinized substrate and do not form outgrowths of trophoblast-like cells unlike wild-type cells
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