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Insulin-like growth factor-2 regulation of conceptus composition: effects of the trophectoderm and inner cell mass genotypes in the mouse.
Biology of reproduction - 1 Jan 1999
Gardner R L, Squire S, Zaina S, Hills S, Graham C F
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The purpose of this study was to measure the effect of insulin-like growth factor-2 deficiency on the growth of the mouse conceptus. Initial observations on normal development in the 129J/Sv strain established that wet and dry weights were reduced by 35% when the insulin-like growth factor-2 gene was inactive. The DNA contents were reduced by only 15%. We exchanged the inner cell mass and trophectoderm between...
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