The location of "8"-shaped hatching influences inner cell mass formation in mouse blastocysts.

The hatching of a blastocyst where the blastocyst portions on the inside and the outside of the zona pellucida feature a figure-of-eight shape is termed "8"-shaped hatching; this type of hatching has been reported to affect the proper presentation of the inner cell mass (ICM) in both human...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yohei Onodera, Kazumasa Takahashi, Mayumi Goto, Mibuki Anzai, Natsuki Ono, Hiromitsu Shirasawa, Wataru Sato, Hiroshi Miura, Naoki Sato, Akira Sato, Yukiyo Kumazawa, Yukihiro Terada
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5383253?pdf=render