ReviewBiophysics and physicobiology2019
Biophysics in oviduct: Planar cell polarity, cilia, epithelial fold and tube morphogenesis, egg dynamics.
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- Successful oocyte transport through the oviduct does not depend on the longitudinal alignment of oviduct epithelial folds.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
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- Linking Planar Cell Polarity to Mechanotransduction During Morphogenesis.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2026Review
- AggreBots: Configuring CiliaBots through guided, modular tissue aggregation.Science advances · 2025Article
- Attenuation of Ampullary Anoctamin 1 by the peritoneal fluid in rhesus macaques with spontaneous endometriosis†.Biology of reproduction · 2025Article
- Development and application of vibrating dynamic culture system for mouse oocytes and embryos.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2025Article
- Fallopian tube rheology regulates epithelial cell differentiation and function to enhance cilia formation and coordination.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Single-cell transcriptomic profiling of the neonatal oviduct and uterus reveals new insights into upper Müllerian duct regionalization.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2024Article
- Effective mechanical potential of cell-cell interaction in tissues harboring cavity and in cell sheet toward morphogenesis.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2024Article
- Exploring swine oviduct anatomy through micro-computed tomography: a 3D modeling perspective.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2024Article
- The role of cilia during organogenesis in zebrafish.Open biology · 2023Review
- Exploring the microbiome of two uterine sites in cows.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Oocyte cumulus complex quality and oviduct transportation velocity in systemic autoimmune disease model mice.Experimental biology and medicine (Maywood, N.J.) · 2023Article
- Transcriptome identification of genes associated with uterus-vagina junction epithelial folds formation in chicken hens.Poultry science · 2023Article
- Geometry-mediated bridging drives nonadhesive stripe wound healing.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Expression of Indian hedgehog signaling in murine oviductal infundibulum and its relationship with epithelial homeostasis.Cell and tissue research · 2023Article
- Engineering rotating apical-out airway organoid for assessing respiratory cilia motility.iScience · 2022Article
- Trichomes on female reproductive tract: rapid diversification and underlying gene regulatory network in Drosophila suzukii and its related species.BMC ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Heterotrimeric Kinesin II is required for flagellar assembly and elongation of nuclear morphology during spermiogenesis in Schmidtea mediterranea.Developmental biology · 2021Article
- Spatiotemporal transcriptional dynamics of the cycling mouse oviduct.Developmental biology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Organs and tissues in multi-cellular organisms exhibit various morphologies. Tubular organs have multi-scale morphological features which are closely related to their functions. Here we discuss morphogenesis and the mechanical functions of the vertebrate oviduct in the female reproductive tract, also known as the fallopian tube. The oviduct functions to convey eggs from the ovary to the uterus. In the luminal side of the oviduct, the epithelium forms multiple folds (or ridges) well-aligned along the longitudinal direction of the tube. In the epithelial cells, cilia are formed orienting toward the downstream of the oviduct. The cilia and the folds are supposed to be involved in egg transportation. Planar cell polarity (PCP) is developed in the epithelium, and the disruption of the Celsr1 gene, a PCP related-gene, causes randomization of both cilia and fold orientations, discontinuity of the tube, inefficient egg transportation, and infertility. In this review article, we briefly introduce various biophysical and biomechanical issues in the oviduct, including physical mechanisms of formation of PCP and organized cilia orientation, epithelial cell shape regulation, fold pattern formation generated by mechanical buckling, tubulogenesis, and egg transportation regulated by fluid flow. We also mention about possible roles of the oviducts in egg shape formation and embryogenesis, sinuous patterns of tubes, and fold and tube patterns observed in other tubular organs such as the gut, airways, etc.
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