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Pivotal role for long noncoding RNAs in zygotic genome activation in mice
Vertebrate life begins with fertilization, and then the zygote genome is activated after transient silencing, a process termed zygotic genome activation (ZGA). Despite its fundamental role in totipotency and t...
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Open AccessResponse to comment on “Effectiveness and safety of stem cell therapy for diabetic foot: a meta-analysis update”
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Open AccessTransplantation of the LRP1high subpopulation of human umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells improves ovarian function in mice with premature ovarian failure and aged mice
Premature ovarian failure (POF) has a profound impact on female reproductive and psychological health. In recent years, the transplantation of umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells (UC-MSCs) has demons...
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Effect of SARS-CoV-2 infection in early pregnancy on placental development
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Open AccessDiscordance between chromatin accessibility and transcriptional activity during the human primed-to-naïve pluripotency transition process
Naïve pluripotent state can be obtained by several strategies from various types of cells, in which the cell fate roadmap as well as key biological events involved in the journey have been described in detail....
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Open AccessWD repeat domain 82 (Wdr82) facilitates mouse iPSCs generation by interfering mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation and glycolysis
Abundantly expressed factors in the oocyte cytoplasm can remarkably reprogram terminally differentiated germ cells or somatic cells into totipotent state within a short time. However, the mechanism of the diff...
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FoxM1 contributes to progestin resistance and epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in endometrial carcinoma
Progestin resistance remains a major issue that is urgently needed to solve in progestin therapy for patients with endometrial carcinoma (EC). Increasing research indicated the critical role of FoxM1 in drug r...
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Open AccessResetting histone modifications during human prenatal germline development
Histone modifications play critical roles in regulating gene expression and present dynamic changes during early embryo development. However, how they are reprogrammed during human prenatal germline developmen...
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Open AccessMetabolic control of histone acetylation for precise and timely regulation of minor ZGA in early mammalian embryos
Metabolism feeds into the regulation of epigenetics via metabolic enzymes and metabolites. However, metabolic features, and their impact on epigenetic remodeling during mammalian pre-implantation development, ...
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Open AccessDynamic nucleosome organization after fertilization reveals regulatory factors for mouse zygotic genome activation
Chromatin remodeling is essential for epigenome reprogramming after fertilization. However, the underlying mechanisms of chromatin remodeling remain to be explored. Here, we investigated the dynamic changes in...
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Open AccessEffectiveness and safety of stem cell therapy for diabetic foot: a meta-analysis update
Diabetic foot (DF) is one of the most common and serious complications of diabetes mellitus (DM), which brings great psychological and economic pressure to patients. This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy o...
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Open AccessBMP4 preserves the developmental potential of mESCs through Ube2s- and Chmp4b-mediated chromosomal stability safeguarding
Chemically defined medium is widely used for culturing mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs), in which N2B27 works as a substitution for serum, and GSK3β and MEK inhibitors (2i) help to promote ground-state pluri...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Nuclear m6A reader YTHDC1 regulates the scaffold function of LINE1 RNA in mouse ESCs and early embryos
The original article can be found online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s13238-021-00837-8.
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N6-methyladenosine regulates maternal RNA maintenance in oocytes and timely RNA decay during mouse maternal-to-zygotic transition
N6-methyladenosine (m6A) and its regulatory components play critical roles in various developmental processes in mammals. However, the landscape and function of m6A in early embryos remain unclear owing to limite...
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Open AccessSingle-cell genomics identifies distinct B1 cell developmental pathways and reveals aging-related changes in the B-cell receptor repertoire
B1 cells are self-renewing innate-like B lymphocytes that provide the first line of defense against pathogens. B1 cells primarily reside in the peritoneal cavity and are known to originate from various fetal t...
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Allele-specific H3K9me3 and DNA methylation co-marked CpG-rich regions serve as potential imprinting control regions in pre-implantation embryo
Parental DNA methylation and histone modifications undergo distinct global reprogramming in mammalian pre-implantation embryos, but the landscape of epigenetic crosstalk and its effects on embryogenesis are la...
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Disrupted mossy fiber connections from defective embryonic neurogenesis contribute to SOX11-associated schizophrenia
Abnormal mossy fiber connections in the hippocampus have been implicated in schizophrenia. However, it remains unclear whether this abnormality in the patients is genetically determined and whether it contribu...
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Open AccessNuclear m6A reader YTHDC1 regulates the scaffold function of LINE1 RNA in mouse ESCs and early embryos
N6-methyladenosine (m6A) on chromosome-associated regulatory RNAs (carRNAs), including repeat RNAs, plays important roles in tuning the chromatin state and transcription, but the intrinsic mechanism remains uncle...
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Open AccessInsights into epigenetic patterns in mammalian early embryos
Mammalian fertilization begins with the fusion of two specialized gametes, followed by major epigenetic remodeling leading to the formation of a totipotent embryo. During the development of the pre-implantatio...
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Open AccessA DNA methylation state transition model reveals the programmed epigenetic heterogeneity in human pre-implantation embryos
During mammalian early embryogenesis, expression and epigenetic heterogeneity emerge before the first cell fate determination, but the programs causing such determinate heterogeneity are largely unexplored.