K H Chao

No ORCID on file · 9 papers in corpus
lab-animal 2001
Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica ·doi:10.1034/j.1600-0412.2001.800102.x

BACKGROUND: To determine whether there is a factor (or factors) in the peritoneal fluid of endometriosis patients that impairs embryo growth and embryo implantation. METHODS: Growth and development of two-cell mouse embryos which were cult…

observational 2000
Fertility and sterility ·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(00)01592-2

OBJECTIVE: Malfunction of peritoneal natural killer cells (NK) may result in endometriosis. The present study was designed to determine whether the decrease in NK cytotoxicity occurs at early and advanced stages of endometriosis and is due …

other 1999
American journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989) ·doi:10.1111/j.1600-0897.1999.tb00082.x

PROBLEM: To verify whether the peritoneal macrophage (PM) is activated in endometriosis. METHOD OF STUDY: We examined the synthesis of nitric oxide (NO), total antioxidant, interleukin (IL)-6, IL-10, and IL-12 by cultured PMs, which were e…

other 1997
Archives of andrology ·doi:10.3109/01485019708988531

To clarify the effect of peritoneal fluids (PF) of women with various stages of endometriosis on sperm motility, we utilized computer-aides sperm analysis (CASA) to analyze sperm movement characteristics. PF was collected in the early folli…

observational 1997
Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/humrep/12.11.2528

This study was performed to determine whether peritoneal T cells are suppressed in the CD4+ or CD8+ T cell subpopulation and whether they are Th1 or Th2 predominant in women with endometriosis. Immune cells in the peritoneal fluid (PF) were…

observational 1997
Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/humrep/12.12.2810

To explore the role of nitric oxide (NO) and oxidative stress in the pathogenesis of adhesion formation and in endometriosis-associated infertility, we examined the peritoneal total antioxidant status (TAS) and the concentrations of product…

other 1996
American journal of obstetrics and gynecology ·doi:10.1016/s0002-9378(96)70034-0

OBJECTIVE: Our purpose was to verify regional immune modulations and to test the effect of gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist in women with endometriosis. STUDY DESIGN: Concentrations of peritoneal cytokines, including interleukin-1 be…

other 1996
American journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989) ·doi:10.1111/j.1600-0897.1996.tb00050.x

PROBLEM: Our previous study reported that peritoneal natural killer (NK) cytotoxicity and CD3+CD25+ lymphocyte subpopulation were suppressed in women with advanced endometriosis. Whether these phenomena are general for all stages of endomet…

observational 1995
Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a135765

We examined the lymphocytes of peripheral blood (PB) and peritoneal fluid (PF) of women with or without endometriosis to investigate the alteration of cytotoxic activity of natural killer (NK) cells and activation of T cells in the peritone…