Catherine Aiken
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- Eggleton EJ, McMurrugh KJ, Aiken CE. Maternal cardiomyopathy increases the risk of perinatal adverse outcomes: a response. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2023 Apr;228(4):486-487. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2022.11.1311. Epub 2022 Dec 5. PMID: 36473504.
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Irving Aye
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- Aye ILMH, Gong S, Avellino G, Barbagallo R, Gaccioli F, Jenkins BJ, Koulman A, Murray AJ, Stephen Charnock-Jones D, Smith GCS. Placental sex-dependent spermine synthesis regulates trophoblast gene expression through acetyl-coA metabolism and histone acetylation. Communications Biology. 2022 Jun 15;5(1):586.
- Aye ILMH, Aiken CE, Charnock-Jones DS, Smith GCS. Placental energy metabolism in health and disease-significance of development and implications for preeclampsia. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2022 Feb;226(2S):S928-S944
- Aye ILMH, Rosario FJ, Kramer A, Kristiansen O, Michelsen TM, Powell TL, Jansson T. Insulin Increases Adipose Adiponectin in Pregnancy by Inhibiting Ubiquitination and Degradation: Impact of Obesity. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 2022 Jan 1;107(1):53-66.
Thorsten Boroviak
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- Siriwardena D, Boroviak TE. Evolutionary divergence of embryo implantation in primates. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2022 Dec 5;377(1865):20210256. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0256. Epub 2022 Oct 17. PMID: 36252209; PMCID: PMC9574630.
- Castillo-Venzor A, Penfold CA, Morgan MD, Tang WW, Kobayashi T, Wong FC, Bergmann S, Slatery E, Boroviak TE, Marioni JC, Surani MA. Origin and segregation of the human germline. Life Sci Alliance. 2023 May 22;6(8):e202201706. doi: 10.26508/lsa.202201706. PMID: 37217306; PMCID: PMC10203729.
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Steve Charnock-Jones
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- Sovio U, Gaccioli F, Cook E, Charnock-Jones DS, Smith GCS. Maternal serum levels of soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase-1 and placental growth factor at 20 and 28 weeks of gestational age and the risk of spontaneous preterm birth. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2023 Feb 8;. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2023.02.001. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 36758709.
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William Colledge
- Ramos-Pittol JM, Fernandes-Freitas I, Milona A, Manchishi SM, Rainbow K, Lam BYH, Tadross JA, Beucher A, Colledge WH, Cebola I, Murphy KG, Miguel-Aliaga I, Yeo GSH, Dhillo WS, Owen BM. Dax1 modulates ERα-dependent hypothalamic estrogen sensing in female mice. Nat Commun. 2023 May 29;14(1):3076. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-38618-y. PubMed PMID: 37248237; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10227040.
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Francesco Colucci
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Miguel Constância
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Priscilla Day-Walsh
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Anne Ferguson-Smith
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- Wolf JB, Ferguson-Smith AC, Lorenz A. Mendel's laws of heredity on his 200th birthday: What have we learned by considering exceptions?. Heredity (Edinb). 2022 Jul;129(1):1-3. doi: 10.1038/s41437-022-00552-y. Epub 2022 Jul 1. PubMed PMID: 35778507; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9273789
Abby Fowden
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Dino Giussani
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- Kane AD, Herrera EA, Niu Y, Camm EJ, Allison BJ, Tijsseling D, Lusby C, Derks JB, Brain KL, Bronckers IM, Cross CM, Berends L, Giussani DA. Combined Statin and Glucocorticoid Therapy for the Safer Treatment of Preterm Birth. Hypertension. 2023 Apr;80(4):837-851. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.122.19647. Epub 2023 Feb 1. PubMed PMID: 36724801; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10017302.
