Cervix Uteri

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Review and Update on Papillary Immature Metaplasia of the Uterine Cervix: A Distinct Subset of Low-Grade Squamous Intraepithelial Lesion, Proposing a Possible Cell of Origin. 
  • A pilot analytic study of a research-level, lower-cost human papillomavirus 16, 18, and 45 test. 
  • A randomized comparison of home uterine activity monitoring in the outpatient management of women treated for preterm labor. 
  • ATM activation in normal human tissues and testicular cancer. 
  • Absence of teratogenic effects of progesterone on the developing genital tract of the human female fetus. 
  • Accuracy of the Papanicolaou test in screening for and follow-up of cervical cytologic abnormalities: a systematic review. 
  • Accuracy of visual inspection with acetic acid to detect cervical cancer precursors among HIV-infected women in Kenya. 
  • Adjunctive erythromycin treatment for idiopathic preterm labor: results of a randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial. 
  • Anatomic changes in the pelvis after uncomplicated vaginal delivery: evaluation with serial MR imaging. 
  • Anatomy and physiology of cervical ripening. 
  • Apoptosis in the cervix of pregnant rats in association with cervical softening. 
  • Assessment of Structural Heterogeneity and Viscosity in the Cervix Using Shear Wave Elasticity Imaging: Initial Results from a Rhesus Macaque Model. 
  • Association of cervical biopsy with HIV type 1 genital shedding among women on highly active antiretroviral therapy. 
  • Atypical vaginal adenosis and cervical ectropion. Association with clear cell adenocarcinoma in diethylstilbestrol-exposed offspring. 
  • Authors' reply: Impact of loop electrosurgical excision procedure for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia on HIV-1 genital shedding: a prospective cohort study: population and statistical queries. 
  • Blue nevus of the cervix. 
  • Brief Report: Hormonal Contraception Is Not Associated With Reduced ART Effectiveness Among Women Initiating ART: Evidence From Longitudinal Data. 
  • Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies Display Potential for Prevention of HIV-1 Infection of Mucosal Tissue Superior to That of Nonneutralizing Antibodies. 
  • Candidate sulfonated and sulfated topical microbicides: comparison of anti-human immunodeficiency virus activities and mechanisms of action. 
  • Candidate topical microbicides bind herpes simplex virus glycoprotein B and prevent viral entry and cell-to-cell spread. 
  • Cervical adenoid cystic carcinoma associated with ascites. 
  • Cervical dilation as a predictor of pregnancy outcome following emergency cerclage. 
  • Cervical lesions are associated with human papillomavirus type 16 intratypic variants that have high transcriptional activity and increased usage of common mammalian codons. 
  • Cervical mucus and sperm transport in reproduction. 
  • Cervical priming prior to dilatation and evacuation: a comparison of methods. 
  • Cervical priming prior to first-trimester suction abortion with a single 15-methyl-prostaglandin F2 alpha vaginal suppository. 
  • Cervical ripening: randomized comparison of intravaginal prostaglandin E2 gel with prostaglandin E2 gel plus laminaria tents. 
  • Cervical-vaginal and intraanal human papillomavirus infection of young girls with external genital warts. 
  • Cervicovaginal fistula formation: a new complication of Shirodkar cerclage. 
  • Cervicovaginal fistula presenting during miscarriage. 
  • Cervicovaginal secretions contribute to innate resistance to herpes simplex virus infection. 
  • Changes in shear wave speed pre- and post-induction of labor: a feasibility study. 
  • Clear-cell adenocarcinoma of the vagina and cervix in young females: analysis of 37 tumors that persisted or recurred after primary therapy. 
  • Collagen changes in rat cervix in pregnancy--polarized light microscopic and electron microscopic studies. 
  • Comparison of intracervical, intrauterine, and intratubal techniques for donor insemination. 
  • Computed tomography and locating ureters in relation to the uterine cervix. 
  • Conclusive evidence for the presence of elastin in human and monkey cervix. 
  • Culture of non-genital sites increases the detection of gonorrhea in women. 
  • Cytologic screening after hysterectomy for benign disease. 
  • Cytology of 575 young women with prenatal exposure to diethylstilbestrol. 
  • Decreased elastic fibers and desmosine content in incompetent cervix. 
  • Design of a Novel Low Cost Point of Care Tampon (POCkeT) Colposcope for Use in Resource Limited Settings. 
  • Detection of Changes in Cervical Softness Using Shear Wave Speed in Early versus Late Pregnancy: An in Vivo Cross-Sectional Study. 
