Patterns of expression of sperm flagellar genes: early expression of genes encoding axonemal proteins during the spermatogenic cycle and shared features of promoters of genes encoding central apparatus proteins.

abstract：:This study was initiated to determine the relationship between the fertilizing potential of spermatozoa and abnormalities in the compact packing of their chromatin which occurs in the final stage of male germ cell differentiation. Chromatin packing involves disulphide bridge covalent cross-linking. The degree of packi...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Filatov MV,Semenova EV,Vorob'eva OA,Leont'eva OA,Drobchenko EA

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Survivin is a novel inhibitor of apoptosis. It has been reported that survivin is expressed during fetal development and in cancer tissues, but its expression has not been reported in adult tissues. We investigated the expression of survivin in the endometria of women with regular menstrual cycles using reverse transc...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Konno R,Yamakawa H,Utsunomiya H,Ito K,Sato S,Yajima A

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to confirm the ovarian site of gonadotrophin surge-attenuating factor (GnSAF) production and produce granulosa/luteal cell-conditioned medium (G/LCM) containing GnSAF for purification studies. Blue dye affinity chromatography followed by pseudochromatofocusing of G/LCM yielded bioactive fractions at pH 5.74 a...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Fowler PA,Sorsa-Leslie T,Cash P,Dunbar B,Melvin W,Wilson Y,Mason HD,Harris W

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this study were to determine if human ejaculated sperm exhibit active caspases and if caspase-dependent apoptosis markers are identifiable. Sperm from fertile donors and infertile patients were examined after gradient separation into leukocyte-free fractions of high and low motility. Sperm were evalu...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Weng SL,Taylor SL,Morshedi M,Schuffner A,Duran EH,Beebe S,Oehninger S

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha is a pleiotropic cytokine synthesized throughout the female reproductive tract. Even though evidence has accumulated that supports its role in autocrine and paracrine processes, its expression and function in the human endometrium are still not completely understood. To gain a b...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： von Wolff M,Classen-Linke I,Heid D,Krusche CA,Beier-Hellwig K,Karl C,Beier HM

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assesses the role of progesterone receptor membrane component 1 (PGRMC1) in actions of progesterone (P4) on human myometrium during pregnancy and labour. Myometrial tissues were obtained from non-pregnant patients during hysterectomy or pregnant women undergoing C-section at term and preterm, before and dur...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Wu W,Shi SQ,Huang HJ,Balducci J,Garfield RE

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intense macrophage infiltration is observed during luteolysis in various animals including women; however, we still do not know how macrophage infiltration into the human corpus luteum (CL) during luteolysis is regulated. In this study, we examined the expression, localization and regulation of an important chemokine ...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Nio-Kobayashi J,Kudo M,Sakuragi N,Kimura S,Iwanaga T,Duncan WC

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that the estrogen responsiveness of the human lactoferrin gene in a transient transfection system is mediated through an imperfect estrogen response element (ERE) and a steroidogenic factor 1 binding element (SFRE) 26 bp upstream from ERE. Reporter constructs containing SFRE and ERE respond to...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Teng CT,Gladwell W,Beard C,Walmer D,Teng CS,Brenner R

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Prader-Willi (PWS) and Angelman (AS) syndromes are two clinically distinct syndromes which result from lack of expression of imprinted genes within chromosome 15q11-q13. These two syndromes result from 15q11-q13 deletions, chromosome 15 uniparental disomy (UPD), imprinting centre mutations and, for AS, probable mu...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Glenn CC,Driscoll DJ,Yang TP,Nicholls RD

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The requisite endpoint of mammalian oocyte maturation, whether in vivo or in vitro, is a metaphase II oocyte which is able to be fertilized and which can eventually support normal embryonic development. Oocytes which have been matured in vivo basically fulfill these criteria. On the other hand, a completely different ...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Fulka J Jr,First NL,Moor RM

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several investigators have noted that hormone-dependent development of endometriosis implants lags behind that of simultaneously analysed eutopic endometrium. With the recent discovery of the oestrogen receptor-beta (ER-beta) isoform, the aim of this study was to investigate whether differences in the expression of ER...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Brandenberger AW,Lebovic DI,Tee MK,Ryan IP,Tseng JF,Jaffe RB,Taylor RN

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of its distinctive ability to act as a mitogen, a mitogen and a morphogen, hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor (HGF/SF) has all the characteristics of a molecule able to function in regulatory networks of motility, such as the spermatogenic epithelium, and this through binding of its receptor p190MET (C-ME...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Depuydt CE,Zalata A,de Potter CR,van Emmelo J,Comhaire FH

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acrosome status in human spermatozoa from 20 normozoospermic men was evaluated by flow cytometry following the induction of the acrosome reaction with the ionophore A23187. Dual fluorescence staining of methanol fixed spermatozoa incubated with and without (control) the ionophore A23187 was performed with probes which...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Nikolaeva MA,Golubeva EL,Kulakov VI,Sukhikh GT

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) plays a key role in the maintenance of human pregnancy and labour onset. PGE2 can elicit diverse actions within the uterus depending on the PGE2 receptors (EP1, EP2, EP3 and EP4) expressed. By signalling through different intracellular pathways the EP receptors may inhibit or promote smooth mus...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Astle S,Thornton S,Slater DM

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zinc dynamics are essential for oocyte meiotic maturation, egg activation, and preimplantation embryo development. During fertilisation and egg activation, the egg releases billions of zinc atoms (Zn2+) in an exocytotic event termed the 'zinc spark'. We hypothesised that this zinc transport and exocytosis is dependent...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Lee HC,Edmonds ME,Duncan FE,O'Halloran TV,Woodruff TK

