Immunological investigations
Immunol Invest
· ISSN (e) 1532-4311
· 10 papers in corpus
observational
2024
INTRODUCTION: Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by endometrial-like tissue outside the uterus. Molecules linked to natural killer (NK) and cytotoxic T cells, including granulysin (GNLY), MHC class I-related chain…
observational
2023
Endometriosis (EM) is a gynecological disorder that presents significant immune dysregulation in its pathophysiology. Recent studies indicate that the Complement System may play a significant role in the immune processes involved in periton…
review
2020
Background: Endometriosis does not have a well-established physiopathology. It has been addressed that endometriosis is an inflammatory disease, where endocrine-immunological interactions are probably involved in the pathogenesis of the dis…
other
2019
UNLABELLED: We aimed to study the relation between both bacterial colonization of the uterine endometrium & endometrial miR-17-5p levels and endometriosis, and then to evaluate endometrial miR-17-5p as a biomarker of endometriosis. A compar…
review
2018
BACKGROUND: This study was conducted to summarize current knowledge of the changes within the immune system, from action of macrophages, lymphocytes and NK cells to biological effects of their products. Endometriosis is a complex gynecologi…
meta-analysis
2014
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to determine whether the p53 codon 72 polymorphism is associated with susceptibility to endometriosis. METHODS: A meta-analysis was conducted on the associations between the p53 codon 72 polymorphism an…
observational
2014
Seminal plasma and follicular fluid (FF) cytokine analysis are valuable tools for diagnoses and validation of therapeutic approaches for improving the chance of conception. Despite the initial discovery over a decade ago, the IL-17 family h…
other
2008
Systemic changes related to cytokine expression levels in women with endometriosis remain a subject of controversy. There are many studies concerning this topic showing differential serum cytokine levels; however, there are limited data pre…
review
2008
The human endometrium is a unique tissue that undergoes dramatic monthly remodeling during the menstrual cycle in preparation for an implanting conceptus. This remodeling involves sequential proliferation and differentiation of endometrial …
case-report
2003
Primary complement deficiencies are rare and two related patients are reported here. The first patient is a 41-year-old man with eighteen episodes of pneumococcal meningitis and other purulent infections. The serum C3 level was checked at t…