Issue 1/2003
Content (125 Articles)
Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology – Choose an exciting venture for the scientific future
Antonin Bukovsky
Transmembrane and truncated (SEC) isoforms of MUC1 in the human endometrium and Fallopian tube
Neil A Hey, Marcos Meseguer, Carlos Simón, Nechama I Smorodinsky, Daniel H Wreschner, María Elena Ortíz, John D Aplin
Rat testicular germ cells and sertoli cells release different types of bioactive transforming growth factor beta in vitro
Bart L Haagmans, Jos W Hoogerbrugge, Axel PN Themmen, Katja J Teerds
Differentiation of adult-type Leydig cells occurs in gonadotrophin-deficient mice
PJ Baker, H Johnston, M Abel, HM Charlton, PJ O'Shaughnessy
Relaxin receptors and nitric oxide synthases: search for the missing link
Silvia Nistri, Daniele Bani
Ovarian responses to undernutrition in pregnant ewes, USA
William J Murdoch, Edward A Van Kirk, Kimberly A Vonnahme, Stephen P Ford
Effect of long-term treatment with steroid hormones or tamoxifen on the progesterone receptor and androgen receptor in the endometrium of ovariectomized cynomolgus macaques
Hong Wang, Erika Isaksson, Bo von Schoultz, J Mark Cline, Lena Sahlin
Apamin inhibits NO-induced relaxation of the spontaneous contractile activity of the myometrium from non-pregnant women
Beata Modzelewska, Anna Kostrzewska, Marek Sipowicz, Tomasz Kleszczewski, Satish Batra
The spatiotemporal expression pattern of the bone morphogenetic protein family in rat ovary cell types during the estrous cycle
Gregory F Erickson, Shunichi Shimasaki
Important differences in nitric oxide synthase activity and predominant isoform in reproductive tissues from human and rat
S Batra, C Iosif, J Al-Hijji, I Larsson
Effects of deletion of the prolactin receptor on ovarian gene expression
Isabelle Grosdemouge, Anne Bachelot, Aurélie Lucas, Nathalie Baran, Paul A Kelly, Nadine Binart
Expression and localization of estrogen receptor-alpha protein in normal and abnormal term placentae and stimulation of trophoblast differentiation by estradiol
Antonin Bukovsky, Maria Cekanova, Michael R Caudle, Jay Wimalasena, James S Foster, Donald C Henley, Robert F Elder
Responsiveness of bovine cumulus-oocyte-complexes (COC) to porcine and recombinant human FSH, and the effect of COC quality on gonadotropin receptor and Cx43 marker gene mRNAs during maturation in vitro
Michele D Calder, Anita N Caveney, Lawrence C Smith, Andrew J Watson
Prostaglandin F2alpha- and FAS-activating antibody-induced regression of the corpus luteum involves caspase-8 and is defective in caspase-3 deficient mice
Silvia F Carambula, James K Pru, Maureen P Lynch, Tiina Matikainen, Paulo Bayard D Gonçalves, Richard A Flavell, Jonathan L Tilly, Bo R Rueda
Synchronous onset of oestradiol-17β secretion by Meishan conceptuses
Amanda R Pickard, Samuel J Miller, Cheryl J Ashworth
Signaling mechanisms in tumor necrosis factor alpha-induced death of microvascular endothelial cells of the corpus luteum
James K Pru, Maureen P Lynch, John S Davis, Bo R Rueda
The envelopes of amphibian oocytes: physiological modifications in Bufo arenarum
Gustavo A Barisone, Isabel E Albertali, Mercedes Sánchez, Marcelo O Cabada
Expression of somatostatin receptor type-2 (sst2A) in immature porcine Leydig cells and a possible role in the local control of testosterone secretion
Joanna Fombonne, Zsolt Csaba, Ysander von Boxberg, Amandine Valayer, Catherine Rey, Mohamed Benahmed, Pascal Dournaud, Slavica Krantic
Proposed mechanism for sperm chromatin condensation/decondensation in the male rat
John C Chapman, Sandra D Michael
Male pheromone stimulates ovarian follicular development and body growth in juvenile female opossums (Monodelphis domestica)
John D Harder, Leslie M Jackson
Expression of the insulin-like growth factor (IGF) system and steroidogenic enzymes in canine testis tumors
