Immunological factor development of external genital endometriosis
External genital endometriosis is characterized by impaired innate immune responses in early stages and reduced immune activation markers in later stages, offering potential diagnostic criteria.
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The paper studied innate and adaptive immune factors in reproductive-age women with external genital endometriosis across different disease stages, comparing peripheral blood lymphocyte composition and monocyte subsets expressing Toll-like receptors and various activation markers using laser flow cytometry (Immunotex/Caltag) with panels including CD3, CD4, CD8, CD16, CD19, HLA-DR, CD282, CD284, and activation markers CD25, CD69, CD95, CD107a, and CD14. In stage I–II disease, it found increased TLR-4–expressing monocytes along with impaired activation/differentiation reflected by reduced expression of several CD16- and CD8-associated activation phenotypes; in stage III–IV disease, it reported further decreases in CD16 and reduced surface expression of CD69, HLA-DR, and CD107a, along with lower CD8, CD16, and related markers. It also observed increased CD16+CD95+ and CD8+CD95+ across different stages. The study’s limitation is that it measures immune markers in peripheral blood rather than directly in lesions and does not include details of immune causality beyond stage-associated associations. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — it analyzes stage-specific innate and adaptive immune dysregulation in external genital endometriosis and proposes immune parameters as diagnostic criteria for its formation and progression.
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- Natural Killer Cells: Key Players in Endometriosis 2015
- Endometriosis as a pathology of regulatory mechanisms 2017
- The role of interleukin-8 (IL-8) and polymorphism of IL-8 gene in formation of external genital endometriosis in patients of reproductive age 2021
- Role of neutrophilic granulocytes in the development of endometriosis 2020
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- Endometriosis as a pathology of regulatory mechanisms via openalex
- Natural Killer Cells: Key Players in Endometriosis via openalex
- Role of neutrophilic granulocytes in the development of endometriosis via openalex
- The role of interleukin-8 (IL-8) and polymorphism of IL-8 gene in formation of external genital endometriosis in patients of reproductive age via openalex
- W2467181146 via openalex
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