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2024

  1. Madhav Mantri, Hanxue Zhang, Emmanuel Spanos, Yi A Ren (Co-corresponding author), Iwijn De Vlaminck (Co-corresponding author) A spatiotemporal molecular atlas of the ovulating mouse ovary.  PNAS. 2024 Jan 22nd. 

2023

  1. Madhav Mantri, Hanxue Zhang, Emmanuel Spanos, Yi A Ren (Co-corresponding author), Iwijn De Vlaminck (Co-corresponding author) (2023) A spatiotemporal molecular atlas of the ovulating mouse ovary. BioRxiv. 2023 August 22.

2019

  1. Ren YA (Corresponding author), Monkkonen T, Lewis MT, Bernard DJ, Christian HC, Jorgez CJ, Moore JA, Landua JD, Chin HM, Chen W, Singh S, Kim IS, Zhang XH, Xia Y, Philips KJ, MacKay H, Waterland RA, Ljungberg MC, Saha PK, Hartig SM, Coll TF, Richards JS. (2019) S100a4-Cre-mediated deletion of Patched1 causes hypogonadotropic hypogonadism: role of pituitary hematopoietic cells in endocrine regulation.  JCI Insight. 2019 July 2. PMID: 31265437

Before 2019

  1. Richards JS, Ren YA, Candelaria NC, Adams JE, Rajkovic A (2017). Ovarian theca cell recruitment, differentiation, and impact on fertility: 2017 update. Endocrine Reviews. 2018 Feb 1; 39 (1): 1-20. PMID: 29028960
  2. Philippe York*, Yi Athena Ren* (*co-first authors), Jianqiao Liu, Bin Zhang, Fang Wang, Aijun Zhang, Glenn E. Winnier, Paul Webb, Xuefeng Xia, Pumin Zhang (2016). Growth arrest specific-2 is a critical mediator of germ cell cyst breakdown and folliculogenesis. Scientific Reports. 13;6:34956. PMCID: 27734842
  3. Jaye Adams, Zhilin Liu, Yi Athena Ren, Wan-Song Wun, Wei Zhou, Shlomit Kenigsberg, Clifford Librach, Cecilia Valdes, William Gibbons, and JoAnne Richards (2016). Enhanced inflammatory transcriptome in the granulosa cells of women with polycystic ovarian syndrome. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. 101 (9): 3459-3468. PMID: 27228368
  4. Ren YA, Mullany LK, Liu Z, Wong KK, Lonzano G, Herron A, Richards JS (2016). Mutant tumor protein p53 promotes epithelial ovarian cancer by regulating tumor differentiation, metastasis, and responsiveness to steroid hormones. Cancer Research. Epub 2016 Mar 10. PMID: 26964623
  5. Ren YA, Liu Z, Mullany LK, Fan CM, Richards JS (2016) Growth arrest specific-1 (GAS1) is a novel modulator of ovulation and corpus luteum function. Biology of Reproduction. 94(2):44. doi: 10.1095/biolreprod.115.133058. Epub 2016 Jan 6. PMID: 26740594
  6. Mullany LK, Wong KK, Marciano DC, Katsonis P, King-Crane ER, Ren YA, Lichtarge O, Richards JS (2015). Specific TP53 mutants overrepresented in ovarian cancer impact CNV, TP53 activity, response to nutlin-3a, and cell survival. Neoplasia. 17(10):789-803. PMID: 26585234
  7. Liu Z, Ren YA, Pangas SA, Adams J, Zhou W, Castrillon DH, Wilhelm D, Richards JS (2015). FOXO1/3 and PTEN deletion in granulosa cells promotes ovarian granulosa cell tumor. Molecular Endocrinology. 2015 July; 29(7): 1006-24. PMCID: 26061565
  8. Mullany LK, Liu Z, Wong KK, Deneke V, Ren YA, Herron A, Richards JS (2014). Tumor suppressor protein 53 and steroid hormones provide a new paradigm for ovarian cancer metastases. Molecular Endocrinology 28 (1): 127-37. PMID: 24264574
  9. Yi Ren, Robert G. Cowan, Fernando F. Migone, Susan M. Quirk (2012). Over-activation of hedgehog signaling alters development of the ovarian vasculature in mice. Biology of Reproduction 86(6): 174. PMID: 22402963
  10. Fernando F. Migone, Yi Ren, Robert G. Cowan, Rebecca M. Harman, AY Nikitin, Susan M. Quirk. Dominant activation of the hedgehog signaling pathway alters development of the female reproductive tract (2012). Genesis, 2012 Jan;50(1):28-40. PMID: 21809434
  11. Rebecca M. Harman, Robert G. Cowan, Yi Ren, Susan M. Quirk (2011). Reduced signaling through the hedgehog pathway in the uterine stroma causes deferred implantation and embryonic loss. Reproduction 141(5): 665-74. PMID: 21307272
  12. Yi Ren, Robert G. Cowan, Rebecca M. Harman, Susan M. Quirk (2009). Dominant activation of the hedgehog signaling pathway in the ovary alters theca development and prevents ovulation. Molecular Endocrinology 23: 711-723. PMID: 19196835