C V Rao

No ORCID on file · 6 papers in corpus · active 1987-2006

Study types

  • article 4
  • other 2

Condition tags

  • mesh:D004715 6
  • endometriosis 5
  • infertility 1
  • adenomyosis 1
other 2006
Journal of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation ·doi:10.1016/j.jsgi.2005.12.005
article 1993
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism ·doi:10.1210/jcem.76.3.7680356

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…

article 1992
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism ·doi:10.1210/jcem.75.4.1400884

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 …

other 1988
Fertility and Sterility ·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(16)59791-x

CA-125 has been found to be mildly elevated in the serum of patients with advanced stages of endometriosis, but not with minimal endometriosis. Peritoneal fluid levels were measured in conjunction with serum levels in 12 consecutive patient…

article 1988
International journal of fertility

Peritoneal endometriotic implants and adjacent normal peritoneum from five patients were analyzed for prostaglandin (PG) release. Each tissue biopsy was incubated using medium 199 in triplicate at 37 degrees C for six hours, and PGF2 alpha …

article 1987
Obstetrics and gynecology ·doi:10.1016/0020-7292(87)90045-2

Elevated prostaglandin (PG) levels in peritoneal fluid have been implicated as playing a role in infertility associated with endometriosis. This study was designed to measure peritoneal fluid levels of PG and other hormones that may influen…