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Courtney Hanna
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Gavin Kelsey
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- Rodríguez-Ubreva J, Arutyunyan A, Jan Bonder M, Del Pino-Molina L, Clark SJ, de la Calle-Fabregat C, Garcia-Alonso L, Handfield L-F, Ciudad L, Andrés-Leon E, Krueger F, Català-Moll F, Rodríguez-Cortez VC, Polanski K, Mamanova L, van Dongen S, Kiselev V, Martinez-Saavedra MT, Heyn H, Martin J, Warnatz K, López-Granados E, Rodríguez-Gallego C, Stegle O, Kelsey G, Vento-Tormo R, Ballestar E. (2022) Single-cell atlas of common variable immunodeficiency shows germinal center-associated epigenetic dysregulation in B-cell responses. Nat. Communs. 13:1779.
- Van de Pette M, Dimond A, Galvao A, Millership SJ, To W, Prodani C, McNamara G, Bruno L, Sardini A, Webster Z, McGinty J, French PMW, Uren GA, Castillo-Fernandez J, Watkinson W, Ferguson-Smith AC, Merkenschlager M, John RM, Kelsey G, Fisher AG. (2022) Epigenetic changes induced by in utero dietary challenge result in phenotypic variability in successive generations of mice. Nat. Communs. 13:2464.
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Marta Shahbazi
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Naomi McGovern
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- Nabweyambo S, Kanyerezi S, Petterson JH, Katabazi FA, Ssekagiri A, Mwesigwa S, Mboowa G, Nakazzi F, Keesiga A, Adroma M, Bwanga F, McGovern N, Sande OJ, Nakimuli A. No association of a Vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGFA) gene polymorphism with pre-eclampsia among pregnant women in Uganda. BMC Genomics. 2023 Mar 20;24(1):132. doi: 10.1186/s12864-023-09213-8. PubMed PMID: 36941544; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10029258.
- Stewart H, Palmulli R, Johansen KH, McGovern N, Shehata OM, Carnell GW, Jackson HK, Lee JS, Brown JC, Burgoyne T, Heeney JL, Okkenhaug K, Firth AE, Peden AA, Edgar JR. Tetherin antagonism by SARS-CoV-2 enhances virus release: multiple mechanisms including ORF3a-mediated defective retrograde traffic. bioRxiv. 2022 Dec 22;. doi: 10.1101/2021.01.06.425396. PubMed PMID: 33442692; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7805449.
Ashley Moffett
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- Moffett A, Shreeve N. Local immune recognition of trophoblast in early human pregnancy: controversies and questions. Nat Rev Immunol. 2023 Apr;23(4):222-235. PMID: 36192648
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- Namagembe I, Nakimuli A, Byamugisha J, Moffett A, Aiken A, Aiken C. Preventing death following unsafe abortion: a case series from urban Uganda. AJOG Glob Rep. 2022 Feb;2(1):100039. PMID: 35252906
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- ESHRE Add-ons working group: Lundin K., Bozdag G., Ebner T., Gasseholm Bentzen J., Harper J., Le Clef N., Moffett A., Norcross S., Polyzos N.P., Rautakallio-Hokkanen S, Sfontouris I., Sermon K., Vermeulen N. and Pinborg A. Good practice recommendations for add-ons in reproductive medicine. Human Reproduction (in press)
Andrew Murray
- Lindsay RT, Ambery P, Jermutus L, Murray AJ. Glucagon and exenatide improve contractile recovery following ischaemia/reperfusion in the isolated perfused rat heart. Physiol Rep. 2023 Mar;11(6):e15597. doi: 10.14814/phy2.15597. PubMed PMID: 36946315; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10031586.
- Davies KL, Camm EJ, Smith DJ, Miles J, Forhead AJ, Murray AJ, Fowden AL. Developmental programming of mitochondrial substrate metabolism in skeletal muscle of adult sheep by cortisol exposure before birth. J Dev Orig Health Dis. 2023 Feb;14(1):77-87. doi: 10.1017/S204017442200040X. Epub 2022 Jul 13. PubMed PMID: 35822505.
