"Blastomeres" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Undifferentiated cells resulting from cleavage of a fertilized egg (ZYGOTE). Inside the intact ZONA PELLUCIDA, each cleavage yields two blastomeres of about half size of the parent cell. Up to the 8-cell stage, all of the blastomeres are totipotent. The 16-cell MORULA contains outer cells and inner cells.
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D001757
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A11.872.700.250.130 A16.094
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| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Blastomeres" by people in Profiles.
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Outcomes of neonates born following transfers of frozen-thawed cleavage-stage embryos with blastomere loss: a prospective, multicenter, cohort study. BMC Med. 2018 06 19; 16(1):96.
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Validation of multiple annealing and looping-based amplification cycle sequencing for 24-chromosome aneuploidy screening of cleavage-stage embryos. Fertil Steril. 2014 Dec; 102(6):1685-91.
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Poor correlations in the levels of pathogenic mitochondrial DNA mutations in polar bodies versus oocytes and blastomeres in humans. Am J Hum Genet. 2011 Apr 08; 88(4):494-8.