Joris Vriens

ORCID: 0000-0002-2502-0409 · 56 papers in corpus
review 2018
Pflugers Archiv : European journal of physiology ·doi:10.1007/s00424-017-2100-1

Heat sensation, the ability to detect warm and noxious temperatures, is an ancient and indispensable sensory process. Noxious temperatures can have detrimental effects on the physiology and integrity of cells, and therefore, the detection o…

lab-animal 2017
Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE ·doi:10.3791/55168

Decidualization is a progesterone-dependent differentiation process of endometrial stromal cells and is a prerequisite for successful embryo implantation. Although many efforts have been made to reveal the underlying mechanisms of deciduali…

lab-animal 2017
Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology ·doi:10.1016/j.jmig.2017.10.008

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To demonstrate how a novel laparoscopic approach allows the development of a mouse model for endometriosis after seeding menstrual endometrium from donor mice into the abdominal cavity of syngeneic recipient mice. DESIGN: …

lab-animal 2016
Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) ·doi:10.1177/1933719116638178

BACKGROUND: This prospective pilot study was designed to induce endometriosis in a mouse model using laparoscopy, a less invasive and more precise approach than laparotomy. We aimed to achieve a peritoneal implant rate of at least 50% by va…

lab-animal 2016
Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/humrep/dew344

STUDY QUESTION: Does mouse endometrial epithelial cells and stromal cells have a similar transient receptor potential (TRP)-channel expression profile and to that found in the human endometrium? SUMMARY ANSWER: Mouse endometrial epithelial…

lab-animal 2015
Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/humrep/dev068

STUDY QUESTION: Are members of the transient receptor potential (TRP) channel superfamily functionally expressed in the human endometrial stroma? SUMMARY ANSWER: The Ca(2+)-permeable ion channels TRPV2, TRPV4, TRPC6 and TRPM7 are functiona…