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Increased incidence of apoptosis in transforming growth factor alpha-deficient mouse blastocysts.
Biology of reproduction - 1 Jul 1998
Brison D R, Schultz R M
Abstract excerpt
We previously demonstrated that exogenous transforming growth factor alpha (TGFalpha) reduces the incidence of apoptosis in mouse blastocysts that develop in vitro but does not result in an increase in cell number or the incidence of development to the blastocyst stage. Thus, TGFalpha may function as a cell survival factor in the preimplantation mouse embryo. To extend these studies, we have now examined the...
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