Sahar Houshdaran

No ORCID on file · 22 papers in corpus · active 2014-2025

Study types

  • article 13
  • other 3
  • preprint 3
  • letter 1
  • meta-analysis 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 21
  • infertility 12
  • dysmenorrhea 1
  • chronic_pelvic_pain 1
other 2025
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology ·doi:10.1101/2025.07.21.666016

Endometriosis is a chronic, estrogen-dependent condition affecting over 190 million women globally, characterized by the ectopic presence of endometrial-like tissue that leads to inflammation, pain, and infertility. Despite its prevalence, …

other 2024
iScience ·doi:10.1016/j.isci.2024.109388

Existing medical treatments for endometriosis-related pain are often ineffective, underscoring the need for new therapeutic strategies. In this study, we applied a computational drug repurposing pipeline to stratified and unstratified disea…

article 2023
·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2023.08.204
article 2023
Communications biology ·doi:10.1038/s42003-023-05070-z

Endometriosis is a leading cause of pain and infertility affecting millions of women globally. Herein, we characterize variation in DNA methylation (DNAm) and its association with menstrual cycle phase, endometriosis, and genetic variants t…

meta-analysis 2023
Nature genetics ·doi:10.1038/s41588-023-01323-z

Endometriosis is a common condition associated with debilitating pelvic pain and infertility. A genome-wide association study meta-analysis, including 60,674 cases and 701,926 controls of European and East Asian descent, identified 42 genom…

preprint 2022
·doi:10.1101/2022.12.20.22283736

Abstract Endometriosis is a common, inflammatory pain disorder comprised of disease in the pelvis and abnormal uterine lining and ovarian function that affects ∼200 million women of reproductive age worldwide and up to 50% of those with pel…

article 2022
Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/humrep/deac198

STUDY QUESTION: Is circulating cell-free DNA (cirDNA) from the endometrium elevated during menstruation and in endometriosis? SUMMARY ANSWER: Endometrial cirDNA does not increase during menstruation and is not elevated in endometriosis. W…

preprint 2022
·doi:10.1101/2022.11.27.518106

Abstract Endometriosis is a leading cause of pain and infertility affecting millions of women globally. Identifying biologic and genetic effects on DNA methylation (DNAm) in endometrium increases understanding of mechanisms that influence g…

article 2022
Frontiers in immunology ·doi:10.3389/fimmu.2021.788315

The uterine lining (endometrium) exhibits a pro-inflammatory phenotype in women with endometriosis, resulting in pain, infertility, and poor pregnancy outcomes. The full complement of cell types contributing to this phenotype has yet to be …

article 2021
Reproductive biomedicine online ·doi:10.1016/j.rbmo.2021.11.006
preprint 2021
·doi:10.1101/2021.08.27.457966

Abstract The uterine lining (endometrium) exhibits a pro-inflammatory phenotype in women with endometriosis, resulting in pain, infertility, and poor pregnancy outcomes. The full complement of cell types contributing to this phenotype has y…

article 2020
Molecular human reproduction ·doi:10.1093/molehr/gaaa082

The etiology and pathogenesis of endometriosis are complex with both genetic and environmental factors contributing to disease risk. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified multiple signals in the estrogen receptor 1 (ESR1) r…

other 2020
Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/humrep/deaa015

STUDY QUESTION: Do seminal plasma (SP) and its constituents affect the decidualization capacity and transcriptome of human primary endometrial stromal fibroblasts (eSFs)? SUMMARY ANSWER: SP promotes decidualization of eSFs from women with …

article 2020
PLoS genetics ·doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1008601

Programmed cellular responses to cycling ovarian-derived steroid hormones are central to normal endometrial function. Abnormalities therein, as in the estrogen-dependent, progesterone-"resistant" disorder, endometriosis, predispose to infer…

letter 2020
Fertility and sterility ·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2020.09.147
article 2019
Fertility and sterility ·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2019.08.060
review 2019
Human reproduction update ·doi:10.1093/humupd/dmz018

BACKGROUND: Endometriosis, a common oestrogen-dependent inflammatory disorder in women of reproductive age, is characterized by endometrial-like tissue outside its normal location in the uterus, which causes pelvic scarring, pain and infert…

article 2017
·doi:10.1093/biolre/iox107

Uterine fibroids are a common finding in infertility patients. Impaired implantation and decidualization have been proposed to contribute to compromised fertility. Data are limited on the endometrial transcriptome from subjects with uterine…

article 2016
Biology of reproduction ·doi:10.1095/biolreprod.116.140434

Endometriosis is an estrogen-dependent, progesterone-resistant disorder largely derived from retrograde transplantation of menstrual tissue/cells into the pelvis, eliciting an inflammatory response, pelvic pain, and infertility. Eutopic end…

article 2016
Biology of reproduction ·doi:10.1095/biolreprod.115.136010

Human endometrium undergoes cyclic regeneration involving stem/progenitor cells, but the role of resident endometrial mesenchymal stem cells (eMSC) as progenitors of endometrial stromal fibroblasts (eSF) has not been definitively demonstrat…

article 2014

SYSTEMIC AND FOLLICULAR OXIDATIVE STRESS IN INFERTILE WOMEN WITH ENDOMETRIOSIS UNDERGOING CONTROLLED OVARIAN STIMULATION FOR ICSI: IS THERE A ROLE IN THE ETIOPATHOGENESIS OF INFERTILITY? M. G. Da Broi, F. O. Albuquerque, A. Z. de Andrade, R…

article 2014
·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2014.07.268