Differentiation; research in biological diversity

· 5 papers in corpus
2021
doi:10.1016/j.diff.2020.10.001 ·PMID:33176961

This paper reviews and provides new observations on the ontogeny of estrogen receptor alpha (ESR1) and estrogen receptor beta (ESR2) in developing human male and female internal and external genitalia. Included in this study are observation…

2019
doi:10.1016/j.diff.2019.07.004 ·PMID:31622789

The study of male and female reproductive tract development requires expertise in two separate disciplines, developmental biology and endocrinology. For ease of experimentation and economy, the mouse has been used extensively as a model for…

2018
doi:10.1016/j.diff.2018.09.001 ·PMID:30236463

Development of the human female reproductive tract is reviewed from the ambisexual stage to advanced development of the uterine tube, uterine corpus, uterine cervix and vagina at 22 weeks. Historically this topic has been under-represented …

2017
doi:10.1016/j.diff.2017.11.004 ·PMID:29156254

The human endometrium undergoes extensive morphological, biochemical and molecular changes under the influence of female sex steroid hormones. Besides the fact that estrogen stimulates endometrial cell proliferation and progesterone inhibit…

2016
doi:10.1016/j.diff.2016.05.006 ·PMID:27262401

SOX9 is a high mobility group transcription factor that is required in many biological processes, including cartilage differentiation, endoderm progenitor maintenance, hair differentiation, and testis determination. SOX9 has also been linke…