2025

Rahaei, N., Buynack, L. M., Kires, L., Movasseghi, Y., & Chapman, C. A. (2025). Progesterone and allopregnanolone facilitate excitatory synaptic transmission in the infralimbic cortex via activation of membrane progesterone receptors. Neuroscience, 567, 9-17.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306452224007498

Ahamed, S., Bashar, M. A., Hassan, M. M., & Tokumoto, T. (2025). A Novel Method to Make Zebrafish Mate by Adding an Membrane Progestin Receptor Agonist to the Water Without Injection. Zebrafish.
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/zeb.2025.0020

Velázquez-Hernández, D. M., Vázquez-Martínez, E. R., Cruz-Orozco, O., Silvestri-Tomassoni, J. R., Sánchez-Ramírez, B., Olguín-Ortega, A., ... & Camacho-Arroyo, I. (2025). Membrane Progesterone Receptor Beta Regulates the Decidualization of Endometrial Stromal Cells in Women with Endometriosis. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 26(15), 7297.
https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/26/15/7297

Lemons, A. H., Murphy, B., Dengler, J. S., Salar, S., Davies, P. A., Smalley, J. L., & Moss, S. J. (2025). Neuroactive steroids activate membrane progesterone receptors to induce sex specific effects on protein kinase activity. iScience, 28(5).
https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(25)00613-3

Mathouchanh, M., & Lessman, C. A. (2025). Effects of progestogen neurosteroids on locomotor activity in zebrafish embryos and larvae. Fish Physiology and Biochemistry, 51(3), 105.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10695-025-01519-6

2024

Yoshida, A., Yasuda, K., & Okada, H. (2024). Changes in the conflicting nongenomic effects of progesterone in rat myometrium during pregnancy. Life Sciences, 340, 122454.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0024320524000432

Ferré, A., Chauvigné, F., Gozdowska, M., Kulczykowska, E., Finn, R. N., & Cerdà, J. (2023). Neurohypophysial and paracrine vasopressinergic signaling regulates aquaporin trafficking to hydrate marine teleost oocytes. Frontiers in Endocrinology, 14, 1222724.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/endocrinology/articles/10.3389/fendo.2023.1222724/full

Berg, M. D., & Dean, M. (2024). Membrane progesterone receptors mediate progesterone-stimulated glycogenolysis in the bovine uterine epithelium. Reproduction, 168(6).
https://rep.bioscientifica.com/view/journals/rep/168/6/REP-24-0174.xml

Thomas, P., Bennett, T., Matkin, C., & Pang, Y. (2024). Enhancement of southern flounder (Paralichthys lethostigma) sperm velocity and fertility by direct activation of sperm epidermal growth factor and adenylyl cyclase signaling pathways. Aquaculture, 591, 741119.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0044848624005805

Berg, M. D. (2024). The role of progesterone in regulating glucose metabolism in the uterine epithelium (Doctoral dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/132678

2023

Lin, V. H. C., Chien, A., & Chien, E. J. (2023). The rapid activation of cPKCβII by progesterone results in the negative regulation of Ca2+ influx in human resting T cells. Journal of the Chinese Medical Association, 86(10), 885-891.
https://journals.lww.com/jcma/fulltext/2023/10000/the_rapid_activation_of_cpkc_ii_by_progesterone.4.aspx

Castelnovo, L. F., & Thomas, P. (2023). Progesterone exerts a neuroprotective action in a Parkinson’s disease human cell model through membrane progesterone receptor α (mPRα/PAQR7). Frontiers in Endocrinology, 14, 1125962.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/endocrinology/articles/10.3389/fendo.2023.1125962/full

2022

Castelnovo, L. F., & Thomas, P. (2022). Membrane progesterone receptor α (mPRα/PAQR7) promotes survival and neurite outgrowth of human neuronal cells by a direct action and through schwann cell-like stem cells. Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, 72(10), 2067-2080.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12031-022-02057-z

2021

Castelnovo, L. F., & Thomas, P. (2021). Membrane progesterone receptor α (mPRα/PAQR7) promotes migration, proliferation and BDNF release in human Schwann cell-like differentiated adipose stem cells. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, 531, 111298.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0303720721001428

2020

Rezanujjaman, M., Tanvir, R., Ali, M. H., & Tokumoto, T. (2020). An agonist for membrane progestin receptor (mPR) induces oocyte maturation and ovulation in zebrafish in vivo. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 529(2), 347-352.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006291X20311554

Lu, X., Guan, A., Chen, X., Xiao, J., Xie, M., Yang, B., ... & Chen, Q. (2020). mPRα mediates P4/Org OD02‐0 to improve the sensitivity of lung adenocarcinoma to EGFR‐TKIs via the EGFR‐SRC‐ERK1/2 pathway. Molecular Carcinogenesis, 59(2), 179-192.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/mc.23139

2019

Parakala, M. L., Zhang, Y., Modgil, A., Chadchankar, J., Vien, T. N., Ackley, M. A., ... & Moss, S. J. (2019). Metabotropic, but not allosteric, effects of neurosteroids on GABAergic inhibition depend on the phosphorylation of GABAA receptors. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 294(32), 12220-12230.
https://www.jbc.org/content/294/32/12220.full

Trillini, N. A. Participación del receptor mPRa en la respuesta quimiotáctica mediada por la progesterona (Bachelor's thesis).
https://rdu.unc.edu.ar/handle/11086/11554

2018

González-Orozco, J. C., Hansberg-Pastor, V., Valadez-Cosmes, P., Nicolas-Ortega, W., Bastida-Beristain, Y., De La Fuente-Granada, M., ... & Camacho-Arroyo, I. (2018). Activation of membrane progesterone receptor-alpha increases proliferation, migration, and invasion of human glioblastoma cells. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, 477, 81-89.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0303720718301904

Joseph, V., Uppari, N., Kouchi, H., De Bruyn, C., Boukari, R., & Bairam, A. (2018). Respiratory regulation by steroids in newborn rats: a sex‐specific balance between allopregnanolone and progesterone receptors. Experimental Physiology, 103(2), 276-290.
https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1113/EP086716

2016

Lin, V. H. C., Chen, J. J., Liao, C. C., Lee, S. S., & Chien, E. J. (2016). The rapid immunosuppression in phytohemagglutinin-activated human T cells is inhibited by the proliferative Ca2+ influx induced by progesterone and analogs. Steroids, 111, 71-78.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039128X16000118

Guo, M., Zhang, C., Wang, Y., Feng, L., Wang, Z., Niu, W., ... & Chen, Z. (2016). Progesterone receptor membrane component 1 mediates progesterone-induced suppression of oocyte meiotic prophase I and primordial folliculogenesis. Scientific Reports, 6, 36869.
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep36869