mortality/aging
• homozygote embryos are missing at E7.5
• 26% of embryos from heterozygote matings are misshapen and partially resorbed at E6.5
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cellular
• embryonic stem cells barely adhere to the feeding cell layer or to dishes coated with extracellular matrix proteins
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embryo
• about half of the embryonic bodies that form in culture have spotty basement membranes, detached endoderm, and eventually degenerate
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• the half of embryonic bodies that survive in culture have poorly developed cavities with varying degrees of endoderm and epiblast detachment
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