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ArticleScientific reports2018

Exposure to podophyllotoxin inhibits oocyte meiosis by disturbing meiotic spindle formation.

Lin-Lin Hu, Xin Zhou, Hao-Lin Zhang, Lan-Lan Wu, Lian-Sheng Tang, Ling-Li Chen, Jin-Liang Duan

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Design and Synthesis of 4-O-Podophyllotoxin Sulfamate Derivatives as Potential Cytotoxic Agents.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2021
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  5. Editorial: Meiosis: From Molecular Basis to Medicine.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021
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7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Lin-Lin HuCenter for Reproduction, 181st Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Guilin, 541001, China.
Xin ZhouCenter for Reproduction, 181st Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Guilin, 541001, China.
Hao-Lin ZhangCollege of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China.
Lan-Lan WuCollege of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China.
Lian-Sheng TangShandong Institute of Pharmaceutical Industry, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Chemical Drugs, Jinan, 250101, China.
Ling-Li ChenCenter for Reproduction, 181st Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Guilin, 541001, China.
Jin-Liang DuanCenter for Reproduction, 181st Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Guilin, 541001, China. djl6341@21cn.com.
181st Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army · CNNanjing Agricultural University · CNShandong Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Podophyllotoxin is used as medical cream which is widely applied to genital warts and molluscum contagiosum. Although previous study showed that podophyllotoxin had minimal toxicity, it was forbidden to use during pregnancy since it might be toxic to the embryos. In present study we used mouse as the model and tried to examine whether podophyllotoxin exposure was toxic to oocyte maturation, which further affected embryo development. Our results showed that podophyllotoxin exposure inhibited mouse oocyte maturation, showing with the failure of polar body extrusion, and the inhibitory effects of podophyllotoxin on oocytes was dose-depended. Further studies showed that the meiotic spindle formation was disturbed, the chromosomes were misaligned and the fluorescence signal of microtubule was decreased, indicating that podophyllotoxin may affect microtubule dynamics for spindle organization. Moreover, the oocytes which reached metaphase II under podophyllotoxin exposure also showed aberrant spindle morphology and chromosome misalignment, and the embryos generated from these oocytes showed low developmental competence. We also found that the localization of p44/42 MAPK and gamma-tubulin was disrupted, which further confirmed the effects of podophyllotoxin on meiotic spindle formation. In all, our results indicated that podophyllotoxin exposure could affect mouse oocyte maturation by disturbing microtubule dynamics and meiotic spindle formation.

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AnimalsChromosomes, MammalianEmbryonic DevelopmentFemaleMeiosisMice, Inbred ICRMitogen-Activated Protein KinasesOocytesPodophyllotoxinSpindle ApparatusTubulinMitogen-Activated Protein KinasesPodophyllotoxinTubulin

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PMID29976965
PMCPMC6033908
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