NCT02984774

Assessment of Telomerase Activity in Endometrial Tissue and Serum in Endometriosis Patients

Does Telomerase Activity Have an Effect on Infertility in Patients With Endometriosis ? Assessment of Telomerase Activity in Eutopic, Ectopic Endometrial Tissue and Serum

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 47 (actual)
• Sponsor: Istanbul University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of the study was the detection of telomerase activity in eutopic, ectopic endometrial tissue and in peripheral blood and finding the correlation between the telomerase activity and clinic findings. With these results, confirmation of the hypothesis regarding the endometriosis pathogenesis and endometriosis-related infertility was aimed.

Detailed description

Although distorted pelvic anatomy, impaired peritoneal, humoral and cellular functions, decreased implantation rate, oocyte and embryo quality, obstructed utero tubal connection are most researched aspects of endometriosis-related infertility, etiopathogenesis of endometriosis-related infertility still remains controversial. Endometrial cell is a unique eukaryotic somatic cell with cyclic telomerase activity. Hormone-dependent cyclic variation of endometrial telomerase activity was stated in previous studies. On the other hand telomerase, activity was shown in endometriotic lesions, whereas this activity lacks in most of the somatic cells. In this study, assessment of possible relation to increased telomerase activity in infertile patients with endometriosis was aimed. Before published studies were assessed telomerase activity in benign and malign gynecological conditions and in endometriosis tissue, as well. But evaluation of ectopic and eutopic endometrial tissue and serum telomerase activity in infertile and fertile endometriosis and healthy control subjects was not performed. Correlation of telomerase activity and endometriosis-related infertility was aimed in this study.

Conditions

• Endometriosis Ovaries
• Infertility, Female

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Cystectomy	Segment of cystic wall from the patients for planned cystectomy was taken after operation and was preserved at -80º Celsius for further analysis
PROCEDURE	Endometrial sampling	Endometrial sampling was performed at the same operation with the planned operation for the main indication and was preserved at -80º Celsius for further analysis
PROCEDURE	Peripheric blood sampling	4 cc peripheric venous blood was sampled into the EDTA(Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid)-containing tubes during catheterization for anesthesia was preserved at 4º Celsius for further analysis
PROCEDURE	Ovarian tissue sampling	2cm linear tissue sample from ovarian cortex was performed at the same operation with the planned operation for the main indication and was preserved at -80º Celsius for further analysis

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-06-01
• Primary completion: 2016-03-01
• Completion: 2016-08-01
• First posted: 2016-12-07
• Last updated: 2016-12-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)