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Dimitrios Rizos is affiliated with the Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria in Spain. Their research primarily intersects the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions in subfields such as Molecular Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Reproductive Medicine, Immunology, and Agronomy and Crop Science.

The scientist has a focus on topics related to reproductive biology and fertility, with research spanning areas such as reproductive system and pregnancy, involvement of extracellular vesicles in disease processes, sperm and testicular function, reproductive physiology in livestock, microRNA regulation in diseases, and bioactive compounds in plants.

Dimitrios Rizos has authored several papers, including:

  • Antioxidant Nobiletin Enhances Oocyte Maturation and Subsequent Embryo Development and Quality, 2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • DNA methylation changes during preimplantation development reveal inter-species differences and reprogramming events at imprinted genes, 2020, Clinical Epigenetics
  • Oocyte-cumulus cells crosstalk: New comparative insights, 2023, Theriogenology
  • Senescence and Apoptosis During in vitro Embryo Development in a Bovine Model, 2020, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • Extracellular vesicles from oviductal and uterine fluids supplementation in sequential in vitro culture improves bovine embryo quality, 2022, Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology/Journal of animal science and biotechnology

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Karina Cañón-Beltrán
  • Yulia N. Cajas
  • Alfonso Gutiérrez-Adán
  • E. González
  • Rosane Mazzarella

Dimitrios Rizos has published extensively in several venues with multiple articles, notably:

  • Reproduction Fertility and Development
  • Theriogenology
  • Endocrine Abstracts
  • Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology/Journal of animal science and biotechnology
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Best Publications

  • Consequences of bovine oocyte maturation, fertilization or early embryo development in vitro versus in vivo: implications for blastocyst yield and blastocyst quality.

    Dimitrios Rizos;Fabian Ward;Pat Duffy;Maurice P. Boland

  • Effect of follicle size on bovine oocyte quality and developmental competence following maturation, fertilization, and culture in vitro

    P. Lonergan;P. Monaghan;D. Rizos;M. P. Boland

  • Bovine Embryo Culture in the Presence or Absence of Serum: Implications for Blastocyst Development, Cryotolerance, and Messenger RNA Expression

    D. Rizos;A. Gutiérrez-Adán;S. Pérez-Garnelo;J. de la Fuente

  • Analysis of Differential Messenger RNA Expression Between Bovine Blastocysts Produced in Different Culture Systems: Implications for Blastocyst Quality

    D Rizos;P Lonergan;M P Boland;R Arroyo-García

  • Oocyte and embryo quality: effect of origin, culture conditions and gene expression patterns.

    P Lonergan;D Rizos;A Gutierrez-Adan;T Fair

  • Progesterone and conceptus elongation in cattle: a direct effect on the embryo or an indirect effect via the endometrium?

    M Clemente;J de La Fuente;T Fair;A Al Naib

  • Temporal Divergence in the Pattern of Messenger RNA Expression in Bovine Embryos Cultured from the Zygote to Blastocyst Stage In Vitro or In Vivo

    P. Lonergan;D. Rizos;A. Gutiérrez-Adán;P. M. Moreira

  • Sex determines the expression level of one third of the actively expressed genes in bovine blastocysts

    P. Bermejo-Alvarez;D. Rizos;Detlef Rath;P. Lonergan

  • Elevated Non-Esterified Fatty Acid Concentrations during Bovine Oocyte Maturation Compromise Early Embryo Physiology

    Veerle Van Hoeck;Roger G. Sturmey;Pablo Bermejo-Alvarez;Dimitrios Rizos

  • Developmental, qualitative, and ultrastructural differences between ovine and bovine embryos produced in vivo or in vitro.

    Dimitrios Rizos;Trudee Fair;Serafeim Papadopoulos;Maurice P. Boland

  • Consequences of in vitro culture conditions on embryo development and quality.

    D Rizos;M Clemente;P Bermejo-Alvarez;J de La Fuente

  • Epigenetic differences between male and female bovine blastocysts produced in vitro.

    Pablo Bermejo-Alvarez;Dimitrios Rizos;Detlef Rath;Patrick Lonergan

  • Effect of speed of development on mRNA expression pattern in early bovine embryos cultured in vivo or in vitro.

    A Gutiérrez-Adán;D Rizos;T Fair;P N Moreira

  • Extracellular Vesicles from BOEC in In Vitro Embryo Development and Quality

    Ricaurte Lopera-Vásquez;Meriem Hamdi;Beatriz Fernandez-Fuertes;Verónica Maillo

  • Optimization of in vitro bovine embryo production: effect of duration of maturation, length of gamete co-incubation, sperm concentration and sire

    Fabian Ward;Brian Enright;Dimitrios Rizos;Maurice Boland

  • Paternal influence on the time of first embryonic cleavage post insemination and the implications for subsequent bovine embryo development in vitro and fertility in vivo.

    Fabian Ward;Dimitrios Rizos;Doreen Corridan;Katherine Quinn

  • Temporal sensitivity of bovine embryos to culture environment after fertilization and the implications for blastocyst quality.

    P Lonergan;D Rizos;J Kanka;L Nemcova

  • EFFECT OF THE IN VITRO CULTURE SYSTEM ON THE KINETICS OF BLASTOCYST DEVELOPMENT AND SEX RATIO OF BOVINE EMBRYOS

    A. Gutiérrez-Adán;P. Lonergan;D. Rizos;F.A. Ward

  • Suppressed expression of genes involved in transcription and translation in in vitro compared with in vivo cultured bovine embryos.

    D. Corcoran;T. Fair;S. Park;D. Rizos

  • Effect of culture environment on embryo quality and gene expression – experience from animal studies

    P Lonergan;D Rizos;A Gutiérrez-Adán;T Fair

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick Lonergan
Patrick Lonergan University College Dublin
Alfonso Gutiérrez-Adán
Alfonso Gutiérrez-Adán Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria
Maurice P. Boland
Maurice P. Boland University College Dublin
Trudee Fair
Trudee Fair University College Dublin
Gavin Kelsey
Gavin Kelsey Babraham Institute
Henry J. Leese
Henry J. Leese Hull York Medical School
María Yáñez-Mó
María Yáñez-Mó Spanish National Research Council
Alan D. Ealy
Alan D. Ealy Virginia Tech
Xiangzhong Yang
Xiangzhong Yang University of Connecticut
James F. Roche
James F. Roche University College Dublin

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