- Verma N, Velmurugan GV, Winford E, Coburn H, Kotiya D, Leibold N, Radulescu L, Despa S, Chen KC, Van Eldik LJ, Nelson PT, Wilcock DM, Jicha GA, Stowe AM, Goldstein LB, Powel DK, Walton JH, Navedo MF, Nystoriak MA, Murray AJ, Biessels GJ, Troakes C, Zetterberg H, Hardy J, Lashley T, Despa F. Aβ efflux impairment and inflammation linked to cerebrovascular accumulation of amyloid-forming amylin secreted from pancreas. Commun Biol. 2023 Jan 3;6(1):2. doi: 10.1038/s42003-022-04398-2. PubMed PMID: 36596993; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9810597.
- Ronzano R, Skarlatou S, Barriga BK, Bannatyne BA, Bhumbra GS, Foster JD, Moore JD, Lancelin C, Pocratsky AM, Özyurt MG, Smith CC, Todd AJ, Maxwell DJ, Murray AJ, Pfaff SL, Brownstone RM, Zampieri N, Beato M. Spinal premotor interneurons controlling antagonistic muscles are spatially intermingled. Elife. 2022 Dec 13;11. doi: 10.7554/eLife.81976. PubMed PMID: 36512397; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9844990.
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Kathy Niakan
- Regin M, Essahib W, Demtschenko A, Dewandre D, David L, Gerri C, Niakan KK, Verheyen G, Tournaye H, Sterckx J, Sermon K, Van De Velde H. Lineage segregation in human pre-implantation embryos is specified by YAP1 and TEAD1. Hum Reprod. 2023 Jun 9;. doi: 10.1093/humrep/dead107. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 37295962.
- Gerri C, McCarthy A, Mei Scott G, Regin M, Stamatiadis P, Brumm S, Simon CS, Lee J, Montesinos C, Hassitt C, Hockenhull S, Hampshire D, Elder K, Snell P, Christie L, Fouladi-Nashta AA, Van de Velde H, Niakan KK. A conserved role of the Hippo signalling pathway in initiation of the first lineage specification event across mammals. Development. 2023 Apr 15;150(8). doi: 10.1242/dev.201112. Epub 2023 Apr 20. PubMed PMID: 36971487; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10263151.
- Barry DJ, Gerri C, Bell DM, D'Antuono R, Niakan KK. GIANI - open-source software for automated analysis of 3D microscopy images. J Cell Sci. 2022 May 15;135(10). doi: 10.1242/jcs.259511. Epub 2022 May 17. PubMed PMID: 35502739; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9189431.
Sue Ozanne
- Garrud TAC, Teulings NEWD, Niu Y, Skeffington KL, Beck C, Itani N, Conlon FG, Botting KJ, Nicholas LM, Tong W, Derks JB, Ozanne SE, Giussani DA. Molecular mechanisms underlying adverse effects of dexamethasone and betamethasone in the developing cardiovascular system. FASEB J. 2023 Jun;37(6):e22887. doi: 10.1096/fj.202200676RR. PubMed PMID: 37132324.
- Metcalfe NB, Bellman J, Bize P, Blier PU, Crespel A, Dawson NJ, Dunn RE, Halsey LG, Hood WR, Hopkins M, Killen SS, McLennan D, Nadler LE, Nati JJH, Noakes MJ, Norin T, Ozanne SE, Peaker M, Pettersen AK, Przybylska-Piech A, Rathery A, Récapet C, Rodríguez E, Salin K, Stier A, Thoral E, Westerterp KR, Westerterp-Plantenga MS, Wojciechowski MS, Monaghan P. Solving the conundrum of intra-specific variation in metabolic rate: A multidisciplinary conceptual and methodological toolkit: New technical developments are opening the door to an understanding of why metabolic rate varies among individual animals of a species: New technical developments are opening the door to an understanding of why metabolic rate varies among individual animals of a species. Bioessays. 2023 Jun;45(6):e2300026. doi: 10.1002/bies.202300026. Epub 2023 Apr 12. PubMed PMID: 37042115.
