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ReviewReproductive medicine and biology2013

Glycodelin in reproduction.

Hiroshi Uchida, Tetsuo Maruyama, Sayaka Nishikawa-Uchida, Kaoru Miyazaki, Hirotaka Masuda, Yasunori Yoshimura

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Review in Reproductive medicine and biology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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14citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  9. Human Chorionic Gonadotropin and Early Embryogenesis: Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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  10. Biomolecular Markers of Recurrent Implantation Failure-A Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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  11. Uterine Fibroids and Infertility.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Hiroshi UchidaDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology Keio University School of Medicine 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku 160-8582 Tokyo Japan.
Tetsuo MaruyamaDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology Keio University School of Medicine 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku 160-8582 Tokyo Japan.
Sayaka Nishikawa-UchidaDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology Keio University School of Medicine 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku 160-8582 Tokyo Japan.
Kaoru MiyazakiDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology Keio University School of Medicine 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku 160-8582 Tokyo Japan.
Hirotaka MasudaDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology Keio University School of Medicine 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku 160-8582 Tokyo Japan.
Yasunori YoshimuraDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology Keio University School of Medicine 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku 160-8582 Tokyo Japan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To achieve a successful pregnancy in humans, sperm is required for capacitation, followed by binding to and entry into an oocyte. Maternal endometrial epithelial cells (EECs) prepare the appropriate implantation environment through regulation of immune cells and endometrial cells. After acquiring endometrial receptivity, a successful pregnancy consists of complex and finely regulated steps involving apposition, adhesion, invasion, and penetration. Glycodelin is a secretory glycoprotein that affects cell proliferation, differentiation, adhesion, and motility. Glycodelin has four glycoforms (glycodelin-A, -S, -F. and -C); differences in glycosylation affect each characteristic function. Glycodelin has a unique temporospatial pattern of expression, primarily in the reproductive tract where glycodelin is mid-secretory phase-dominant. Recent studies have demonstrated that glycodelin protein has the potential to regulate various processes, including immunosuppression, fertilization, and implantation. This review details the orchestrated regulation of successful pregnancy by glycodelin as well as a discussion of the basic characteristics of glycodelin.

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Endometrial epithelial cellFertilizationGlycodelinImplantationSperm

Identifiers

PMID29699134
PMCPMC5904763

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