H. K. Oh

No ORCID on file · 1 paper in corpus · active 2012

Study types

  • article 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 1
  • endometrioma 1
article 2012
Leptin receptor is induced in endometriosis and leptin stimulates the growth of endometriotic epithelial cells through the JAK2/STAT3 and ERK pathways
Molecular human reproduction ·doi:10.1093/molehr/gas055

Leptin acts as a potential growth stimulator in several normal and neoplastic cells. Recent studies have shown the presence of increased levels of leptin in the peritoneal fluid of patients with endometriosis, implicating leptin in the path…