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ReviewPhysiological reviews2025

UTERINE FIBROIDS.

Serdar E Bulun, Ping Yin, JianJun Wei, Azna Zuberi, Takashi Iizuka, Takuma Suzuki, Priyanka Saini, Jyoti Goad, J Brandon Parker, Mazhar Adli and 3 more

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Review in Physiological reviews, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Serdar E BulunDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-0850-8637
Ping YinDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States.
JianJun WeiDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Azna ZuberiDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Takashi IizukaDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Takuma SuzukiDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Priyanka SainiDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Jyoti GoadDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States.
J Brandon ParkerDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Mazhar AdliDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Thomas BoyerDepartment of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States.
Debabrata ChakravartiDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Aleksandar RajkovicDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States.

Funding

The Origin and Cellular Heterogeneity of Uterine LeiomyomasP50HD098580 · NICHD · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI BULUN, SERDAR E. · 2019 to 2023
$7.4M
Molecular basis of MED12 in the pathogenesis of uterine fibroidsR01HD087417 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI THOMAS G BOYER · 2017 to 2026
$3.4M
Environmental Pollutants and AHR pathway in Uterine LeiomyomaR01ES034753 · NIEHS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI Serdar E. Bulun, Ping Yin · 2023 to 2026
$2.5M
Chemo-mediated transcriptional reprogramming in ovarian cancerR01CA267544 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI ADLI, MAZHAR · 2022 to 2025
$2.2M
The STAT3 Pathway in Uterine Leiomyoma: A Therapeutic TargetR01CA298456 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI THOMAS G BOYER, Serdar E. Bulun · 2025 to 2026
$1.3M
HHS | NIH | Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) P50HD098580HHS | NIH | Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) R01HD087417HHS | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (DEHS) R01ES034753NCI NIH HHS R01 CA267544NCI NIH HHS R01 CA298456NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD087417NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES034753
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Uterine fibroids (leiomyomas), the most common tumors in women and those assigned female at birth, originate from myometrial smooth muscle cells and cause heavy menstrual bleeding, anemia, pelvic discomfort, pregnancy loss, and obstruction of labor in approximately a quarter of reproductive-age women. During each ovulatory cycle, the myometrium responds to the ovarian steroids, estradiol, and progesterone, via increased tissue stem cell proliferation to prepare for impending pregnancy, during which a somatic mutation may arise to initiate a tumor. Both the mutated smooth muscle cells and the adjacent tumor-associated fibroblasts lay down excessive quantities of extracellular matrix, providing a unique feature that led to naming these tumors "fibroids." The most common somatic mutations in fibroids affect the Mediator complex subunit 12 (

Indexed as

LeiomyomaUterine NeoplasmsAnimalsFemaleHumansMediator ComplexMutationMED12 protein, humanMediator ComplexHMGA2MED12progesteronestem celluterine fibroid

Identifiers

PMID40214304
PMCPMC12419501

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