ArticleScientific reports2022
VASA protein and gene expression analysis of human non-obstructive azoospermia and normal by immunohistochemistry, immunocytochemistry, and bioinformatics analysis.
Article in Scientific reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 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
29 citing papers in PubMed, 40 citations in OpenAlex.
- Machine learning, whole-transcriptome and integrative omics analysis reveals key regulatory networks governing human spermatogonial stem cells.Clinical and experimental medicine · 2026Article
- Analysis of microarray and single-cell RNA-seq finds gene co-expression, cell-cell communication, and tumor environment associated with cytoskeleton protein in epithelial-mesenchymal transition in ovarian cancer.Discover oncology · 2026Article
- Primordial germ cell-like cells residing in the pituitary may serve as the origin of intracranial germ cell tumors.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Low-level lasers can improve spermatogenesis in infertile mice by targeting molecular pathways.BioImpacts : BI · 2026Article
- Transcriptome-wide study of mRNAs modified by mAnimal biotechnology · 2025Article
- Investigation of the effect of tannic acid on doxorubicin-ınduced testicular damage and functions in a rat model.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2025Article
- Bioactive metabolites from Paeonia lactiflora protect against heat-induced male infertility in Drosophila melanogaster by modulating Vasa: integrating in vivo and computational analyses.Journal of computer-aided molecular design · 2025Article
- Bioinspired neuromorphic memristor with logical operation for precision sperm detection in seminiferous tubules.Materials today. Bio · 2025Article
- Analysis of Microarray and Single-Cell RNA-Seq Finds Gene Co-Expression and Tumor Environment Associated with Extracellular Matrix in Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Prostate Cancer.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Transcriptomic Analysis Identifies Oxidative Stress-Related Hub Genes and Key Pathways in Sperm Maturation.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Using machine learning to discover DNA metabolism biomarkers that direct prostate cancer treatment.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Melatonin receptor 1a alleviates sleep fragmentation-aggravated testicular injury in T2DM by suppression of TAB1/TAK1 complex through FGFR1.Acta pharmaceutica Sinica. B · 2025Article
- Role of Defense/Immunity Proteins in Non-Obstructive Azoospermia: Insights from Gene Expression and Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Analyses.Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) · 2025Article
- Absence of Rnf126 causes male infertility with multiple morphological abnormalities of the sperm flagella.Cell death discovery · 2025Article
- Biotransformation and biological fate of magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles for biomedical research and clinical applications.Nanoscale advances · 2025Review
- Article
- Identification of novel cytoskeleton protein involved in spermatogenic cells and sertoli cells of non-obstructive azoospermia based on microarray and bioinformatics analysis.BMC medical genomics · 2025Article
- Integrating microarray data and single-cell RNA-seq reveals correlation between kit and nmyc in mouse spermatogonia stem cell population.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2025Article
- Transcriptomic Analysis and Finding of Potential Key mRNA Expression Profile in Human Cumulus Cells During in Vitro Culture and Different Passages Based on Integrated Bioinformatics Analysis.Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) · 2024Article
- Integrating Microarray Data and Single-Cell RNA-Seq Reveals Key Gene Involved in Spermatogonia Stem Cell Aging.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
VASA, also known as DDX4, is a member of the DEAD-box proteins and an RNA binding protein with an ATP-dependent RNA helicase. The VASA gene expression, which is required for human germ cell development, may lead to infertility. Immunocytochemistry and immunohistochemistry were used to examine the expression of VASA protein in the human testis sections of azoospermic patients, in-vitro and in-silico models. Some studies of fertile humans showed VASA expression in the basal and adluminal compartments of seminiferous tubules. Our Immunocytochemistry and immunohistochemistry in infertile humans showed expression of VASA in the luminal compartments of the seminiferous tubule. The immunohistochemical analysis of three human cases with different levels of non-obstructive azoospermia revealed a higher expression of VASA-positive cells. For this purpose, Enrichr and Shiny Gene Ontology databases were used for pathway enrichment analysis and gene ontology. STRING and Cytoscape online evaluation were applied to predict proteins' functional and molecular interactions and performed to recognize the master genes, respectively. According to the obtained results, the main molecular functions of the up-regulated and downregulated genes include the meiotic cell cycle, RNA binding, and differentiation. STRING and Cytoscape analyses presented seven genes, i.e., DDX5, TNP2, DDX3Y, TDRD6, SOHL2, DDX31, and SYCP3, as the hub genes involved in infertility with VASA co-function and protein-protein interaction. Our findings suggest that VASA and its interacting hub proteins could help determine the pathophysiology of germ cell abnormalities and infertility.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What Socratic 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 Socratic graph.