ReviewPhysiological research2022
From a Passive Conduit to Highly Dynamic Organ. What are the Roles of Uterine Tube Epithelium in Reproduction?
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- Editorial: Cellular micro-environment of the endometrium: reproduction, embryo implantation, and placentation - from bench to bedside and beyond to tissue engineering.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2026Article
- Identification of novel differentiation trajectories and gene network associations with ectopic pregnancy in fallopian tube epithelium.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
- Defining the Ovarian Cancer Precancerous Landscape through Modeling Fallopian Tube Epithelium Reprogramming Driven by Extracellular Vesicles.Cancer research communications · 2025Article
- Impact of hyperglycaemia on cellular microenvironment and function of endometrium and uterine tube: scoping review focused on infertility in diabetic women.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2025Review
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- Region-Specific Decellularization of Porcine Uterine Tube Extracellular Matrix: A New Approach for Reproductive Tissue-Engineering Applications.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Morphology of the immune cells in the wall of the human uterine tube and their possible impact on reproduction-uterine tube as a possible immune privileged organ.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2024Review
- Functional Morphology of the Human Uterine Tubes in the 21st Century: Anatomical Novelties and Their Possible Clinical Applications.Physiological research · 2022Article
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
It is well known that the mammalian uterine tube (UT) plays a crucial role in female fertility, where the most important events leading to successful fertilization and pre-implantation embryo development occur. The known functions of these small intra-abdominal organs are: an uptake and transport of oocytes; storage, transportation, and capacitation of spermatozoa, and finally fertilization and transport of the fertilized ovum and early embryo through the isthmus towards the uterotubal junction. The success of all these events depends on the interaction between the uterine tube epithelium (UTE) and gametes/embryo. Besides that, contemporary research revealed that the tubal epithelium provides essential nutritional support and the most suitable environment for early embryo development. Moreover, recent discoveries in molecular biology help understand the role of the epithelium at the cellular and molecular levels, highlighting the factors involved in regulating the UT signaling, that affects different steps in the fertilization process. According to the latest research, the extracellular vesicles, as a major component of tubal secretion, mediate the interaction between gametes/embryo and epithelium. This review aims to provide up-to-date knowledge on various aspects concerning tubal epithelium activity and its cross-talk with spermatozoa, oocytes and preimplantation embryo and how these interactions affect fertilization and early embryo development.
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