Figure 2.
mRNA levels of steroidogenic genes in stromal cells isolated from normal eutopic endometrium vs. endometriosis incubated in the absence or presence of PGE2 (10−7 m). PGE2 significantly stimulated mRNA levels of each steroidogenic gene except for HSD3B1 in endometriotic stromal cells (E-OSIS; n = 6). The mRNA levels of these genes in normal endometrium (E-IUM; n = 6) were very low regardless of the absence or presence of PGE2.