Research Success Core Publications

Find publications from projects supported by the Research Success Core.

2025

• McGlade EA, Mao J, Stephens KK, Arguc JN, Wu S-P, Winuthayanon S, Shirwan H, Yolcu ES, Hunter MI, Pru JK, Lydon JP, DeMayo FJ, Winuthayanon W*. (2025) Progesterone signaling in oviductal epithelial cells modulates the immune response to support preimplantation embryonic development. Science Advances. 11:eadt6113.
• Hunter, M.I., Thies, K.M. and Winuthayanon, W., 2024. Hormonal regulation of cilia in the female reproductive tract. Current opinion in endocrine and metabolic research, 34, p.100503.
• Andy UU, Meyn L, Brown HW, Moalli PA, Ferrando CA, Shippey S, Omosigho UR, Kowalski JT, Guaderrama NM, Anger JT, Foster RT Sr, Gutman RE, Yurteri-Kaplan L  Outcomes at 12, 24, and 36 Months in Women Treated for Pelvic Organ Prolapse With Pessary or Surgery: Results From the Multicenter Pelvic Floor Disorders Registry. Urogynecology (Phila). 2025 Feb 27. doi: 10.1097/SPV.0000000000001669. Online ahead of print.PMID: 40043183
• Cortese R, Cataldo K, Hummel J, Smith G, Ortega M, Richey M, Winn H, Gozal D, Goodman JR. Fetal growth disorders detection during first trimester gestation through comprehensive maternal circulating DNA profiling Hum Mol Genet. 2025 Apr 23:ddaf055. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddaf055. Online ahead of print.PMID: 40263746
• Yucebas K, Ko S, Zhou J, Hamel EM, Hackworth MG, Diaz Miranda EA, Carpenter HS, Hunter MI, Khan OM, Weissman IL, Jin S. Immunotherapy of endometrial cancer via CD47 blockade-mediated macrophage phagocytosis.PNAS Nexus. 2025 May 5;4(5):pgaf143. doi: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf143. eCollection 2025 May.

2023

• Ferrando, Cecile A. MD, MPH; Bradley, Catherine S. MD, MSCE; Meyn, Leslie A. PhD; Brown, Heidi W. MD, MA; Moalli, Pamela A. MD, PhD; Heisler, Christine A. MD, MS; Murarka, Shivani M. MD; Foster, Raymond T. Sr MD, MS, MHSc; Chung, Doreen E. MD; Whitcomb, Emily L. MD, MAS; Gutman, Robert E. MD; Andy, Uduak U. MD; Shippey, Stuart H. MD; Anger, Jennifer MD, MPH; Yurteri-Kaplan, Ladin A. MD. Twelve Month Outcomes of Pelvic Organ Prolapse Surgery in Patients With Uterovaginal or Posthysterectomy Vaginal Prolapse Enrolled in the Multicenter Pelvic Floor Disorders Registry. Urogynecology 29(10):p 787-799, October 2023. | DOI: 10.1097/SPV.0000000000001410
• Harriet C Fitzgerald, Andrew M Kelleher, Chaman Ranjit, Danny J Schust, Thomas E Spencer, Basolateral secretions of human endometrial epithelial organoids impact stromal cell decidualization, Molecular Human Reproduction, Volume 29, Issue 4, April 2023, gaad007, DOI: 10.1093/molehr/gaad007

2022

• Yurteri-Kaplan, Ladin A. MD, MS; Meyn, Leslie PhD; Moalli, Pam A. MD, PhD; Bradley, Catherine S. MD, MSCE; Foster, Raymond T. Sr MD, MS, MHSc; Andy, Uduak U. MD; Guaderrama, Noelani MD; Gutman, Robert E. MD; Anger, Jennifer T. MD, MPH; Hull, Amy DNP; Propst, Katie MD; Shippey, Stuart S. MD; Brown, Heidi W. MD, MAS. Outcomes of Pessary Use at 1 Year in Women Treated for Pelvic Organ Prolapse in a Large Multicenter Registry: Developed by the Pelvic Floor Disorders Registry. Urogynecology 28(12):p 800-810, December 2022. | DOI: 10.1097/SPV.0000000000001279
• Branham KKR, Sherman E, Golzy M, Drobnis EZ, Schulz LC. Association of serum leptin at 24-28 weeks gestation with initiation and progression of labor in women. Sci Rep. 2022 Sep 26;12(1):16016. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-19868-0.PMID: 36163455
• Lenis YY, George JW, Lind S, Balboula A, Teixeira JM, Patterson AL. The Effects of Periostin Expression on Fibroid-Like Transition of Myometrial Cells. Reprod Sci. 2023 May;30(5):1616-1624. DOI: 10.1007/s43032-022-01128-1. Epub 2022 Nov 23. PMID: 36418534.
• Zhou J, Tian Y, Qu Y, Williams M, Yuan Y, Karvas RM, Sheridan MA, Schulz LC, Ezashi T, Roberts MR, Schust DJ. The immune checkpoint molecule, VTCN1/B7-H4, guides differentiation and suppresses proinflammatory responses and MHC class I expression in an embryonic stem cell-derived model of human trophoblast. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2023 Mar 16;14:1069395. DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2023.1069395. PMID: 37008954

