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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2026

Neonatal diethylstilbestrol exposure disrupts uterine epithelial apical-basal polarity and partial EMT state.

Rachel E Bainbridge, Wendy N Jefferson, Tianyuan Wang, Sara A Grimm, Carmen J Williams

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Rachel E BainbridgeReproductive and Developmental Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Durham, NC 27709.ORCID 0000-0002-6014-2030
Wendy N JeffersonReproductive and Developmental Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Durham, NC 27709.
Tianyuan WangBiostatistics and Computational Biology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Durham, NC 27709.
Sara A GrimmBiostatistics and Computational Biology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Durham, NC 27709.ORCID 0000-0003-3050-1909
Carmen J WilliamsReproductive and Developmental Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Durham, NC 27709.ORCID 0000-0001-6440-7086

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Environmental influence on reproductive tract functionZIAES102405 · NIEHS · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES · PI WILLIAMS, CARMEN · 2009 to 2025
$20.6M
HHS | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (DEHS) 1ZIAES102405Intramural NIH HHS ZIA ES102405
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The developing female reproductive tract is highly sensitive to external hormonal stimulation, which can result in infertility and gynecologic diseases. To determine the underlying mechanisms, we used a mouse model to test the direct, cell type-specific effects of neonatal exposure to the estrogenic chemical, diethylstilbestrol (DES), on the developing uterus. We found that control uterine epithelium is in a partial epithelial-mesenchymal transition state that is lost following DES exposure. This is accompanied by evidence of premature differentiation including altered apical-basal cell polarity and absence of the

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Cell PolarityDiethylstilbestrolEpithelial-Mesenchymal TransitionUterusAnimalsAnimals, NewbornCell DifferentiationEpithelial CellsEstrogens, Non-SteroidalFemaleMiceWnt Signaling PathwayDiethylstilbestrolEstrogens, Non-Steroidalcell–cell communicationendocrine disruptionendometriummultiomic sequencingstem cells

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PMID42607222
PMCPMC13506072

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