Objective: To provide a review of the humoral and cellular immunology of endometriosis and
to discuss the rationale for future approaches to diagnosis and treatment. Design: Literature …

The purpose of this perspective is to present a general theory—the Physical Stress Theory
(PST). The basic premise of the PST is that changes in the relative level of physical stress …

Similar to tumor metastases, endometriotic implants require neovascularization to establish,
grow, and invade. The peritoneal environment is ideally suited to provide a proangiogenic …

It is now 10 years since the last technical review on preventative foot care was published (1),
which was followed by an American Diabetes Association (ADA) position statement on …

Visual words that are masked and presented so briefly that they cannot be seen may
nevertheless facilitate the subsequent processing of related words, a phenomenon called …

BACKGROUND This study aimed to calculate costs and health-related quality of life of
women with endometriosis-associated symptoms treated in referral centres. METHODS A …

Background: Limited ankle dorsiflexion has been implicated as a contributing factor to
plantar ulceration of the forefoot in diabetes mellitus. The purpose of this study was to …

Abstract Objective Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are promising candidate cells for
cartilage tissue engineering. Expression of cartilage hypertrophy markers (eg, type X …

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of cigarette smoking on main sperm variables.
DESIGN: Cohort study. SETTING: Men attending the andrology laboratory in the context of …

Integration of genome-wide expression profiling with linkage analysis is a new approach to
identifying genes underlying complex traits. We applied this approach to the regulation of …