Endometriosis is a gynecological disease that is one of the causes of infertility and increased pain in women. Among the many hypotheses about the mechanisms of its formation is autophagy, that is the phenomenon of “self-eating” cells. It is the focus of a project being carried out in the Chair and Department of Histology and Embryology MUW by Maja Owe-Larsson, a fourth-year medical student. The research aims to answer the question of whether inducing “self-eating” in endometrium-derived cells results in the expression of selected proteins that may be involved in the pathogenesis of endometriosis.
The entire article by Maja Owe-Larsson on the ongoing research on endometriosis is available under the Science tab at the link
The project, “The effect of autophagy on chromogranin A expression in endometrial cells,” is carried out under the supervision of Izabela Janiuk, MD, PhD, and Prof. Jacek Malejczyk of the Chair and Department of Histology and Embryology MUW.