BACKGROUND The endometrium becomes receptive to the embryo after sequential actions of estrogen and progesterone. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of estrogen and progesterone on endometrial hemodynamics and on secretion of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) from endometrial epithelial cells (EEC). METHODS Six early postmenopausal women taking sequential estrogen an...

We review here the well-known but still hotly debated notion of entropy-enthalpy compensation (EEC) from an unconventional standpoint: in terms of correlation. Specifically, correlation could mean either that ‘A’ is correlated to ‘B’ due to that ‘A’ directly results from ‘B’, or vice versa, or that there may be some real, but hidden ‘C’ connected to both ‘A’ and ‘B’. In accordance with the seco...

Congenital limb malformations rank behind only congenital heart disease as the most common birth defects observed in infants. Finding genes that cause defects in human limb patterning should be straightforward but has been limited, in part, by the bewildering spectrum of phenotypes, which are difficult to separate into etiologically distinct disorders. One approach to the identification of rele...

Ectrodactyly - ectodermal dysplasia and cleft lip/palate (EEC) syndrome (OMIM 604292) is a rare disorder determined by mutations in the TP63 gene. Most cases of EEC syndrome are associated to mutations in the DNA binding domain (DBD) region of the p63 protein. Here we report on a three-generation Brazilian family with three individuals (mother, son and grandfather) affected by EEC syndrome, det...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to investigate the frequency of JAK2V617F gene mutation in patients with polycythemia vera (PV) and to compare the results with the presence of endogenous erythroid colony (EEC) formation. METHODS Peripheral blood and bone marrow samples of 28 patients with PV were analyzed. The diagnosis of PV was established according to the bone marrow criteria of the ...

In the present study, we examined the embryonic regulation of b3 integrin in human endometrial epithelial cells (EEC) at the protein level and analyzed putative embryonic factors responsible for this regulation. The model employed is based on a clinical in vitro fertilization program in which single human embryos were cocultured with EEC until blastocyst stage and then transferred back to the u...

The extra-embryonic coelom (EEC) and secondary yolk sac are prominent structures in the gestational sac during the first trimester of human pregnancy, at a time before the definitive placental circulation becomes established. We propose that the EEC and yolk sac play a critical role in the nutrition of early pregnancy, fulfilling exchange functions which are assumed by the placenta at a later s...

BACKGROUND Our purpose was to evaluate the effect of the GnRH agonist (GnRHa), leuprolide acetate (LA), and the GnRH antagonist (GnRHant), Antide, on apoptosis and expression of apoptosis-related proteins in endometrial epithelial cell (EEC) cultures from patients with endometriosis and controls (infertile women without endometriosis). METHODS Biopsy specimens of eutopic endometrium were obta...

Expand, enlarge, and check (EEC) is a successful heuristic for the coverability problem of well-structured transition systems. EEC constructs a sequence of underand over-approximations with the property that the presence of a bug is eventually exhibited by some underapproximation and the absence of a bug is eventually exhibited by some

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