Enhanced cyclooxygenase-2 expression levels and metalloproteinase 2 and 9 activation by Hexachlorobenzene in human endometrial stromal cells

F Chiappini, JI Bastón, A Vaccarezza, JJ Singla… - Biochemical …, 2016 - Elsevier
Hexachlorobenzene (HCB) is an organochlorine pesticide that induces toxic reproductive
effects in laboratory animals. It is a dioxin-like compound and a weak ligand of the aryl …

Endocrine disruptor hexachlorobenzene induces cell migration and invasion, and enhances aromatase expression levels in human endometrial stromal cells

F Chiappini, L Ceballos, C Olivares, JI Baston… - Food and Chemical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Endometriosis is the presence and growth of endometrial tissue outside of the uterus.
Previous studies have suggested that endocrine disrupting chemicals such as …

Exposure to environmental concentrations of hexachlorobenzene induces alterations associated with endometriosis progression in a rat model

F Chiappini, M Sánchez, N Miret, C Cocca… - Food and Chemical …, 2019 - Elsevier
Hexachlorobenzene (HCB) is a dioxin-like compound widely distributed and is a weak
ligand of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR). Endometriosis is a disease characterized by …

Dioxin-like rather than non-dioxin-like PCBs promote the development of endometriosis through stimulation of endocrine–inflammation interactions

Q Huang, Y Chen, Q Chen, H Zhang, Y Lin, M Zhu… - Archives of …, 2017 - Springer
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) contain 209 congeners with various structure–activities.
Exposure to PCBs was related to disorders of female reproduction. Endometriosis (EM) is an …

Combination of estrogen and dioxin is involved in the pathogenesis of endometriosis by promoting chemokine secretion and invasion of endometrial stromal cells

J Yu, Y Wang, WH Zhou, L Wang, YY He… - Human …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
BACKGROUND The CC chemokines, regulated on activation, normal T-cell expressed and
secreted (RANTES) and macrophage-inflammatory protein-1alpha (MIP-1α), have been …

Polychlorinated biphenyl 104 promotes migration of endometrial stromal cells in endometriosis

T Hu, M Yao, X Fu, C Chen, R Wu - Toxicology Letters, 2018 - Elsevier
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), as part of environmental contaminants, have been
proved to be related to endometriosis. This study is to investigate the effect of PCB 104 on …

Histomorphometric alteration and cell-type specific modulation of arylhydrocarbon receptor and estrogen receptor expression by 2, 3, 7, 8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin …

M Kitajima, KN Khan, A Fujishita, H Masuzaki… - Reproductive …, 2004 - Elsevier
Our purpose was to examine the effect of 2, 3, 7, 8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD),
either singly (10μg/kg) or with 17β-estradiol (E2, 100μg/kg), on the growth of endometriosis …

The potential role of environmental toxins in the pathophysiology of endometriosis

KL Bruner-Tran, SE Rier, E Eisenberg… - Gynecologic and …, 1999 - karger.com
Environmental contaminants that are known to disrupt steroid action can influence the
development of reproductive diseases. Our group has focused on whether 2, 3, 7, 8 …

Endocrine disruptors and endometriosis

S Dutta, SK Banu, JA Arosh - Reproductive Toxicology, 2023 - Elsevier
Endometriosis is a hormone-dependent inflammatory gynecological disease of reproductive-
age women. It is clinically and pathologically characterized by the presence of functional …

Hexachlorobenzene promotes angiogenesis in vivo, in a breast cancer model and neovasculogenesis in vitro, in the human microvascular endothelial cell line HMEC …

C Pontillo, A Español, F Chiappini, N Miret, C Cocca… - Toxicology letters, 2015 - Elsevier
Exposure to environmental pollutants may alter proangiogenic ability and promotes tumor
growth. Hexachlorobenzene (HCB) is an organochlorine pesticide found in maternal milk …