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The incidence of cytoplasmic fragmentation in mouse embryos in vitro is not affected by inhibition of caspase activity (Fertility and sterility 2021 HKU)
Caspases are a family of endoproteases that provide critical links in cell regulatory networks controlling inflammation and cell death.
Caspases are a family of cytosolic aspartate-specific cysteine proteases involved in the initiation and execution of apoptosis
the formation of fragments in precompaction mouse embryos is independent of caspase activity and that embryo fragments are not apoptotic bodies.