The influence of hydrosalpinx on endometrial elafin expression
Ernesto de Paula Guedes Neto1, Maria Isabel Edelweiss, Gisele Silva de Moraes
1Programa de Pós-Graduação em Medicina, Ciências Cirúrgicas, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil. epgn@uol.com.br
Fertility and Sterility
|March 12, 2011
Abstract:
The endometrium of women with hydrosalpinx has an increased number of neutrophils and lower expression of elafin, an elastase inhibitor and natural antimicrobial molecule. These findings suggest that women with hydrosalpinx have a reduced antimicrobial and antielastase activity.

