Morphofunctional characteristics of the lipids in the early embryogeny of placental mammals
Korolev, V.A.
Arkhiv Anatomii Gistologii i Embriologii 70(2): 18-26
1976
ISSN/ISBN: 0004-1947 PMID: 1259599 Document Number: 106037
The comparative cytological study of lipids points to species specific character of lipid metabolism in early embryogenesis of placentate mammals. The general level of lipid metabolism is genetically determined in oogenesis being expressed by different loading of the ooplasm with substances of lipoid nature. At the cleavage stage lipids play a plastic role. Their significance as functionally active complexes is manifested in the period of the blastocyst formation, which is dependent on morphological differentiation and the beginning of the trophoblast functioning as an early metabolic organ.