blastomere

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The descendants of the injected blastomere, on the other hand, adopted a primary mesenchyme cell fate and therefore did not express endo16.

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  1. noun Any of the cells resulting from the cleavage of a fertilized ovum during early embryonic development.

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  • When they had isolated such an embryo, they thawed it, allowed it to progress to the 32-blastomere stage, then dissociated these thirty-two cells with applications of a protein-digesting enzyme. —  F ;SF; - vol 088 issue 02 - February 1995
  • To test whether ActivinB function is required within Pmar1-expressing cells or within the cells that receive signals from them, we microinjected pmar1 and gfp mRNAs into one blastomere of a two-cell embryo and ActivinB MO into either the same blastomere or its sister. —  PLoS Biology: New Articles
  • The descendants of the injected blastomere, on the other hand, adopted a primary mesenchyme cell fate and therefore did not express endo16. —  PLoS Biology: New Articles
  • When ActivinB translation was blocked only in the recipient blastomere, both ectopic and endogenous endo16 mRNA expression were significantly down regulated in the progeny of that cell —  PLoS Biology: New Articles
  • For single-blastomere injections, embryos were cultured in ASW until 40 min after the first cell division and rinsed four times with ice-cold calcium-magnesium-free sea water (CMFSW). —  PLoS Biology: New Articles
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  1. from Greek βλαστός, a germ, + μέρος, a participle
 

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