Kentaro Kai
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· 22 papers in corpus
· active 2013-2026
Study types
- article 14
- review 3
- case-report 1
- erratum 1
- other 1
Condition tags
- endometriosis 19
- mesh:D004715 11
- endometrioma 1
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2026
AIM: To investigate the mechanisms of histone deacetylase (HDAC) 10 inhibitors (HDAC10Is) action in endometriosis and the target molecules of HDAC10Is. METHODS: We assessed the effects of HDAC10Is, tucidinostat and TH34, on the proliferati…
article
2025
Objective: The microRNA hsa-miR-132-5p is upregulated in endometriotic cyst stromal cells (ECSCs). We investigate how hsa-miR-132-5p affects the progression of endometriosis. Methods: Normal endometrial stromal cells (NESCs) that have been …
erratum
2024
case-report
2023
Both ovarian pregnancy and endometrioma can rupture and cause life-threatening hemoperitoneum. However, little is known about their coexistence. We report the case of a 34-year-old Japanese woman with a life-threatening hemoperitoneum in th…
article
2023
MicroRNAs (miRs) play an important role in the pathophysiology of endometriosis; however, the role of miR-210 in endometriosis remains unclear. This study explores the role of miR-210 and its targets, IGFBP3 and COL8A1, in ectopic lesion gr…
review
2021
review
2021
article
2020
The aim of this publication is to disseminate the clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of intestinal, bladder/ureteral, thoracic and umbilical endometriosis, already published in Japanese, to non-Japanese speakers. For developing …
article
2018
Background: The heritable silencing of genes, without a change in their coding sequence, is due to epigenetic mechanisms. These mechanisms involve DNA methylation, the modification of histone, and non-coding RNA. Disrupting the balance of t…
article
2016
article
2016
STUDY QUESTION: Is the micro-RNA (miRNA) miR-503, downregulated in endometriotic cyst stromal cells (ECSCs) and does this affect the cell cycle, cell proliferation, angiogenesis and contractility of these cells? SUMMARY ANSWER: miR-503 expr…
article
2015
article
2015
review
2014
Accumulating evidence suggests that epigenetic aberrations play definite roles in the pathogenesis of endometriosis. These include aberrations in genomic DNA methylation, microRNA expression, and histone modification. The aberrant histone m…
dissertation
2014
article
2014
article
2014
STUDY QUESTION: What are the roles of the microRNA miR-210-an miRNA that is up-regulated in endometriotic cyst stromal cells (ECSCs)-in the pathogenesis of endometriosis? SUMMARY ANSWER: Up-regulated miR-210 expression in ECSCs is involved …
article
2014
book-chapter
2014
article
2014
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…
article
2013
CONTEXT: Accumulating evidence suggests that various epigenetic aberrations play definite roles in the pathogenesis of endometriosis. OBJECTIVE: The objective of the study was to determine the epigenetically silenced genes by histone deacet…
article
2013
PROBLEM: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the involvement of death receptor (DR) 6 in the pathogenesis of endometriosis. METHODS OF STUDY: Endometriotic cyst stromal cells (ECSCs) and normal endometrial stromal cells (NESCs) were is…