ArticleJournal of cellular physiology2019
Curcumin attenuates proangiogenic and proinflammatory factors in human eutopic endometrial stromal cells through the NF-κB signaling pathway.
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- The effects of antioxidant supplementation on pain, oxidative stress markers, and clinical pregnancy rate in women with endometriosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Pharmaceuticals targeting signaling pathways of endometriosis as potential new medical treatment: A review.Medicinal research reviews · 2021Pooled it
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- Polyphenols as Modulators of Oxidative Stress and Inflammation in Endometriosis: Molecular Mechanisms and Clinical Perspectives.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Phytochemicals Modulating Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Signaling Networks in Endometriosis.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Multi-Target Modulation of Interconnected Pathogenetic Pathways by Natural Bioactive Compounds in Endometriosis.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Endometriosis and Chronic Endometritis: Shared Mechanisms, Diagnostic Challenges, and Clinical Implications in Infertility.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Natural bioactive compounds and herbal medicines targeting common signaling pathways in endometriosis: mechanisms and therapeutic implications.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2026Review
- The Role of Nutrition on the Pathogenesis of Endometriosis.Nutrients · 2026Review
- Nutrition and Endometriosis: Current Evidence on Dietary Risk Factors and Clinical Impact - A Narrative Review.Journal of inflammation research · 2026Review
- Lipid-Based Nanocarriers for Curcumin Delivery: A Promising Strategy in The Management of Inflammatory Diseases.International journal of nanomedicine · 2026Review
- From bench to bedside: unlocking the anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and anticancer promise of curcumin in gynecology.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Review
- Mechanistic Insights into the Anti-Inflammatory and Anti-Proliferative Effects of Selected Medicinal Plants in Endometriosis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Understanding Endometriosis: A Broad Review of Its Causes, Management, and Impact.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Curcumin alleviates ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome in the rat model via inhibiting the nuclear factor kappa B/hypoxia-inducible factor-1α signaling pathway.Histochemistry and cell biology · 2025Article
- Endometriosis: An Immunologist's Perspective.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- The neurobiology of plant-based therapeutics in women's reproductive health: mechanisms, efficacy, and clinical translation.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Review
- Endometriosis: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Pathophysiology, Treatment, and Nutritional Aspects, and Its Repercussions on the Quality of Life of Patients.Biomedicines · 2024Review
- Interleukin-1β induces and accelerates human endometrial stromal cell senescence and impairs decidualization via the c-Jun N-terminal kinase pathway.Cell death discovery · 2024Article
- Oxidative Imbalance in Endometriosis-Related Infertility-The Therapeutic Role of Antioxidants.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
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Abstract
Endometriosis is a chronic gynecological inflammatory disorder in which immune system dysregulation is thought to play a role in its initiation and progression. Due to altered sex steroid receptor concentrations and other signaling defects, eutopic endometriotic tissues have an attenuated response to progesterone. This progesterone-resistance contributes to lesion survival, proliferation, pain, and infertility. The current agency-approved hormonal therapies, including synthetic progestins, GnRH agonists, and danazol are often of limited efficacy and counterproductive to fertility and cause systemic side effects due to suppression of endogenous steroid hormone levels. In the current study, we examined the effects of curcumin (CUR, diferuloylmethane), which has long been used as an anti-inflammatory folk medicine in Asian countries for this condition. The basal levels of proinflammatory and proangiogenic chemokines and cytokines expression were higher in primary cultures of stromal cells derived from eutopic endometrium of endometriosis (EESC) subjects compared with normal endometrial stromal cells (NESC). The treatment of EESC and NESC with CUR significantly and dose-dependently reduced chemokine and cytokine secretion over the time course. Notably, CUR treatment significantly decreased phosphorylation of the IKKα/β, NF-κB, STAT3, and JNK signaling pathways under these experimental conditions. Taken together, our findings suggest that CUR has therapeutic potential to abrogate aberrant activation of chemokines and cytokines, and IKKα/β, NF-κB, STAT3, and JNK signaling pathways to reduce inflammation associated with endometriosis.
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