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ReviewNature reviews. Molecular cell biology2025

Origin, fate and function of extraembryonic tissues during mammalian development.

Shifaan Thowfeequ, Courtney W Hanna, Shankar Srinivas

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Review in Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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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

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Mechanisms of human germ cell development.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2026
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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

3 authors.

Shifaan ThowfeequInstitute of Developmental and Regenerative Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5716-428X
Courtney W HannaDepartment of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4063-5575
Shankar SrinivasInstitute of Developmental and Regenerative Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. shankar.srinivas@dpag.ox.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5726-7791

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Extraembryonic tissues have pivotal roles in morphogenesis and patterning of the early mammalian embryo. Developmental programmes mediated through signalling pathways and gene regulatory networks determine the sequence in which fate determination and lineage commitment of extraembryonic tissues take place, and epigenetic processes allow the memory of cell identity and state to be sustained throughout and beyond embryo development, even extending across generations. In this Review, we discuss the molecular and cellular mechanisms necessary for the different extraembryonic tissues to develop and function, from their initial specification up until the end of gastrulation, when the body plan of the embryo and the anatomical organization of its supporting extraembryonic structures are established. We examine the interaction between extraembryonic and embryonic tissues during early patterning and morphogenesis, and outline how epigenetic memory supports extraembryonic tissue development.

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Embryo, MammalianEmbryonic DevelopmentMammalsAnimalsBody PatterningCell DifferentiationCell LineageEpigenesis, GeneticGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalHumansMorphogenesisSignal Transduction

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