Francesca Megiorni

ORCID: 0000-0003-3705-3248 · 5 papers in corpus · active 2013-2020

Study types

  • article 4
  • other 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 5
  • mesh:D004715 3
  • dysmenorrhea 2
  • dyspareunia 2
  • mesh:D017699 1
article 2020
Diagnostics ·doi:10.3390/diagnostics10050255

BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is a widespread multifactorial disease in which environmental, genetic, and epigenetic factors contribute to the phenotype. Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) in genes implicated in pivotal molecular mechanisms…

article 2016

Copyright © 2014 Gabriele Cavaggioni et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work …

article 2014
BioMed research international ·doi:10.1155/2014/786830

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this preliminary study was to determine whether psychiatric disorders, psychopathological symptoms, and alexithymia are associated with endometriosis in an Italian population. STUDY DESIGN: A preliminary study comprisi…

other 2014
Journal of negative results in biomedicine ·doi:10.1186/1477-5751-13-12

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to determine whether the serotonin transporter gene (5-HTT), a key component in the control of the serotonergic system, is associated with endometriosis in an Italian population. FINDINGS: A case-contr…

article 2013
Clinical and experimental obstetrics & gynecology

Endometriosis is a gynecological disease, which involves the growth of endometrial tissue outside the uterine cavity, commonly in the pelvic region. The etiology of the disease is unclear, but multiple factors may contribute to its pathogen…