Placental hypoxia: What have we learnt from small animal models?

E Siragher, AN Sferruzzi-Perri - Placenta, 2021 - Elsevier
Intrauterine hypoxia is a feature of pregnancy complications, both at high altitude and sea
level. To understand the placental response to reduced oxygen availability, small animal …

Roles of insulin-like growth factor II in regulating female reproductive physiology

T Muhammad, M Li, J Wang, T Huang, S Zhao… - Science China Life …, 2020 - Springer
The number of growth factors involved in female fertility has been extensively studied, but
reluctance to add essential growth factors in culture media has limited progress in optimizing …

[HTML][HTML] Mesenchyme-derived IGF2 is a major paracrine regulator of pancreatic growth and function

CM Hammerle, I Sandovici, GV Brierley, NM Smith… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The genetic mechanisms that determine the size of the adult pancreas are poorly
understood. Imprinted genes, which are expressed in a parent-of-origin-specific manner, are …

Loss of imprinting of the Igf2-H19 ICR1 enhances placental endocrine capacity via sex-specific alterations in signalling pathways in the mouse

BRL Aykroyd, SJ Tunster, AN Sferruzzi-Perri - Development, 2022 - journals.biologists.com
Imprinting control region (ICR1) controls the expression of the Igf2 and H19 genes in a
parent-of-origin specific manner. Appropriate expression of the Igf2-H19 locus is …

Promoter‐specific expression of the imprinted IGF2 gene in bovine oocytes and pre‐implantation embryos

BR Willhelm, E Ticiani, K Campagnolo… - … in Domestic Animals, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The bovine IGF2 locus is a genomic region with alternative transcripts controlled by five
promoters (P0, P1, P2, P3 and P4). As transcriptional regulation can affect messenger RNA …

The effect of maternal obesity/GDM and metformin intervention on maternal, placental and fetal health

AS Hufnagel - 2022 - repository.cam.ac.uk
In many populations worldwide over 50% of women have a body mass index above 25.
Therefore, an increasing number of women enter pregnancy overweight or obese. This …

Mesenchymal Igf2 is a major paracrine regulator of pancreatic growth and function

CM Hammerle, I Sandovici, GV Brierley, NM Smith… - bioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
The genetic mechanisms that determine the size of the adult pancreas are poorly
understood. Here we demonstrate that many imprinted genes are highly expressed in the …