Author(s)

Jafar Ai, Somayeh Ebrahimi, Armin Ai, Roya Karimi, Naghmeh Bahrami

Department of Biological Science, Faculty of Biology, Kharazmi University (TMU), Tehran, Iran.
Department of Tissue Engineering, Faculty of Advanced Technologies in Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Faculty of Dentistry, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

The presence of endometrial tissue outside of the uterine cavity is named endometriosis and is the most common gynecologic disorder in women. Determining the inhibitory effect of a Deforolimus on angiogenesis in a three-dimensional (3-D) culture of human endometrial stromal cells (hEnCs) in vitro. The important mechanism in the pathogenesis of endometriosis is angiogenesis, and deforolimus has been shown to have anti-angiogenic activity. This was an in vitro study of human endometrial stromal cells in 3-D culture of fibrin matrix. Endometrial stromal cells isolated and placed in a 3-D fibrin matrix culture system for angiogenesis with VEGF and inhibit angiogenesis by deforolimus. Finally these cells analyzed by CD31 antibodies. After 3 weeks, in cells treated with VEGF, endothelial cell branching was observed and rudimentary capillary-like structures formed. In the presence of 5μM of deforolimus, angiogenesis was reduced. The deforolimus were shown to be effective in inhibiting the mechanisms of angiogenesis.

Endometrial Stromal Cells; Endometrium; 3-D culture; Deforolimus; VEGF

Ai, J. , Ebrahimi, S. , Ai, A. , Karimi, R. and Bahrami, N. (2013) Effect of deforolimus and VEGF on angiogenesis in endometrial stromal cells following three-dimensional culture. Stem Cell Discovery, 3, 7-12. doi: 10.4236/scd.2013.31002.