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Published in final edited form as: Int J Dev Biol. 2010;54(4):675–681. doi: 10.1387/ijdb.092942mk

TABLE 4.

CELL FATE AT BLASTOCYST OF INDIVIDUAL BLASTOMERES LABELED WITH DII-CM AT THE 2-CELL STAGE ACCORDING TO BLASTOMERE ORIENTATION AT THE 4-CELL STAGE

Type of ovulation	Orientation^*	Number of blastocysts and localization of Dil-CM positive cells
Type of ovulation	Orientation^*	Total	Random	Embryonic	Abembryonic
S	T	32	9 (28 ± 2)^a	10 (31 ± 4)^a	13 (41 ± 3)^a
	P	20	13 (73 ± 21)^b	4 (17 ± 12)^a	3 (11 ± 13)^b
N	T	27	17 (63 ± 4)^a	5 (18 ± 12)^a	5 (19 ± 14)^a
	P	17	16 (94 ± 10)^B	0 (0 ± 0)^B	1 (5 ± 10)^A

Data are from six experiments. Values in parentheses are percentages ± S.D. When superscripts

^{a, b and A, B}

differ within columns, values are significantly different (P < 0.05).

tetrahedral, T; planar, P.