A lower maternal cortisol to cortisone ratio precedes clinical diagnosis of preterm and term preeclampsia by many weeks

Publication: The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism

Jayasuriya NA, Hughes AE, Sovio U, Cook E, Charnock-Jones DS, Smith GCS. J Clin Endocrinol Metab.

15 February 2019

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Age at Menarche and Blood Pressure in Pregnancy

Publication: Pregnancy Hypertension

Petry CJ, Ong KK, Hughes IA, Acerini CL, Dunger DB.

January 2019

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HAPO Follow-up Study Cooperative Research Group. Hyperglycemia and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome Follow-up Study (HAPO FUS): Maternal Gestational Diabetes and Childhood Glucose Metabolism

Publication: Diabetes Care

Lowe WL Jr, Scholtens DM, Kuang A, Linder B, Lawrence JM, Lebenthal Y, McCance D, Hamilton J, Nodzenski M, Talbot O, Brickman WJ, Clayton P, Ma RC, Tam WH, Dyer AR, Catalano PM, Lowe LP, Metzger BE;

17 January 2019

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Mixed-meal tolerance test to assess residual beta-cell secretion: Beyond the area-under-curve of plasma C-peptide concentration.

Publication: Pediatric Diabetes

Ruan Y, Willemsen RH, Wilinska ME, Tauschmann M, Dunger DB, Hovorka R. .

16 January 2019

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Hyperglycemia and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome Follow-Up Study (HAPO FUS): Maternal Glycemia and Childhood Glucose Metabolism

Publication: Diabetes Care

Scholtens DM, Kuang A, Lowe LP, Hamilton J, Lawrence JM, Lebenthal Y, Brickman WJ, Clayton P, Ma RC, McCance D, Tam WH, Catalano PM, Linder B, Dyer AR, Lowe WL Jr, Metzger BE; HAPO Follow-Up Study Cooperative Research Group.

7 January 2019

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Trophoblast organoids as a model for maternal–fetal interactions during human placentation

Publication: Nature

Margherita Y. Turco, Lucy Gardner, Richard G. Kay, Russell S. Hamilton, Malwina Prater, Michael S. Hollinshead, Alasdair McWhinnie, Laura Esposito, Ridma Fernando, Helen Skelton, Frank Reimann, Fiona M. Gribble, Andrew Sharkey, Steven G. E. Marsh, Stephen O’Rahilly, Myriam Hemberger, Graham J. Burton & Ashley Moffett

28 November 2018


Summary:

During pregnancy a complex interaction between the mother and the embryo/fetus takes part to secure placental provision of nutrients to the fetus. Human models of this interaction, involving so called trophoblast invasion, had not been established, making it difficult to study this process, that results in life threatening diseases when it goes wrong.

The laboratory of Aschley Moffett, who led this research, established a new organoid model for human trophoblast/placenta development. Our contribution was LC-MS/MS showing that this model faithfully produced pregnancy related hormones.

This organoid model will be transformative for studying human placental development and for investigating trophoblast interactions with the local and systemic maternal environment.

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Closed-loop insulin delivery in suboptimally controlled type 1 diabetes: a multicentre, 12-week randomised trial

Publication: The Lancet

Tauschmann M, Thabit H, Bally L, Allen JM, Hartnell S, Wilinska ME, Ruan Y, Sibayan J, Kollman C, Cheng P, Beck RW, Acerini CL, Evans ML, Dunger DB, Elleri D, Campbell F, Bergenstal RM, Criego A, Shah VN, Leelarathna L, Hovorka R; APCam11 Consortium.

3 October 2018

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Genome editing reveals a role for OCT4 in human embryogenesis

Publication: Nature

Norah M. E. Fogarty, Afshan McCarthy, Kirsten E. Snijders, Benjamin E. Powell, Nada Kubikova, Paul Blakeley, Rebecca Lea, Kay Elder, Sissy E. Wamaitha, Daesik Kim, Valdone Maciulyte, Jens Kleinjung, Jin-Soo Kim, Dagan Wells, Ludovic Vallier, Alessandro Bertero10, James M. A. Turner & Kathy K. Niakan

20 September 2017

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Neurotoxic reactive astrocytes are induced by activated microglia

Publication: Nature

Liddelow SA, Guttenplan KA, Clarke LE, Bennett FC, Bohlen CJ, Schirmer L, Bennett ML, Münch AE, Chung WS, Peterson TC, Wilton DK, Frouin A, Napier BA, Panicker N, Kumar M, Buckwalter MS, Rowitch DH, Dawson VL, Dawson TM, Stevens B, Barres BA.

18 January 2017

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Fetus-derived DLK1 is required for maternal metabolic adaptations to pregnancy and is associated with fetal growth restriction.

Publication: Nat Genet

Cleaton MA, Dent CL, Howard M, Corish JA, Gutteridge I, Sovio U, Gaccioli F, Takahashi N, Bauer SR, Charnock-Jones DS, Powell TL, Smith GC, Ferguson-Smith AC, Charalambous M.

24 October 2016

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