Reproductive tract extracellular vesicles are sufficient to transmit intergenerational stress and program neurodevelopment

JC Chan, CP Morgan, N Adrian Leu, A Shetty… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are a unique mode of intercellular communication capable of
incredible specificity in transmitting signals involved in cellular function, including germ cell …

Is the epididymis a series of organs placed side by side?

RF Domeniconi, ACF Souza, B Xu… - Biology of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The mammalian epididymis is more than a highly convoluted tube divided into four regions:
initial segment, caput, corpus and cauda. It is a highly segmented structure with each …

Profiling of epididymal small non‐protein‐coding RNA s

B Nixon, GN De Iuliis, MD Dun, W Zhou, NA Trigg… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background Our understanding of epididymal physiology and function has been
transformed over the three decades in which the International Meeting Series on the …

Characterisation of mouse epididymosomes reveals a complex profile of microRNAs and a potential mechanism for modification of the sperm epigenome

JN Reilly, EA McLaughlin, SJ Stanger, AL Anderson… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Recent evidence has shown that the sperm epigenome is vulnerable to dynamic
modifications arising from a variety of paternal environment exposures and that this legacy …

Proteomic profiling of mouse epididymosomes reveals their contributions to post-testicular sperm maturation

B Nixon, GN De Iuliis, HM Hart, W Zhou, A Mathe… - Molecular & Cellular …, 2019 - ASBMB
The functional maturation of spermatozoa that is necessary to achieve fertilization occurs as
these cells transit through the epididymis, a highly specialized region of the male …

Global profiling of the proteomic changes associated with the post-testicular maturation of mouse spermatozoa

DA Skerrett-Byrne, AL Anderson, EG Bromfield… - Cell Reports, 2022 - cell.com
Spermatozoa acquire fertilization potential during passage through a highly specialized
region of the extratesticular ductal system known as the epididymis. In the absence of de …

Spatio-temporal landscape of mouse epididymal cells and specific mitochondria-rich segments defined by large-scale single-cell RNA-seq

J Shi, KL Fok, P Dai, F Qiao, M Zhang, H Liu, M Sang… - Cell Discovery, 2021 - nature.com
Spermatozoa acquire their fertilizing ability and forward motility during epididymal transit,
suggesting the importance of the epididymis. Although the cell atlas of the epididymis was …

Analysis of the small non-protein-coding RNA profile of mouse spermatozoa reveals specific enrichment of piRNAs within mature spermatozoa

K Hutcheon, EA McLaughlin, SJ Stanger… - RNA biology, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Post-testicular sperm maturation and storage within the epididymis is a key determinant of
gamete quality and fertilization competence. Here we demonstrate that mouse spermatozoa …

[HTML][HTML] Epididymal mRNA and miRNA transcriptome analyses reveal important genes and miRNAs related to sperm motility in roosters

K **ng, Y Chen, L Wang, X Lv, Z Li, X Qi, X Wang… - Poultry Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Sperm motility is a crucial trait in chicken production, and the epididymis is an essential
organ in the reproductive system. Currently, the molecular mechanisms underlying sperm …

Mouse quiescin sulfhydryl oxidases exhibit distinct epididymal luminal distribution with segment-specific sperm surface associations

TE Wang, SH Li, S Minabe, AL Anderson… - Biology of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Sulfhydryl oxidation is part of the sperm maturation process essential for the acquisition of
sperm fertilization competency and its structural stabilization; however, the specific sulfhydryl …