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Endometriosis Part 1-Cancer Cytogenetic-Lecture Handout, Exercises of Cancer Cytogenetics

This lecture handout was designed and distributed by Prof. Akhilesh Kulkarni at Sree Chitra Thirunal Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology. This is part of Cancer Cytogenetic course. It includes: Endometriosis, Peritonial, Mesothelium, Endomaterial, Syclic, Metaplasia, Coelomic, Lungs, Embryonic, Pleura

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N SUMMARY HST 071
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IN SUMMARY

HST 07 1

ENDOMETRIOSIS

ENDOMETRIOSIS

  • Attachment of endometrial cells to the peritoneal surface
  • Invasion of these cells into the mesothelium
  • Recruitment of inflammatory cells
  • Angiogenesis around the nascent implant
  • Endometrial cellular proliferation
  • Monkeys are only animal (cyclic)
  • No cases reported prior to puberty
  • Often seen in teenage years
  • Short cycle and longer flows have tw
  • Early menarche
  • Delayed childbearing
  • Menstrual outflow obstruction
  • Implantation (Sampson's theory) ice the risk of endometriosis
  • Viable endometrial tissue is refluxed through the fallopian tubes during menstruation
  • Implants on peritoneal surface or pelvic organs Retrograde menstruation
  • Occurs through the fallopian tubes
  • Refluxed endometrial cells are viable
  • Refluxed endometrial cells are able to adhere to peritoneum Coelomic Metaplasia
  • Ovary & Mullerian ducts derive from coelomic mesothelium
  • Germinal epithelium attempts to recapitulate endometrium
  • Only explains ovarian endometriosis
  • Peritoneal mesothelium is totipotential
  • Develops from metaplasia of cells that line the pelvic peritoneum
  • Infectious, hormonal, or other inductive stimuli may result in metaplasia Dissemination
  • Disseminated tissue can cause metaplasia
  • Injection into ear vein of rabbit causes endometriosis of lungs
  • Laparotomy scar
  • Episiotomies
  • Cesarean sections
  • Transplantation confirmed in animal experiments

ENDOMETRIOSIS

Embryonic rest theory

  • Cell rests of Mullerian origin
  • Lymphatic and hematogenous dissemination of endometrial cells
  • Evidence suggests that endometrial cells can metastasize
  • Pleura, umbilicus, retroperitoneal space, lower extremity, vagina, and cervix - are anatomically possible
  • Endometrial tissue in uterine veins in women with adenomyosis
  • Induced pulmonary endometriosis by injecting endometrial tissue intravenously in rabbits
  • Lymph node endometriosis was found to be present in 6.7% autopsies Found In
  • Bone
  • Muscle
  • Brain
  • Nerve
  • Lung parenchyma
  • Vertebral space
  • Extremities Genetics
  • Much more common in patients with a FH
  • Maternal inheritance pattern
  • 7% in first degree relatives
  • More severe in women with a + first degree re
  • 6/8 monozygotic twins had endometriosis
  • 3.8% of non-monozygous sisters
  • Polygenic/multifactorial
  • No HLA system seems involved
  • Perhaps different diseases Adherence lative
  • Endometrial fragments obtained in either phase of the cycle – adhere to the epithelial side of the amnion but only at locations where the amniotic epithelium was damaged or absent
  • Cultured peritoneal explants adhered to peritoneal explants only at locations where the mesothelium was absent or damaged and the basement membrane was exposed
  • Intact mesothelium constitutes a defense barrier
  • Occasionally there is attachment to intact mesothelium Integrins
  • Intracellular adhesion molecule- 1
  • Vascular cell adhesion molecule- 1
  • Integrin-blocking antibodies do not interfere with endometrial stromal or epithelial cell adherence to mesothelium Hyaluronic Acid
  • Peritoneal mesothelium produces hyaluronic acid
  • Hyaluronic acid is expressed along the cell membrane and contributes to the pericellular matrix
  • Major component of the extracellular matrix ground substance
  • CD44 is the principal receptor for hyaluronic acid
  • Involved in binding of gastric cancer and ovarian cancer cells to mesothelium
  • Endometrial stromal end epithelial cells express CD
  • Hyaluronidase pretreatment of mesothelial cells decreases the binding of endometrial stromal and epithelial cells to mesothelium

ENDOMETRIOSIS

Contributes to pain and infertility

  • Cytokines
  • Prostaglandins
  • Dyspareunia
  • Chronic pelvic pain
  • Inflammation --> Infertility
  • adhesion formation
  • scarring
  • disrupt fallopian tube patency
  • impair folliculogenesis
  • fertilization
  • embryo implantation Hormonal Dependence
  • Endometriosis is an estrogen-dependent disorder
  • Aberrant estrogen synthesis and metabolism –
  • Aromatase catalyzes the synthesis of estrone and estradiol testosterone, respectively
  • Expressed by many human cell types
  • Ovarian granulosa cells
  • Placental syncytiotrophoblasts
  • Adipose cells
  • Skin fibroblasts from androstenedione and
  • Estrogen produced by aromatase activity in the cytoplasm of leiomyoma smooth muscle cells or endometriotic stromal cells
  • Disease-free endometrium and myometrium lack aromatase expression Aromatase
  • Cultured stromal cells derived from endometriotic implants and incubated with a CAMP analog display extraordinarily high levels of aromatase
  • Growth factors, cytokines - possible inducers of aromatase
  • Prostaglandin E2 was identified as the most potent inducer
  • Estrogen - up-regulates prostaglandin E2 formation
  • Stimulates cyclo-oxygenase type 2 enzyme in endometrial stromal cells
  • Positive feedback loop for continuous local estrogen and prostaglandin E2 production
  • Possible genetic defect in aromatase expression in endo
  • Androstenedione of adrenal and ovarian origins – premenopausal women
  • Adrenal androstenedione in postmenopausal women
  • Estrone - weakly estrogenic
  • Must be converted to estradiol
  • 17 α-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (17α-HSD) type 1 is expressed in endometriosis
  • In contrast 17α-HSD type 2 inactivates estradiol by catalyzing its conversion to estrone in eutopic endometrial glandular cells during the luteal phase
  • Progesterone induces the activity of 17α-HSD
  • Inactivation of estradiol to estrone one of the anti-estrogenic properties of progesterone
  • 17 α-HSD type 2 is absent from endometriotic glandular cells

ENDOMETRIOSIS

FUDAMENTAL QUESTIONS

1. What are the three theories of the development of endometriosis?

2. Where is endometriosis most commonly found?

3. What clinical impact does endometriosis have on the woman?

4. What treatment modalities are available for endometriosis?

5. Other than steroid hormones, what causes endometriosis to grow and

proliferate?

6. Discuss in some detail, the steroidal environment that alters endometriotic

development?

7. Describe the histology of endometriosis?