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 | | Endometrial glands and stroma at the extreme end of the needle core may represent eutopic endometrium and such biopsies should be regarded as negative. | | | The controversy focuses on the microscopic criteria which define superficial adenomyosis, islets within the inner third of the myometrium, which can sometimes be indistinguishable from normal indentations of the basal endometrial layer. | | | This review summarises the merits and demerits of available diagnostic techniques. |
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| | British Journal of Pharmacology - Possible role of the protein kinase C/CPI-17 pathway in the augmented contraction of ... |
| | Furthermore, we observed that the contractile effect of phorbol ester in human myometrium is greater in the pregnant than in the nonpregnant state. | | | In contrast to the results in rat myometrium, others have suggested the importance of PKC in the agonist-induced contractions in human myometrium ( Morrison et al., 1996 ; Breuiller-Fouche et al., 1998 ; Eude et al., 2000). | | | As the results from the mechanical study using relatively specific PKC inhibitors suggested that conventional PKC might be involved in the increased contractility of the pregnant myometrium in response to phorbol ester, we examined the changes in mRNA of these isozymes using a semiquantitative RT−PCR method ( Figure 7). |
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http://www.nature.com/bjp/journal/v140/n7/full/0705552a.html
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| | Center for Uterine Fibroids: Leiomyoma-related bleeding |
| | Subsequent studies utilizing light microscopy demonstrated ectasia of the venules in both the myometrium and the endometrium of uteri containing leiomyomas. | | | Among the evidence to support this theory of vascular dysregulation in leiomyoma-related bleeding is the classic descriptive study by Sampson (Sampson, 1912). | | | This progression of changes in the morphology of glands and stroma is parallelled by changes in the vascular structures. |
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| | Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology Full text Nitric oxide synthase activity in human trophoblast, term placenta ... |
| | From our recent studies showing important differences between NOS activity in human and rat or rabbit myometrium, it was concluded that placental and fetal NOS could be of considerable importance in maintaining quiescence of the myometrium in human pregnancy [ 21 ]. | | | In view of the marginal activity of NOS in the myometrium, NO produced by the trophoblast and placenta could play a significant role in maintaining uterine quiescence by paracrine effect. | | | In view of the marginal activity of NOS in the pregnant myometrium, NO produced by the trophoblast and placenta could play a significant role in maintaining uterine quiescence by paracrine effect. |
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| | This pattern of early junctional zone enhancement occurs prominently in the proliferative phase of the premenopausal and postmenopausal uterus (Yamashita et al., 1993, 1992). | | | The cervical stroma enhances at a slower rate on dynamic imaging than the myometrium. | | | The uterine corpus is divided into three tissue layers: the serosa which consists of the peritoneum; the myometrium which is largely made up of involuntary smooth muscle; and the endometrium composed of the mucosal stratum functionalis (responsive to hormonal stimuli) and the stratum basale (responsible for growth and regeneration of the endometrium). |
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| | Adenomyosis - New Treatments, January 22, 2005 |
| | The most popular theory of the histogenesis of adenomyosis is that the basoendometrium invades the myometrium to give rise to foci of adenomyosis. | | | Uterine trauma at the time of delivery, increased uterine pressure, or chronic endometritis may contribute to this invasion. | | | Adenomyosis is characterized by the presence of endometrial glands and stroma in the myometrium and is often associated with local myometrial hypertrophy. |
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| | Adenomyosis - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms |
| | Adenomyosis is made up of adeno (gland) + myo (muscle) + osis (a condition of) = a condition of glandular tissue (referring to the endometrium) in the muscle (the myometrium). | | | Adenomyosis: Pronounced a-den-o- mi-o-sis, this is a common benign condition of the uterus in which the endometrium (the mucous membrane lining the inside of the uterus) grows into the myometrium (the uterine musculature located just outside the endometrium). | | | Adenomyosis goes by several other names including endometriosis interna, endometriosis uterina, adenomyosis uteri and adenomyometritis. |
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| | Center for Endometriosis Care Newsletter - Adenomyosis |
