Uterine glands: development, function and experimental model systems.

abstract：:The endocrine disrupting chemical o, p'-dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) can affect reproductive organs, tissues and cells in several species. Treatment of human endometrial endothelial cells (HEECs) with 50 microM o,p'-DDT decreased their proliferation compared with the control. Microarray analyses revealed that...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Bredhult C,Sahlin L,Olovsson M

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the molecular cloning and characterization of a novel human actin capping protein alpha3 (cpalpha3) cDNA, an orthologue of the mouse male germ cell-specific cpalpha3, and the organization of the human cpalpha3 genomic structure. The entire coding region of the human cpalpha3 cDNA showed 82.1% similarity...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Miyagawa Y,Tanaka H,Iguchi N,Kitamura K,Nakamura Y,Takahashi T,Matsumiya K,Okuyama A,Nishimune Y

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microarray studies generating lists of genes with altered expression in placentas from pregnancies complicated with pre-eclampsia (PE) have so far been published in several different studies. Working under the assumption that altered gene expression in PE may be the result of altered expression of regulatory transcrip...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Vásárhelyi B,Cseh A,Kocsis I,Treszl A,Györffy B,Rigó J Jr

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY QUESTION:Does a heterozygous mutation in AMHR2, identified in whole-exome sequencings (WES) of patients with primary ovarian insufficiency (POI), cause a defect in anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) signaling? SUMMARY ANSWER:The I209N mutation at the adenosine triphosphate binding domain of AMHR2 exerts dominant negat...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Li L,Zhou X,Wang X,Wang J,Zhang W,Wang B,Cao Y,Kee K

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY QUESTION:Can RNA sequencing of human cumulus cells (CC) reveal molecular pathways involved in the physiology of reproductive aging? STUDY FINDING:Senescent but not young CC activate gene pathways associated with hypoxia and oxidative stress. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY:Shifts in socioeconomic norms are resulting in l...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Molinari E,Bar H,Pyle AM,Patrizio P

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease type 1A is an autosomal dominant peripheral neuropathy characterized by slow progressive distal muscle wasting and weakness, and decreased nerve conduction velocities. Most CMT1A cases (>98%) are caused by a duplication of a 1.5 Mb region on the short arm of chromosome 17 containing t...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： De Vos A,Sermon K,Van de Velde H,Joris H,Vandervorst M,Lissens W,Mortier G,De Sutter P,Löfgren A,Van Broeckhoven C,Liebaers I,Van Steirteghem A

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In male mice heterozygous for a null apolipoprotein B (apoB), allele infertility was noticed. These data led us to investigate a possible role of APOB gene polymorphism and male infertility in humans. In this case-control study, we searched for an association between the insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism of the AP...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Peterlin B,Zorn B,Volk M,Kunej T

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY QUESTION:Can a pre-in vitro maturation (pre-IVM) medium containing signaling molecules rather than chemical/pharmaceutical agents, sustain meiotic arrest and improve developmental competence of in vitro matured oocytes in CF1 outbred mice? SUMMARY ANSWER:A short 2 h period of pre-IVM prevents spontaneous meiotic...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Santiquet NW,Greene AF,Becker J,Barfield JP,Schoolcraft WB,Krisher RL

更新日期：2017-09-01 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 non-classical major histocompatibility complex molecule, human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-G, is thought to contribute to maternal immune tolerance and successful placentation during pregnancy. Genetic polymorphisms in HLA-G are known to influence expression levels as well as the relative expression of individual prot...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Loisel DA,Billstrand C,Murray K,Patterson K,Chaiworapongsa T,Romero R,Ober C

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A molecule isolated from the peritoneal fluids of women undergoing laparoscopy for in-vitro fertilization techniques has been chemically characterized and identified as 1-palmitic-3-phosphorylcholine (lysophosphatidylcholine, LPC). This lipid is able, at physiological concentrations, to completely inhibit sperm motili...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Keller F,Togni G,Soldati G,Balmelli T,Medici G,Rose K,Balerna M

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY QUESTION:Can supplementation of media with a glutathione (GSH) donor, glutathione ethyl ester (GEE), prior to vitrification protect the mouse oocyte from oxidative damage and critical changes in redox homeostasis, and thereby improve cryotolerance? SUMMARY ANSWER:GEE supplementation supported redox regulation, r...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Trapphoff T,Heiligentag M,Simon J,Staubach N,Seidel T,Otte K,Fröhlich T,Arnold GJ,Eichenlaub-Ritter U

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：:The distribution and size of a surface membrane antigen identified by a monoclonal antibody (MAC9393) have been examined in testicular and epididymal bovine sperm preparations. Western blots indicated a substantial decrease in molecular mass of the antigen during epididymal maturation from approximately 87 kDa in the ...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Howes EA,Hurst S,Laslop A,Jones R

