mortality/aging
• no embryos survive to E9.5, appear to die around E5.5
• embryos in various states of degeneration are detected between E6.5 and E8.5
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embryo
• at E4.5, primitive endoderm cells are present but are not organized into a monolayer epithelium and some are located deep inside the inner cell mass
• at E5.5, endoderm cells are misplaced and intermixed within the egg cylinder core
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• tissues derived from the primitive endoderm are disorganized at E5.5
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