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inner cell mass

[¦in·ər ′sel ‚mas]

(embryology)

The cells at the animal pole of a blastocyst which give rise to the embryo and certain extraembryonic membranes.

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4,5 A study has shown that for an undisturbed embryonic development, a sufficient number of inner cell mass are essential.

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The IMO groups' blastocysts had brighter appearance, more prominent inner cell mass and less irregularities compared with blastocysts produced in SOFaaBSA alone (Figure 1).

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Pleuripotent stem cells originate as inner cell mass within a blastocyst (Blastula).

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Once a fertilized egg has gone through several rounds of division, stem cells form a bulge, called the inner cell mass, inside the early embryo.

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After about five days, a blastocyst forms: Cells move to form a thin layer around the edge and a group of small cells, called the inner cell mass, assembles along one side.

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All cells of the early human embryo are totipotent until shortly after the blastocyst stage, including the cells of the inner cell mass and even the primitive germ-line cells.

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Representative slides demonstrated considerable integration of the Y chromosome throughout the inner cell mass and the trophectoderm (the tissue layer that forms the wall of the early embryo) of the 5-day-old recipient embryos and throughout the completely hatched 6-day-old recipient embryos.

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The inner cell mass of the blastocyst resulting from somatic cell nuclear transfer.

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Embryonic stem cells are self-renewing, undifferentiated cells that are extracted from the inner cell mass of a 5-6 day old embryo or blastocyst.

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4) One could theoretically harvest the cells of the morula prior to blastocyst formation; each of these thirty-two cells is capable of producing both placental and embryonic tissue and therefore has totipotentiality while the inner cell mass of a later embryo has pluripotentiality.

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The placenta is primarily derived from embryonic trophoblast cells with additional mesodermal cells derived from the inner cell mass.