Is neonatal uterine bleeding responsible for early-onset endometriosis?

• Main Authors: Kanae Ogawa (Author), Khaleque N Khan (Author), Haruo Kuroboshi (Author), Akemi Koshiba (Author), Koki Shimura (Author), Tatsuro Tajiri (Author), Shigehisa Fumino (Author), Hiroyuki Fujita (Author), Tomoharu Okubo (Author), Yoichiro Fujiwara (Author), Go Horiguchi (Author), Satoshi Teramukai (Author), Akira Fujishita (Author), Kyoko Itoh (Author), Sun-Wei Guo (Author), Jo Kitawaki (Author), Taisuke Mori (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background It has been hypothesized that the origin of early-onset endometriosis could be from endometrial mesenchymal stem cells (eMSCs) in neonatal uterine blood (NUB). There is no information on the possible mechanistic basis linking an association between NUB/neonatal endometrium and de...