embryo
• fetal livers primarily contain early erythroblasts
• most E14.5 fetal liver cells are arrested at the proerythroblast stage (R2 to R3) rather than progressing to R3 and R4
• blood from E15.5 embryos lacks mature, enucleated RBCs as compared to the presence of 90% enucleated RBCs in controls
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hematopoietic system
• fetal livers primarily contain early erythroblasts
• most E14.5 fetal liver cells are arrested at the proerythroblast stage (R2 to R3) rather than progressing to R3 and R4
• blood from E15.5 embryos lacks mature, enucleated RBCs as compared to the presence of 90% enucleated RBCs in controls
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• very few if any CFU-E colonies are detected in proerythroblast (R2) stage cells from E13.5 liver cells
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mortality/aging
• no homozygotes survive to P7
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• although present at the expected Mendelian ratios at E13.5, ~75% of mutant embryos are dead by E16.5
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