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IN an earlier communication1 it was shown that a mouse blastocyst, transplanted beneath the kidney capsule of a mouse, not necessarily of the same genotype, gave rise to an embryo surrounded by a highly invasive trophoblast. The trophoblast destroyed and infiltrated the host organ.
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KIRBY, D. Reciprocal Transplantation of Blastocysts between Rats and Mice. Nature 194, 785–786 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/194785a0
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