Zhenmin Lei

Numerous previous studies have demonstrated that LH and hCG can directly regulate several uterine functions. We investigated in the present study, whether uterine phenotype in LH receptor knockout animals resulted also from the absence of d…

Adenomyosis is a benign disease in women in which myometrium is invaded by endometrial glands and stroma. Our laboratory recently demonstrated that normal human endometrial glands and stroma express the hCG/LH receptor gene. This prompted u…

Our laboratory previously demonstrated that normal human endometrium contains hCG/human LH receptors. Since ectopic endometrial implants in endometriosis arise directly at least in part from uterine endometrium, we investigated whether the …