Monique AJ Peters, Jan A Mol, Monique E van Wolferen, Marja A Oosterlaken-Dijksterhuis, Katja J Teerds, Frederik J van Sluijs
Analysis and characterization of differential gene expression during rapid trophoblastic elongation in the pig using suppression subtractive hybridization
Jason W Ross, Morgan D Ashworth, Amy G Hurst, Jerry R Malayer, Rodney D Geisert
Long-term ovariectomy changes formalin-induced licking in female rats: the role of estrogens
Ilaria Ceccarelli, Paolo Fiorenzani, Cosimo Massafra, Anna Maria Aloisi
The interleukin 1 (IL-1) system in the uteroplacental complex of a cartilaginous fish, the smoothhound shark, Mustelus canis
Chiara Cateni, Luana Paulesu, Elisa Bigliardi, William C Hamlett
Effects of indomethacin on ovarian leukocytes during the periovulatory period in the rat
Francisco Gaytán, Concepción Morales, Carmen Bellido, Esteban Tarradas, José Eugenio Sánchez-Criado
Oolemmal proteomics – identification of highly abundant heat shock proteins and molecular chaperones in the mature mouse egg and their localization on the plasma membrane
Meredith E Calvert, Laura C Digilio, John C Herr, Scott A Coonrod
Luteal regression: a redefinition of the terms
Jennifer M Bowen-Shauver, Carlos M Telleria
Activin-A up-regulates type I activin receptor mRNA levels in human immortalized extravillous trophoblast cells.
Victor TS Chen, Chun Peng, Peter CK Leung
Effects of p-nonylphenol and resveratrol on body and organ weight and in vivo fertility of outbred CD-1 mice
Vendula Kyselova, Jana Peknicova, Daniela Buckiova, Michael Boubelik
4-Aminopyridine Decreases Progesterone Production by Porcine Granulosa Cells
Yan Li, Suhasini Ganta, Fred B von Stein, Diane E Mason, Brianna M Mitchell, Lisa C Freeman
Quantitative investigation of reproduction of gonosomal condensed chromatin during trophoblast cell polyploidization and endoreduplication in the east-european field vole Microtus rossiaemeridionalis
Tatiana G Zybina, Eugenia V Zybina, Margarita S Bogdanova, Grigory I Stein
Steroid-induced polycystic ovaries in rats: effect of electro-acupuncture on concentrations of endothelin-1 and nerve growth factor (NGF), and expression of NGF mRNA in the ovaries, the adrenal glands, and the central nervous system
Elisabet Stener-Victorin, Thomas Lundeberg, Stefan Cajander, Luigi Aloe, Luigi Manni, Urban Waldenström, Per Olof Janson
IL-11 and IL-11Rα immunolocalisation at primate implantation sites supports a role for IL-11 in placentation and fetal development
E Dimitriadis, L Robb, Y-X Liu, AC Enders, H Martin, C Stoikos, E Wallace, LA Salamonsen
Aromatase expression and role of estrogens in male gonad : a review
Serge Carreau, Sophie Lambard, Christelle Delalande, Isabelle Denis-Galeraud, Barbara Bilinska, Sonia Bourguiba
Placental expression of estrogen receptor beta and its hormone binding variant – comparison with estrogen receptor alpha and a role for estrogen receptors in asymmetric division and differentiation of estrogen-dependent cells
Antonin Bukovsky, Michael R Caudle, Maria Cekanova, Romaine I Fernando, Jay Wimalasena, James S Foster, Donald C Henley, Robert F Elder
The effects of estrogen, its antagonist ICI 182, 780, and interferon-tau on the expression of estrogen receptors and integrin alphaV beta 3 on cycle day 16 in bovine endometrium
Sarah Kimmins, Gerald L Russell, Hai Choo Lim, Brian K Hall, Leslie A MacLaren
Isolation and characterization of gelatin-binding proteins from goat seminal plasma
Michèle Villemure, Claude Lazure, Puttaswamy Manjunath
Effects of SERM (selective estrogen receptor modulator) treatment on growth and proliferation in the rat uterus
Denis Stygar, Natalia Muravitskaya, Britt Eriksson, Håkan Eriksson, Lena Sahlin
The expression of cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors p15, p16, p21, and p27 during ovarian follicle growth initiation in the mouse
Aykut Bayrak, Kutluk Oktay
