Decidualisation and placentation defects are a major cause of age-related reproductive decline

Advanced maternal age has been associated with lower reproductive success and higher risk of pregnancy complications. Here the authors show that maternal ageing-related embryonic abnormalities in mouse are caused by decidualisation and placentation defects that can be rescued by transferring the emb...

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Main Authors: Laura Woods, Vicente Perez-Garcia, Jens Kieckbusch, Xiaoqiu Wang, Francesco DeMayo, Francesco Colucci, Myriam Hemberger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00308-x