Eeckhout Y

No ORCID on file · 2 papers in corpus · active 1997-2002

Study types

  • article 1
  • review 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 1
review 2002
Circulating Ovarian Steroids and Endometrial Matrix Metalloproteinases (MMPs)
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ·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 …

article 1997
Expression of interstitial collagenase (matrix metalloproteinase-1) is related to the activity of human endometriotic lesions
Fertility and Sterility ·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(97)81510-5

ObjectiveTo determine whether interstitial collagenase (matrix metalloproteinase-1), known to play a pivotal role in the initiation of menstruation, contributes to the pathogenesis of endometriosis.DesignSerial sections of peritoneal red an…