Laboratory animals

Chronic pain and subfertility are the main symptoms of concern in women with endometriosis. In order to find new therapeutic options to suppress the pain, translational animal models are indispensable. We have developed a new automated, exp…

A case of spontaneous endometriosis was diagnosed in the pigtailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina nemestrina) with the aid of high-field (2.35 T), T2-weighted (TE50), C1H2-suppressed, oblique nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Postmortem…

(SLN × C3H/He)F1 virgin female mice showed higher incidences of spontaneous mammary tumours and uterine adenomyosis at advanced age than did the parental strains.

9 Cases of endometriosis in rhesus monkeys were found in a colony of 35 females, which had undergone in the past X-ray treatment or one or more Caesarean sections and/or one or more treatments with gonadal steroids. Incidence, pathogenesis,…