Zhou RM

No ORCID on file · 6 papers in corpus · active 2008-2014

Study types

  • article 6

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 6
  • adenomyosis 2
  • infertility 1
article 2014
Fertility and sterility ·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2014.07.005

ObjectiveTo explore the association between the genetic variant of E-cadherin gene and endometriosis-related infertility.DesignCase-control study.SettingUniversity hospital.Patient(s)Five hundred eighty-nine women with ovarian endometriosis…

article 2013
Gynecologic and obstetric investigation ·doi:10.1159/000350665

AIM: To investigate the association of tag single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 (VEGFR-2) gene with susceptibility to endometriosis. METHODS: This study comprised 571 patients with endo…

article 2010
Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/humrep/deq128

BACKGROUND: Angiogenesis appears to be an important event in the pathophysiology of endometriosis (EM) and adenomyosis. Two angiogenic factors, fibroblast growth factor (FGF) 1 and 2, play a central role in the initiation of angiogenesis. W…

article 2009
Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/humrep/dep208

BACKGROUND: Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) plays an important role in the development of endometriosis. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of polymorphisms in the VEGF gene with the susceptibility to endomet…

article 2009
Zhonghua yi xue yi chuan xue za zhi = Zhonghua yixue yichuanxue zazhi = Chinese journal of medical genetics ·doi:10.3760/cma.j.issn.1003-9406.2009.02.010

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in VEGF gene with the risk of endometriosis and adenomyosis. METHODS: Genotypes were analyzed by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polym…

article 2008
Fertility and sterility ·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.09.068

We investigated whether three polymorphisms in the matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2; -1306C-->T and -735C-->T) and tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-2 (TIMP-2; -418G-->C) genes were related to the risk of endometriosis in reproductive-…