Overview Academic/Research Interest Areas

The research being conducted in the laboratory focuses on understanding steroid hormone action and the processes regulating embryo implantation in the uterus.

The goals of the research are to:

-gain understandings of these processes and thus allow for the development of methods to determine the likelihood of success of specific embryos to produce a baby during in vitro fertilization.
-find ways to increase fertility in both humans as well as agriculturally important species.
-determine the effects of environmental estrogens on early pregnancy.
-manipulate responses to endotoxins and other compounds that can induce shock based on our understanding of how steroid hormones confer protection or increase susceptibility to this process.

Recent Publications

Huet, Y.M. and Dey, S.K. (1987). Role of Early and Late Oestrogenic Effects on Implantation in the Mouse. J. Reprod. Fert. 81, 453-458.

Huet, Y.M. and Dey, S.K. (1988). A Paradoxical Effect of an Antiestrogen, CI-628 on Implantation in the Mouse. Proc. Soc. Exptl. Biol. Med. 189, 61-78.

Gupta, A., Huet, Y.M. and Dey, S.K. (1989). Evidence for Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes as Mediators of Phase I of Estrogen Action in Implantation in the Mouse. Endocrinology 124, 546-548.

Huet-Hudson, Y.M., Andrews, G.K. and Dey, S.K. (1989). Cell Type-Specific Localization c-Myc Protein in the Mouse Uterus: Modulation by Steroid Hormones and Analysis of the Peri-Implantation Period. Endocrinology 125, 1683-1690.

Chakraborty, C., Huet-Hudson, Y.M., and Dey, S.K. (1990). Catechol Metabolism in the Rabbit Uterus During the Periimplantation Period. J. Steroid Biochem. 35, 39-46.

Huet-Hudson, Y.M. and Dey, S.K. (1990) Requirement for Progesterone-Priming and its Long-Lasting Effect on Implantation in the Mouse. Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. Med. 193, 259-263.

Educational Background

B.A., Human Biology; Microbiology, University of Kansas, 1984

Ph.D., Physiology (with Honors), University of Kansas Medical Center, 1989

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, Missouri, 1989-1990