Morula
"Morula" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An early embryo that is a compact mass of about 16 BLASTOMERES. It resembles a cluster of mulberries with two types of cells, outer cells and inner cells. Morula is the stage before BLASTULA in non-mammalian animals or a BLASTOCYST in mammals.
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D009028
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A16.615
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| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Morula" by people in Profiles.
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Thongkittidilok C, Tharasanit T, Songsasen N, Sananmuang T, Buarpung S, Techakumphu M. Epidermal growth factor improves developmental competence and embryonic quality of singly cultured domestic cat embryos. J Reprod Dev. 2015; 61(4):269-76.
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Hall VJ, Cooney MA, Shanahan P, Tecirlioglu RT, Ruddock NT, French AJ. Nuclear lamin antigen and messenger RNA expression in bovine in vitro produced and nuclear transfer embryos. Mol Reprod Dev. 2005 Dec; 72(4):471-82.
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Antczak M, Van Blerkom J. Oocyte influences on early development: the regulatory proteins leptin and STAT3 are polarized in mouse and human oocytes and differentially distributed within the cells of the preimplantation stage embryo. Mol Hum Reprod. 1997 Dec; 3(12):1067-86.
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Van Blerkom J. The influence of intrinsic and extrinsic factors on the developmental potential and chromosomal normality of the human oocyte. J Soc Gynecol Investig. 1996 Jan-Feb; 3(1):3-11.