To identify factors influencing the differential pain pathogenesis in peritoneal endometriosis (pEM) and peritoneal carcinomatosis in ovarian cancer (pOC), we undertook an experimental study. Tissue samples of 18 patients with pEM, 15 patie…
OBJECTIVE: To identify and characterize endometriosis-associated immune cell infiltrates (EMaICI). Furthermore, to define occurrence and size of EMaICI in various types of endometriosis. METHODS: Immune cells were characterized in samples …
Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory disease and one of the most common causes of pelvic pain. The mechanisms underlying pain emergence or chronic inflammation during endometriosis remain unknown. Several chronic inflammatory diseases in…
The widespread phenomenon of a sympathetic hypoinnervation during chronic inflammatory diseases, which was also shown in peritoneal endometriosis, could be verified in this study. The reduction of these anti-inflammatory nerve fibers during…