Endocrine tissue

Adipose tissue as an endocrine organ Adipose tissue is a complex, essential, and highly active metabolic and endocrine organ. Besides adipocytes, adipose tissue contains connective tissue matrix, nerve tissue, stromovascular cells, and immune cells. Together these components function as an integrated unit. Adipose tissue not only responds to afferent signals from traditional hormone systems and…

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Hormonal stimulus

Hormonal stimulation reduces numbers and impairs function of human uterine natural killer cells during implantation Study question: How does an altered maternal hormonal environment, such as that seen during superovulation with gonadotropins in ART, impact human uterine immune cell distribution and function during the window of implantation? Summary answer: Hormonal stimulation with gonadotropins alters abundance…

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