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COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 266, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2022.111152
Keywords
Reproductive aging; Menopause; Oocyte quality; Nutrient-sensing signaling pathways; Toxicology; Breast and gynecologic cancers
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- Canada Research Chairs Program
- Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Cell Biology
- Michael Smith Foundation
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This article discusses the advantages of using the nematode C. elegans as a model organism to study female reproductive health and highlights important issues in this field in the 21st century. The use of C. elegans has provided insights into the mechanisms underlying these issues and has contributed to the development of therapeutics to address them.
Female reproductive health has been historically understudied and underfunded. Here, we present the advantages of using a free-living nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans, as an animal system to study fundamental aspects of female reproductive health. C. elegans is a powerful high-throughput model organism that shares key genetic and physiological similarities with humans. In this review, we highlight areas of pressing medical and biological importance in the 21st century within the context of female reproductive health. These include the decline in female reproductive capacity with increasing chronological age, reproductive dysfunction arising from toxic environmental insults, and cancers of the reproductive system. C. elegans has been instrumental in uncovering mechanistic insights underlying these processes, and has been valuable for developing and testing therapeutics to combat them. Adopting a convenient model organism such as C. elegans for studying reproductive health will encourage further research into this field, and broaden opportunities for making advancements into evolutionarily conserved mechanisms that control reproductive function.
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