mortality/aging
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• no homozygous mutant embryos are retrieved past the blastocyst stage
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embryo
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• proliferation of the pluripotent inner cell mass is impaired
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• only a few blastocysts are identified at E3.5
• upon culture, outgrowth of pluripotent inner mass cells from mutant blastocysts is not achieved
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cellular
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• proliferation of the pluripotent inner cell mass is impaired
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