Emma S Lucas

UNLABELLED: Despite advances in assisted reproductive techniques in the 4 decades since the first human birth after in vitro fertilisation, 1-2% of couples experience recurrent implantation failure, and some will never achieve a successful …

Spontaneous decidualization of the endometrium in response to progesterone signaling is confined to menstruating species, including humans and other higher primates. During this process, endometrial stromal cells (EnSCs) differentiate into …

BACKGROUND: Decidualizing human endometrial stromal cells (HESCs) profoundly up-regulate 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 (11βHSD1), the enzyme that converts inert cortisone to active cortisol. We postulated that the induction of a c…