更新日期：2020-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a competitive reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) sensitive enough to detect and quantify as little as 2-fold differences in gene expression in individual oocytes and embryos throughout human preimplantation development. This RT-PCR assay can be tailored for the examination of an...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Taylor DM,Handyside AH,Ray PF,Dibb NJ,Winston RM,Ao A

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis (CF) is usually considered a rare disease in the Indian population. Two studies have reported on the frequency of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene mutations in Indian males with congenital absence of the vas deferens (CAVD), however, data on the spectrum of CFTR gene muta...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Sharma H,Mavuduru RS,Singh SK,Prasad R

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early embryonic development is characterized by drastic changes in chromatin structure that affects the accessibility of the chromatin. In human, the chromosome reorganization and its involvement in the first linage segregation are poorly characterized due to the difficulties in obtaining human embryonic material and ...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Yang M,Tao X,Titus S,Zhao T,Scott RT,Seli E

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate patterns of gene expression in placental samples from patients with preeclampsia (PE), persistent bilateral uterine artery notching (without PE), and normal controls. This study included placental tissue from nine women with PE, seven with uncomplicated pregnancies and five wit...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Hansson SR,Chen Y,Brodszki J,Chen M,Hernandez-Andrade E,Inman JM,Kozhich OA,Larsson I,Marsál K,Medstrand P,Xiang CC,Brownstein MJ

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surfactant protein D (SP-D) plays a role in innate immunity against various pathogens and in vivo studies have demonstrated that SP-D also has anti-inflammatory properties. SP-D was originally demonstrated in alveolar type II cells, but recent studies have shown extrapulmonary expression of SP-D indicating a systemic ...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Leth-Larsen R,Floridon C,Nielsen O,Holmskov U

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After meiosis, during the final stages of spermatogenesis, the haploid male genome undergoes major structural changes, resulting in a shift from a nucleosome-based genome organization to the sperm-specific, highly compacted nucleoprotamine structure. Recent data support the idea that region-specific programming of the...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Govin J,Gaucher J,Ferro M,Debernardi A,Garin J,Khochbin S,Rousseaux S

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the possible roles of oncostatin M (OSM), which is a member of the interleukin-6 family of cytokines, in endometrial and endometriotic stromal cell growth. Endometrial and endometriotic stromal cells were collected from the uterus or ovarian chocolate cysts. We observed the expression of mRNA tran...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Ohata Y,Harada T,Fujii A,Yoshida S,Iwabe T,Terakawa N

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported that endometrial expression of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-26 mRNA comes to a maximum in the early secretory phase. Since tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase (TIMP)-4 is a potent inhibitor of MMP-26, the objective of this study was to identify the pattern of TIMP-4 mRNA expression in t...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Pilka R,Domanski H,Hansson S,Eriksson P,Casslén B

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The androgen receptor (AR) gene is located on the X chromosome and contains a polymorphic CAG tract. CAG repeat expansions in the AR have been associated with male infertility and the neuromuscular disease, spinal bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA). Based on Mendelian inheritance patterns, moderate CAG expansions in infer...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Cram DS,Song B,McLachlan RI,Trounson AO

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostaglandins (PGs) are important factors in the physiology of human parturition and the control of uterine contractility. We have characterized the expression of 15 genes from all stages of the PG pathway in human pregnant and non-pregnant (NP) myometrium and in other uterine tissues at delivery, and the results sho...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Phillips RJ,Al-Zamil H,Hunt LP,Fortier MA,López Bernal A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FSH is a pituitary gonadotropin that along with LH plays a key role in the regulation of gonadal function. The gonadotropic hormones are composed of two subunits, the common alpha subunit and the hormone-specific beta subunit, which determines the binding to specific receptors and induction of biological response. Unl...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Lamminen T,Jokinen P,Jiang M,Pakarinen P,Simonsen H,Huhtaniemi I

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endometriosis is a gynaecological disease with a certain genetic background, but the locations of possible genomic aberrations are still poorly clarified. Intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1), which is a surface glycoprotein that promotes adhesion in immunological and inflammatory reactions, seems to play a role...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Viganò P,Infantino M,Lattuada D,Lauletta R,Ponti E,Somigliana E,Vignali M,DiBlasio AM

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Success rate in human pregnancies is believed to be very low and sex-specific mechanisms may operate in prenatal loss. Assuming a sex-differential in prenatal loss exists, we examined genetic markers in biologically plausible targets in the HLA complex, other immune system-related and iron-regulatory genes in 388 heal...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Ucisik-Akkaya E,Davis CF,Do TN,Morrison BA,Stemmer SM,Amadio WJ,Dorak MT

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An understanding of the relationship between nuclear morphology and DNA function is important in cytology and preimplantation diagnosis. In this study, direct polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification was used to diagnose the common delta F508 mutation of cystic fibrosis in 62 biopsied human embryo cells. The nucl...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Cui KH,Matthews CD

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tyrosine nitration is a widely used marker of peroxynitrite (ONOO-) produced from the reaction of nitric oxide (NO.) with superoxide (O2(.-)). Since human spermatozoa are able to produce both NO. and O2(.-) during capacitation in vitro, we investigated whether spontaneous tyrosine nitration of proteins occurs in human...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Herrero MB,de Lamirande E,Gagnon C

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00