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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY
卷 158, 期 6, 页码 1949-1954出版社
AMER SOC INVESTIGATIVE PATHOLOGY, INC
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9440(10)64664-0
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- NCI NIH HHS [R01 CA094143] Funding Source: Medline
- NICHD NIH HHS [U54 HD037321, U54-HD37321] Funding Source: Medline
Chemoattraction of macrophages and T cells into the normal endometrium and inflammatory sites within endometriotic foci is mediated by chemokine gene expression. mRNA transcripts encoding regulated on activation, normal T-cell-expressed and -secreted (RANTES), a monocyte and T-cell chemokine, were demonstrated in the stroma of normal endometrium and endometriotic implants using in situ mRNA hybridization, Epithelial glands failed to express RANTES mRNA. In histological serial sections, we observed CD68-positive macrophages in the stroma of endometriotic implants adjacent to regions with prominent RANTES mRNA hybridization, In adjacent sections, monoclonal antibodies against tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha showed this cytokine to be localized to stromal and epithelial compartments of the endometriotic implant with weak staining in unaffected ovarian tissue, Subconfluent monolayers of endometriotic stromal cells were tested for RANTES gene expression in situ, but we could only detect RANTES mRNA in isolated stromal cells after treatment with TNF-alpha. No RANTES mRNA was observed in unstimulated stromal cells or TNF-alpha stimulated or unstimulated epithelial cells, The data are consistent with a model in which proinflammatory cytokines (eg, TNF-alpha) induce RANTES gene expression limited to specific cells within endometrial and endometriotic stroma, Production of this chemokine, in turn, stimulates recruitment of CD68-positive macrophages into these tissues.
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