Barbara Gaffuri

No ORCID on file · 5 papers in corpus · active 1996-2010

Study types

  • article 5

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 5
article 2010
Comparative Effect of the Calcium Antagonist Verapamil and the Synthetic Steroids Gestrinone and Danazol on Human Monocyte Phagocytosis in vitro
Gynecologic and obstetric investigation ·doi:10.1159/000291809

Recent evidence suggested that periovulatory treatment with an immunomodulatory agent such as verapamil might be an effective alternative to conventional treatment for endometriosis-associated subfertility. In particular, it has been report…

article 2003
Intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM1) gene polymorphisms in endometriosis, Mol Hum Reprod 9

Intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) is a ligand for the integrins lymphocyte function-associated antigen-1 (LFA-1) and complement receptor-3 (Mac-1), making it an important partic-ipant in many immune and inflammatory processes. Prev…

article 2000
Endometrial Release of Soluble Intercellular Adhesion Molecule 1 and Endometriosis
·doi:10.1097/00006250-200001000-00022

In Brief Objective To relate endometrial release of the soluble form of intercellular adhesion molecule 1 with extent of endometriosis. Methods Samples of endometrium were collected from 23 women with endometriosis. Soluble intercellular ad…

article 2000
Expression of GnRH receptor gene in human ectopic endometrial cells and inhibition of their proliferation by leuprolide acetate
Molecular and cellular endocrinology ·doi:10.1016/s0303-7207(99)00199-9
article 1996
Modulation of NK Cell Lytic Function by Endometrial Secretory Factors: Potential Role in Endometriosis
American journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989) ·doi:10.1111/j.1600-0897.1996.tb00179.x

PROBLEM: Development and progression of endometriosis have been suggested to be related to a defect of NK cells in the ability to eliminate endometrial fragments regurgitated with menstrual debris in ectopic sites. However, it has not been …