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Multipotent cell lineages in early mouse development depend on SOX2 function.
Genes & development - 1 Jan 2003
Avilion Ariel A, Nicolis Silvia K, Pevny Larysa H, Perez Lidia, Vivian Nigel, Lovell-Badge Robin
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Each cell lineage specified in the preimplantation mammalian embryo depends on intrinsic factors for its development, but there is also mutual interdependence between them. OCT4 is required for the ICM/epiblast lineage, and at transient high levels for extraembryonic endoderm, but also indirectly through its role in regulating Fgf4 expression, for the establishment and proliferation of extraembryonic ectoderm...
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