Selected Recent Publications

Tilly JL, Rueda BR. Minireview: Stem cell contribution to ovarian development, function and disease. Endocrinology 2008; 149: 4307-4311.

Selesniemi K, Lee H-J, Tilly JL. Moderate caloric restriction initiated in rodents during adulthood sustains function of the female reproductive axis into advanced chronological age. Aging Cell 2008; 7: 622-629.

Pru JK, Kaneko-Tarui T, Jurisicova A, Kashiwagi A, Selesniemi K, Tilly JL. Induction of pro-apoptotic gene expression and recruitment of p53 herald ovarian follicle loss caused by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Reprod Sci 2008; doi: 10.1177/1933719108327596 (released online December 15).

Hou X, Arvisais E, Jiang C, Chen D, Roy SK, Pate JL, Hansen TR, Rueda BR, Davis JS. Prostaglandin F2a (PGF2a) stimulates the expression and secretion of TGFB1 via induction of the early growth response 1 gene (EGR1) in the bovine corpus luteum. Mol Endo 2008; 22: 403-414.

Styer AK, Sullivan BT, Puder M, Arsenault D, Petrozza JC, Serikawa T, Chang S, Hasan T, Gonzalez RR, Rueda BR. Ablation of leptin signaling disrupts the establishment, development and maintenance of endometriosis-like lesions in a murine model. Endocrinology 2008; 149: 506-514.

Friel AM, Sergent PA, Patnaude C, Szotek PP, Oliva E, Scadden DT, Seiden MV, Foster RF, Rueda BR.  Functional analyses of the cancer stem cell-like properties of human endometrial tumor initiating cells.  Cell Cycle 2008; 7: 242-249.

Henkes LE, Sullivan BT, Lynch MP, Kolesnick R, Arsenault D, Puder M, Davis JS, Rueda BR. Acid sphingomyelinase involvement in tumor necrosis factor alpha-regulated vascular and steroid disruption during luteolysis in vivo. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2008; 105: 7670-7675.

Sakamoto H, Friel AN, Wood AW, Guo L, Ilic A, Seiden MV, Chung DC, Lynch MP, Serikawa T, Munro E, Oliva E, Orsulic S, Kirley SD, Foster R, Zukerberg LR, Rueda BR. Mechanisms of Cables1 gene inactivation in human ovarian cancer development. Cancer Biol Ther 2008; 7: 1-9.

Sang X, Curran MS, Wood AW. Paracrine IGF signaling influences primordial germ cell migration: in vivo evidence from the zebrafish model. Endocrinology 2008; 149: 5035-5042.

Szotek PP, Chang HL, Brennand K, Fujino A, Pieretti-VanMarcke R, Lo Celso C, Domkowski D, Preffer F, Cohen K, Teixeira J, Donahoe P. Normal ovarian surface epithelial label retaining cells exhibit stem/progenitor cell characteristics. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2008; 105: 12469-12473.

Selesniemi K, Lee H-J, Niikura T, Tilly JL. Young adult donor bone marrow infusions into female mice postpone age-related infertility and improve offspring survival. AGING 2009; 1: 49-57.

Tilly JL, Niikura Y, Rueda BR. The current status of evidence for and against postnatal oogenesis in mammals: a case of ovarian optimism versus pessimism? Biol Reprod 2009; 80: 2-12 (released online August 27, 2008; doi: 10.1095/biolreprod.108.069088).

Lee HJ, Teixeira J. Parthenogenesis in human oocytes that were collected from resected ovarian tissue and matured in vitro. Stem Cells Dev 2009; In Press.