Invasive mole is a rare gestational trophoblastic neoplasia with proliferative trophoblast invading into myometrium or uterine vasculature. Primary management of invasive chemotherapy, but hysterectomy can be performed in selective cases. In this report, we discuss two cases mole, which required surgical intervention the form hysterectomy. Both patients had favorable outcome and are remission.

BACKGROUND It has been suggested that an inadequate blood supply caused by uterine fibroids may lead to decreasing fertility. Therefore, a quantitative evaluation of blood flow in the uterus might be a good tool for infertility treatments. For the first step, the ability to perform arterial spin labeling (ASL)-MRI in pelvic organs was examined by measuring blood flow in the uterine muscle layer...

During pregnancy, uterine quiescence is maintained by increased progesterone receptor (PR) activity, but labor is facilitated by a series of events that impair PR function. Previously, we discovered that miR-200 family members serve as progesterone (P(4))-modulated activators of contraction-associated genes in the pregnant uterus. In this study, we identified a unique role for miR-200a to enhan...

The possible contribution of endocrine disrupters to human disease, particularly those compounds that modulate the estrogen receptor (ER), has recently drawn considerable attention. The tissue specificity of effects mediated by the ER is well recognized, although the mechanism of this specificity is not understood sufficiently to predict the effects of a particular ligand in different target ti...

As term approaches, a number of key proteins [contraction-associated proteins (CAPs)] are expressed within the human myometrium that are essential for the activation of powerful coordinated contractions during labor. The nature of the signals that switch on the synthesis of CAPs in vivo is not known. The ryanodine-sensitive intracellular Ca release channel (RyR2) is a CAP whose expression in vi...

We investigated the regulation of the sphingosine kinase (SphK)/sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) axis and its role during pregnancy in the rat myometrium. SphK1 and SphK2 were coexpressed in myometrium during gestation. The levels and activity of SphK1/2 were modest at midgestation (d 12), increased at d 19 and progressively declined to low at postpartum. Similar patterns were observed for the pho...