Effects of low-dose X-ray medical diagnostics on female gonads: Insights from large animal oocytes and human ovaries as complementary models

• Nicola Antonio Martino ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nicola Antonio Martino, Rossella Vicenti

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nicolaantonio.martino@unito.it

  Current address: Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Torino, Grugliasco, Torino, Italy

  Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies & Biopharmaceutics, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Valenzano, Bari, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6853-2757

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• Rossella Vicenti ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nicola Antonio Martino, Rossella Vicenti

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Gynecology and Physiopathology of Human Reproduction Unit, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5793-3424

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• Maria Macciocca,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Gynecology and Physiopathology of Human Reproduction Unit, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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• Renato Seracchioli,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Visualization

  Affiliation Gynecology and Physiopathology of Human Reproduction Unit, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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• Giuseppina Marzano,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies & Biopharmaceutics, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Valenzano, Bari, Italy

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• Antonella Mastrorocco,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies & Biopharmaceutics, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Valenzano, Bari, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7136-4029

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• Giovanni Michele Lacalandra,

  Roles Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Valenzano, Bari, Italy

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• Michele Tomaiuolo,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale di Puglia e Basilicata, Foggia, Italy

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• Giuliana Marchesani,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale di Puglia e Basilicata, Foggia, Italy

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• Eugenio Antonio Chiaravalle,

  Roles Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale di Puglia e Basilicata, Foggia, Italy

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• Francesca Gioia Klinger,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Section of Histology and Embryology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

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• Serena Marcozzi,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Section of Histology and Embryology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

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• Raffaella Fabbri ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Gynecology and Physiopathology of Human Reproduction Unit, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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• Maria Elena Dell’Aquila

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies & Biopharmaceutics, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Valenzano, Bari, Italy

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