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ReviewCellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS2018

The capacity of oocytes for DNA repair.

Jessica M Stringer, Amy Winship, Seng H Liew, Karla Hutt

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Review in Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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67citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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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

67 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 114 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Jessica M StringerOvarian Biology Laboratory, Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Amy WinshipOvarian Biology Laboratory, Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Seng H LiewOvarian Biology Laboratory, Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Karla HuttOvarian Biology Laboratory, Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. karla.hutt@monash.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5111-8389
Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute · AUDiscovery Institute · US

Funding

National Health and Medical Research Council 1100219National Health and Medical Research Council 1120300
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Female fertility and offspring health are critically dependent on the maintenance of an adequate supply of high-quality oocytes. Like somatic cells, oocytes are subject to a variety of different types of DNA damage arising from endogenous cellular processes and exposure to exogenous genotoxic stressors. While the repair of intentionally induced DNA double strand breaks in gametes during meiotic recombination is well characterised, less is known about the ability of oocytes to repair pathological DNA damage and the relative contribution of DNA repair to oocyte quality is not well defined. This review will discuss emerging data suggesting that oocytes are in fact capable of efficient DNA repair and that DNA repair may be an important mechanism for ensuring female fertility, as well as the transmission of high-quality genetic material to subsequent generations.

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DNA DamageDNA RepairGene Expression ProfilingAnimalsFemaleFertilityHumansOocytesOvarian FollicleBase excision repairDetection and responseFolliculogenesisHomologous recombinationMismatch repairNon-homologous end joiningNucleotide excision repairOvaryPrimordial follicles

Identifiers

PMID29748894
PMCPMC11105623
OpenAlexW2801873895

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