From ancient to emerging infections: the odyssey of viruses in the male genital tract

A Le Tortorec, G Matusali, D Mahé… - Physiological …, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
The male genital tract (MGT) is the target of a number of viral infections that can have
deleterious consequences at the individual, offspring, and population levels. These …

Human endogenous retroviruses and the inflammatory response: A vicious circle associated with health and illness

SC Rangel, MD da Silva, AL da Silva… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Human Endogenous Retroviruses (HERVs) are derived from ancient exogenous retroviral
infections that have infected our ancestors' germline cells, underwent endogenization …

Comprehensive Identification and Characterization of HML-9 Group in Chimpanzee Genome

M Chen, C Yang, X Zhai, C Wang, M Liu, B Zhang… - Viruses, 2024 - mdpi.com
Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) are related to long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons,
comprising gene sequences of exogenous retroviruses integrated into the host genome and …

Endogenous retrovirus 3–history, physiology, and pathology

YY Bustamante Rivera, C Brütting, C Schmidt… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Endogenous viral elements (EVE) seem to be present in all eukaryotic genomes. The
composition of EVE varies between different species. The endogenous retrovirus 3 (ERV3) …

Human postmeiotic sex chromatin and its impact on sex chromosome evolution

HS Sin, Y Ichijima, E Koh, M Namiki… - Genome …, 2012 - genome.cshlp.org
Sex chromosome inactivation is essential epigenetic programming in male germ cells.
However, it remains largely unclear how epigenetic silencing of sex chromosomes impacts …

A novel Y chromosome microdeletion with the loss of an endogenous retrovirus related, testis specific transcript in AZFb region

HS Sin, E Koh, M Taya, M IIjima, K Sugimoto… - The Journal of …, 2011 - auajournals.org
Purpose: We identified the endogenous retroviruses associated with TTYs (testis specific
transcripts linked to the Y) in the AZFb region. We evaluated the relationship between …

Evaluating of HERV-K genes expression in sperm samples collected from infertile men compared to fertile individuals: A case control study

S Tavakolian, ZR Atani, A Zarei, H Goudarzi, AR Abedi… - 2023 - researchsquare.com
Having detrimental effects on health-care system, infertility can be related to some risk
factors, especially different kinds of viruses. Human Endogenous Retrovirus-k (HERV-K) …

Endogenous Retroviruses and the Pregnancy Compensation Hypothesis: A Reply to David

H Natri, AR Garcia, KH Buetow… - Trends in genetics …, 2019 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Mr M. David responded to our recent article in which we introduce the Pregnancy
Compensation Hypothesis. Mr David writes to bring up the role of endogenous retroviruses …

Human Endogenous Retroviruses: Friends and Foes in Urology Clinics

SK Lee, SH Kim, J Ahnn - International neurourology journal, 2022 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) are originated from ancient exogenous
retroviruses, which infected human germ line cells millions of years ago. HERVs have …

[PDF][PDF] Physiological Reviews Review Article

A Le Tortorec, G Matusali, D Mahé, F Aubry… - Physiol Rev, 2020 - scholar.archive.org
I. INTRODUCTION 1349 II. BRIEF OVERVIEW OF... 1350 III. KEY FEATURES OF... 1352 IV.
VIRUSES DETECTED IN... 1352 V. MGT SENTINELS, WEAPONS,... 1361 VI …