Acquisition of oocyte competence to develop as an embryo: integrated nuclear and cytoplasmic events

M Conti, F Franciosi - Human reproduction update, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Infertility affects~ 7% of couples of reproductive age with little change in incidence in the last
two decades. ART, as well as other interventions, have made major strides in correcting this …

[HTML][HTML] Oocyte ageing and epigenetics

ZJ Ge, H Schatten, CL Zhang… - Reproduction (Cambridge …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
It has become a current social trend for women to delay childbearing. However, the quality of
oocytes from older females is compromised and the pregnancy rate of older women is lower …

Whole Chromosome Instability induces senescence and promotes SASP

GA Andriani, VP Almeida, F Faggioli, M Mauro… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Age-related accumulation of ploidy changes is associated with decreased expression of
genes controlling chromosome segregation and cohesin functions. To determine the …

Meiotic kinetochores fragment into multiple lobes upon cohesin loss in aging eggs

AP Zielinska, E Bellou, N Sharma, AS Frombach… - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
Chromosome segregation errors during female meiosis are a leading cause of pregnancy
loss and human infertility. The segregation of chromosomes is driven by interactions …

Molecular mechanisms responsible for increased vulnerability of the ageing oocyte to oxidative damage

BP Mihalas, KA Redgrove… - … medicine and cellular …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In their midthirties, women experience a decline in fertility, coupled to a pronounced
increase in the risk of aneuploidy, miscarriage, and birth defects. Although the aetiology of …

BPA exposure during in vitro oocyte maturation results in dose-dependent alterations to embryo development rates, apoptosis rate, sex ratio and gene expression

J Ferris, K Mahboubi, N MacLusky, WA King… - Reproductive …, 2016 - Elsevier
Alterations in the oocyte's environment can negatively affect embryo development. Oocyte
quality, which can determine embryonic viability, is easily perturbed, thus factors affecting …

Postovulatory aging affects dynamics of mRNA, expression and localization of maternal effect proteins, spindle integrity and pericentromeric proteins in mouse oocytes

T Trapphoff, M Heiligentag, D Dankert… - Human …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
STUDY QUESTION Is the postovulatory aging-dependent differential decrease of mRNAs
and polyadenylation of mRNAs coded by maternal effect genes associated with altered …

An integrated genome-wide multi-omics analysis of gene expression dynamics in the preimplantation mouse embryo

S Israel, M Ernst, OE Psathaki, HCA Drexler… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Early mouse embryos have an atypical translational machinery that consists of cytoplasmic
lattices and is poorly competent for translation. Hence, the impact of transcriptomic changes …

Integrative proteome analysis implicates aberrant RNA splicing in impaired developmental potential of aged mouse oocytes

M Li, C Ren, S Zhou, Y He, Y Guo, H Zhang, L Liu… - Aging cell, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aging has many effects on the female reproductive system, among which decreased oocyte
quality and impaired embryo developmental potential are the most important factors …

Mechanisms and consequences of aneuploidy and chromosome instability in the aging brain

GA Andriani, J Vijg, C Montagna - Mechanisms of ageing and development, 2017 - Elsevier
Aneuploidy and polyploidy are a form of Genomic Instability (GIN) known as Chromosomal
Instability (CIN) characterized by sporadic abnormalities in chromosome copy numbers …