scholarly journals HUWE1 plays important role in mouse preimplantation embryo development and the dysregulation is associated with poor embryo development in humans

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
L. J. Chen ◽  
W. M. Xu ◽  
M. Yang ◽  
K. Wang ◽  
Y. Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Embryo Development ◽  
Preimplantation Embryo ◽  
Preimplantation Embryo Development ◽  
Mouse Preimplantation Embryo ◽  
Mouse Preimplantation Embryo Development

scholarly journals The first cell-fate decision of mouse preimplantation embryo development: integrating cell position and polarity

Open Biology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 170210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandar I. Mihajlović ◽  
Alexander W. Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Cell Fate ◽  
Embryo Development ◽  
Preimplantation Embryo ◽  
Cell Mass ◽  
Cell Fate Decision ◽  
Preimplantation Embryo Development ◽  
Cell Lineages ◽  
Mouse Preimplantation Embryo ◽  
Fate Decision ◽  
Mouse Preimplantation Embryo Development

During the first cell-fate decision of mouse preimplantation embryo development, a population of outer-residing polar cells is segregated from a second population of inner apolar cells to form two distinct cell lineages: the trophectoderm and the inner cell mass (ICM), respectively. Historically, two models have been proposed to explain how the initial differences between these two cell populations originate and ultimately define them as the two stated early blastocyst stage cell lineages. The ‘positional’ model proposes that cells acquire distinct fates based on differences in their relative position within the developing embryo, while the ‘polarity’ model proposes that the differences driving the lineage segregation arise as a consequence of the differential inheritance of factors, which exhibit polarized subcellular localizations, upon asymmetric cell divisions. Although these two models have traditionally been considered separately, a growing body of evidence, collected over recent years, suggests the existence of a large degree of compatibility. Accordingly, the main aim of this review is to summarize the major historical and more contemporarily identified events that define the first cell-fate decision and to place them in the context of both the originally proposed positional and polarity models, thus highlighting their functional complementarity in describing distinct aspects of the developmental programme underpinning the first cell-fate decision in mouse embryogenesis.

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