Interleukin-1 (IL-1) system gene expression in granulosa cells: kinetics during terminal preovulatory follicle maturation in the mare
Alain Martoriati, Nadine Gérard
Late gestation modulation of fetal glucocorticoid effects requires the receptor for leukemia inhibitory factor: an observational study
Carol B Ware, Angelique M Nelson, Denny Liggitt
Apoptosis in uterine epithelium and decidua in response to implantation: evidence for two different pathways
Anike Joswig, Heinz-Dieter Gabriel, Mark Kibschull, Elke Winterhager
Cumulus cells steroidogenesis is influenced by the degree of oocyte maturation
Pia Lucidi, Nicola Bernabò, Maura Turriani, Barbara Barboni, Mauro Mattioli
Multiple luteinizing hormone receptor (LHR) protein variants, interspecies reactivity of anti-LHR mAb clone 3B5, subcellular localization of LHR in human placenta, pelvic floor and brain, and possible role for LHR in the development of abnormal pregnancy, pelvic floor disorders and Alzheimer's disease
Antonin Bukovsky, Korakod Indrapichate, Hiroshi Fujiwara, Maria Cekanova, Maria E Ayala, Roberto Dominguez, Michael R Caudle, Jay Wimalsena, Robert F Elder, Pleas Copas, James S Foster, Romaine I Fernando, Donald C Henley, Nirmala B Upadhyaya
Regulation of Akt expression and phosphorylation by 17β-estradiol in the rat uterus during estrous cycle
Marie-Claude Dery, Valerie Leblanc, Carl Shooner, Eric Asselin
Dynamics of testicular germ cell apoptosis in normal mice and transgenic mice overexpressing rat androgen-binding protein
D Antony Jeyaraj, Gail Grossman, Peter Petrusz
Reliability of follicle-stimulating hormone measurements in serum
Alan A Arslan, Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Annekatrin Lukanova, Sabina Rinaldi, Rudolf Kaaks, Paolo Toniolo
Ovarian follicular activity and hormonal profile during estrous cycle in cows: the development of 2 versus 3 waves
Wael MB Noseir
Nitric oxide synthase activity in human trophoblast, term placenta and pregnant myometrium
J Al-Hijji, Ellika Andolf, Ricardo Laurini, Satish Batra
Identification of human and mouse CatSper3 and CatSper4 genes: Characterisation of a common interaction domain and evidence for expression in testis
Anna Lobley, Valerie Pierron, Lindsey Reynolds, Liz Allen, David Michalovich
SPAM1 (PH-20) protein and mRNA expression in the epididymides of humans and macaques: utilizing laser microdissection/RT-PCR
Eric A Evans, Hong Zhang, Patricia A Martin-DeLeon
Paracrine effects of oocyte secreted factors and stem cell factor on porcine granulosa and theca cells in vitro
Victoria Brankin, Marcus RP Mitchell, Bob Webb, Morag G Hunter
Publish in Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology – Article processing charges are only paid by those who can afford it
Antonin Bukovsky, Fuller W Bazer
The antiestrogen ICI 182,780 induces early effects on the adult male mouse reproductive tract and long-term decreased fertility without testicular atrophy
Hyun Wook Cho, Rong Nie, Kay Carnes, Qing Zhou, Noaman AQ Sharief, Rex A Hess
Effects of the estrous cycle, pregnancy and interferon tau on expression of cyclooxygenase two (COX-2) in ovine endometrium
Seokwoon Kim, Youngsok Choi, Thomas E Spencer, Fuller W Bazer
Opposite regulation of XIAP and Smac/DIABLO in the rat endometrium in response to 17β-estradiol at estrus
Valerie Leblanc, Marie-Claude Dery, Carl Shooner, Eric Asselin
Potential role of interleukin-1 at the peri-ovulation stage in a species of placental viviparous reptile, the three-toed skink, Chalcides chalcides (squamata: scincidae)
Roberta Romagnoli, Chiara Cateni, Fabio M Guarino, Elisa Bigliardi, Luana Ricci Paulesu
The effects of superior ovarian nerve sectioning on ovulation in the guinea pig
F Luna, M Cortés, M Flores, B Hernández, A Trujillo, R Domínguez
Sustained inhibition of rat myometrial gap junctions and contractions by lindane
Rita K Loch-Caruso, Kay A Criswell, Carmen M Grindatti, Kelly A Brant
