Selected publications

 

2021

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Tereza Cindrova-Davies, Xiaohui Zhao, Kay Elder, Carolyn J. P. Jones, Ashley Moffett, Graham J. Burton & Margherita Y. Turco 

Menstrual flow as a non-invasive source of endometrial organoids

Communications Biology. 2021 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-02194-y

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Konstantina Nikolakopoulou, Margherita Y. Turco

Investigation of infertility using endometrial organoids

Reproduction. 2021 DOI: 10.1530/REP-20-0428

 

Cindrilla Chumduri, Margherita Y. Turco

Organoids of the female reproductive tract
Journal of Molecular Medicine. 2021  DOI: 10.1007/s00109-020-02028-0

 

2020

 

Megan A. Sheridan, Ridma C. Fernando, Lucy Gardner, Michael S. Hollinshead, Graham J. Burton, Ashley Moffett & Margherita Y. Turco 

Establishment and differentiation of long-term trophoblast organoid cultures from the human placenta
Nature Protocols. 2020 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41596-020-0381-x

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Vicente Perez-Garcia, Margherita Y. Turco

Keep Calm and the Placenta Will Carry On

Developmental Cell. 2020, doi:10.1016/j.devcel.2020.06.031

Lama Alzamil, Konstantina Nikolakopoulou & Margherita Y. Turco

Organoid systems to study the human female reproductive tract and pregnancy

Cell Death & Differentiation. 2020, doi: 10.1038/s41418-020-0565-5

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Yassen Abbas, Margherita Y Turco, Graham J Burton, Ashley Moffett

Investigation of human trophoblast invasion in vitro

Human Reproduction Update. 2020, https://doi.org/10.1093/humupd/dmaa017

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Burton, G., Cindrova-Davies, T., & Turco, M. 

Review: Histotrophic nutrition and the placental-endometrial dialogue during human early pregnancy.

Placenta. 2020 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.placenta.2020.02.008

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Abbas Y, Brunel LG, Hollinshead MS, Fernando RC, Gardner L, Duncan I, Moffett A, Best S, Turco MY, Burton GJ, Cameron RE 

Generation of a three-dimensional collagen scaffold-based model of the human endometrium. 

Interface Focus. 2020 Apr 6;10(2):20190079. 

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2019

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Turco MY, Moffett A. Development of the human placenta. 

Development. 2019 Nov 27;146(22):dev163428. 

 

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2018

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Turco MY, Gardner L, Kay RG, Hamilton RS, Prater M, Hollinshead MS, McWhinnie A, Esposito L, Fernando R, Skelton H, Reimann F, Gribble FM, Sharkey A, Marsh SGE, O'Rahilly S, Hemberger M, Burton GJ, Moffett A. 

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

Nature. 2018 Dec;564(7735):263-267.

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Vento-Tormo R, Efremova M, Botting RA, Turco MY, Vento-Tormo M, Meyer KB, Park JE, Stephenson E, Polański K, Goncalves A, Gardner L, Holmqvist S, Henriksson J, Zou A, Sharkey AM, Millar B, Innes B, Wood L, Wilbrey-Clark A, Payne RP, Ivarsson MA, Lisgo S, Filby A, Rowitch DH, Bulmer JN, Wright GJ, Stubbington MJT, Haniffa M, Moffett A*, Teichmann SA

Single-cell reconstruction of the early maternal-fetal interface in humans. 

Nature. 2018 Nov;563(7731):347-353.

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Lee CQE, Turco MY, Gardner L, Simons BD, Hemberger M, Moffett A. 

Integrin α2 marks a niche of trophoblast progenitor cells in first trimester human placenta.

Development. 2018 Apr 16;145(16):dev162305.

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2017

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Turco MY, Gardner L, Hughes J, Cindrova-Davies T, Gomez MJ, Farrell L, Hollinshead M, Marsh SGE, Brosens JJ, Critchley HO, Simons BD, Hemberger M, Koo BK, Moffett A, Burton GJ.

Long-term, hormone-responsive organoid cultures of human endometrium in a chemically defined medium.

Nat Cell Biol. 2017 May;19(5):568-577. 

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2016

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Lee CQ, Gardner L, Turco M, Zhao N, Murray MJ, Coleman N, Rossant J, Hemberger M, Moffett A.

What Is Trophoblast? A Combination of Criteria Define Human First-Trimester Trophoblast.

Stem Cell Reports. 2016 Feb 9;6(2):257-72.

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