Sevasti Giakoumelou

No ORCID on file · 1 paper in corpus · active 2014

Study types

  • article 1

Condition tags

  • mesh:D004715 1
  • endometriosis 1
  • chronic_pelvic_pain 1
article 2014
Estrogen Receptor (ER) Agonists Differentially Regulate Neuroangiogenesis in Peritoneal Endometriosis via the Repellent Factor SLIT3
Endocrinology ·doi:10.1210/en.2014-1086

Endometriosis is an estrogen-dependent neurovascular disorder characterized by growth of endometrial tissue (lesions) outside the uterine cavity. Patients suffer chronic pelvic pain, and it has been proposed that co-recruitment of nerves/bl…