Michele De Palma

ORCID: 0000-0001-9128-5459 · 1 paper in corpus

article 2011

Proangiogenic Tie2+ Macrophages Infiltrate Human and Murine Endometriotic Lesions and Dictate Their Growth in a Mouse Model of the Disease

The American Journal of Pathology ·doi:10.1016/j.ajpath.2011.07.029

Endometriosis affects women of reproductive age, causing infertility and pain. Although immune cells are recruited in endometriotic lesions, their role is unclear. Tie2-expressing macrophages (TEMs) have nonredundant functions in promoting …