Background: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) patients have a better ovarian reserve and age-related improvement in endocrine disturbances than non-PCOS patients. The effects of age on in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment outcomes associat…
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to examine the relationship between the follicular output rate (FORT) and clinical outcomes in patients with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). METHODS: A total of 841 patients with PCOS undergoing in vitro fer…
Acute lung injury (ALI) is a critical event involved in the pathophysiological process of acute pancreatitis (AP). Many methods have been widely used for the treatment of AP-ALI, but few are useful during early inflammation. Lipoxin A4 (LXA…
OBJECTIVE: To examine the association of coexistence of adenomyosis and endometrial carcinoma on tumor characteristics and survival outcome of patients. METHODS: Clinical and pathological data were retrospectively reviewed from 1584 patien…
The aim of this study was to investigate the expression of macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MMIF), hypoxia-inducible factor-1 a (HIF-1α) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in the serum and endometrial tissues of patients w…
Gastrointestinal (GI) epithelial ion transport is physiologically important in many aspects of humans, such as in maintaining fluid balance of whole body, and also plays a role in the development and progression of common GI disease. Estrog…
Acute necrotizing pancreatitis (ANP) is a common severe critical illness with a high mortality rate. Resveratrol, a polyphenol compound derived from various plants such as grape skin, peanut, berry and veratrum, exhibits multiple biological…
Age is the number one risk factor for breast cancer, yet the underlying mechanisms are unexplored. Age-associated mammary stem cell (MaSC) dysfunction is thought to play an important role in breast cancer carcinogenesis. Non-human primates …
Our previous study found copy number variation of chromosome fragment 5p13.1-13.3 might involve in the progression of ovarian cancer. In the current study, the alteration was validated and complement component 7 (C7), located on 5p13.1, was…
Overexpression of annexin A2 (Anxa2) is correlated with invasion and metastasis in breast cancer cells. In this study, breast cancer patients with upregulated Anxa2 exhibited poor overall and disease-free survival rates. Anxa2 expression wa…
BACKGROUND: Ovarian cancer is now recognized as a number of distinct diseases primarily defined by histological subtype. Both clear cell ovarian carcinomas (CCC) and ovarian endometrioid carcinomas (EC) may arise from endometriosis and freq…
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association between the transforming growth factor β1 gene-509C/T (TGF-β1-509C/T) polymorphism and the risk of endometriosis. STUDY DESIGN: Relevant studies published before October 2011 were identified by search…
BACKGROUND: Each organ has a specific function in the body. "Organ-specificity" refers to differential expressions of the same gene across different organs. An organ-specific gene/protein is defined as a gene/protein whose expression is sig…
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the clinical efficacy of Tiaomian Huayu Decoction (THD) in treating patients with endometriosis. METHODS: Patients in the treated group were administered with THD, those in the control group were given provera. T-…