Molecular Human Reproduction

Diagnosing genetic disease:

Yury Verlinsky and Sergei Evsikov

Karyotyping of human oocytes by chromosomal analysis of the second polar bodies
Mol. Hum. Reprod. 1999 5: 89-95; doi:10.1093/molehr/5.2.89 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Molecular endocrinology:

Aileen Misajon, Paul Hutchinson, Nicholas Lolatgis, Alan O. Trounson, and Ghanim Almahbobi

The mechanism of action of epidermal growth factor and transforming growth factor on aromatase activity in granulosa cells from polycystic ovaries
Mol. Hum. Reprod. 1999 5: 96-103; doi:10.1093/molehr/5.2.96 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Regulation of testis function:

Thomas Klonisch, Richard Ivell, Marga Balvers, Sabine Kliesch, Bernd Fischer, Martin Bergmann, and Klaus Steger

Expression of relaxin-like factor is down-regulated in human testicular Leydig cell neoplasia
Mol. Hum. Reprod. 1999 5: 104-108; doi:10.1093/molehr/5.2.104 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

H.-J. Glander and J.Schaller

Binding of annexin V to plasma membranes of human spermatozoa: a rapid assay for detection of membrane changes after cryostorage
Mol. Hum. Reprod. 1999 5: 109-115; doi:10.1093/molehr/5.2.109 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Regulation of embryo development:

T. Stojanov, S. Alechna, and C. O'Neill

In-vitro fertilization and culture of mouse embryos in vitro significantly retards the onset of insulin-like growth factor-II expression from the zygotic genome
Mol. Hum. Reprod. 1999 5: 116-124; doi:10.1093/molehr/5.2.116 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Maria Teresa Zenzes, Libertad A. Puy, Ryszard Bielecki, and T.Edward Reed

Detection of benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxide-DNA adducts in embryos from smoking couples: evidence for transmission by spermatozoa
Mol. Hum. Reprod. 1999 5: 125-131; doi:10.1093/molehr/5.2.125 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Molecular aspects of fertilization:

Akihiro Sakurai, Shoji Oda, Yoshinori Kuwabara, and Shunichi Miyazaki

Fertilization, embryonic development, and offspring from mouse eggs injected with round spermatids combined with Ca²⁺ oscillation-inducing sperm factor
Mol. Hum. Reprod. 1999 5: 132-138; doi:10.1093/molehr/5.2.132 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Molecular events in the endometrium:

Akiko Horiuchi, Toshio Nikaido, Zhai Ya-Li, Kazuko Ito, Ayaka Orii, and Shingo Fujii

Heparin inhibits proliferation of myometrial and leiomyomal smooth muscle cells through the induction of -smooth muscle actin, calponin h1 and p27
Mol. Hum. Reprod. 1999 5: 139-145; doi:10.1093/molehr/5.2.139 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

M. von Wolff, I. Classen-Linke, D. Heid, C.A. Krusche, K. Beier-Hellwig, C. Karl, and H.M. Beier

Tumour necrosis factor- (TNF-) in human endometrium and uterine secretion: an evaluation by immunohistochemistry, ELISA and semiquantitative RT–PCR
Mol. Hum. Reprod. 1999 5: 146-152; doi:10.1093/molehr/5.2.146 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Regulation of implantation:

Keiji Tatsumi, Toshihiro Higuchi, Hiroshi Fujiwara, Takahiro Nakayama, Katsuhiko Itoh, Takahide Mori, Shingo Fujii, and Jun Fujita

Expression of calcium binding protein D-9k messenger RNA in the mouse uterine endometrium during implantation
Mol. Hum. Reprod. 1999 5: 153-161; doi:10.1093/molehr/5.2.153 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Takeshi Hirano, Toshihiro Higuchi, Masamichi Ueda, Takuya Inoue, Nobuhiko Kataoka, Michiyuki Maeda, Hiroshi Fujiwara, and Shingo Fujii

CD9 is expressed in extravillous trophoblasts in association with integrin ₃ and integrin ₅
Mol. Hum. Reprod. 1999 5: 162-167; doi:10.1093/molehr/5.2.162 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Takeshi Hirano, Toshihiro Higuchi, Hiroshi Katsuragawa, Takuya Inoue, Nobuhiko Kataoka, Kyong Rim Park, Masamichi Ueda, Michiyuki Maeda, Hiroshi Fujiwara, and Shingo Fujii

CD9 is involved in invasion of human trophoblast-like choriocarcinoma cell line, BeWo cells
Mol. Hum. Reprod. 1999 5: 168-174; doi:10.1093/molehr/5.2.168 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Molecular aspects of pregnancy:

J.E. Norman, A.J. Thomson, J.F. Telfer, A. Young, I.A. Greer, and I.T. Cameron

Myometrial constitutive nitric oxide synthase expression is increased during human pregnancy
Mol. Hum. Reprod. 1999 5: 175-181; doi:10.1093/molehr/5.2.175 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jane E. Mijovic, Tamas Zakar, Jordanka Angelova, and David M. Olson

Prostaglandin endoperoxide H synthase mRNA expression in the human amnion and decidua during pregnancy and in the amnion at preterm labour
Mol. Hum. Reprod. 1999 5: 182-187; doi:10.1093/molehr/5.2.182 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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