Eeckhout Y

No ORCID on file · 2 papers in corpus

review 2002

Circulating ovarian steroids and endometrial matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs)

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ·doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2002.tb02773.x

Recent studies strongly suggest that matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) play a key role in the initiation of menstrual bleeding in the human endometrium upon the fall of ovarian steroid serum concentrations by inducing the degradation of the …

other 1997

Expression of interstitial collagenase (matrix metalloproteinase-1) is related to the activity of human endometriotic lesions

Fertility and sterility ·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(97)81510-5

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether interstitial collagenase (matrix metalloproteinase-1), known to play a pivotal role in the initiation of menstruation, contributes to the pathogenesis of endometriosis. DESIGN: Serial sections of peritoneal …