mortality/aging
• few embryos survive to E10
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embryo
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• unlike in homozygous germline null mice, no defects are seen in the anterior visceral endoderm or the extraembryonic ectoderm
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• expression analysis indicates an almost radial expansion of the definitive endoderm at E7.5
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• duplications of anterior axial mesendoderm tissues
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• seen in about 1/3 of embryos that also have a defect in primitive streak morphology
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• at E10 the few surviving embryos display open neural folds
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• expanded in surviving embryos at E8.0
• duplications of node tissues
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• about 1/3 of embryos lack an overtly elongated streak
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nervous system
• at E10 the few surviving embryos display open neural folds
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• at E10 the few surviving embryos display defective brain development
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growth/size/body
• seen in about 1/3 of embryos that also have a defect in primitive streak morphology
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