Jean-Louis Vigne

No ORCID on file · 7 papers in corpus · active 1996-2009

Study types

  • article 5
  • other 2

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 6
  • infertility 1
article 2009
Biology of reproduction ·doi:10.1095/biolreprod.108.075069

Growing evidence suggests that medicinal herbs have direct actions on endometrial cells. By screening multiple herbs using an in vitro model of endometriosis, we found that a commonly used herbal formula exerted considerable antiproliferati…

other 2005
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism ·doi:10.1210/jc.2004-2064

CONTEXT: Glycodelin (GdA) is an immunosuppressive endometrial glycoprotein critical for embryonic implantation and pregnancy establishment. OBJECTIVE: The aim of the present study was to examine the effect of dioxin [2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodib…

article 2005
Endocrinology ·doi:10.1210/en.2005-0854

Infiltrating neutrophil granulocytes are a particularly rich source of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in the endometrium and may contribute to the angiogenesis of endometriosis lesions. The objective of this study is to evaluate …

other 2005
Angiogenesis ·doi:10.1007/s10456-005-9027-4

UNLABELLED: Endometrial vasculature supports physiological uterine growth, embryonic implantation and endometrial pathology. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is regulated by diverse developmental and hormonal signals, including eic…

article 2005
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism ·doi:10.1210/jc.2005-0972

Context: The nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) pathway is a critical mediator of RANTES (regulated on activation, normal T cell expressed and secreted) gene regulation and therefore represents a potential target for therapy of endometriosis-associa…

article 2003
Gynecologic and obstetric investigation ·doi:10.1159/000068952

Chemoattraction of macrophages into the peritoneal cavity is one of the important characteristics in patients with endometriosis. An inflammatory response is postulated to be responsible for infertility and pelvic pain associated with this …

article 1996

Retrograde menstruation is postulated as the initiating event in the histogenesis of endometriosis; however, subsequent steps in the pathogenesis of this common disorder remain poorly characterized. The ip accumulation of activated leukocyt…