Of particular interest are the secretory proteins discovered by our laboratory. Students will be exposed to experimental design, animal and human models for disease processes, and a variety of laboratory techniques. Productive projects will be submitted for presentation at professional meetings and publication in refereed journals with student co-authorship where appropriate. Polypeptides synthesized and released by human endometriosis tissue differ from those of the uterine endometrium in culture. Sharpe-Timms KL, Piva M, Ricke EA, et al.
Endometriosis synthesizes and secretes a haptoglobin-like protein.
Peritoneal endometriotic lesions differentially expresses haptoglobin-like gene.