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ReviewReproductive medicine and biology

Mechanisms of Decidual Dysfunction and Infertility in Endometriosis: Roles of Prostaglandins and SASP.

Kazuhiro Tamura, Mikihiro Yoshie, Kazuya Kusama, Atsuya Tsuru

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Review in Reproductive medicine and biology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  3. p16 Beyond Senescence: Cancer Biology Lessons Applied to Endometriosis.Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Kazuhiro TamuraDepartment of Endocrine Pharmacology Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences Tokyo Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3351-895X
Mikihiro YoshieDepartment of Endocrine Pharmacology Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences Tokyo Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5898-7950
Kazuya KusamaDepartment of Endocrine Pharmacology Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences Tokyo Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9120-0475
Atsuya TsuruDepartment of Endocrine Pharmacology Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences Tokyo Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5597-6890

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Endometriosis is a challenging disease to treat and one of the leading causes of infertility. Impaired endometrial receptivity, and particularly inadequate decidualization of endometrial stromal cells (ESCs), is a crucial component. Multiple inflammatory factors disrupt decidualization. Methods: A comprehensive search of PubMed and Google Scholar (peer-reviewed journals only from 2000 to 2025) was performed in April 2025. The keyword "decidualization" was combined with "endometriosis", "infertility", and "inflammation". We summarize recent findings regarding the mechanisms of endometrial receptivity, focusing on the decidualization of ESCs, and discuss the impact of endometriosis, particularly in relation to PG metabolism and the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP). Main Findings: Endometriotic lesions demonstrate progesterone (P4) resistance and heightened inflammation due to elevated local estrogen levels and feedback loops involving PGE Conclusion: Both endometriotic lesions and eutopic endometrium in endometriosis patients exhibit changes that contribute to infertility, with abnormal inflammation and epigenetic modifications leading to impaired decidualization.

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decidualizationendometriosisinfertilityprostaglandinsenescence‐associated secretory phenotype

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PMID40538816
PMCPMC12177681

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