Sylvie Defrere

No ORCID on file · 2 papers in corpus · active 2006-2011

Study types

  • article 1
  • other 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 2
  • infertility 1
article 2011
Peritoneal endometriosis is an inflammatory disease
Frontiers in bioscience (Elite edition) ·doi:10.2741/358

Peritoneal endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by increased numbers of peritoneal macrophages and their secreted products. Inflammation plays a major role in pain and infertility associated with endometriosis, but …

other 2006
Serum dioxin-like compounds and aromatase (CYP19) expression in endometriotic tissues
Toxicology letters ·doi:10.1016/j.toxlet.2006.10.005

Dioxin-like compounds (DLCs) are suspected etiological factors of endometriosis but their potential mechanisms of action remain elusive. Because endometriosis is an estrogen-dependent disease and since aromatase (CYP19), a key enzyme in est…