cellular
• at normoxic (20% O2) conditions in E8.5 embryo explant lysates
• 34% reduced triosephosphate isomerase activity
• increased glycerol-3-phosphate levels
• triosephosphate isomerase activity under hypoxic (1% O2) conditions
• increased diacylglycerol (DG 32:0, 34:0 and 36:0) levels
• increased triglyceride (TG) levels
• reduced phosphatidylcholine levels
• 13% increase in DG/TG ratio
• 2.7-fold increase in TG/phosphatidylcholine ratio
• increased presence and abundance of perilipin-3-positive lipid droplets in MEFs: in 26.4% of cells with 47.8 droplets/cell versus 22% with 35.8 droplets/cell for wild-type
• more than 2-fold increase in Dgat2 expression, and increase in Cebpa and Cebpb expression according to qRT-PCR
• triglyceride (TG) and phosphatidylcholine levels in MEFs isolated from embryos under hypoxic (1% O2) conditions
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• mouse embryo fibroblasts (MEFs) isolated from E8.5 embryos by dissociation fail to grow under normoxic (20% O2) conditions
• growth of undissociated explanted E8.5 embryos under normoxic (20% O2) conditions for 7 days: beating hearts and cellular outgrowths
• proliferation under hypoxic conditions (1% O2) of MEFs isolated from E8.5 embryos by dissociation
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embryo
• at E9.5 none of 8 embryos had completed turning, compared to 8 of 10 wild-type and 22 of 24 heterozygotes that had
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• at E9.5, embryos were size of E8.5 wild-type embryos
• at E10.5, 80% of embryos showed retarded growth, being size of E9.5 wild-type embryos
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• at E9.5, embryos were size of E8.5 wild-type embryos
• at E10.5, 80% of embryos showed retarded growth, being size of E9.5 wild-type embryos
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• stalled development after E8.5
• somite pair numbers at E8.5
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• impaired vessel formation in labyrinth, indicated by strong reduction of Flk1- and Sm22-positive structures
• outer layer of Pl1- or Hand1-positive trophoblast giant cells
• middle layer of Tbpb- or Flt1-positive spongiotrophoblast cells
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• impaired vessel formation, indicated by strong reduction of Flk1- and Sm22-positive structures
• decrease in embryonic blood vessel density: 13/87% ratio of embryonic/maternal vessels, versus 44/56% in wild-type
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cardiovascular system
• very few embryos with beating heart at E10.5
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hemorrhage
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J:259970
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• cranial, dorsal and abdominal bleeding in some embryos at E10.5, increasing at E11.5
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growth/size/body
• at E9.5, embryos were size of E8.5 wild-type embryos
• at E10.5, 80% of embryos showed retarded growth, being size of E9.5 wild-type embryos
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• at E9.5, embryos were size of E8.5 wild-type embryos
• at E10.5, 80% of embryos showed retarded growth, being size of E9.5 wild-type embryos
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mortality/aging
• normal Mendelian ratio between E8.5 and E11.5 but only 1 homozygous mutant at E12.5 out of 25 embryos tested at that stage after heterozygote matings
• no mice found at age P21
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