  • Development of a fiber optic probe to measure NIR Raman spectra of cervical tissue in vivo. 
  • Diagnosis of placenta previa during the third trimester: role of transperineal sonography. 
  • Effect of fiber optic probe geometry on depth-resolved fluorescence measurements from epithelial tissues: a Monte Carlo simulation. 
  • Effects of chemotherapy and tamoxifen on cervical and vaginal smears in bone marrow transplant recipients. 
  • Endocervical cells, pathology of the cervix, and time. 
  • Entropy and information content of laboratory test results. 
  • Epithelial repair of the uterine cervix: assessment of morphologic features and correlations with cytologic diagnosis. 
  • Estimation of Shear Wave Speed in the Rhesus Macaques' Uterine Cervix. 
  • Estimation of shear wave speed in the human uterine cervix. 
  • Evaluating the feasibility of acoustic radiation force impulse shear wave elasticity imaging of the uterine cervix with an intracavity array: a simulation study. 
  • Evaluation of COBAS AMPLICOR (Roche): accuracy in detection of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae by coamplification of endocervical specimens. 
  • Evaluation of quadrivalent HPV 6/11/16/18 vaccine efficacy against cervical and anogenital disease in subjects with serological evidence of prior vaccine type HPV infection. 
  • Expression of epidermal growth factor receptor and HER-2/neu in normal and neoplastic cervix, vulva, and vagina. 
  • Fluorescence spectroscopy of neoplastic and non-neoplastic tissues. 
  • For sperm--is closer to the egg an advantage or liability? 
  • Further evidence of a decorin-collagen interaction in the disruption of cervical collagen fibers during rat gestation. 
  • Gynecological abnormalities following allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. 
  • HIV-1-negative female sex workers sustain high cervical IFNɛ, low immune activation, and low expression of HIV-1-required host genes. 
  • HIV-inducing factor in cervicovaginal secretions is associated with bacterial vaginosis in HIV-1-infected women. 
  • Human epithelial cell expression of an Epstein-Barr virus receptor. 
  • Human papillomavirus 16 E6 expression disrupts the p53-mediated cellular response to DNA damage. 
  • Human papillomavirus testing with Pap triage for cervical cancer prevention in Canada: a cost-effectiveness analysis. 
  • Human recombinant interleukin-1 alpha increases elastase-like enzyme in human uterine cervical fibroblasts. 
  • Impact of loop electrosurgical excision procedure for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia on HIV-1 genital shedding: a prospective cohort study. 
  • In vivo diagnosis of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia using 337-nm-excited laser-induced fluorescence. 
  • Investigating the source of amniotic fluid isolates of fusobacteria. 
  • Is there an association between HIV-1 genital shedding and cervical intraepithelial neoplasia 2/3 among women on antiretroviral therapy? 
  • Location of the ureters in relation to the uterine cervix by computed tomography. 
  • Lymphocyte shedding from genital tract of human immunodeficiency virus-infected women: immunophenotypic and clinical correlates. 
  • Management of Short Cervix during Pregnancy: A Review. 
  • Management of cervical cerclage after preterm premature rupture of membranes. 
  • Maturation of vaginal and cervical epithelium in women exposed in utero to diethylstilbestrol (DESAD Project). 
  • Mechanical signaling in reproductive tissues: mechanisms and importance. 
  • Microglandular hyperplasia in vaginal adenosis associated with oral contraceptives and prenatal diethylstilbestrol exposure. 
  • Near-infrared Raman spectroscopy for in vitro detection of cervical precancers. 
  • Optimizing transperineal sonographic imaging of the cervix: the hip elevation technique. 
  • Orientation of elastic fibers in the human cervix. 
  • Outcome of patients undergoing transabdominal cerclage: a descriptive study. 
  • PRO 2000 gel inhibits HIV and herpes simplex virus infection following vaginal application: a double-blind placebo-controlled trial. 
  • Pathology of colposcopic findings in 2635 diethylstilbestrol-exposed young women. 
  • Pathology of prenatal diethylstilbestrol exposure. 
  • Patients with prior second-trimester loss: prophylactic cerclage or serial transvaginal sonograms? 
  • Performance of a commercial polymerase chain reaction test for endocervical Chlamydia trachomatis infection in a university hospital population. 
  • Persulfated molecular umbrellas as anti-HIV and anti-HSV agents. 
  • Placental site trophoblastic tumor presenting as a friable cervical mass. 
  • Postintegration HIV-1 infection of cervical epithelial cells mediates contact-dependent productive infection of T cells. 