- Parra-Vargas M, Bouret SG, Bruning JC, de Moura EG, Garland T Jr, Lisboa PC, Ozanne SE, Patti ME, Plagemann A, Speakman JR, Tena-Sempere M, Vergely C, Zeltser LM, Jiménez-Chillarón JC. The long-lasting shadow of litter size in rodents: litter size is an underreported variable that strongly determines adult physiology. Mol Metab. 2023 May;71:101707. doi: 10.1016/j.molmet.2023.101707. Epub 2023 Mar 16. PubMed PMID: 36933618; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10074241.
- White SL, Koulman A, Ozanne SE, Furse S, Poston L, Meek CL. Towards precision medicine in gestational diabetes: pathophysiology and glycemic patterns in pregnant women with obesity. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2023 Mar 23;. doi: 10.1210/clinem/dgad168. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 36950879.
- Justulin LA, Zambrano E, Ong TP, Ozanne SE. Editorial: Early Life Epigenetic Programming of Health and Disease through DOHaD Perspective. Front Cell Dev Biol. 2023;11:1139283. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2023.1139283. eCollection 2023. PubMed PMID: 36846583; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9950751.
- Dearden L, Ozanne SE. Considerations for designing and analysing inter-generational studies in rodents. Nat Metab. 2023 Jan;5(1):1-4. doi: 10.1038/s42255-022-00721-7. PubMed PMID: 36609721.
- Schoonejans JM, Blackmore HL, Ashmore TJ, Pantaleão LC, Pellegrini Pisani L, Dearden L, Tadross JA, Aiken CE, Fernandez-Twinn DS, Ozanne SE. Sex-specific effects of maternal metformin intervention during glucose-intolerant obese pregnancy on body composition and metabolic health in aged mouse offspring. Diabetologia. 2022 Dec;65(12):2132-2145. doi: 10.1007/s00125-022-05789-0. Epub 2022 Sep 16. PubMed PMID: 36112170; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9630251.
- Muglia LJ, Benhalima K, Tong S, Ozanne S. Maternal factors during pregnancy influencing maternal, fetal, and childhood outcomes. BMC Med. 2022 Nov 1;20(1):418. doi: 10.1186/s12916-022-02632-6. PubMed PMID: 36320027; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9623926.
- Inzani I, Ozanne SE. Programming by maternal obesity: a pathway to poor cardiometabolic health in the offspring. Proc Nutr Soc. 2022 Sep;81(3):227-242. doi: 10.1017/S0029665122001914. Epub 2022 Jul 29. Review. PubMed PMID: 35974421; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7613838.
- Giakoumaki I, Pollock N, Aljuaid T, Sannicandro AJ, Alameddine M, Owen E, Myrtziou I, Ozanne SE, Kanakis I, Goljanek-Whysall K, Vasilaki A. Postnatal Protein Intake as a Determinant of Skeletal Muscle Structure and Function in Mice-A Pilot Study. Int J Mol Sci. 2022 Aug 8;23(15). doi: 10.3390/ijms23158815. PubMed PMID: 35955948; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9369224.
Peter Rugg-Gunn
- Rugg-Gunn PJ, Moris N, Tam PPL. Technical challenges of studying early human development. Development. 2023 Jun 1;150(11). doi: 10.1242/dev.201797. Epub 2023 Jun 1. PubMed PMID: 37260362.
- Rosspopoff O, Cazottes E, Huret C, Loda A, Collier AJ, Casanova M, Rugg-Gunn PJ, Heard E, Ouimette JF, Rougeulle C. Species-specific regulation of XIST by the JPX/FTX orthologs. Nucleic Acids Res. 2023 Mar 21;51(5):2177-2194. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkad029. PubMed PMID: 36727460; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10018341.
- Maskalenka K, Alagöz G, Krueger F, Wright J, Rostovskaya M, Nakhuda A, Bendall A, Krueger C, Walker S, Scally A, Rugg-Gunn PJ. NANOGP1, a tandem duplicate of NANOG, exhibits partial functional conservation in human naïve pluripotent stem cells. Development. 2023 Jan 15;150(2). doi: 10.1242/dev.201155. Epub 2023 Jan 18. PubMed PMID: 36621005; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10110494.
