María Martínez‐Esparza

ORCID: 0000-0001-5765-8231 · 10 papers in corpus
article 2025
·doi:10.1016/j.gine.2025.101053
other 2025
International journal of molecular sciences ·doi:10.3390/ijms26199581

Endometriosis is a chronic, estrogen-dependent inflammatory disease with heterogeneous clinical manifestations and uncertain systemic immune involvement. This study aimed to characterize peripheral immune profiles and circulating tumor mark…

review 2024
International journal of molecular sciences ·doi:10.3390/ijms25137068

Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory disorder characterized by the abnormal growth of endometrial-like tissue outside the uterine cavity, affecting 10-15% of women of reproductive age. Pain is the most common symptom. Treatment options i…

2022
International journal of molecular sciences ·doi:10.3390/ijms23041940

At present, there is a growing interest in finding new non-toxic anti-inflammatory drugs to treat inflammation, which is a key pathology in the development of several diseases with considerable mortality. Sulforaphane (SFN), a bioactive com…

2022
International journal of molecular sciences ·doi:10.3390/ijms231911141

Macrophages have emerged as important therapeutic targets in many human diseases. The aim of this study was to analyze the effect of broccoli membrane vesicles and sulphoraphane (SFN), either free or encapsulated, on the activity of human m…

2021
World journal of gastroenterology ·doi:10.3748/wjg.v27.i41.7014

Macrophages are a diverse myeloid cell population involved in innate and adaptive immune responses, embryonic development, wound repair, and regulation of tissue homeostasis. These cells link the innate and adaptive immunities and are cruci…

review 2021
International journal of molecular sciences ·doi:10.3390/ijms221910792

Endometriosis is an estrogen-dependent gynecological disorder, defined as the growth of endometrial stromal cells and glands at extrauterine sites. Endometriotic lesions are more frequently located into the abdominal cavity, although they c…

review 2020
International journal of molecular sciences ·doi:10.3390/ijms21249397

Endometriosis is a chronic, inflammatory, hormone-dependent disease characterized by histological lesions produced by the presence of endometrial tissue outside the uterine cavity. Despite the fact that an estimated 176 million women are af…

review 2019
Human Reproduction Update ·doi:10.1093/humupd/dmz044

BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is a gynaecological hormone-dependent disorder that is defined by histological lesions generated by the growth of endometrial-like tissue out of the uterus cavity, most commonly engrafted within the peritoneal cavi…

2018
Scientific reports ·doi:10.1038/s41598-018-30787-x

Peritoneal macrophages play a critical role in the control of infectious and inflammatory diseases. Although recent progress on murine peritoneal macrophages has revealed multiple aspects on their origin and mechanisms involved in their mai…