“…This alignment of the polarity of ciliated cells is an example of planar cell polarity (PCP), which is the polarity of epithelial cells in a plane perpendicular to their apical-basal axis. Recent studies have revealed that PCP genes regulate ciliary polarity in frog epidermis (Mitchell et al, 2009;Park et al, 2008), the mouse brain ventricle (Guirao et al, 2010;Hirota et al, 2010;Tissir et al, 2010), the mouse embryonic node (Antic et al, 2010;Hashimoto et al, 2010;Song et al, 2010), the zebrafish Kupffer's vesicle (Borovina et al, 2010;May-Simera et al, 2010) and the mouse trachea (Vladar et al, 2012). However, as yet, the roles of PCP genes in the oviduct epithelium have not been studied.…”