David A. Clark
ORCID: 0000-0002-8032-1028
· 6 papers in corpus
article
2022
CD200S-positive granulated lymphoid cells in endometrium appear to be CD56-positive uterine NK cells
The eutopic secretory phase endometrium in endometriosis overproduces and releases a soluble immunosuppressive CD200 molecule (CD200L) and is populated by stromal cells that contain a truncated CD200 (CD200S) that promotes a proinflammatory…
article
2022
PROBLEM: Estrogen-dependent extrauterine implantation and growth of menstrual endometrial tissue affects roughly 10% of reproductive age women and depends on suppression of local innate immune defenses to prevent ectopic tissue rejection. I…
article
2021
other
2018
Retrograde menstruation is common and in about 10% of women, endometrial tissues implant at ectopic sites and grow as endometriosis (EM) deposits. To date, there has been no marker to identify which patients have an endometrium that will ge…
other
2017
BACKGROUND: Anastomotic leak after colorectal surgery increases postoperative mortality, cancer recurrence, permanent stoma formation, and poor bowel function. Anastomosis between the colon and rectum is a particularly high risk. Traditiona…
review
2016
In an outbred mating typical of human reproduction, the embryo and feto-placental unit express paternal antigens to which the mother's immune system can react. However, the embryo and feto-placental unit can engineer the maternal immune def…