Oct4 is required for primordial germ cell survival
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Oct4 is required for primordial germ cell survival.
Previous studies have shown that Oct4 has an essential role in maintaining pluripotency of cells of the inner cell mass (ICM) and embryonic stem cells. However, Oct4 null homozygous embryos die around the time of implantation, thus precluding further analysis of gene function during development. We have used the conditional Cre/loxP gene targeting strategy to assess Oct4 function in primordial ...
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عنوان ژورنال: EMBO reports
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1469-221X,1469-3178
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400279