2021

• Dieter AA, Mueller MG, Andy UU, Kirby AC, Dwarica DS, Amundsen CL, Gregory WT, Desai S, Clayton L, Squires NA, Allen A, Casper KP, Murphy MJ, Shepherd JP.
  Baseline Characteristics, Evaluation, and Management of Women With Complaints of Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections.
  Female Pelvic Med Reconstr Surg. 2021 May 1;27(5):275-280. doi: 10.1097/SPV.0000000000001065. PubMed PMID: 33909600.
• Ehlers E, Talton OO, Schust DJ, Schulz LC.
  Placental structural abnormalities in gestational diabetes and when they develop: A scoping review.
  Placenta. 2021 Apr 26;. doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2021.04.005. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 33958235.
• Spooner MK, Lenis YY, Watson R, Jaimes D, Patterson AL.
  The role of stem cells in uterine involution. Reproduction. 2021 Mar;161(3):R61-R77. doi: 10.1530/REP-20-0425.
  Review. PubMed PMID: 33439148.
• Schust DJ, Bonney EA, Sugimoto J, Ezashi T, Roberts RM, Choi S, Zhou J.
  The Immunology of Syncytialized Trophoblast. Int J Mol Sci. 2021 Feb 10;22(4). doi: 10.3390/ijms22041767.
  Review. PubMed PMID: 33578919; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7916661.

2020

• Kerns K, Sharif M, Zigo M, Xu W, Hamilton LE, Sutovsky M, Ellersieck M, Drobnis EZ, Bovin N, Oko R, Miller D, Sutovsky P.
  Sperm Cohort-Specific Zinc Signature Acquisition and Capacitation-Induced Zinc Flux Regulate Sperm-Oviduct and Sperm-Zona Pellucida Interactions.
  Int J Mol Sci. 2020 Mar 19;21(6). doi: 10.3390/ijms21062121. PubMed PMID: 32204514; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7139966.
• Bollig KJ, Schust DJ.
  Refining Angular Pregnancy Diagnosis in the First Trimester: A Case Series of Expectant Management.
  Obstet Gynecol. 2020 Jan;135(1):175-184. doi: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000003595. PubMed PMID: 31809430.

2019

• Fitzgerald HC, Dhakal P, Behura SK, Schust DJ, Spencer TE.
  Self-renewing endometrial epithelial organoids of the human uterus.
  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Nov 12;116(46):23132-23142. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1915389116. Epub 2019 Oct 30. PubMed PMID: 31666317; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6859318.
• Zapata-Carmona H, Barón L, Zuñiga LM, Díaz ES, Kong M, Drobnis EZ, Sutovsky P, Morales P.
  The activation of the chymotrypsin-like activity of the proteasome is regulated by soluble adenyl cyclase/cAMP/protein kinase A pathway and required for human sperm capacitation.
  Mol Hum Reprod. 2019 Oct 28;25(10):587-600. doi: 10.1093/molehr/gaz037. PubMed PMID: 31329238; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8055059.
• Mohammad A, Hunter MI.
  Robot-assisted Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping and Inguinal Lymph Node Dissection Using Near-infrared Fluorescence in Vulvar Cancer.
  J Minim Invasive Gynecol. 2019 Jul - Aug;26(5):968-972. doi: 10.1016/j.jmig.2019.04.002. Epub 2019 Apr 6. PubMed PMID: 30959199.
• Buckner LR, Drobnis EZ, Augustine MS, Rogers LK, Akers J, Mott PD, Hope TJ, Quayle AJ, Schust DJ.
  Cervical and systemic concentrations of long acting hormonal contraceptive (LARC) progestins depend on delivery method: Implications for the study of HIV transmission.
  PLoS One. 2019;14(5):e0214152. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0214152. eCollection 2019. PubMed PMID: 31095572; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6522049.
• Sheridan MA, Yang Y, Jain A, Lyons AS, Yang P, Brahmasani SR, Dai A, Tian Y, Ellersieck MR, Tuteja G, Schust DJ, Schulz LC, Ezashi T, Roberts RM.
  Early onset preeclampsia in a model for human placental trophoblast. 
  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Mar 5;116(10):4336-4345. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1816150116. Epub 2019 Feb 20. PubMed PMID: 30787190; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6410818.
• Li L, Zhou J, Wang W, Huang L, Tu J, Baiamonte L, Stark M, Mills M, Hope TJ, Drobnis EZ, Quayle AJ, Schust DJ.
  Effects of three long-acting reversible contraceptive methods on HIV target cells in the human uterine cervix and peripheral blood.
  Reprod Biol Endocrinol. 2019 Feb 22;17(1):26. doi: 10.1186/s12958-019-0469-8. PubMed PMID: 30795774; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6387540.
• Holland MA, Joyce JS, Brennaman LM, Drobnis EZ, Starr JA, Foster RT Sr.
  Intravaginal Diazepam for the Treatment of Pelvic Floor Hypertonic Disorder: A Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial.
  Female Pelvic Med Reconstr Surg. 2019 Jan/Feb;25(1):76-81. doi: 10.1097/SPV.0000000000000514. PubMed PMID: 29280763.

2018

• Kerns K, Zigo M, Drobnis EZ, Sutovsky M, Sutovsky P.
  Zinc ion flux during mammalian sperm capacitation.
  Nat Commun. 2018 May 25;9(1):2061. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-04523-y. PubMed PMID: 29802294; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5970269.
• Kremer KM, Foster RT, Drobnis EZ, Hyde KJ, Brennaman LM.
  Non-indicated use of prophylactic antibiotics in gynaecological surgery at an academic tertiary medical centre.
  J Obstet Gynaecol. 2018 May;38(4):543-547. doi: 10.1080/01443615.2017.1371119. Epub 2018 Feb 6. PubMed PMID: 29405078.