Reduced innate lymphoid cells in the endometrium of women with endometriosis.

Takuya Sugahara Yukiko Tanaka Yoshitaka Hashimoto Maya Fujii Koki Shimura Kanae Ogawa Taisuke Mori Izumi Kusuki Michiaki Fukui Jo Kitawaki

Published in: American journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989) (2021)

The proportion of ILC2 and 3 was reduced in the endometrium of patients with endometriosis, and ILCs were increased in ovarian endometrioma. Our findings may indicate a new immunological approach to understand the pathophysiology of endometriosis.

Keyphrases

induced apoptosis
cell cycle arrest
cell death
signaling pathway
oxidative stress