In many tumors, the amount of chondroitin sulfate in the extracellular matrix has been shown to be elevated when compared to the corresponding normal tissue. Nevertheless, the degree of chondroitin sulfate increase varies ...

P>It is known that the development of diabetic complications in human pregnancy is directly related to the severity and the duration of this pathology. In this study, we developed a model of long-term type 1 diabetes to ...

Oxytocin was isolated and synthesized for the first time by Vincent du Vigneaud in 1953, work for which he received two years later, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Since then, it has been one of the research fields to the ...

Parturition at term is characterized by inflammatory overload in both feto-maternal tissues. Despite the large number of individual studies on changes in inflammatory biomarkers linked to labor, a comprehensive profile of ...

Oxidative stress (OS) plays a role in uterine tissue remodeling during pregnancy and parturition. While p38 MAPK is an OS-response kinase, a precise functional role is unknown. Therefore, we conducted a systematic review ...

The pathogenesis of uterine leiomyomas, the most common benign tumor in women, is still unknown. This lack of basic knowledge limits the development of novel non-invasive therapies. Our group has previously demonstrated ...

Gap junctions in epithelial cells of the oviduct were identified by immunohistochemistry and Western blotting, Immunohistochemical studies showed that rat, hamster, mouse, and human oviducts contained connexin26 and ...