Aromatase and endometriosis: estrogens play a role.

Endometriosis is an estrogen-dependent inflammatory disease defined by the growth of endometrial stroma and glands outside of the uterus. Epidemiological and clinical studies show that estrogen is essential for the growth of endometriosis. There are several molecular links between estrogen production and inflammation in endometriosis.

Effects of lisuride and bromocriptine on inhibition of lactation and on serum prolactin levels: comparative double-blind study.

The effects of lisuride (Schering) and bromocriptine (Parlodel, Sandoz), two dopaminergic drugs, on the inhibition of puerperal lactation were compared in a double-blind study. At the dosages selected, lisuride was as effective as bromocriptine for the inhibition of lactation but bromocriptine was more effective in lowering serum prolactin levels.

Junctions on the maternal blood surface of the human placental syncytium.

Terminant chorionic villi of the human placenta at 8, 9, 12, 14 weeks' gestation and at full term have been studied in freeze-fracture replicas and in thin sections. In replicas, maculae occludentes of different size have been detected in all placental samples on the cleaved plasma membrane of the free (maternal) surface of the syncytiotrophoblast. In thin sections they are located in narrow invaginations of the syncytium luminal plasma membrane.