- von Meyenn F, Berrens RV, Andrews S, Santos F, Collier AJ, Krueger F, Osorno R, Dean W, Rugg-Gunn PJ, Reik W. Comparative Principles of DNA Methylation Reprogramming during Human and Mouse In Vitro Primordial Germ Cell Specification. Dev Cell. 2022 Dec 5;57(23):2669-2671. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2022.11.009. PubMed PMID: 36473463; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9746669.
- Novo CL, Wong EV, Hockings C, Poudel C, Sheekey E, Wiese M, Okkenhaug H, Boulton SJ, Basu S, Walker S, Kaminski Schierle GS, Narlikar GJ, Rugg-Gunn PJ. Satellite repeat transcripts modulate heterochromatin condensates and safeguard chromosome stability in mouse embryonic stem cells. Nat Commun. 2022 Jun 20;13(1):3525. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-31198-3. PubMed PMID: 35725842; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9209518.
- Zijlmans DW, Talon I, Verhelst S, Bendall A, Van Nerum K, Javali A, Malcolm AA, van Knippenberg SSFA, Biggins L, To SK, Janiszewski A, Admiraal D, Knops R, Corthout N, Balaton BP, Georgolopoulos G, Panda A, Bhanu NV, Collier AJ, Fabian C, Allsop RN, Chappell J, Pham TXA, Oberhuemer M, Ertekin C, Vanheer L, Athanasouli P, Lluis F, Deforce D, Jansen JH, Garcia BA, Vermeulen M, Rivron N, Dhaenens M, Marks H, Rugg-Gunn PJ, Pasque V. Integrated multi-omics reveal polycomb repressive complex 2 restricts human trophoblast induction. Nat Cell Biol. 2022 Jun;24(6):858-871. doi: 10.1038/s41556-022-00932-w. Epub 2022 Jun 13. PubMed PMID: 35697783; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9203278.
- Rostovskaya M, Andrews S, Reik W, Rugg-Gunn PJ. Amniogenesis occurs in two independent waves in primates. Cell Stem Cell. 2022 May 5;29(5):744-759.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2022.03.014. Epub 2022 Apr 18. PubMed PMID: 35439430; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9627701.
- Collier AJ, Bendall A, Fabian C, Malcolm AA, Tilgner K, Semprich CI, Wojdyla K, Nisi PS, Kishore K, Roamio Franklin VN, Mirshekar-Syahkal B, D'Santos C, Plath K, Yusa K, Rugg-Gunn PJ. Genome-wide screening identifies Polycomb repressive complex 1.3 as an essential regulator of human naïve pluripotent cell reprogramming. Sci Adv. 2022 Mar 25;8(12):eabk0013. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abk0013. Epub 2022 Mar 25. PubMed PMID: 35333572; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8956265.
- Rugg-Gunn PJ. Induction of Human Naïve Pluripotency Using Chemical Resetting. Methods Mol Biol. 2022;2416:29-37. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1908-7_3. PubMed PMID: 34870828.
- Tomimatsu K, Bihary D, Olan I, Parry AJ, Schoenfelder S, Chan ASL, Slater GSC, Ito Y, Rugg-Gunn PJ, Kirschner K, Bermejo-Rodriguez C, Seko T, Kugoh H, Shiraishi K, Sayama K, Kimura H, Fraser P, Narita M, Samarajiwa SA, Narita M. Locus-specific induction of gene expression from heterochromatin loci during cellular senescence. Nat Aging. 2022 Jan;2(1):31-45. doi: 10.1038/s43587-021-00147-y. Epub 2021 Dec 23. PubMed PMID: 37118356.
- Rugg-Gunn PJ. Flow Cytometry Analysis of Cell-Surface Markers to Identify Human Naïve Pluripotent Stem Cells. Methods Mol Biol. 2022;2416:257-265. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1908-7_16. PubMed PMID: 34870841.
Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri
- Yong HEJ*, Maksym K*, Yusoff MAB, Salazar-Petres E, Nazarenko T, Zaikin A, David AL, Hillman SL†, Sferruzzi-Perri AN† (2023) Integrated placental modelling of histology with gene expression to identify functional impact in health and disease. Cells 12(7):1093 and Available on medRxiv: https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2022.05.31.22275522v1. * joint first author. † Joint senior author.
- Musa E*, Salazar-Petres E*, Arowolo A, Levitt N, Matjila M*, Sferruzzi-Perri AN* (2023) Obesity and gestational diabetes independently and collectively, induce specific impacts on placental structure, inflammation, and endocrine function. J Physiol 601(7):1287-1306. A feature by the journal: https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP284407 and much media attention (featured on 23 outlets): https://wiley.altmetric.com/details/142967245/news
- Salazar-Petres E, Pereira-Carvalho D, Lopez-Tello J†, Sferruzzi-Perri AN† (2023) Maternal and intrauterine influences on feto-placental growth are accompanied by sexually dimorphic changes in placental mitochondrial respiration, and metabolic signalling pathways. † Joint senior author. Cells 12:797 and on Bioarchive server https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.24.525377v1?rss=1
- Sferruzzi-Perri AN, Lopez-Tello J, Salazar-Petres E. Placental adaptations supporting fetal growth during normal and adverse gestational environments. Exp Physiol. 2023 Mar;108(3):371-397. doi: 10.1113/EP090442. Epub 2022 Dec 9. Review. PubMed PMID: 36484327.
- Candia AA, Jiménez T, Navarrete Á, Beñaldo F, Silva P, García-Herrera C, Sferruzzi-Perri AN, Krause BJ, González-Candia A, Herrera EA. Developmental Ultrasound Characteristics in Guinea Pigs: Similarities with Human Pregnancy. Vet Sci. 2023 Feb 10;10(2). doi: 10.3390/vetsci10020144. PubMed PMID: 36851448; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9963037.
- Lopez-Tello J, Sferruzzi-Perri AN. Characterization of placental endocrine function and fetal brain development in a mouse model of small for gestational age. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2023;14:1116770. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2023.1116770. eCollection 2023. PubMed PMID: 36843585; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9950515.
- Cindrova-Davies T, Sferruzzi-Perri AN. Human placental development and function. Semin Cell Dev Biol. 2022 Nov;131:66-77. doi: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2022.03.039. Epub 2022 Apr 4. Review. PubMed PMID: 35393235.
- Lean SC, Candia AA, Gulacsi E, Lee GCL, Sferruzzi-Perri AN (2022) Obesogenic diet in mice compromises maternal metabolic physiology and lactation ability leading to reductions in neonatal viability. Acta Physiologica 236(2):e13861.
Much media attention e.g. https://mcginleysbar.com/western-style-diet-high-in-fat-and-sugar-can-ne.... - Pereira-Carvalho D, Salazar-Petres E, Lopez-Tello J, Sferruzzi-Perri AN. Maternal and Fetal PI3K-p110α Deficiency Induces Sex-Specific Changes in Conceptus Growth and Placental Mitochondrial Bioenergetic Reserve in Mice. Vet Sci. 2022 Sep 13;9(9). doi: 10.3390/vetsci9090501. PubMed PMID: 36136716; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9506205.
- Lopez-Tello J, Salazar-Petres E, Webb L, Fowden AL, Sferruzzi-Perri AN. Ablation of PI3K-p110alpha Impairs Maternal Metabolic Adaptations to Pregnancy. Front Cell Dev Biol. 2022;10:928210. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2022.928210. eCollection 2022. PubMed PMID: 35846351; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9283861.
- Lopez-Tello J, Schofield Z, Kiu R, Dalby MJ, van Sinderen D, Le Gall G, Sferruzzi-Perri AN, Hall LJ. Maternal gut microbiota Bifidobacterium promotes placental morphogenesis, nutrient transport and fetal growth in mice. Cell Mol Life Sci. 2022 Jun 28;79(7):386. doi: 10.1007/s00018-022-04379-y. PubMed PMID: 35760917; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9236968.
