mortality/aging
• embryos fail to develop past E6.5
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embryo
• embryos fail to gastrulate
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• embryos arrest growth at E6.5
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• E6.5 embryos have primitive endoderm and epiblast cell layers but fail to form a mesoderm
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• ES cells derived from E3.5 embryos differentiate into an endoderm-like cells similar in morphology and growth properties to extraembryonic endoderm cells
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