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My reseach has centered on the influence that leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF)
exerts on murine (mouse) embryos, their implantation rates, and fetal development 
including an assessment for certain birth defects. LIF is a cytokine with quite 
a varried array of physiological effects. E-mail me for some fine reviews. In 
our lab we have found that LIF increases the number of 2-cell mouse embryos 
that develop to the blastocyst/hatching blastocyst stage. In addition we have 
demonstrated that LIF and its antibody have a profound effect on implantation rates.