Gabriele Rossi — Endo Lab

other 2017

PreImplantation Factor in endometriosis: A potential role in inducing immune privilege for ectopic endometrium

PloS one ·doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0184399

Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory condition characterised by the growth of endometrial epithelial and stromal cells outside the uterine cavity. In addition to Sampson's theory of retrograde menstruation, endometriosis pathogenesis is …

article 2011

VEGF-Receptor2 and c-KIT expression in epithelial cells of ectopic endometrium of endometriosis implants. Do they identify endometriosis stem cells?

·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2011.07.527

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 2000

Dynamic aspects of endometriosis in a mouse model through analysis of implantation and progression

Archives of gynecology and obstetrics ·doi:10.1007/s004040050005

The aim of this study was to use normal immunocompetent mice to set up a model for endometriosis which allowed to study the dynamic aspects involved in initiation and progression of the disease. Thirty mice were surgically transplanted with…

article 1999

Endometrial ability to implant in ectopic sites can be prevented by interleukin-12 in a murine model of endometriosis

Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/humrep/14.12.2944

Immune dysfunctions in endometriosis are widely documented but the effectiveness of immunotherapies for the management of the disease is still debated. Progress in this field has also been limited by the lack of an appropriate animal model …