blastomer
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In biology, a blastomere is a type of cell produced by cell division (cleavage) of the zygote after fertilization; blastomeres are an essential part of blastula formation, and blastocyst formation in mammals.
Key facts
- Embryology.Name
- Blastomere
- Embryology.Latin
- blastomerus
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
75 papers- Application of cell free DNA in ART.Placenta · 2022
- Modified Spiral Cleavage: The Duet Cleavage Pattern and Early Blastomer Fates in the Acoel Turbellarian Neochildia fusca.The Biological bulletin · 1996
- Recent progressions in stem cell research: breakthroughs achieved and challenges faced.Acta medica Indonesiana · 2009
- c-Abl Plays an Important Role in Mouse Preimplantation Embryo Development and the Dysregulation Associated With Decreased mTERT Expression.Molecular reproduction and development · 2025
- Optimal timing for blastomere biopsy of 8-cell embryos for preimplantation genetic diagnosis.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2018
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Wikidata facts
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- native label
- blastomerus
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- Blastomeres
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Human blastomere characteristics
- Blastomere differentiation
- Models of differentiation
- Related disorders
- Diagnostics
- References
- Sources
In biology, a blastomere is a type of cell produced by cell division (cleavage) of the zygote after fertilization; blastomeres are an essential part of blastula formation, and blastocyst formation in mammals.
==Human blastomere characteristics==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “blastomer” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.