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Regulatory mechanisms of mouse preimplantation development

A. V. Evsikov

Our review focuses on modern problems of developmental regulation in preimplantation mouse embryo. The roles of four involved mechanisms, nucleo-cytoplasmic interactions, «cytoplasmic» regulation, cell-cell interactions and genomic imprinting, are discussed.