Claire Senner
- Senner C.E.*, Dong Z., Prater M., Branco M.R. and Watson E.D.* (2023). One-carbon metabolism is required for epigenetic stability in the mouse placenta. Front Cell Dev Biol. In press.
Gordon Smith
- Stephens K, Charnock-Jones DS, Smith GCS. Group B Streptococcus and the risk of perinatal morbidity and mortality following term labor. American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology 2022, in press.
- Kennedy KM, de Goffau M, Elisa Perez-Muñoz ME, Arrieta MC, Bäckhed F, Bork P, Braun T, Bushman FD, Doré J, de Vos W , Earl A, Eisen J, Elovitz M, Ganal-Vonarburg S, Gänzle M, Garrett M, Hall L, Hornef M, Huttenhower C, Konnikova L, Lebeer S, Macpherson A, Massey R, McHardy A, Koren O, Lawley T, Ley R, O'Mahony L, O'Toole P, Pamer E, Parkhill J, Raes J, Rattei T, Salonen A, Segal E, Segata N, Shanahan F, Sloboda D, Smith GCS, Sokol H, Spector T, Surette M, Tannock G, Walker A, Yassour M, Walter J. Questioning the fetal microbiome illustrates pitfalls of low-biomass microbial studies. Nature 2023;613:639-649.
- Olga L, Sovio U, Wong H, Smith GCS, Aiken CE. Association between antenatal diagnosis of late fetal growth restriction and educational outcomes in mid-childhood: A UK prospective cohort study with long-term data-linkage study. PLoS Medicine 2023, in press.
- Burden CA, Smith GCS, Sovio U, Clayton GL, Fraser A. Maternal hemoglobin levels and adverse pregnancy outcomes: individual patient data analysis from 2 prospective UK pregnancy cohorts. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2023:117:616-624.
- Avellino G, Deshmukh R, Charnock-Jones DS, Smith GCS, Tardito S, Aye ILMH. Physiologically relevant culture medium Plasmax improves human placental trophoblast stem cell function. American Journal of Physiology (Cell Physiology) 2023, In press.
- Sovio U, Gaccioli F, Cook E, Charnock-Jones DS, Smith GCS. Maternal serum levels of sFlt-1 and PlGF at 20 and 28 weeks of gestational age and the risk of spontaneous preterm birth. American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology 2023, Feb 7:S0002-9378(23)00077-7. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2023.02.001. Online ahead of print.
- Adanikin A, Lawlor DA, Pell JP, Nelson SM, Smith GCS, Iliodromiti S. Association of birthweight centiles and early childhood development: A population-based cohort study of singleton infants born from 37 weeks of gestation in Scotland. PLoS Medicine 2022;19:e1004108.
- Been JV, Smith GCS, Cooper SA, Pell JP, Mackay D. Time of birth and additional support need at school age: national cohort study of 865 409 children. Journal of Perinatology 2022 Oct 8. doi: 10.1038/s41372-022-01524-0. Online ahead of print.
- Gaccioli F, Sovio U, Song S, Cook E, Charnock-Jones DS, Smith GCS. Increased Placental sFLT1 (Soluble fms-Like Tyrosine Kinase Receptor-1) Drives the Antiangiogenic Profile of Maternal Serum Preceding Preeclampsia but Not Fetal Growth Restriction. Hypertension 2023;80:325-334.
Azim Surani
- Castillo-Venzor A, Penfold CA, Morgan MD, Tang WW, Kobayashi T, Wong FC, Bergmann S, Slatery E, Boroviak TE, Marioni JC, Surani MA. Origin and segregation of the human germline. Life Sci Alliance. 2023 Aug;6(8). doi: 10.26508/lsa.202201706. Print 2023 Aug. PubMed PMID: 37217306; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10203729.
