ArticleJournal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany)2020
Endometrial autophagy is essential for embryo implantation during early pregnancy.
Article in Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.
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.
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.
Who cites it
27 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.
- Dual Roles of Autophagy in Endometrial Fibrosis and Its Implications in Age-Related Reproductive Dysfunction.Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) · 2026Review
- Insufficient NNMT promotes autophagy and disrupts progesterone signaling in endometrial stromal cells in recurrent implantation failure by modulating the H3K9me3-ALDH1A3 pathway.Cell death discovery · 2025Article
- Gut Microbiota and Its Metabolites Modulate Pregnancy Outcomes by Regulating Placental Autophagy and Ferroptosis.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Endometrial Aging and Reproductive Decline: The Central Role of Mitochondrial Dysfunction.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Effects of acupuncture and moxibustion therapy on endometrial receptivity of infertile women withFrontiers in medicine · 2025Review
- Stage-specific autophagy dynamics in reproductive processes and associated disorders.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2025Review
- Dead or Alive: Exploratory Analysis of Selected Apoptosis- and Autophagy-Related Proteins in Human Endometrial Stromal Cells of Fertile Females and Their Potential Role During Embryo Implantation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Autophagy in reproduction and pregnancy-associated diseases.iScience · 2024Review
- Controversial Roles of Autophagy in Adenomyosis and Its Implications for Fertility Outcomes-A Systematic Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Research Progress of Ribosomal Proteins in Reproductive Development.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Decreased AMPK/SIRT1/PDK4 induced by androgen excess inhibits human endometrial stromal cell decidualization in PCOS.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2024Article
- Dysregulation of CREB5 Impairs Decidualization and Maternal-Fetal Interactions by Inhibiting Autophagy in Recurrent Spontaneous Abortion.Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) · 2024Article
- Article
- Enhancing endometrial receptivity: the roles of human chorionic gonadotropin in autophagy and apoptosis regulation in endometrial stromal cells.Reproductive biology and endocrinology : RB&E · 2024Article
- PPARγ/mTOR Regulates the Synthesis and Release of Prostaglandins in Ovine Trophoblast Cells in Early Pregnancy.Veterinary sciences · 2022Article
- Decreased Krüppel-like factor 4 in adenomyosis impairs decidualization by repressing autophagy in human endometrial stromal cells.BMC molecular and cell biology · 2022Article
- Exploring the role of autophagy during early human embryonic development through single-cell transcriptome and methylome analyses.Science China. Life sciences · 2022Article
- Deciphering the Mechanism of Bushen Huoxue Decotion on Decidualization by Intervening AutophagyFrontiers in pharmacology · 2022Article
- Insight of Autophagy in Spontaneous Miscarriage.International journal of biological sciences · 2022Review
- Autophagy as a Therapeutic Target of Natural Products Enhancing Embryo Implantation.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
11 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Embryo implantation is an essential and complex process in mammalian reproduction. However, little evidence has indicated the involvement of autophagy during embryo implantation. To determine the possible role of autophagy in uterine of pregnant mice during the peri-implantation stage, we first examined the expression of autophagy-related markers ATG5 and LC3 on day 4, 5, and 6 of pregnancy (D4, D5, and D6, respectively). Compared with expression on D4, downregulation of the autophagy-related markers was observed on D5 and D6, the days after the embryo attached to the receptivity endometrium. Further examination showed that autophagy-related markers ATG5, ATG12, LC3, cathepsin B, and P62 at the implantation site were significantly decreased when comparing with the inter-implantation site. Fewer number of autophagosomes at the implantation site were also observed by transmission electron microscopy. To confirm the functional role of autophagy during embryo implantation in mice, we administered the autophagy inhibitor 3-methyladenine and chloroquine to mice. After treated with 3-methyladenine, the expression of decidual markers HOXA10 and progesterone receptor were significantly reduced. Furthermore, a reduction in implantation sites and increase in the HOXA10 and PR protein levels were observed in response to chloroquine treatment. In addition, impaired uterine decidualization and dysregulation of the PR and HOXA10 protein levels was observed after autophagy inhibited by 3-methyladenine and chloroquine in in vivo artificial decidualization mouse model. In the last, LC3 and P62 were also observed in normal human proliferative, secretory, and decidua tissues. In conclusion, endometrial autophagy may be essential for embryo implantation, and it may be associated with endometrial decidualization during early pregnancy. KEY MESSAGE: • Autophagy-related markers were significantly decreased at implantation site. • Autophagy inhibition results in abnormal decidualization. • Autophagy is essential for embryo implantation.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.