BACKGROUND: Persistent autonomic dysfunction disrupts homeostasis and promotes pathological processes underlying several major chronic conditions including cancer and cardiovascular disease. Little is known about the lived experience of ind…
BACKGROUND: Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a severe disorder that leads to high morbidity and mortality. Appropriate reference genes are important for gene analysis in AP. This study sought to study the expression stability of several reference…
The adipokine resistin is linked with obesity, inflammation and various cancers, including breast cancer. This study sought to determine whether certain polymorphisms in the gene encoding resistin, RETN, increase the risk of breast cancer s…
A previous study by our group has demonstrated that lipopolysaccharide (LPS) induces adenomyosis through stimulating inflammatory cell proliferation and invasive growth of stromal cells via Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) signaling. The present…
The objective of the present study was to investigate differences in the expression of apoptosis-related factors in the eutopic and ectopic endometrium (EuE/EE) in women with adenomyosis before and after laparoscopic bilateral uterine arter…
The present study tested whether the LPS/TLR4 signal pathway in endometrial stromal cells is essential for the pathogenesis of adenomyosis. We tested the expression of TLR4, MD2 in the endometrium without adenomyosis (CE), the eutopic endom…
OBJECTIVE: To assess the remission rate and outcome of pregnancy of patients who had moderate and severe ovarian endometriosis after conservative surgery. We also wished to analyze the associated factors of recurrence. METHODS: Weconducted…
OBJECTIVE: To assess the long-term efficacy and quality of life associated with laparoscopic bilateral uterine artery occlusion plus partial resection of symptomatic adenomyosis. STUDY DESIGN: A total of 182 eligible patients with symptoma…
BACKGROUND: Understanding the health effects associated with environmental chemicals is challenging when individuals have concentrations at or below the laboratory limits of detection as well as when the values may round to zero or are pres…
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To examine the clinical application of laparoscopic partial resection of symptomatic adenomyosis combined with uterine artery occlusion (UAO). DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study (Canadian Task Force classification III). S…