What Is Endometrial Receptivity?

Hilary Friedlander, Steven L. Young
In: Early Pregnancy · 2025 · pp. 5–12 · doi:10.1017/9781009532549.003 · W4409452482
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This chapter defines endometrial receptivity as the endometrium's ability to support embryo implantation, reviewing current understanding gleaned from various human and animal studies despite inherent research limitations.

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This chapter reviews what endometrial receptivity is—an endometrium’s ability to support embryo attachment, invasion, and maintenance—and how limited current understanding arises from major differences between humans and experimental animals plus ethical, moral, and technological barriers to directly observing human implantation. It synthesizes evidence from animal studies, observational studies of women trying to conceive with or without medical assistance, and limited experimental work in assisted reproduction, emphasizing that receptivity occurs within a limited temporal window largely driven by progesterone. A major caveat discussed is that proposed clinical testing for altered receptivity is constrained by the difficulty of directly validating mechanisms and by uncertainty around testing approaches. Relevance to endometriosis: the chapter’s discussion of progesterone-regulated endometrial receptivity and clinical testing for receptivity directly bears on endometrial function relevant to endometriosis-related implantation failures, even though endometriosis is not explicitly described in the provided text.

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