دورية أكاديمية
HOX cluster and their cofactors showed an altered expression pattern in eutopic and ectopic endometriosis tissues
العنوان: | HOX cluster and their cofactors showed an altered expression pattern in eutopic and ectopic endometriosis tissues |
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المؤلفون: | Fereshteh Esfandiari, Fereshteh Chitsazian, Masoumeh Golestan Jahromi, Raha Favaedi, Masood Bazrgar, Reza Aflatoonian, Parvaneh Afsharian, Abbas Aflatoonian, Maryam Shahhoseini |
المصدر: | Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology, Vol 19, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2021) |
بيانات النشر: | BMC, 2021. |
سنة النشر: | 2021 |
المجموعة: | LCC:Gynecology and obstetrics LCC:Reproduction |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | Endometriosis, Gene expression, HOX, Gynecology and obstetrics, RG1-991, Reproduction, QH471-489 |
الوصف: | Abstract Endometriosis is major gynecological disease that affects over 10% of women worldwide and 30%-50% of these women have pelvic pain, abnormal uterine bleeding and infertility. The cause of endometriosis is unknown and there is no definite cure mainly because of our limited knowledge about its pathophysiology at the cellular and molecular levels. Therefore, demystifying the molecular mechanisms that underlie endometriosis is essential to develop advanced therapies for this disease. In this regard, HOX genes are remarkable because of their critical role in endometrial development and receptivity during implantation, which is attributed to their ability to mediate some of the sex steroid functions during the reproductive period. Access to the expression profiles of these genes would provide the necessary information to uncover new genes for endometriosis and assist with disease diagnosis and treatment. In this study we demonstrate an altered expression pattern for the HOX clusters (A-D) and their cofactors in both eutopic and ectopic conditions compared to control tissue biopsies. Remarkably, most of the intensive changes occurred in eutopic samples from endometriosis patients compared to control tissue biopsies. Pathway analysis revealed the involvement of differentially expressed genes in cancer that correlate with an association between endometriosis and cancer. Our results suggest critical roles for the HOX cluster and their cofactors in endometriosis pathophysiology. |
نوع الوثيقة: | article |
وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
اللغة: | English |
تدمد: | 1477-7827 |
Relation: | https://doaj.org/toc/1477-7827 |
DOI: | 10.1186/s12958-021-00816-y |
URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/60c567744ed04721916bad1c427b9429 |
رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.60c567744ed04721916bad1c427b9429 |
قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
تدمد: | 14777827 |
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DOI: | 10.1186/s12958-021-00816-y |