Publications
2023
Baines KJ, West RC#. Sex differences in innate and adaptive immunity impact fetal, placental, and maternal health. Biology of Reproduction. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolre/ioad072
2022
West RC#, Ezashi T, Schoolcraft WB, Yuan Y. Beyond Fusion: A novel role for ERVW-1 in trophoblast proliferation and type I interferon receptor expression. Placenta. 126: 150-159.
Logsdon DM, Grimm CK, West RC, Engelhorn HJ, Kile R, Reed LC, Swain JE, Katz-Jaffe M, Schoolcraft WB, Krisher RL, Yuan Y. Maternal physiology and blastocyst morphology correlate with an inherent difference in peri-implantation human development. Fertility and Sterility. 117(6): 1311-1321.
2021
Zhou J*, West RC*, Ehlers EL, Ezashi T, Schulz LC, Roberts RM, Yuan Y, Schust DJ. Modeling human peri-implantation placental development and function. Biology of Reproduction. 105(1):40-51.[cover feature]
Rajput SK, Khan SA, Goheen BB, Engelhorn HJ, Logsdon DM, Grimm CK, Kile RA, West RC, Yuan Y, Schoolcraft WB, McCormick S, Krisher RL, Swain JE. Absence of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19 virus) within the IVF laboratory using strict patient screening and safety criteria. Reprod Biomed Online. 2021 Jun;42(6):1067-1074. doi:10.1016/j.rbmo.2021.03.005. PMID: 33814309; PMCID: PMC7937039.
2019
West RC*, Ming H*, Logsdon DM*, Sun J, Rajput SK, Kile RA, Schoolcraft WB, Roberts RM, Krisher RL, Jiang Z, Yuan Y. Dynamics of trophoblast differentiation in peri-implantation-stage human embryos. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(45):22635-22644.
West RC, Bouma GJ, Winger QA. BRCA1 regulates HMGA2 in the Swan71 trophoblast cell line. Molecular Reproduction and Development. 86(11);1663-1670.
McWhorter ES, West RC, Russ JE, Winger QA, Bouma GJ. LIN28B regulates androgen receptor (AR) in human trophoblast cells through let-7c. Molecular Reproduction and Development. 86(9):1086-1093.
Zhang S, Chen T, Chen N, Gao D, Shi B, Kong S, West RC, Yuan Y, Zhi M, Wei Q, Xiang J, Mu H, Yue L, Lei X, Wang X, Zhong L, Liang H, Cao S, Belmonte J, Wang H, Han J. Implantation initiation of self-assembled embryo-like structures generated using three types of mouse blastocyst-derived stem cells. Nature Communications. 10(496).
West RC#, McWhorter ES, Ali A, Goetzman LN, Russ JE, Gonzalez-Berrios CL, Anthony RV, Bouma GJ, Winger QA. HMGA2 is regulated by LIN28B and BRCA1 in human placental cells. Biology of Reproduction. 100(1):227-238.
2018
West RC#, Bouma GJ, Winger QA. Shifting perspectives: from “oncogenic” to oncofetal proteins; how these factors drive early placental development. Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology. 16:101.
2015
Cleys ER, Halleran JL, Enriquez VA, da Silveira JC, West RC, Winger QA, Anthony RV, Bruemmer JE, Clay CM, Bouma GJ. Androgen receptor and histone lysine demethylases in ovine placenta. PLOS One. 10(2):e0117472.
Gallegos-Cardenas A, Webb R, Jordan E, West RC, West FD, Yang J, Wang K, Stice SL. Pig induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neural rosettes developmentally mimic human pluripotent stem cell neural differentiation. Stem Cells and Development. 24(16):1901-1911.
2014
Lu Y, West FD, Jordan BJ, Jordan ET, West RC, Yu P, He Y, Barrios MA, Petitte JN, Beckstead RB, Stice SL. Induced pluripotency in chicken embryonic fibroblasts results in a germ cell fate. Stem Cells and Development. 23(15):1755-1764.