Highly purified human-derived follicle-stimulating hormone (Bravelle®) has equivalent efficacy to follitropin-beta (Follistim ®) in infertile women undergoing in vitro fertilization
Richard P Dickey, John E Nichols, Michael P Steinkampf, Benjamin Gocial, Melvin Thornton, Bobby W Webster, Sandra M Bello, Jack Crain, Dennis C Marshall
Fast renal trapping of porcine Luteinizing Hormone (pLH) shown by 123I-scintigraphic imaging in rats explains its short circulatory half-life
Danièle Klett, Serge Bernard, François Lecompte, Hervé Leroux, Thierry Magallon, Alain Locatelli, Alain Lepape, Yves Combarnous
Role of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) in ovarian cancer
Carsten Gründker, Günter Emons
Chemoresistance in human ovarian cancer: the role of apoptotic regulators
Michael Fraser, Brendan Leung, Arezu Jahani-Asl, Xiaojuan Yan, Winston E Thompson, Benjamin K Tsang
Animal models of ovarian cancer
Barbara C Vanderhyden, Tanya J Shaw, Jean-François Ethier
Ovarian surface epithelium: family history and early events in ovarian cancer
Alice ST Wong, Nelly Auersperg
Mitogen-activated protein kinases in normal and (pre)neoplastic ovarian surface epithelium
Kyung-Chul Choi, Nelly Auersperg, Peter CK Leung
The role of the breast cancer susceptibility gene 1 (BRCA1) in sporadic epithelial ovarian cancer
Marcia L McCoy, Christopher R Mueller, Calvin D Roskelley
Prostaglandin levels in seminal plasma and sperm extracts of the domestic turkey, and the effects of cyclooxygenase inhibitors on sperm mobility
Jessica H Kennedy, Nancy Korn, Ronald J Thurston
The antiestrogen ICI 182,780 decreases the expression of estrogen receptor-alpha but has no effect on estrogen receptor-beta and androgen receptor in rat efferent ductules
Cleida A Oliveira, Rong Nie, Kay Carnes, Luiz R Franca, Gail S Prins, Philippa TK Saunders, Rex A Hess
Activin promotes oocyte development in ovine preantral follicles in vitro
Fiona H Thomas, David G Armstrong, Evelyn E Telfer
Biochemical heterogeneity, migration, and pre-fertilization release of mouse oocyte cortical granules
Min Liu, DeAndrea Sims, Patricia Calarco, Prue Talbot
New technologies for genetic manipulation of animal models: Forum introduction
Ziyi Li, John F Engelhardt
Phage integrases for the construction and manipulation of transgenic mammals
Roger P Hollis, Stephanie M Stoll, Christopher R Sclimenti, Jennifer Lin, Yanru Chen-Tsai, Michele P Calos
Generating and manipulating transgenic animals using transposable elements
David A Largaespada
Generation of bovine transgenics using somatic cell nuclear transfer
Craig A Hodges, Steven L Stice
Creating genetically modified pigs by using nuclear transfer
Liangxue Lai, Randall S Prather
Progress toward generating a ferret model of cystic fibrosis by somatic cell nuclear transfer
Ziyi Li, John F Engelhardt
Nuclear transfer: Progress and quandaries
Xuemei Li, Ziyi Li, Alice Jouneau, Qi Zhou, Jean-Paul Renard
Temporal and spatial expression of tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases 1 and 2 (TIMP-1 and -2) in the bovine corpus luteum
Bo Zhang, Marsha A Moses, Paul CW Tsang
Recent advancements in corpus luteum development, function, maintenance and regression: Forum introduction
John S Davis, Bo R Rueda
Mutant mouse models and their contribution to our knowledge of corpus luteum development, function and regression
Luiz E Henkes, John S Davis, Bo R Rueda
Microvascular endothelial cells of the corpus luteum
John S Davis, Bo R Rueda, Katherina Spanel-Borowski
Cholesterol transport and steroidogenesis by the corpus luteum
Lane K Christenson, Luigi Devoto
Regulation of intraluteal production of prostaglandins
Milo C Wiltbank, Joseph S Ottobre
Biochemical and endocrine aspects of oxytocin production by the mammalian corpus luteum
Fredrick Stormshak
The role of major histocompatibility complex molecules in luteal function
Matthew J Cannon, Joy L Pate
