Metalloproteinases between History, Health, Disease, and the Complex Dimension of Social Determinants of Health

D Costa, N Ielapi, R Minici, E Bevacqua… - Journal of Vascular …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Metalloproteinases (MPs) belong to the superfamily of zinc endopeptidases, which are
called metzincins. Three families of MPs have been studied in healthy and diseased …

Single-cell assessment of trophoblast stem cell-based organoids as human placenta-modeling platforms

MJ Shannon, GL McNeill, B Koksal, J Baltayeva… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
The recent discovery of human trophoblast stem cells (hTSC) and techniques allowing for
trophoblast organoid (TOrg) culture have established promising approaches for studying …

Unravelling human placental (patho-) physiology at the epigenetic and transcriptome level

A Samara, A Khalil - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
One of the paradoxes of human development lies in its temporary dependence on an
extracorporeal organ, the placenta. The placenta is this complex entity that interfaces with …

ADAM, ADAMTS and astacin proteases: Challenges and breakthroughs in the-Omics era-Volume II

HF Kwok, K Yamamoto, R de Groot… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
ADAMs (A Disintegrin and Metalloproteinases), ADAMTS (A Disintegrin and
Metalloproteinase with Thrombospondin motifs) and astacins are three sub-families of …

RNA sequencing reveals the developmental onset of autosomal gene expression differences in male and female extravillous trophoblasts

MJ Shannon, AG Beristain - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Background: The human placenta is an essential organ for fetal development and
pregnancy success. Across gestation, blastocyst-derived trophoblasts facilitate the major …