Birgitta Weijdegård

No ORCID on file · 4 papers in corpus
other 2015
PloS one ·doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0130197

BACKGROUND: Mucins are heavily O-glycosylated proteins where the glycosylation has been shown to play an important role in cancer. Normal epithelial ovarian cells do not express secreted mucins, but their abnormal expression has previously …

other 2014
International journal of clinical and experimental pathology

Human ectopic pregnancy (EP) is a leading cause of pregnancy-related death, but the molecular basis underlying the onset of tubal EP is largely unknown. Female Dicer1 conditional knockout mice are infertile with dysfunctional Fallopian tube…

review 2012
American journal of translational research

17β-estradiol, acting through estrogen receptors α and β, plays a fundamental role in the regulation of Fallopian tube cell homeostasis and in the modulation of normal tubal physiological processes. Fluctuations in E2 levels also play cruci…

other 2011
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism ·doi:10.1210/jc.2010-2353

CONTEXT: Tissue-specific dicer1 knockout mice display severe, irreversible Fallopian tube damage and disrupted tubal transport. It is not known how Dicer1 affects human Fallopian tube function. OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to invest…