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ReviewReproductive biomedicine online2025

Oocyte development: it's all about quality.

Richard A Anderson, Adele L Marston, Evelyn E Telfer

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Review in Reproductive biomedicine online, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Mechanism and Intervention of the NPY1R/CREB Signaling Axis in Regulating Inflammatory Response in Aged Ovarian Granulosa Cells and Ovarian Senescence.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Richard A AndersonCentre for Reproductive Health, Institute for Repair and Regeneration, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. Electronic address: richard.anderson@ed.ac.uk.
Adele L MarstonThe Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, Institute of Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Evelyn E TelferCentre for Reproductive Health, Institute for Repair and Regeneration, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; Institute of Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

Funding

Wellcome Trust 215625Wellcome Trust 215625/Z/19/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mammalian fertility depends on the production of an oocyte capable of fertilization and supporting early embryo development. This requires both cytoplasmic and nuclear, i.e. chromosomal, competence, processes that were initiated decades prior to ovulation. Current demographic changes with delayed motherhood are increasingly in conflict with these biological processes. This brief review highlights the key stages in oocyte development, as well as recent findings that continue to inform on how the oocyte is able to maintain function over such a prolonged period. These include minimizing oocyte damage caused by the production of reactive oxygen species, the importance of intercellular communication with the surrounding somatic cells, and the molecular mechanisms that underpin the fidelity of chromosome cohesion and then separation at the resumption of meiosis. Some of these are already approaching clinical testing and interventions, with new approaches in the coming years potentially being able to 'put back the clock' to improve oocyte quality.

Indexed as

OocytesOogenesisAnimalsFemaleHumansMeiosisReactive Oxygen SpeciesReactive Oxygen SpeciesAneuploidyCohesinMeiosisOocyteOvarian development

Identifiers

PMID40287201
PMCPMC7617848

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