Chemokines in the corpus luteum: Implications of leukocyte chemotaxis
David H Townson, Amy R Liptak
Multiple roles of TNF super family members in corpus luteum function
Kiyoshi Okuda, Ryosuke Sakumoto
Decreased serotonin level during pregnancy alters morphological and functional characteristics of tonic nociceptive system in juvenile offspring of the rat
Irina P Butkevich, Ludmila I Khozhai, Victor A Mikhailenko, Vladimir A Otellin
Toward therapeutic cloning and regenerative biology research forum: To clone or not to clone
Xiangzhong Yang
Cloning animals by somatic cell nuclear transfer – biological factors
X Cindy Tian, Chikara Kubota, Brian Enright, Xiangzhong Yang
Neural stem cells and the regulation of adult neurogenesis
Jessica B Lennington, Zhengang Yang, Joanne C Conover
Embryonic stem cell differentiation: A chromatin perspective
Theodore P Rasmussen
Tissue engineering and cell based therapies, from the bench to the clinic: The potential to replace, repair and regenerate
William L Fodor
Specific genetic modifications of domestic animals by gene targeting and animal cloning
Bin Wang, Jiangfeng Zhou
Bovine cumulus-granulosa cells contain biologically active retinoid receptors that can respond to retinoic acid
Mahesh Mohan, Nagaraja Ramavadhani Thirumalapura, Jerry Malayer
Will cloned animals suffer premature aging – The story at the end of clones' chromosomes
Jie Xu, Xiangzhong Yang
Fertility and pregnancy: Forum introduction and some thoughts on the role of electronic journals in the scientific information evolution
Marek Glezerman
Understanding spermatogenesis is a prerequisite for treatment
Adolf-Friedrich Holstein, Wolfgang Schulze, Michail Davidoff
The management of infertility associated with polycystic ovary syndrome
Roy Homburg
Assessment of fetal intracranial pathologies first demonstrated late in pregnancy: cell proliferation disorders
Gustavo Malinger, Dorit Lev, Tally Lerman-Sagie
LCN6, a novel human epididymal lipocalin
Katherine G Hamil, Qiang Liu, P Sivashanmugam, M Anbalagan, Suresh Yenugu, Rama Soundararajan, Gail Grossman, AJ Rao, Charles E Birse, Stephen M Ruben, Richard T Richardson, Yong-Lian Zhang, Michael G O'Rand, Peter Petrusz, Frank S French, Susan H Hall
Guinea-pig interpubic joint (symphysis pubica) relaxation at parturition: Underlying cellular processes that resemble an inflammatory response
Horacio A Rodríguez, Hugo H Ortega, Jorge G Ramos, Mónica Muñoz-de-Toro, Enrique H Luque
Immunoexpression of the relaxin receptor LGR7 in breast and uterine tissues of humans and primates
Richard Ivell, Marga Balvers, Yvonne Pohnke, Ralph Telgmann, Olaf Bartsch, Karin Milde-Langosch, Ana-maria Bamberger, Almuth Einspanier
Innate immune defences in the human endometrium
Anne E King, Hilary OD Critchley, Rodney W Kelly
Steroidal regulation of uterine resistance to bacterial infection in livestock
Gregory S Lewis
Vaccines against sexually transmitted diseases
Lynette B Corbeil, Carlos M Campero, Jack C Rhyan, Robert H BonDurant
Potential role of macrophages as immunoregulators of pregnancy
Gil Mor, Vikki M Abrahams
Pregnancy and gamma/delta T cells: Taking on the hard questions
Lucia Mincheva-Nilsson
Tolerance of the fetus by the maternal immune system: role of inflammatory mediators at the feto-maternal interface
Colette Kanellopoulos-Langevin, Stéphane M Caucheteux, Philippe Verbeke, David M Ojcius
Potential involvement of the immune system in the development of endometriosis
Cleophas M Kyama, Sophie Debrock, Jason M Mwenda, Thomas M D'Hooghe
The extracellular matrix of porcine mature oocytes: Origin, composition and presumptive roles
Jacques E Fléchon, Jeril Degrouard, Václav Kopečný, Juraj Pivko, Antonin Pavlok, Jan Motlik
Retracted Article : Gonadotropin releasing hormone analogue (GnRHa) alters the expression and activation of Smad in human endometrial epithelial and stromal cells
Xiaoping Luo, Jingxia Xu, Nasser Chegini