[Comparative characteristics of endometrial and endometriosis cell cultures]

The authors studied comparatively the endometrium and endometrosis cell cultures of 35 women before and (in part of the group) after the synthetic progestin treatment. Methods for cultivating the endometrium and endometriosis cells were developed. A normal endometrium cell culture was found to be made up by epithelioid cells, while the cell culture from the endometriosis focus exhibited mostly a mixed cell population. The analysis of the internal endometriosis cell cultures before and after the infecundin treatment failed to show any clear distinction in respect to the cell growth and morphology. Endometriosis cells were found to possess low mitotic activity which made the kariotype studies difficult. the data obtained are the result of the first effort to cultivate endometriosis cells.