Endometriosis is a disease that is associated with severe pelvic pain and is a major cause of infertility in women. It is an enigmatic disease whose etiology and pathophysiology has been studied to a limited extent. The events associated wi…
In primates, the phase of the menstrual cycle when the uterus becomes receptive is initially dependent on estrogen and progesterone. Further morphological and biochemical changes are induced as a result of biochemical signals between the em…
Endometriosis is an estrogen-dependent condition that affects 5 million American women; however, its etiology is not fully understood. The development of the baboon model of endometriosis provides an extremely powerful tool to investigate t…
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate steroid receptor and aromatase gene expression in endometriotic lesions, and determine the effects of endometriosis on uterine receptivity in a baboon model for endometriosis. DESIGN: Prospective study to determine t…
Endometriosis is one of the most common causes of infertility and chronic pelvic pain and affects 1 in 10 women in the reproductive-age group. Although existence of this disease has been known for over 100 years, our current knowledge of it…
Conference Article| November 01 1997 Progesterone regulates glycosylation in endometrium J. D. Aplin; J. D. Aplin 1 *Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Manchester, St Mary's Hospital, Manchester M13 0JH, U.K. 1To whom c…
This study was undertaken to determine whether women with endometriosis have altered protein, progesterone (P), and protease inhibitor concentrations in their uterine fluid and peritoneal fluid (PF) compared with controls at different phase…