File:Human embryo day 5 label.gif

Human Conceptus (day 5)

This animated image shows the various features of the day 5 human blastocyst.

• By day 5 the blastocyst has a large blastocoel (fluid-filled space) with a single layer of thin (squamous) cells forming the trophectoderm.
• The inner cell mass can be seen to the left of the blastocoel.
• The blastocyst is still contained inside the zona pellucida.

Image Links: Human oocyte to blastocyst | Germinal vesicle oocyte (GV) | Metaphase I oocyte | Metaphase II oocyte | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 5 | Day 5 (label) | Day 5 (colour label)

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  Germinal vesicle oocyte

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  Metaphase I oocyte

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  Metaphase II oocyte

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  Day 2

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  Day 3 - Morula

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  Day 5 - Blastocyst

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  Day 5 (label)

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  Day 5 (colour label)

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  Human oocyte to blastocyst

Links: Oocyte | Morula | Blastocyst | Carnegie stage 1 | Carnegie stage 2 | Carnegie stage 3

Original image: Pone.0007844.g004.jpg http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2773928/figure/pone-0007844-g004/ (Original image has been modified to remove array data, colour and other embryo images, scaled and labels added) See also File:Human-oocyte_to_blastocyst.jpg

Reference

<pubmed>19924284</pubmed>| PMC2773928 | PLoS One

PLoS One. 2009; 4(11): e7844. Published online 2009 November 16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007844.

Copyright Zhang et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.