[HTML][HTML] Telomeres and human reproduction

KH Kalmbach, DMF Antunes, RC Dracxler, TW Knier… - Fertility and sterility, 2013 - Elsevier
Telomeres mediate biologic aging in organisms as diverse as plants, yeast, and mammals.
We propose a telomere theory of reproductive aging that posits telomere shortening in the …

Genetics of endometrial cancers

T Okuda, A Sekizawa, Y Purwosunu… - Obstetrics and …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Endometrial cancers exhibit a different mechanism of tumorigenesis and progression
depending on histopathological and clinical types. The most frequently altered gene in …

Shortened telomeres in serous tubal intraepithelial carcinoma: an early event in ovarian high-grade serous carcinogenesis

E Kuhn, A Meeker, TL Wang, AS Sehdev… - The American journal …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Short telomeres are one of the main genetic manifestations in human cancer, as they have
been shown to play an important role in inducing chromosomal instability and in contributing …

LKB1 loss promotes endometrial cancer progression via CCL2-dependent macrophage recruitment

CG Peña, Y Nakada, HD Saatcioglu… - The Journal of …, 2015 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecologic malignancy and the fourth most
common malignancy in women. For most patients in whom the disease is confined to the …

Lkb1 inactivation is sufficient to drive endometrial cancers that are aggressive yet highly responsive to mTOR inhibitor monotherapy

CM Contreras, EA Akbay, TD Gallardo… - Disease models & …, 2010 - journals.biologists.com
Endometrial cancer–the most common malignancy of the female reproductive tract–arises
from the specialized epithelial cells that line the inner surface of the uterus. Although …

Review of mendelian randomization studies on endometrial cancer

JZ Guo, QJ Wu, FH Liu, C Gao, TT Gong… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Endometrial cancer (EC) is a common gynecological cancer. In some parts of the world, the
incidence and mortality of EC are on the rise. Understanding the risk factors of EC is …

Human endometrial epithelial telomerase is important for epithelial proliferation and glandular formation with potential implications in endometriosis

AJ Valentijn, G Saretzki, N Tempest… - Human …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
STUDY QUESTION How does regulation of telomerase activity (TA) in human endometrial
epithelial cells (EEC) by ovarian hormones impact on telomere lengths (TL) and cell …

Implications of telomeres and telomerase in endometrial pathology

DK Hapangama, A Kamal… - Human reproduction …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
BACKGROUND Eukaryotic chromosomal ends are linear and are protected by
nucleoprotein complexes known as telomeres. The complex structural anatomy and the …

A patient tumour-on-a-chip system for personalised investigation of radiotherapy based treatment regimens

R Kennedy, D Kuvshinov, A Sdrolia, E Kuvshinova… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Development of personalised cancer models to predict response to radiation would
benefit patient care; particularly in malignancies where treatment resistance is prevalent …

Endometrial polyps are non-neoplastic but harbor epithelial mutations in endometrial cancer drivers at low allelic frequencies

SS Sahoo, M Aguilar, Y Xu, E Lucas, V Miller… - Modern …, 2022 - nature.com
Endometrial polyps (EMPs) are common exophytic masses associated with abnormal
uterine bleeding and infertility. Unlike normal endometrium, which is cyclically shed, EMPs …