Helen J. Mardon

No ORCID on file · 7 papers in corpus · active 1995-2007

Study types

  • article 7

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 7
  • infertility 1
article 2007
Endometrial cells from women with endometriosis have increased adhesion and proliferative capacity in response to extracellular matrix components: towards a mechanistic model for endometriosis progression
Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/humrep/dem262

BACKGROUND: Endometriosis, classified as the presence of endometrial cells in ectopic sites, is a debilitating disease causing pain and infertility in approximately 10% of women of reproductive age. It is associated with the aberrant expres…

article 2006
Stromal cells from endometriotic lesions and endometrium from women with endometriosis have reduced decidualization capacity
Fertility and sterility ·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2005.08.046

ObjectiveTo evaluate the phenotype, proliferative, and differentiation capacities in vitro of stromal cells derived from peritoneal, ovarian, and deeply infiltrating endometriosis.DesignExperimental study using phase contrast microscopy, im…

article 2002
The function of extracellular and their receptors in the pathogenesis of endometriosis
·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(01)03161-2
article 1999
Tenascin is differentially expressed in endometrium and endometriosis
The Journal of Pathology ·doi:10.1002/(sici)1096-9896(199901)187:2<242::aid-path221>3.0.co;2-t

Endometriosis is characterized by the presence of functional endometrial tissue outside the uterine cavity, most commonly on the ovary and peritoneum. The aetiology of endometriosis is not understood, although the adhesion of endometrial ce…

article 1997
Endometriosis in monozygotic twins
Fertility and Sterility ·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(97)00359-2

ObjectiveTo describe the occurrence of endometriosis in monozygotic twins.DesignPostal questionnaire plus confirmation of disease status.SettingTwins were recruited via the American Endometriosis Association and the National Endometriosis S…

article 1996
Delay in the diagnosis of endometriosis: a survey of women from the USA and the UK
Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a019270

We investigated the length of time between the onset of pain symptoms and the surgical diagnosis of endometriosis in women from the UK and the USA. A total of 218 women with surgically confirmed disease, recruited through endometriosis self…

article 1995
Familial endometriosis
Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics ·doi:10.1007/bf02214126

PurposeThe study aimed to identify families with endometriosis and to document disease severity within the families and the clinical characteristics of the affected women.ResultsTwo hundred and thirty women with surgically confirmed endomet…