Alison Murray

ORCID: 0000-0003-3719-3291 · 7 papers in corpus
2023

BackgroundHeavy menstrual bleeding affects one in four women and negatively impacts quality of life. The levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system is an effective long-term treatment but is discontinued by many due to unpredictable bleed…

article 2021
Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/humrep/deaa379

STUDY QUESTION: Can markers of human endometrial hypoxia be detected at menstruation in vivo? SUMMARY ANSWER: Our in vivo data support the presence of hypoxia in menstrual endometrium of women during physiological menstruation. WHAT IS KNOW…

article 2021
The Journal of endocrinology ·doi:10.1530/joe-20-0446

Heavy menstrual bleeding is common and debilitating but the causes remain ill defined. Rates of obesity in women are increasing and its impact on menstrual blood loss (MBL) is unknown. Therefore, we quantified BMI and MBL in women not takin…

article 2021
Fertility and sterility ·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2021.02.008

ObjectiveTo study the impact of the progesterone receptor modulator (PRM), ulipristal acetate (UPA), on endometrial morphology and function.DesignCross-sectional.SettingUniversity Research Institute.Patient(s)Endometrial biopsies from 16 pa…

article 2018
Nature communications ·doi:10.1038/s41467-017-02375-6

Heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB) is common and debilitating, and often requires surgery due to hormonal side effects from medical therapies. Here we show that transient, physiological hypoxia occurs in the menstrual endometrium to stabilise h…

article 2014
The American Journal of Pathology ·doi:10.1016/j.ajpath.2014.03.011

Endometriosis is an estrogen-dependent inflammatory disorder characterized by the presence of endometrial tissue outside the uterine cavity. Patients experience chronic pelvic pain and infertility, with the most likely origin of the tissue …

article 2014
·doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0086378

BACKGROUND: In women dynamic changes in uterine tissue architecture occur during each menstrual cycle. Menses, characterised by the shedding of the upper functional layer of the endometrium, is the culmination of a cascade of irreversible c…