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The basis of early patterning in the mouse

ReferenceG17886
Principal Investigator / Supervisor Professor Sir Richard Gardner
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Co-Supervisors
Institution University of Oxford
DepartmentZoology
Funding typeResearch
Value (£) 158,916
StatusCompleted
TypeResearch Grant
Start date 16/06/2003
End date 15/06/2006
Duration36 months

Abstract

The basis of the patterning information that is established before the onset of cleavage in the mouse, and which has been implicated in specifying axes of the fetus, will be investigated. Possible involvement of the fertilising sperm will be examined by comparing concepts produced by fertilisation versus parthenogenetically. Whether onset of patterning is associated with activation-induced cytoplasmic rearrangements in the egg and whether its deployment is localised and relates to recently discovered differential orientation of division planes during second cleavage will also be examined, as well as the tissue of the blastocyst in which its role in embryonic axis formation is initiated.

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Committee Closed Committee - Genes & Developmental Biology (GDB)
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