更新日期：1998-07-01 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：:Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a genomic disorder mostly caused by deletions of 15q11-q13 region (70%). It has been suggested that the particular genomic architecture of 15q11-q13 region, characterized to be flanked by low copy repeats, could predispose it to Non-Allelic Homologous Recombination (NAHR). However, no st...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Molina O,Blanco J,Vidal F

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Villous tissues from 30 spontaneous abortions and the same number of artificial abortions were obtained and analysed for the frequency of polyploid cells. Single cell suspensions were made from these tissues without culture and the ploidy of > 100 cells was analysed. Trisomies of chromosomes 17 and 4 have rarely been ...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Horiuchi I,Hashimoto T,Tsuji Y,Shimada H,Furuyama J,Koyama K

更新日期：1997-05-01 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：:Successful intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) is dependent upon the competence of the oocyte to respond to the injection of a spermatozoon in the presence of calcium. This study determined if oocytes that failed to become fertilized (absence of any pronuclei) failed to undergo cytoplasmic activation, as ascertain...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Gross V,Dubey A,Penzias AS,Layman L,Reindollar R,Ducibella T

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SUN domain proteins are integral proteins of the inner nuclear membrane and functions in linkage of the nuclear lamina to the cytoskeleton. Moreover, SUN domain proteins seem to mediate the tethering of the centrosome to the nuclear membrane, and they are involved in telomere attachment to the nuclear envelope in meio...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Frohnert C,Schweizer S,Hoyer-Fender S

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycoforms of recombinant human follicle stimulating hormone (rhFSH) (Org 32489, Puregon) were characterized using concanavalin A lectin affinity chromatography to reveal information about the internal carbohydrate complexity (extent of carbohydrate side-chain branching) of the preparations. The rhFSH glycoforms were ...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Harris SD,Anobile CJ,McLoughlin JD,Mitchell R,Lambert A,Robertson WR

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryo implantation and subsequent decidualization, trophoblast invasion and formation of a functional placenta are crucial for establishment and maintenance of pregnancy. Interleukin-11 signalling has been shown to be obligatory for adequate decidualization and trophoblast invasion in mice. Defects in IL-11 signallin...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： von Rango U,Alfer J,Kertschanska S,Kemp B,Müller-Newen G,Heinrich PC,Beier HM,Classen-Linke I

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently identified the DPY19L2 gene as the main genetic cause of human globozoospermia. Non-genetically characterized cases of globozoospermia were associated with DNA alterations, suggesting that DPY19L2-dependent globozoospermia may be associated with poor DNA quality. However the origins of such defects have no...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Yassine S,Escoffier J,Martinez G,Coutton C,Karaouzène T,Zouari R,Ravanat JL,Metzler-Guillemain C,Lee HC,Fissore R,Hennebicq S,Ray PF,Arnoult C

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian sperm undergo a series of maturation steps before acquiring fertilization competence. Our previous work demonstrated the importance of binder of sperm (BSP) proteins in bovine sperm capacitation. Recent studies identified a BSP-homologous DNA sequence in the human genome (BSPH1) and mRNA expression in the ep...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Lefebvre J,Boileau G,Manjunath P

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogen and selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs) differentially impact endometrial cell function, however, the biological basis of these differences is not established. Deregulated cell adhesion to the extracellular matrix, cell movement and invasion are related to endometrial disorders, such as endometrios...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Flamini MI,Sanchez AM,Goglia L,Tosi V,Genazzani AR,Simoncini T

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Drosophila melanogaster staufen gene encodes an RNA binding protein (Dm Stau) required for the localization and translational repression of mRNAs within the Drosophila oocyte. In mammals translational repression is important for normal spermatogenesis in males and storage of mRNAs in the oocytes of females. In the...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Saunders PT,Pathirana S,Maguire SM,Doyle M,Wood T,Bownes M

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Binder of SPerm (BSP) proteins are a family of proteins expressed exclusively in the male reproductive tract (seminal vesicles or epididymis) of several mammalian species. They are known to promote capacitation, a sperm maturation step essential for fertilization. Our recent studies have shown that in human, the Binde...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Plante G,Thérien I,Lachance C,Leclerc P,Fan J,Manjunath P

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deletions of the AZFc interval of the human Y chromosome are found in >5% of male patients with idiopathic infertility and are associated with a severely reduced sperm count. The most common deletion type is large (>1 Mb) and removes members of the Y-borne testis-specific gene families of BPY2, CDY1, DAZ, PRY, RBMY2 a...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Saut N,Terriou P,Navarro A,Lévy N,Mitchell MJ

更新日期：2000-09-01 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：:Ovaries surgically removed for fertility preservation from a total of 24 women served as a source of human small antral follicles, including the follicular fluid (FF) and the corresponding granulosa cells (GC). The FF was used to evaluate the intrafollicular concentrations of anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH), inhibin-B, e...

journal_title：Molecular human reproduction

authors： Eilsø Nielsen M,Rasmussen IA,Fukuda M,Westergaard LG,Yding Andersen C

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00