Oxidative stress and assisted reproduction: a comprehensive review of its pathophysiological role and strategies for optimizing embryo culture environment

A Agarwal, I Maldonado Rosas, C Anagnostopoulou… - Antioxidants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Oxidative stress (OS) due to an imbalance between reactive oxygen species (ROS) and
antioxidants has been established as an important factor that can negatively affect the …

Defining physiological normoxia for improved translation of cell physiology to animal models and humans

TP Keeley, GE Mann - Physiological reviews, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
The extensive oxygen gradient between the air we breathe (Po2~ 21 kPa) and its ultimate
distribution within mitochondria (as low as~ 0.5–1 kPa) is testament to the efforts expended …

[HTML][HTML] Complete human day 14 post-implantation embryo models from naive ES cells

B Oldak, E Wildschutz, V Bondarenko, MY Comar… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The ability to study human post-implantation development remains limited owing to ethical
and technical challenges associated with intrauterine development after implantation …

Deciphering the “m6A code” via antibody-independent quantitative profiling

MA Garcia-Campos, S Edelheit, U Toth, M Safra… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Summary N6-methyladenosine (m 6 A) is the most abundant modification on mRNA and is
implicated in critical roles in development, physiology, and disease. A major limitation has …

Distinct processing of lncRNAs contributes to non-conserved functions in stem cells

CJ Guo, XK Ma, YH Xing, CC Zheng, YF Xu, L Shan… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) evolve more rapidly than mRNAs. Whether conserved
lncRNAs undergo conserved processing, localization, and function remains unexplored. We …

[HTML][HTML] Autophagy promotes cell survival by maintaining NAD levels

T Kataura, L Sedlackova, EG Otten, R Kumari… - Developmental cell, 2022 - cell.com
Autophagy is an essential catabolic process that promotes the clearance of surplus or
damaged intracellular components. Loss of autophagy in age-related human pathologies …

Parkinson-associated risk variant in distal enhancer of α-synuclein modulates target gene expression

F Soldner, Y Stelzer, CS Shivalila, BJ Abraham… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified numerous genetic variants
associated with complex diseases, but mechanistic insights are impeded by a lack of …

Systematic identification of culture conditions for induction and maintenance of naive human pluripotency

TW Theunissen, BE Powell, H Wang, M Mitalipova… - Cell stem cell, 2014 - cell.com
Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) of mice and humans have distinct molecular and biological
characteristics, raising the question of whether an earlier," naive" state of pluripotency may …

[HTML][HTML] Induction of expansion and folding in human cerebral organoids

Y Li, J Muffat, A Omer, I Bosch, MA Lancaster, M Sur… - Cell stem cell, 2017 - cell.com
An expansion of the cerebral neocortex is thought to be the foundation for the unique
intellectual abilities of humans. It has been suggested that an increase in the proliferative …

Derivation of novel human ground state naive pluripotent stem cells

O Gafni, L Weinberger, AAF Mansour, YS Manor… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells are isolated from the inner cell mass of blastocysts, and
can be preserved in vitro in a naive inner-cell-mass-like configuration by providing …