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Effects of retinoic acid on the inner cell mass in mouse blastocysts.

Huang FJ, Hsu YC, Kang HY, Chang SY, Hsuuw YD, Huang KE

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

This is the first evidence that excess retinoic acid has a direct cellular response from proliferation to cell death (apoptosis) and affects in vitro development in mouse inner cell mass.

Published 17 January 2005 in Fertil Steril, 83(1): 238-42.
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