Chemotaxis of macrophages by a peritoneal fluid protein in women with endometriosis.
Publication/Presentation Date
5-1-1997
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To expand on a preliminary study comparing the chemotactic potential of peritoneal fluid (PF) from women with and without endometriosis and to characterize this activity via immunosuppressants and a protease.
DESIGN: Case control study.
SETTING: University center.
PATIENT(S): Fifty-nine women with endometriosis and 44 without, undergoing laparoscopy.
INTERVENTION(S): Collection of PF, endometriotic, ovarian, and endometrial biopsies at laparoscopy.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): Chemotactic activity of PF was tested via an in vitro assay alone and in the presence of immunosuppressants cyclosporin A (CSA), FK506, rapamycin, and type XVII-b(S-V8) protease and in media incubated with endometriotic, ovarian, or endometrial biopsy specimens.
RESULT(S): The PF from women with endometriosis had significantly greater chemotactic activity (cells per well, mean +/- SD) than without endometriosis (142 +/- 39 versus 48 +/- 17). Cyclosporin A significantly inhibited the chemotactic activity of the endometriotic PF; FK506 and rapamycin did not. Incubation of media with endometriotic tissue, but not ovarian or endometrial, for > or = 7 hours displayed chemotactic activity. Protease type XVII-b(S-V8) added to endometriotic PF inhibited this chemotactic activity.
CONCLUSION(S): Peritoneal fluid from patients with endometriosis contains a protein chemotactic factor attracting inflammatory cells into the peritoneal cavity, possibly secreted by endometriotic implants. This chemotactic factor may be a member of the immunophilin family because of its inhibition profile.
Volume
67
Issue
5
First Page
865
Last Page
869
ISSN
0015-0282
Published In/Presented At
Weil, S. J., Wang, S., Perez, M. C., & Lyttle, C. R. (1997). Chemotaxis of macrophages by a peritoneal fluid protein in women with endometriosis. Fertility and sterility, 67(5), 865–869. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0015-0282(97)81398-2
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
9130891
Department(s)
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Document Type
Article