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Toxicology
December 2024
Department of Zoology, IIS (Deemed to be University), Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
In the present study, co-parental exposure to polystyrene nanoplastics (PS-NPs) elicits profound teratological impacts, including skeletal and visceral malformations, post-natal effects on neonatal growth and neurobehavioral development in F1 progeny. A comprehensive investigation was conducted on Swiss albino mice fetuses, neonates (PND 1-21) and adult mice offsprings (PND 60) following parental exposure during spermatogenesis and oogenesis period, as well as continued maternal exposure during gestation and weaning. The parental mice were administered PS-NPs via oral gavage at low dose (0.
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December 2024
Unidad de Reproducción Crea, Medicina Reproductiva, Mexico City, Mexico.
It is well known that oocytes are produced during fetal development and that the total number of primary follicles is determined at birth. In humans, there is a constant loss of follicles after birth until about two years of age. The number of follicles is preserved until the resumption of meiosis at puberty and there is no renewal of the oocytes; this dogma was maintained in the last century because there were no suitable techniques to detect and obtain stem cells.
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June 2024
Department of Biology & Chemistry, School of Health Sciences, Liberty University, Lynchburg, VA, United States.
Anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) is a key paracrine/autocrine factor regulating folliculogenesis in the postnatal ovary. As antral follicles mature to the preovulatory stage, AMH production tends to be limited to cumulus cells. Therefore, the present study investigated the role of cumulus cell-derived AMH in supporting maturation and competence of the enclosed oocyte.
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August 2023
State Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Andrology, Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China.
The piRNA pathway is essential for female fertility in golden hamsters and likely humans, but not in mice. However, the role of individual PIWIs in mammalian reproduction remains poorly understood outside of mice. Here, we describe the expression profiles, subcellular localization, and knockout-associated reproductive defects for all four PIWIs in golden hamsters.
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July 2023
Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.
Persistence of unrepaired DNA damage in oocytes is detrimental and may cause genetic aberrations, miscarriage, and infertility. RPA, an ssDNA-binding complex, is essential for various DNA-related processes. Here we report that RPA plays a novel role in DNA damage repair during postnatal oocyte development after meiotic recombination.
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