M C Rees
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· 10 papers in corpus
meta-analysis
2000
BACKGROUND: Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is commonly prescribed to treat menopausal symptoms and to prevent post-menopausal bone loss. However, many women are concerned about hormonal replacement therapy because they believe that such …
review
1998
Human endometrial vasculature has the unique property of undergoing benign angiogenesis during each menstrual cycle under the influence of the ovarian steroids estradiol and progesterone. However, neither has intrinsic angiogenic activity a…
rct
1990
The role of gestrinone, 2.5 mg twice weekly, in treating proven menorrhagia (greater than 80 ml) was examined in 19 women. They were treated for five cycles (2 placebo, 3 active), taking one capsule twice weekly. Placebo had no effect on me…
review
1990
Menstruation is an event restricted to humans and subhuman primates and in which uterine bleeding and contractions occur. Prostaglandins and leukotrienes are thought to play a major role in the normal process of menstruation as well as in t…
review
1989
other
1988
PGE receptor concentrations were measured in myometrial samples collected from 10 women at hysterectomy. Five women had normal measured menstrual blood loss (35-44 ml) and the remainder had unexplained menorrhagia occurring in the absence o…
other
1987
Endometrium and myometrium were collected at hysterectomy from 21 women with measured menstrual blood loss. Eight women complained of dysmenorrhea and the remaining 13 had pain-free periods. Specimens were obtained throughout the menstrual …
lab-animal
1985
Prostaglandin release by leiomyomas obtained throughout the menstrual cycle was examined using a superfusion technique. The principal prostaglandin produced was 6-keto-PGF1 alpha, with PGF2 alpha and PGE2 in lesser amounts. No cyclical chan…
other
1984
Endometria and myometria were collected at hysterectomy from 42 women with measured menstrual blood loss. Specimens were obtained throughout the menstrual cycle [menstrual (n = 11), follicular (n = 9), early luteal (n = 6), midluteal (n = 9…
observational
1984
Menstrual fluid was collected in vaginal cups inserted for 2 h during the first 2 days of menstruation and menstrual serum concentrations of prostaglandins PGF2 alpha and PGE2 were measured by radioimmunoassay. In 16 women from whom menstru…