Donald P. Braun

No ORCID on file · 21 papers in corpus · active 1994-2010

Study types

  • article 18
  • review 2
  • book-chapter 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 21
  • infertility 1
book-chapter 2010
·doi:10.5005/jp/books/11032_9
article 2006
Fertility and sterility ·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.06.026

ObjectiveTo quantitate antiapoptotic and proapoptotic gene expression in endometrial cells (ECs) of women with and without endometriosis.DesignDetermination of transcript abundance (TA) of apoptosis-regulating genes in eutopic and ectopic e…

review 2004
Best practice & research. Clinical obstetrics & gynaecology ·doi:10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2004.02.001

Endometriosis is a benign gynecologic disorder characterized by the ectopic growth of misplaced endometrial cells. A unifying hypothesis to explain endometriosis has not been elucidated as yet but numerous investigations have implicated dis…

article 2003
·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(03)01499-7
article 2002
·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(02)04077-3
article 2002
·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(01)03014-x
article 2002
·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(02)04054-2
article 2002
·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(02)03611-7
article 2002
Fertility and Sterility ·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(02)03318-6

ObjectiveTo determine the effect of autologous peritoneal fluid and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) on proliferation of endometrial cells from women with endometriosis.DesignEndometrial cells from eutopic and ectopic endometrium wer…

article 2002
·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(01)03013-8
article 2002
Fertility and Sterility ·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(02)03334-4

ObjectiveTo investigate the relationship between apoptotic cells and macrophages in the eutopic endometrium of women with and without endometriosis.DesignRetrospective analysis of archival uterine endometrial biopsy specimens.SettingInstitu…

article 2001
·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(01)02443-8
article 2000
·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(00)00783-4
article 1998
Fertility and Sterility ·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(98)00062-4

ObjectiveTo compare the ability of peripheral blood monocytes (PBM) and peritoneal macrophages (PM) to mediate the in vitro cytolysis of endometrial cells from eutopic and ectopic endometrium in women with endometriosis.DesignProspective st…

review 1998
Current opinion in obstetrics & gynecology ·doi:10.1097/00001703-199810000-00003

This review highlights recent studies that illuminate the role of the immune system in endometriosis. The findings are discussed in the framework of a model which proposes that endometriosis reflects an immunological selection process. Endo…

article 1998
Fertility and Sterility ·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(98)00073-9

ObjectiveTo evaluate spontaneous apoptosis in single-cell suspensions of eutopic and ectopic endometrium from women with endometriosis and in eutopic endometrium from fertile controls without endometriosis.DesignPaired specimens of eutopic …

article 1997
·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(97)90670-1
article 1996
Fertility and Sterility ·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(16)58262-4

ObjectiveTo evaluate basal (constitutive) and stimulated synthesis of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF alpha), interleukin (IL)-8, IL-10 by peritoneal macrophages (PM) in women with endometriosis.DesignPeritoneal macrophages were cultured i…

article 1996
Fertility and Sterility ·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(16)58325-3

ObjectiveTo investigate the capacity of peripheral blood monocytes (PBM) from women with endometriosis to secrete tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), interleukin (IL) IL-6, IL-8, and IL-10.DesignPeripheral blood monocytes were cultured…

article 1995
American journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989) ·doi:10.1111/j.1600-0897.1995.tb00958.x

PROBLEM: Previous studies have established that in vitro proliferation of endometrial cells is enhanced by peripheral blood monocytes (PBM) and suppressed by peritoneal macrophages (PM) from patients with endometriosis but only suppressed b…

article 1994
Fertility and Sterility ·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(16)56456-5

ObjectiveTo investigate the capacity of monocytes from women with endometriosis to influence endometrial cell proliferation.DesignUterine endometrial cells were cultured in the presence and absence of autologous blood monocytes for 72 hours…