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Isolation and Derivation of Mouse Embryonic Germinal Cells
Published on: October 22, 2009
How is the mouse germ-cell lineage established?
Anne McLaren1, Kirstie A Lawson
1The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QR, UK. a.mclaren@gurdan.cam.ac.uk
Differentiation; Research in Biological Diversity
|December 15, 2005
Abstract:
Six cells have been detected in the early mouse embryo that express the transcriptional repressor Blimp1--as also do all the 40 or so cells that constitute the founder germ cell pool a day later. Are these half-dozen cells the ancestors of the entire mouse germ cell lineage?
