Browsing Theses and Dissertations (MU) by Thesis Advisor "Rivera, Rocío Melissa"
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Altered microrna expression profiles in bovine fetuses with an assisted reproduction-induced congenital overgrowth syndrome
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) refer to a series of fertility treatments used to conceive offspring. ART is used worldwide in humans for ... -
Determination of allelic expression of H19 in pre- and peri-implantation mouse embryos
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)H19 is a maternally-expressed imprinted non-coding RNA with tumor suppressor activity. H19 is located in an imprinted cluster which contains the paternally-expressed fetal growth factor Igf2. Monoallelic expression of H19 ... -
The effects of aging and fsh on the epigenome of the mouse oocyte
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] With aging, females experience a natural decline in their reproductive success, partly due to a decline in the quality of the oocyte (ovum/egg). In ... -
Effects of the use of assisted reproduction and high caloric diet consumption on body weight and cardiovascular health of juvenile mouse offspring
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Maternal obesity and the use of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) are two suboptimal developmental environments that can lead to offspring obesity and cardiovascular disease. We hypothesized that these environments ... -
Establishment of a phenotypical model of adverse outcomes associated with assisted reproductive technologies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS) is a loss-of-imprinting pediatric overgrowth syndrome. BWS is speculated to occur primarily as the result of the misregulation of imprinted genes associated with two clusters on chromosome ... -
Large offspring syndrome, a bovine model for the human loss-of-imprinting overgrowth syndrome Beckwith-Wiedemann
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS) is a human loss-of-imprinting syndrome primarily characterized by macrosomia, macroglossia, and abdominal wall defects. BWS has been associated with misregulation of two clusters of imprinted ... -
Molecular characterization of a congenital overgrowth syndrome induced by assisted reproduction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS) is a congenital overgrowth condition with increased likelihood to develop childhood tumors. Children conceived with the use of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) have an increased ... -
Size-dependent acquisition of global DNA methylation in oocytes is altered by hormonal stimulation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)Administration of exogenous gonadotropins (superovulation) is used to increase the number of mature oocytes to circumvent the inefficiencies of the subsequent assisted reproductive technologies procedures. Some evidence ...