The egg yoke is basically like the cytoplasm of a cell. It contains everything the nucleus needs to survive, and grow into an embryo. The yoke provides nourishment and a protective environment. A large fraction of the yoke is made up of wat...
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Embryonic Fatty Acid Composition as a Function of Yolk Fatty. Acid Composition in Eggs of the Lesser Spotted Dogfish. ( Scyliorhinus canicula L.) ...
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Development, morphology, and function of the yolk-sac placenta of laboratory rodents.Development, morphology, and function of the yolk-sac placenta of laboratory rodents.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2187257
Altered visceral yolk sac function produced by a low-molecular-weight somatomedin inhibitor. ... Altered visceral yolk sac function produced by a low-molecular-weight somatomedin inhibito...Altered visceral yolk sac function produced by a low-molecular-weight somatomedin inhibitor.
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The effects of the two inhibitors on the hydrolysis of 125I-labelled BSA and haemoglobin by homogenates of 10·5-day yolk sac indicated the biochemical basis for the differential toxic effects of the two inhibitors on development.
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Throughout this period, India ink was able to pass from the yolk sac through the yolk stalk and into the intestine, but was not able to pass from the intestine into the yolk stalk or yolk sac. Furthermore, labeled microspheres moved from the yolk sac via the yolk stalk into the gut;
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Like most foods naturally high in cholesterol, egg yolks are full of nutrients. The yolk only makes up about a third of an egg’s liquid weight, yet it provides a little less than half of an egg’s total protein. Egg yolks house all of an egg...
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Yolk sac cells from 10-day mouse embryos have natural cytotoxic activity directed against YAC-1 tumor targets but not against P815 tumor targets. Other embryonic tissues tested, ... The correlations between yolk sac natural cytotoxic function, and adult NK and promonocyte cytotoxic functions are briefly discussed.
www.jimmunol.org/cgi/content/abstract/125/5/1924
Maternal hormones in the yolk of birds' eggs have been a focus of attention in behavioral and evolutionary ecology stimulated by the pioneering work of Hubert Schwabl.
www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/17253431
TERATOLOGY 41:361-381 (1990). Development, Morphology, and Function of the Yolk-Sac. PI ace n ta of La bo rat0 ry Rodents. WILLIAM P. JOLLIE ...
doi.wiley.com/10.1002/tera.1420410403
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