Emma M. Björk

ORCID: 0000-0001-6609-6779 · 1 paper in corpus

article 2020

Enhanced local and systemic inflammatory cytokine mRNA expression in women with endometriosis evokes compensatory adaptive regulatory mRNA response that mediates immune suppression and impairs cytotoxicity

American journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989) ·doi:10.1111/aji.13298

PROBLEM: Endometriosis is a disease characterized by ectopic implantation of endometrium and impaired immune responses. To explore its pathogenic mechanisms, we studied the local and systemic cytokine mRNA profiles and their role in the imm…