Victoria Male

ORCID: 0000-0001-5654-5083 · 14 papers in corpus
review 2026
BMC women's health ·doi:10.1186/s12905-026-04645-2

BACKGROUND: The management of endometriomata remains a challenge, with current options associated with either high recurrence rates or significant reduction in ovarian reserve. Ethanol sclerotherapy has been suggested as a treatment that is…

other 2025
Discovery immunology ·doi:10.1093/discim/kyaf004

BACKGROUND: Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) are prominent in the human uterine mucosa and play physiological roles in pregnancy. ILC3 are the second-most common ILC subset in the uterine mucosa, but their role remains unclear. METHODS: Here w…

article 2024
Nature genetics ·doi:10.1038/s41588-024-01873-w

The complex and dynamic cellular composition of the human endometrium remains poorly understood. Previous endometrial single-cell atlases profiled few donors and lacked consensus in defining cell types. We introduce the Human Endometrial Ce…

preprint 2024
·doi:10.1101/2024.08.10.606309

Innate lymphoid cells (ILC) are prominent in the human uterine mucosa and play physiological roles in pregnancy. ILC3 are the second-most common ILC subset in the uterine mucosa, but their role remains unclear. Here we define two subsets of…

other 2024

Analysis of ILC3 distribution and function at the human uterine mucosal interface.

preprint 2023
·doi:10.1101/2023.11.03.564728

Abstract The human endometrium, the inner lining of the uterus, exhibits complex, dynamic changes throughout the menstrual cycle in response to ovarian hormones. Aberrant response of endometrial cells to hormones is associated with multiple…

2022
BMJ medicine ·doi:10.1136/bmjmed-2022-000297

ObjectivesTo identify whether covid-19 vaccines are associated with menstrual changes in order to address concerns about menstrual cycle disruptions after covid-19 vaccination.DesignGlobal, retrospective cohort study of prospectively collec…

2022
·doi:10.1101/2022.03.30.22273165

COVID-19 vaccination protects against the potentially serious consequences of SARS-CoV2 infection, but some people have been hesitant to receive the vaccine because of reports that it could affect menstrual bleeding. To determine whether th…

2022
Frontiers in reproductive health ·doi:10.3389/frph.2022.952976

COVID-19 vaccination protects against the potentially serious consequences of SARS-CoV-2 infection, but some people have been hesitant to receive the vaccine because of reports that it could affect menstrual bleeding. To determine whether t…

2022
·doi:10.22541/au.166304889.92811880/v1

Objective: Assess whether coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination impacts menstrual bleeding quantity. Design Retrospective cohort Setting Five global regions Populations Vaccinated and unvaccinated regularly cycling individuals us…

2022
Human Reproduction Update ·doi:10.1093/humupd/dmac006

BackgroundUterine natural killer cells (uNK) are the most abundant lymphocytes found in the decidua during implantation and in first trimester pregnancy. They are important for early placental development, especially trophoblast invasion an…

2021
·doi:10.22541/au.163943767.74401646/v1

Objective: Clinicians and regulators are receiving reports of changes to menstrual periods following COVID-19 vaccination. However, it is unclear if the two are biologically linked. If they are, people using hormonal contraception are pred…

2021
·doi:10.1101/2021.11.15.21266317

Surveillance schemes are receiving increasing numbers of reports from people who have noticed a change to their period following COVID-19 vaccination. In order to investigate this, we retrospectively recruited 1273 people who have a record …

2013
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) ·doi:10.4049/jimmunol.1300958

Uterine NK cells (uNK) play a role in the regulation of placentation, but their functions in nonpregnant endometrium are not understood. We have previously reported suppression of endometrial bleeding and alteration of spiral artery morphol…