Catarina Martins

No ORCID on file · 4 papers in corpus · active 2022-2025

Study types

  • article 2
  • other 1
  • review 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 4
  • dysmenorrhea 1
article 2025
PD-1 Expression in Endometriosis
·doi:10.3390/immuno5040049

Background: Endometriosis, believed by many to be rooted in immunology, is a chronic disease. Upregulation of programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) in immune cells may compromise their defensive function, a mechanism demonstrated in the co…

other 2024
The Role of NK and T Cells in Endometriosis
International journal of molecular sciences ·doi:10.3390/ijms251810141

Endometriosis, a debilitating condition, affects one in ten women of reproductive age. Its pathophysiology remains unclear, though deficiencies in immune surveillance are thought to create an environment conducive to the evasion of ectopic …

article 2024
TIM‐3 Expression in Endometriosis
American journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989) ·doi:10.1111/aji.13887

PROBLEM: Endometriosis is a prevalent chronic gynecological disease linked to immune dysfunction. The protein T-cell immunoglobulin and mucin domain-containing protein 3 (TIM-3) plays a crucial role in immune system balance. Malfunction of …

review 2022
Natural Killer Cell Receptors and Endometriosis: A Systematic Review
International journal of molecular sciences ·doi:10.3390/ijms24010331

Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory disorder, characterized by the presence of endometrial cells outside the uterine cavity. An increasing number of studies correlate the immune system with endometriosis, particularly NK receptors (NKR)…