Correction: Metabolomic profiling and biochemical evaluation of the follicular fluid of endometriosis patients.

Correction for 'Metabolomic profiling and biochemical evaluation of the follicular fluid of endometriosis patients' by Marianna Santonastaso et al., Mol. BioSyst.

Metabolomic profiling and biochemical evaluation of the follicular fluid of endometriosis patients.

Diseases are complex systems that can be studied through the integration of data derived from different disciplines to obtain a global and reliable picture of the biological phenomenon under investigation. Based on the recent observations that the metabolomics profiling of follicular fluids reflects the ovarian microenvironment of women and that endometriosis represents an example of complex diseases, clearly diagnosed by laparoscopy, we thought that the follicular fluids of endometriosis patients can represent a study model to evaluate the possibility of integrating data obtained by different approaches. Hence, the aim of this work was to analyze and integrate different clinical chemistry parameters with specific reference to the metabolic profile, inflammatory state and cell damage by a H-NMR approach and biochemical analysis in the follicular fluids of women with different stages of endometriosis (I-II and III-IV) subjected to the In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) cycle.