Uemura T

The Japan Society for Endoscopic Surgery (JSES) conducts a nationwide survey every 2 years to evaluate the status and trends of endoscopic surgery in Japan. This article reports the results of the 17th Nationwide Survey conducted by the JSE…

BACKGROUND: Glycosylation is one of the most common post-translational modifications of eukaryotic proteins and is known to undergo dynamic changes in a wide range of biological processes. To date, however, the glycan expression profiles in…

OBJECTIVE: In order to examine whether treatment with a GnRH agonist alone can maintain estrogen levels within the "estrogen window" that inhibits endometriosis without influencing bone-mineral density, we studied the effects of GnRH agonis…

OBJECTIVES: This multicenter prospective study of buserelin acetate (Suprecur) therapy for endometriosis was performed in order to examine pregnancy rates and the recurrence of endometriosis 1 year after the end of intranasal administration…

OBJECTIVE: To examine changes in bone mineral density (BMD) of patients treated with GnRH agonist (GnRH-a) by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and to understand factors related to bone loss. DESIGN: Prospective controlled trial examining B…

OBJECTIVE: We investigated the mechanisms of desensitization induced by gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist in the pituitary. STUDY DESIGN: Effects of gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist on the pituitary were studied in vitro and in …

Abstract Two cases of catamenial pneumothorax treated with danazol, an isoxazole derivative of 17α‐ethinyl testosterone, are reported. The first patient, a 44‐year‐old woman who had had 31 attacks of spontaneous pneumothorax at the onset of…