Tibolone is a highly effective postmenopausal hormone treatment that has its biological activity dependent on metabolism to 3alpha- and 3beta-OH tibolone, which bind solely to the estrogen receptor. Despite the high levels of estrogen recep…
Expression of tissue factor (TF), the primary initiator of hemostasis via thrombin formation, is induced during progesterone (P4)-stimulated decidualization of human endometrial stromal cells (HESCs), and remains elevated in decidualized HE…
Ovarian steroids and/or premenstrual endometrial hypoxia are thought to restore the endometrial vasculature shed during menstruation by elevating endometrial vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) levels. During the luteal phase, VEGF le…
The abortifacient and menstrual effects of the potent antiprogestin, RU 486 (mifepriston) are associated with both endometrial hemorrhage and extracellular matrix (ECM) degradation. Such processes reflect reduced perivascular decidual cell …
Perivascular decidualized human endometrial stromal cells (HESCs) are ideally positioned to prevent peri-implantational hemorrhage during endovascular trophoblast invasion by expressing tissue factor (TF), the primary cellular mediator of h…
Progesterone stimulation of the estradiol (E2)-primed human endometrium initiates DZ of the stromal cells around the spiral arterioles. Under continued steroid stimulation, DZ spreads wave-like to establish the decidual cell as a major cell…