Regulation of placental development and its impact on fetal growth—new insights from mouse models

L Woods, V Perez-Garcia, M Hemberger - Frontiers in endocrinology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The placenta is the chief regulator of nutrient supply to the growing embryo during gestation.
As such, adequate placental function is instrumental for developmental progression …

The TGF-β family in the reproductive tract

D Monsivais, MM Matzuk… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2017 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
The transforming growth factor β (TGF-β) family has a profound impact on the reproductive
function of various organisms. In this review, we discuss how highly conserved members of …

TGFβ superfamily signaling and uterine decidualization

N Ni, Q Li - Reproductive biology and endocrinology, 2017 - Springer
Decidualization is an intricate biological process where extensive morphological, functional,
and genetic changes take place in endometrial stromal cells to support the development of …

Muscle-derived myostatin is a major endocrine driver of follicle-stimulating hormone synthesis

L Ongaro, X Zhou, Y Wang, H Schultz, Z Zhou… - Science, 2025 - science.org
Myostatin is a paracrine myokine that regulates muscle mass in a variety of species,
including humans. In this work, we report a functional role for myostatin as an endocrine …

A GREB1-steroid receptor feedforward mechanism governs differential GREB1 action in endometrial function and endometriosis

SB Chadchan, P Popli, Z Liao, E Andreas… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Cellular responses to the steroid hormones, estrogen (E2), and progesterone (P4) are
governed by their cognate receptor's transcriptional output. However, the feed-forward …

Heterogeneous cardiac-derived and neural crest–derived aortic smooth muscle cells exhibit similar transcriptional changes after TGFβ signaling disruption

P Ren, B Jiang, A Hassab, G Li, W Li… - … and Vascular Biology, 2025 - ahajournals.org
BACKGROUND: Smooth muscle cells (SMCs) of cardiac and neural crest origin contribute to
the develo** proximal aorta and are linked to disease propensity in adults. METHODS …

Uterine double-conditional inactivation of Smad2 and Smad3 in mice causes endometrial dysregulation, infertility, and uterine cancer

M Kriseman, D Monsivais, J Agno… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
SMAD2 and SMAD3 are downstream proteins in the transforming growth factor-β (TGF β)
signaling pathway that translocate signals from the cell membrane to the nucleus, bind DNA …

[HTML][HTML] Evidence for shared molecular pathways of dysregulated decidualization in preeclampsia and endometrial disorders revealed by microarray data integration

MB Rabaglino, KP Conrad - The FASEB Journal, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Microarray data of chorionic villous samples (CVSs) obtained from women of∼ 11.5
gestational weeks who developed preeclampsia with severe features (sPE; PE-CVS) …

Uterine-specific Ezh2 deletion enhances stromal cell senescence and impairs placentation, resulting in pregnancy loss

VK Sirohi, TI Medrano, A Kannan, IC Bagchi, PS Cooke - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
Maternal uterine remodeling facilitates embryo implantation, stromal cell decidualization and
placentation, and perturbation of these processes may cause pregnancy loss. Enhancer of …

BMP7 induces uterine receptivity and blastocyst attachment

D Monsivais, C Clementi, J Peng, PT Fullerton Jr… - …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
In women, the window of implantation is limited to a brief 2-to 3-day period characterized by
optimal levels of circulating ovarian hormones and a receptive endometrium. Although the …