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ABSTRACTS

3rd International Conference
on the Female Reproductive Tract

Frauenchiemsee, Germany
27 - 30 May 2005

 



KEY NOTE LECTURES

THE OOCYTE - EMBRYONIC STEM CELL CIRCUIT
Hans R Schöler, Germany

POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME (PCOS): GENOMIC AND GENETIC STRATEGIES TO ELUCIDATE A COMPLEX DISEASE
Jerome F Strauss, USA

EPIGENETICIS IN IVF AND CLONING

IMPRINTING AND HUMAN DISEASE
Bernhard Horsthemke, Germany

EPIGENETICS IN CLONING
Eckhard Wolf, Germany

IMPRINTING AND RISK FOR ART CHILDREN
De Rycke M, Belgium

EARLY-EMBRYONIC ACQUISITION AND LINEAGE-SPECIFIC MAINTENANCE OF IMPRINTED GENE REPRESSION
Robert Feil, France

SETTING AND UPSETTING IMPRINTS: IMPLICATIONS FOR ART
Jacquetta M Trasler, Canada

MECHANISMS OF STEROID HORMONE ACTION

NOVEL SELECTIVE AGONISTS AS TOOLS TO DISSECT BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS OF ER ALPHA AND ER BETA
Fritzemeier KH, Germany

OESTROGEN-RECEPTOR DEPENDENT GENOMIC RESPONSES OF THE UTERUS
Sylvia C Hewitt, USA

ANALYSIS OF OESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA FUNCTION IN THE MOUSE BY GENE TARGETING
Tim M Wintermantel, Germany

ZK PR-A: A UTERUS-SELECTIVE NONSTEROIDAL PR MODULATOR
U Fuhrmann, Germany

DISORDERS OF THE ENDOMETRIUM

LOCAL MECHANISMS REGULATING MENSTRUAL BLOOD LOSS
Hilary OD Critchley, UK

NORMAL AND IMPAIRED DECIDUALIZATION OF HUMAN ENDOMETRIUM
Jan Brosens, UK

REPRODUCTIVE DISEASES: ENDOMETRIOSIS

MOLECULAR PHENOTYPING OF MID-SECRETORY ENDOMETRIUM IN WOMEN WITH VERSUS WITHOUT SEVERE ENDOMETRIOSIS
Linda Giudice, USA

VASCULAR DEVELOPMENT IN ENDOMETRIOSIS
Patrick G. Groothuis, The Netherlands

REPRODUCTIVE DISEASES: LEIOMAYOMA

CONTROL OF UTERINE LEIOMYOMA CELL PROLIFERATION AND APOPTOSIS BY PROGESTERONE AND SELECTIVE PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR MODULATOR
T Maruo, Japan

GENE PROFILING EXPERIMENTS REVEAL A DISORDERED EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX IN UTERINE LEIOMYOMA
James Segars, USA

AROMATASE EXPRESSION IN UTERINE LEIOMYOMATA IS REGULATED BY ALTERNATIVE PROMOTERS
Serdar Bulun, USA

SHORT PRESENTATIONS

THE SYNDECAN-FAMILY: ADHESION PROTEINS IN THE HUMAN ENDOMETRIUM
A Germeyer, Germany

GLYCODELIN IS PRESENT IN PINOPODES OF THE RECEPTIVE HUMAN ENDOMETRIUM, AND ITS PRESENCE IS ASSOCIATED WITH EXPRESSION OF PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR B
Anneli Stavreus-Evers, Sweden

ENDOMETRIOSIS INCREASES THE LEVEL OF ANGIOGENIC ACTIVE CYR61 IN ENDOMETRIUM OF BABOONS
Isabella Gashaw, Germany

WNT SIGNALING AND REGULATION OF GENE EXPRESSION IN HUMAN ENDOMETRIAL STROMAL CELLS
S Tulac, USA

A FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS APPROACH TO ELUCIDATE PARACRINE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN THE HUMAN TROPHOBLAST AND MATERNAL DECIDUA
Hess AP, USA

EFFECTS OF EXOGENOUS GONADOTROPIN ADMINISTRATION ON FOLLICULAR GROWTH AND OVULATION IN ob/ob AND db/db MICE
M-L Alvarez Gonzalez, Belgium

REPRODUCTIVE DISEASES– UTERINE AND OVARIAN CANCER

PATTERNS OF GENE EXPRESSION IN NORMAL AND MALIGNANT ENDOMETRIUM
David S Loose, USA

GENETIC MOUSE MODEL OF ENDOMETRIAL CARCINOMA
L Ellenson, USA

DANGEROUS LIAISONS: PTEN/AKT/ER? CROSSTALK IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENDOMETRIAL CANCER
Antonio Di Cristofano, USA

MODELING OVARIAN CANCER IN THE MOUSE
Denise C. Connolly, USA

PATHWAY-TARGETED THERAPY AND MOLECULAR CHARACTERISATION OF TUMOR RESISTANCE IN A GENETICALLY DEFINED MOUSE MODEL OF OVARIAN CARCINOMA
Deyin Xing and Sandra Orsulic, USA

PROGESTERONE INHIBITION OF ENDOMETRIAL CANCER CELL GROWTH
Kimberly K Leslie, USA