Davis JS

ORCID: 0000-0003-3468-4079 · 4 papers in corpus · active 2008-2016
2016
Scientific reports ·doi:10.1038/srep25486

Exosomes and microvesicles (i.e., extracellular vesicles: EVs) have been identified within ovarian follicular fluid and recent evidence suggests that EVs are able to elicit profound effects on ovarian cell function. While existence of miRNA…

2015
EMBO molecular medicine ·doi:10.15252/emmm.201404976

The Hippo signaling pathway controls organ size and tumorigenesis through a kinase cascade that inactivates Yes-associated protein (YAP). Here, we show that YAP plays a central role in controlling the progression of cervical cancer. Our res…

2008
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America ·doi:10.1073/pnas.0712260105

TNF is well known for its role in inflammation, including direct effects on the vasculature. TNF also is implicated in the regulation of reproduction by its actions to affect ovarian steroidogenic cells and to induce apoptosis of corpus lut…

2008
The Lancet. Oncology ·doi:10.1016/s1470-2045(08)70277-8

Knowledge of mucins and their multiple roles in various normal and pathological processes has improved greatly in the past two decades. Mucins belong to a family of glycoproteins characterised by densely O-glycosylated repetitive domains an…