Marta Piva

No ORCID on file · 6 papers in corpus · active 1998-2002

Study types

  • article 4
  • other 2

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 6
  • endometrioma 1
other 2002
Fertility and Sterility ·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(02)03317-4

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effects of endometriotic haptoglobin on peritoneal macrophage function. DESIGN: Prospective laboratory study. SETTING: School of medicine. PATIENT(S): Twenty-three women with and without endometriosis. INTERVE…

other 2002
Glycoconjugate journal ·doi:10.1023/a:1022580813870

Peritoneal endometriotic tissues synthesize and secrete haptoglobin (pHp), which has an analogous nucleotide sequence to hepatic haptoglobin found in serum (sHp). This study performed enzymatic digestions and lectin binding assays to determ…

article 2001
Biology of reproduction ·doi:10.1095/biolreprod65.4.1297

In vivo levels of mRNA and the specificity of the extrauterine environment on matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-3, MMP-2, and tissue inhibitor of matrix metalloproteinase (TIMP)-1 were evaluated in eutopic and ectopic endometrial tissue during…

article 1999
Molecular human reproduction ·doi:10.1093/molehr/5.1.71

A unique glycoprotein, called endometriosis protein-I (ENDO-I), has previously been shown to be synthesized and secreted by rat and human endometriotic explants. Furthermore, the N-terminal amino acid sequence analysis showed that ENDO-I sh…

article 1998
·doi:10.1016/s1071-5576(97)86373-3
article 1998
·doi:10.1016/s1071-5576(97)86093-5