- Zhang J, Zhao L, Fu Y, Liu F, Wang Z, Li Y, Zhao G, Sun W, Wu B, Song Y, Li S, Hao C, Wuyun B, Wu R, Liu M, Cao G, Nashun B, Surani MA, Sun Q, Bao S, Liu P, Li X. Reprogramming efficiency and pluripotency of mule iPSCs over its parents†. Biol Reprod. 2023 Jun 9;108(6):887-901. doi: 10.1093/biolre/ioad041. PubMed PMID: 37040346; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10266948.
- Fulka H, Loi P, Czernik M, Surani A, Fulka J. Omne vivum ex ovo: the oocyte reprogramming and remodeling activities. Reproduction. 2023 Mar 1;165(3):R75-R89. doi: 10.1530/REP-22-0124. Print 2023 Mar 1. Review. PubMed PMID: 36449538.
- Alves-Lopes JP, Wong FCK, Tang WWC, Gruhn WH, Ramakrishna NB, Jowett GM, Jahnukainen K, Surani MA. Specification of human germ cell fate with enhanced progression capability supported by hindgut organoids. Cell Rep. 2023 Jan 31;42(1):111907. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111907. Epub 2023 Jan 5. PubMed PMID: 36640324.Gruhn WH, Tang WWC, Dietmann S, Alves-Lopes JP, Penfold CA, Wong FCK, Ramakrishna NB, Surani MA. Epigenetic resetting in the human germ line entails histone modification remodeling. Sci Adv. 2023 Jan 18;9(3):eade1257. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.ade1257. Epub 2023 Jan 18. PubMed PMID: 36652508; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9848478.
- Floros VI, Pyle A, Dietmann S, Wei W, Tang WWC, Irie N, Payne B, Capalbo A, Noli L, Coxhead J, Hudson G, Crosier M, Strahl H, Khalaf Y, Saitou M, Ilic D, Surani MA, Chinnery PF. Author Correction: Segregation of mitochondrial DNA heteroplasmy through a developmental genetic bottleneck in human embryos. Nat Cell Biol. 2023 Jan;25(1):194. doi: 10.1038/s41556-022-01046-z. PubMed PMID: 36522542.
- Ramakrishna NB, Battistoni G, Surani MA, Hannon GJ, Miska EA. Mouse primordial germ-cell-like cells lack piRNAs. Dev Cell. 2022 Dec 5;57(23):2661-2668.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2022.11.004. PubMed PMID: 36473462.
- Garcia-Alonso L, Lorenzi V, Mazzeo CI, Alves-Lopes JP, Roberts K, Sancho-Serra C, Engelbert J, Marečková M, Gruhn WH, Botting RA, Li T, Crespo B, van Dongen S, Kiselev VY, Prigmore E, Herbert M, Moffett A, Chédotal A, Bayraktar OA, Surani A, Haniffa M, Vento-Tormo R. Single-cell roadmap of human gonadal development. Nature. 2022 Jul;607(7919):540-547. doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04918-4. Epub 2022 Jul 6. PubMed PMID: 35794482; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9300467.
Roser Vento-Tormo
- Arutyunyan A, Roberts K, Troulé K, Wong FCK, Sheridan MA, Kats I, Garcia-Alonso L, Velten B, Hoo R, Ruiz-Morales ER, Sancho-Serra C, Shilts J, Handfield LF, Marconato L, Tuck E, Gardner L, Mazzeo CI, Li Q, Kelava I, Wright GJ, Prigmore E, Teichmann SA, Bayraktar OA, Moffett A, Stegle O, Turco MY, Vento-Tormo R*. Spatial multiomics map of trophoblast development in early pregnancy. Nature. 2023 Apr;616(7955):143-151.
- Suo C, Polanski K, Dann E, Lindeboom RGH, Vilarrasa-Blasi R, Vento-Tormo R, Haniffa M, Meyer KB, Dratva LM, Tuong ZK, Clatworthy MR, Teichmann SA. Dandelion uses the single-cell adaptive immune receptor repertoire to explore lymphocyte developmental origins. Nat Biotechnol. 2023 Apr 13.
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