  • Pregnancy Outcomes Following Cervical Conization or Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedures. 
  • Prenatal diethylstilbestrol exposure and high-grade squamous cell neoplasia of the lower genital tract. 
  • Prenatal diethylstilbestrol exposure and human genital tract abnormalities. 
  • Prenatal exposure to stilbestrol. A prospective comparison of exposed female offspring with unexposed controls. 
  • Prognostic value and reproducibility of koilocytosis in cervical intraepithelial neoplasia. 
  • Proliferation and apoptosis of fibroblasts and smooth muscle cells in rat uterine cervix throughout gestation and the effect of the antiprogesterone onapristone. 
  • Prospective correlation of cervicovaginal cytologic and histologic specimens. 
  • Quantitative assessment of cervical softening during pregnancy in the Rhesus macaque with shear wave elasticity imaging. 
  • Regulation of the prostaglandin enzymatic system by estradiol and progesterone in nonpregnant sheep cervix. 
  • Relationship between collagen autofluorescence of the human cervix and menopausal status. 
  • Scaleable manufacture of HIV-1 entry inhibitor griffithsin and validation of its safety and efficacy as a topical microbicide component. 
  • Sonographic diagnosis of premature cervical dilatation. Potential pitfall due to lower uterine segment contractions. 
  • Sonography of the cervix during the third trimester of pregnancy: value of the transperineal approach. 
  • Spectroscopic diagnosis of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) in vivo using laser-induced fluorescence spectra at multiple excitation wavelengths. 
  • Sperm transport in the reproductive tract of the female rabbit: II. The sustained phase of transport. 
  • Spontaneously changing gravid cervix: clinical implications and prognostic features. 
  • Statistical analysis of shear wave speed in the uterine cervix. 
  • Structural anomalies of the cervix and vagina in women enrolled in the Diethylstilbestrol Adenosis (DESAD) Project. 
  • Successful treatment of a cervical pregnancy with a single low dose methotrexate regimen. 
  • Sufficient progesterone-priming prior to estradiol stimulation is required for optimal induction of the cervical prostaglandin system in pregnant sheep at 0.7 gestations. 
  • The Presence and Anti-HIV-1 Function of Tenascin C in Breast Milk and Genital Fluids. 
  • The content of elastin in the uterine cervix. 
  • The effect of cocaine on sperm motility characteristics and bovine cervical mucus penetration. 
  • The impact of pregnancy on anti-HIV activity of cervicovaginal secretions. 
  • The relationship between cervical secretions and the daily probabilities of pregnancy: effectiveness of the TwoDay Algorithm. 
  • The relationship of cervical microbiota diversity with race and disparities in preterm birth. 
  • The role of a long-acting vaginal suppository of 15-ME-PGF2 alpha in first and second trimester abortion. 
  • Thirty-day Morbidity of Abdominal Sacrocolpopexy Is Influenced by Additional Surgical Treatment for Stress Urinary Incontinence. 
  • Three-dimensional structures of uterine elastic fibers: scanning electron microscopic studies. 
  • Timing and irreversibility of Müllerian duct inhibition in the embryonic reproductive tract of the human male. 
  • Tocolytic treatment for preterm contractions with and without cervical changes. 
  • Topographic relation of cervical ectropion and vaginal adenosis to clear cell adenocarcinoma. 
  • Transcervical tubal cannulation: a comparison of two techniques. 
  • Transperineal versus transvaginal sonography during pregnancy. 
  • Transvaginal ultrasound of cervical length and its correlation to digital cervical examination, time to spontaneous labor and mode of delivery. 
  • Treatment results using pubovaginal slings in patients with large cystoceles and stress incontinence. 
  • Ultrasonographic evaluation of the cervix: transperineal versus endovaginal imaging. 
  • Ultrastructure of 16 cases of clear cell adenocarcinoma of the vagina and cervix in young women. 
  • Vaginal adenosis in women born prior to the diethylstilbestrol era. 
  • Vasa previa: prenatal diagnosis by transperineal sonography with Doppler evaluation. 
  • Vasa previa: prenatal diagnosis by transperineal sonography with Doppler evaluation. 
  • Viral burden in genital secretions determines male-to-female sexual transmission of HIV-1: a probabilistic empiric model. 
  • Wegener's granulomatosis of the uterine cervix: a case report and review of the literature. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Berchuck, Andrew, James M. Ingram Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gynecologic Oncology
  • Myers, Evan Robert, Walter L. Thomas Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the School of Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology