Norwitz ER

No ORCID on file · 6 papers in corpus · active 1991-2020

Study types

  • review 2
  • article 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 3
2020
Scientific reports ·doi:10.1038/s41598-020-77068-0

MicroRNA-200 (miR-200) family is highly expressed in ovarian cancer. We evaluated the levels of family members relative to the internal control miR-103a in ovarian cancer and control blood specimens collected from American and Hong Kong Chi…

review 2020
Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) ·doi:10.1007/s43032-020-00164-z

Iron is an essential element for cell survival, and iron deficiency is a known risk factor for many reproductive disorders. Paradoxically, such disorders are also seen more commonly under conditions of iron excess. Here, we focus on the pro…

review 2019
International journal of molecular sciences ·doi:10.3390/ijms20133283

Iron is an essential element for the survival of most organisms, including humans. Demand for iron increases significantly during pregnancy to support growth and development of the fetus. Paradoxically, epidemiologic studies have shown that…

2015
Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine ·doi:10.1101/cshperspect.a023143

The timing of birth is a critical determinant of perinatal outcome. Despite intensive research, the molecular mechanisms responsible for the onset of labor both at term and preterm remain unclear. It is likely that a "parturition cascade" e…

2014
Biology of reproduction ·doi:10.1095/biolreprod.113.112540

Progesterone supplementation is recommended to prevent preterm birth in women with a short cervix, but the mechanism is unclear. We hypothesize that progesterone acts by altering the composition of the cervical extracellular matrix (ECM). W…

article 1991
Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a137291

Appropriate endometrial differentiation is believed to be a prerequisite for pregnancy success. This study investigates the expression of two intermediate filament proteins, cytokeratin and vimentin, in human endometrium and first trimester…