Moving Inward: Establishing the Mammalian Inner Cell Mass

Bob Goldstein; Daniel P Kiehart

doi:10.1016/j.devcel.2015.08.007

Moving Inward: Establishing the Mammalian Inner Cell Mass

Dev Cell. 2015 Aug 24;34(4):385-6. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2015.08.007.

Authors

Bob Goldstein¹, Daniel P Kiehart²

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¹ Biology Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. Electronic address: bobg@unc.edu.
² Biology Department, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA. Electronic address: dkiehart@duke.edu.

Abstract

Early in mammalian development, a few cells move to the center of the embryo to establish the inner cell mass-the early precursor of the fetus. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Samarage et al. (2015) shed light on how these cells move inward.

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Animals
Blastocyst Inner Cell Mass / cytology*
Blastocyst Inner Cell Mass / physiology*
Female
Humans

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