“…expression of adhesion molecules (von Lukowicz et al 2008), transcriptional regulation of cyclooxygenase-2 (Lin et al 2011), transforming growth factor-b1 (TGF-b1) receptor (Sterling et al 2006), syndecan-4 (Lacal et al 2009), NF-kB (Kauppinen et al 2013), SMAD3 (Huang et al 2011), sex determining region Y-Box-2 (Musard et al 2001) and E-cadherin (McPhee et al 2008), which are essential during embryo implantation (Nakamura et al 2004, San et al 2004, Jha et al 2006, Lin et al 2006, St-Louis et al 2010. Furthermore, cell differentiation, cell proliferation (Lei et al 2009, Kaloglu & Onarlioglu 2010, Macdonald et al 2011, Afshar et al 2012) and the tissue remodelling process also take place in the uterus (Fazleabas & Strakova 2002, Rosario et al 2003, Kaloglu & Onarlioglu 2010, and can be influenced by PARP1 (Pagano et al 2007, Kobayashi 2011. In endometrial carcinoma, PARP1 can regulate the progesterone receptor (PR; Ghabreau et al 2004), suggesting the involvement of PARP1 in ovarian steroid signalling.…”