Selvaraj Nataraja
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· 4 papers in corpus
· active 2008-2015
Endometriosis is one of the most common causes of chronic pelvic pain, which affects over 70 million adult and adolescent women worldwide. The pathophysiology of endometriosis involves endocrine, inflammatory and angiogenic components and t…
Endometriosis is characterized by the presence of elevated proinflammatory cytokines like TNFα in the peritoneal cavity. Inhibition of TNFα by TNF binding protein-1 (TBP-1), the soluble form of TNFα receptor-1, was effective in animal model…
Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha is central to the endometriotic disease process. TNF-alpha receptor signaling regulates epithelial cell secretion of inflammation and invasion mediators. Because epithelial cells are a disease-inducing comp…