Rebecca L. Jones

ORCID: 0000-0002-8871-0589 · 6 papers in corpus
article 2018
Environmental health perspectives ·doi:10.1289/ehp3802

BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is a gynecological disease affecting 1 in 10 women of reproductive age. Endometriosis incidence has risen; however, whether this rise is due to disease awareness or environmental contamination is not known. OBJECTI…

review 2008
·doi:10.1080/08820130802191466

The human endometrium is a unique tissue that undergoes dramatic monthly remodeling during the menstrual cycle in preparation for an implanting conceptus. This remodeling involves sequential proliferation and differentiation of endometrial …

article 2007
Reproductive biology and endocrinology : RB&E ·doi:10.1186/1477-7827-5-18

BACKGROUND: Understanding the pathophysiology of chemokine secretion in endometriosis may offer a novel area of therapeutic intervention. This study aimed to identify chemokines differentially expressed in epithelial glands in eutopic endom…

article 2006
The Australian & New Zealand journal of obstetrics & gynaecology ·doi:10.1111/j.1479-828x.2006.00546.x

BACKGROUND: Activin is a well-characterised growth and differentiation factor and an important inflammatory mediator. Activin is secreted by normal endometrial glands and stroma and is expressed by endometrial leucocytes. It is also known t…

article 2004
·doi:10.1071/srb04abs250

Endometriosis is an inflammatory condition with elevated leukocyte infiltrate; defined as the ectopic growth of endometrium-like tissue, characterised by epithelial glands, outside the uterus. Chemokines selectively regulate influx and acti…

review 1996
·doi:10.1016/s0301-2115(96)02568-7