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Mouse Model of Surgically-induced Endometriosis by Auto-transplantation of Uterine Tissue
Published on: January 6, 2012
Non-hormonal targets underlying endometriosis: A focus on molecular mechanisms
Xiao-Hang Che1,2,3, Yi-Chen Chen1, Chun-Lin Chen2
1Division of Drugs and Pharmacology, Ningbo Institute of Medical Sciences, Ningbo, China.
Abstract:
Endometriosis is regarded as a hormone-dependent disease. Current therapeutic approaches to treating this common gynecological disorder mainly depend on surgical and hormonal interventions, but the high rate of disease recurrence as well as the side effects related to such therapies make it difficult for patients to recover completely. Molecular evidence has recently suggested that the source of endometriosis can be both hormone-dependent and influenced by the dysregulation of some signaling cascades. In this review, we focus on the non-hormonal triggers of endometriosis and the pre-clinical compounds designed to correct these signaling defects in order to achieve a better understanding of the disease as well as novel approaches to treating it.
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