Masao Izawa — Endo Lab

review 2007

Frontiers in Bioscience ·doi:10.2741/2302

Apoptosis plays a critical role in maintaining tissue homeostasis and represents a normal function to eliminate excess or dysfunctional cells. Accumulated evidence suggest that apoptosis helps to maintain cellular homeostasis during the men…

lab-animal 2005

Drug-induced apoptosis was markedly attenuated in endometriotic stromal cells

Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/humrep/dei372

BACKGROUND: The survival of endometriotic cells in the ectopic site has been investigated from the aspect of susceptibility of endometriotic tissues to apoptosis. In order to investigate the nature of abnormal survival of endometriotic cell…

lab-animal 2005

Reduction of estrogen production by interleukin-6 in a human granulosa tumor cell line may have implications for endometriosis-associated infertility

Fertility and sterility ·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2004.12.014

OBJECTIVE: To examine the effect of interleukin-6 (IL-6) on estrogen production and aromatase activity using a human granulosa tumor cell line (KGN cells). The involvement of the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascade in the inhibi…

2004

Interleukin-6 reduced estrogen production in a human granulosa tumor cells: Its implication in endometriosis-associated infertility

·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2004.07.420