Patricia B. Cornet

No ORCID on file · 4 papers in corpus · active 2002-2007

Study types

  • article 3
  • review 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 1
article 2007
article 2005
·doi:10.1210/jc.2004-1277

Various matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) participate in the menstrual breakdown of the human endometrium. MMP-9/gelatinase B is proposed as a major factor because it degrades many extracellular matrix constituents, including in the vasculat…

article 2003
·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(03)01894-6
review 2002
·doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2002.tb02773.x

Recent studies strongly suggest that matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) play a key role in the initiation of menstrual bleeding in the human endometrium upon the fall of ovarian steroid serum concentrations by inducing the degradation of the …