Abstract: The CD71 receptor is used as a target in the prognosis and/or treatment of endometriosis, and to a test for the prognosis or therapeutic monitoring of endometriosis, targeting this receptor.

Abstract: A prosthetic assembly and a method of assembling same. The prosthetic assembly includes a base component with at least one engagement surface. A pyrolytic carbon component includes at least one engagement surface. The pyrolytic carbon component is elastically deformed to mechanically interlock with the engagement surface on the base component. The pyrolytic carbon component retains at least a portion of the deformation stress created during coupling with the base component.

Abstract: A prosthetic assembly and a method of assembling same. The prosthetic assembly includes a base component with at least one engagement surface. A pyrolytic carbon component includes at least one engagement surface. The pyrolytic carbon component is elastically deformed to mechanically interlock with the engagement surface on the base component. The pyrolytic carbon component retains at least a portion of the deformation stress created during coupling with the base component.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for replacing an articular surface of a bone. The implant includes at least one head with a bore and a lateral articular surface generally perpendicular to an axis of the bore. A holding element includes a stem at a proximal end adapted to attach to the bone. A member at a distal end of the holding device is adapted to engage with the bore in the head so that the lateral articular surface is positioned to engage transverse loads. The bore permits limited lateral translation of the head in at least one direction generally perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the member.

Abstract: A conical coupling of a male member (10) and a female member (11), the male member (10) comprising a cone (12) ensleeved in a truncated conical portion (15) of a corresponding recess (14) formed in the female member (11), is characterized in that the female member (11) is made of a material having a Young's modulus at most equal to about 35 GPa and at most equal to that of the material from which the male member (10) is made, and in that a surface (13) of the male member perpendicular to the axis (A1) of the coupling is in contact with a surface (17) of the female member also perpendicular to the coupling axis such that the male and female members (10, 11) are in axial abutment against each other. The female member (11) is for example of pyrocarbon and the male member (10) of metal, ceramic or pyrocarbon.

Abstract: The implant has at least one contact surface portion, made of pyrolytic carbon, designed to be in mobile contact with at least one bony surface when the implant is implanted in a patient. Furthermore, the implant is free from any attaching means, so that it remains free with respect to the at least one bony surface when implanted in the patient.