"Blastomeres" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Undifferentiated cells resulting from cleavage of a fertilized egg (ZYGOTE). Inside the intact ZONA PELLUCIDA, each cleavage yields two blastomeres of about half size of the parent cell. Up to the 8-cell stage, all of the blastomeres are totipotent. The 16-cell MORULA contains outer cells and inner cells.
| Descriptor ID |
D001757
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A11.872.700.250.130 A16.094
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| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Blastomeres" by people in Profiles.
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Transgenesis in Hydra to characterize gene function and visualize cell behavior. Nat Protoc. 2019 07; 14(7):2069-2090.
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Molecular asymmetry in the 8-cell stage Xenopus tropicalis embryo described by single blastomere transcript sequencing. Dev Biol. 2015 Dec 15; 408(2):252-68.
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Multiplex rt-PCR expression analysis of developmentally important genes in individual mouse preimplantation embryos and blastomeres. Biol Reprod. 2009 Jan; 80(1):194-202.
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