Home > Browse Issues > Vol.30 No.3
Polarity Formation in Mouse Embryos
Shun-Li Yue1, Zeng-Ming Yang2*
1College of Life Science, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China; 2College of Life Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
Abstract: Mammalian embryos have been thought to be lack of polarity until blastocyst stage because of remarkable regulative capacity. However， it was found that the polarity of mouse embryo is established much earlier than our anticipation. Mammalian embryonic development might not necessarily be so different from other species. In mammals， both regulative development and patterning development may co-exist. The polarity of mammalian embryos may be formed from both "randomness" and "predetermination". The study on embryonic polarity will be important for understanding the molecular mechanism of embryo development.
CN
EN