Fertility and sterility
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Fertility and sterility · Jun 1998
Clinical Trial Controlled Clinical TrialMacrophage scavenger receptor(s) and oxidatively modified proteins in endometriosis.
To determine whether cultured human peritoneal macrophages have functional scavenger receptor(s) and whether activation of macrophages in endometriosis may involve an increase in scavenger receptor activity. ⋯ We demonstrate for the first time that human macrophages have functional scavenger receptor(s) and that activation of macrophages in endometriosis involves an increase in scavenger receptor activity. Two lines of evidence indicate the presence of ligands for the scavenger receptor in PF.