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ReviewNature cell biology2018

Deconstructing and reconstructing the mouse and human early embryo.

Marta N Shahbazi, Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

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Review in Nature cell biology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 123 papers.

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123citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

123 citing papers in PubMed.

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  9. Synthetic embryos: current progress, application and challenges.Reproductive biology and endocrinology : RB&E · 2026
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  14. Artificial Uterus and Artificial Embryos: Unsolved Tasks.Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) · 2025
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  16. Tracing and Capturing the Epiblast Pluripotency of Sheep Preimplantation Embryos.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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63 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Marta N ShahbaziDepartment of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Mammalian Embryo and Stem Cell Group, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. ms2261@cam.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1599-5747
Magdalena Zernicka-GoetzDepartment of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Mammalian Embryo and Stem Cell Group, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. mz205@cam.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7004-2471

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The emergence of form and function during mammalian embryogenesis is a complex process that involves multiple regulatory levels. The foundations of the body plan are laid throughout the first days of post-implantation development as embryonic stem cells undergo symmetry breaking and initiate lineage specification, in a process that coincides with a global morphological reorganization of the embryo. Here, we review experimental models and how they have shaped our current understanding of the post-implantation mammalian embryo.

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Cell LineageEmbryo ResearchMorphogenesisStem Cell ResearchAnimalsCells, CulturedEmbryo, MammalianGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalGestational AgeHistory, 20th CenturyHistory, 21st CenturyHuman Embryonic Stem CellsHumansMiceMouse Embryonic Stem CellsSignal Transduction

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