| | Much work is ongoing to get more information as to the diagnostic accuracy of this technique. | | | by Robert B. Albee, MD Adenomyosis ( add-en-o-my-OH-sis) is defined as ‘the presence of endometrial tissue within the myometrium.’; (The myometrium is the medical term for the muscular portion of the uterine wall.) In the past, adenomyosis was referred to as ‘endometriosis interna’ in the medical world, and sometimes as ‘inside-out endometriosis’ in lay terms. | | | For diagnosis and treatment advice you should consult your healthcare practitioner. |
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| | eMedicine - Uterus, Adenomyosis : Article by Karen L Reuter, MD, FACR |
| | Specific details of this observation have been analyzed. | | | Furthermore, most focal adenomas are in the posterior myometrium. | | | The bright foci seen in the myometrium on T2-weighted images in 50% of patients (see Image 3) are islands of heterotopic endometrial tissue or cystic dilation of heterotopic glands or hemorrhage. |
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| | The role of cyclic-ADP-ribose-signaling pathway in oxytocin-induced Ca2+ transients in human myometrium cells. | | | Down-regulation of the alpha- and beta-subunits of the calcium-activated potassium channel in human myometrium with parturition. | | | A comparative analysis of structure and spatial distribution of decorin in human leiomyoma and normal myometrium. |
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| | Uterus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The uterus mostly consists of muscle, known as myometrium. | | | adenomyosis - ectopic growth of endometrial tissue within the myometrium | | | The innermost layer of myometrium is known as the junctional zone, which becomes thickened in adenomyosis. |
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| | Home Page for Enrico Stefani, Ph.D. M.D. |
| | This new information is analyzed to define protein changes and discover new genes involved in myometrium functional and pathological changes during pregnancy. | | | The molecular mechanisms of ion channel regulation by sex hormones and their functional consequences in myometrium and 2. | | | We are using as model systems myometrium and heart at different stages of pregnancy. |
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| | RU486 suppresses prolactin production |
| | Conclusions: Prolactin production is suppressed in both leiomyomas and myometrium after treatment with RU486 in vitro, and this suppression may serve as a marker for the clinical effectiveness of agents used in the treatment of leiomyomas. | | | M. Immunohistochemistry results suggest that the A form of the PR is the dominant form in both leiomyomas and myometrium. | | | Design: Explant cultures using tissue from nine premenopausal women undergoing hysterectomy in the proliferative phase of the menstrual cycle; immunohistochemical staining of tissue sections from five patients for P receptor (PR) subtype. |
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| | Molecularlabor |
| | Analysis of the dicidua and the myometrium showed no change in the progesterone receptor concentration (Mashoumeh, 1997). | | | This led researchers to look for a change in steroid hormone receptor concentrations as the mechanism for the uncoupling of progesterone's activity in the myometrium. | | | Estrogen is also found to stimulate and increase in prostaglandin production and an increase in oxytocin receptors in the myometrium to estrogen. |
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| | Endometrial Carcinoma |
| | Residual non-neoplastic endometrium (absent, unremarkable, atrophy, simple hyperplasia with or without atypia, complex hyperplasia with or without atypia, polyp, radiation changes): | | | If the tumor is a sarcoma or a MMMT, report the number of mitoses per 10 high power fields and the total number of fields counted. | | | Lower uterine segment invasion (no invasion, mucosal invasion only, stromal invasion only, both mucosa and stroma involved): |
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| | Placental Pathology |
| | This is placenta accreta, which will result in lack of normal separation at delivery, leading to marked hemorrhage necessitating emergency hysterectomy. | | | The classification of placental invasion into myometrium is as follows: | | | Microscopically, the placental villi interdigitate directly with uterine myometrium, without an intervening decidual plate. |
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http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/WebPath/PLACHTML/PLAC070.html
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| | UMIC: News & Announcements |
| | Geimonen, E., Boylston, E., Royek, A., Anderson, J. Elevated Connexin-43 Expression in Term Human Myometrium Correlates with Elevated c-Jun Expression and Is Independent of Myometrial Estrogen Receptors. |
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