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Embryos, cancers, and parasites: Potential applications to the study of reproductive biology in view of their similarity as biological phenomena

BACKGROUND: At present, there are so many living things on the earth. Most of these organisms have a reproductive strategy called sexual reproduction. Among organisms that reproduce sexually, mammals have an extremely complex and seemingly unnatural method of reproduction, or viviparity. METHODS: As...

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Autor principal: Araki, Yoshihiko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8967296/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35386372
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rmb2.12447
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description BACKGROUND: At present, there are so many living things on the earth. Most of these organisms have a reproductive strategy called sexual reproduction. Among organisms that reproduce sexually, mammals have an extremely complex and seemingly unnatural method of reproduction, or viviparity. METHODS: As an approach to understanding the nature of viviparity, the author have tried to outline the common life phenomena of embryos, cancers, and parasites based on the literature to date, with internal parasites as the keyword. MAIN FINDINGS: Embryo, cancer, and parasite are constituted as a systemic interaction with the host (mother). Based on these facts, the author proposed the hypothesis that in the case of mammals, "the fetus is essentially harmful to the mother", and that the parasitic fetus grows by skillfully evading the mother's foreign body exclusion mechanism. CONCLUSION: Comparative studies of "embryos", "cancers", and "parasites" as foreign bodies have the potential to produce unexpected discoveries in their respective fields. It is important to consider the evolutionary time axis that the basic structure of our mammalian body arose over 200 million years from the Mesozoic Triassic, the period immediately after the Paleozoic Era, when life on Earth became massively extinct.
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spelling pubmed-89672962022-04-05 Embryos, cancers, and parasites: Potential applications to the study of reproductive biology in view of their similarity as biological phenomena Araki, Yoshihiko Reprod Med Biol Mini Review BACKGROUND: At present, there are so many living things on the earth. Most of these organisms have a reproductive strategy called sexual reproduction. Among organisms that reproduce sexually, mammals have an extremely complex and seemingly unnatural method of reproduction, or viviparity. METHODS: As an approach to understanding the nature of viviparity, the author have tried to outline the common life phenomena of embryos, cancers, and parasites based on the literature to date, with internal parasites as the keyword. MAIN FINDINGS: Embryo, cancer, and parasite are constituted as a systemic interaction with the host (mother). Based on these facts, the author proposed the hypothesis that in the case of mammals, "the fetus is essentially harmful to the mother", and that the parasitic fetus grows by skillfully evading the mother's foreign body exclusion mechanism. CONCLUSION: Comparative studies of "embryos", "cancers", and "parasites" as foreign bodies have the potential to produce unexpected discoveries in their respective fields. It is important to consider the evolutionary time axis that the basic structure of our mammalian body arose over 200 million years from the Mesozoic Triassic, the period immediately after the Paleozoic Era, when life on Earth became massively extinct. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-02-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8967296/ /pubmed/35386372 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rmb2.12447 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Reproductive Medicine and Biology published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Japan Society for Reproductive Medicine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Embryos, cancers, and parasites: Potential applications to the study of reproductive biology in view of their similarity as biological phenomena
title_full Embryos, cancers, and parasites: Potential applications to the study of reproductive biology in view of their similarity as biological phenomena
title_fullStr Embryos, cancers, and parasites: Potential applications to the study of reproductive biology in view of their similarity as biological phenomena
title_full_unstemmed Embryos, cancers, and parasites: Potential applications to the study of reproductive biology in view of their similarity as biological phenomena
title_short Embryos, cancers, and parasites: Potential applications to the study of reproductive biology in view of their similarity as biological phenomena
title_sort embryos, cancers, and parasites: potential applications to the study of reproductive biology in view of their similarity as biological phenomena
topic Mini Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8967296/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35386372
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rmb2.12447
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