Bilgin Gurates

No ORCID on file · 18 papers in corpus · active 2002-2013

Study types

  • article 8
  • review 8
  • other 2

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 17
  • mesh:D004715 15
  • chronic_pelvic_pain 2
  • infertility 2
  • mesh:D017699 1
article 2013
ISRN obstetrics and gynecology ·doi:10.1155/2013/361489

Objective. To determine the effects of Mullerian inhibiting substance (MIS) treatment on endometriosis cells through study of apoptosis and autophagy. Design. Experimental in vitro study. Setting. University research laboratory. Cell Line. …

article 2013

Copyright © 2013 Mostafa A. Borahay et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work i…

article 2012
Fertility and sterility ·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2012.11.021
article 2008
Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/humrep/den246

BACKGROUND: The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate [PDTC; a nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB) inhibitor] and bortezomib (Velcade; a proteasome inhibitor) on the development of experimental en…

article 2008
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism ·doi:10.1210/jc.2008-1180

CONTEXT: Products of at least five specific steroidogenic genes, including steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR), which facilitates the entry of cytosolic cholesterol into the mitochondrion, side chain cleavage P450 enzyme, 3beta-hy…

review 2008
Molecular and cellular endocrinology ·doi:10.1016/j.mce.2008.12.012
review 2005
The Journal of steroid biochemistry and molecular biology ·doi:10.1016/j.jsbmb.2005.04.012
review 2005
Pharmacological reviews ·doi:10.1124/pr.57.3.6

A single gene encodes the key enzyme for estrogen biosynthesis termed aromatase, inhibition of which effectively eliminates estrogen production. Aromatase inhibitors successfully treat breast cancer and endometriosis, whereas their roles in…

review 2004
Seminars in reproductive medicine ·doi:10.1055/s-2004-823026

Aromatase p450 (p450arom) is the key enzyme for biosynthesis of estrogen, which is an essential hormone for the establishment and growth of endometriosis. There is no detectable aromatase enzyme activity in normal endometrium; therefore, es…

article 2004
Fertility and Sterility ·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2004.01.048
other 2004
Fertility and Sterility ·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2003.09.029

OBJECTIVE: To determine the role of an aromatase inhibitor, letrozole, in the treatment of reproductive-age women with endometriosis and associated chronic pelvic pain. DESIGN: Phase 2, open-label, nonrandomized proof-of-concept study. SE…

review 2003
Seminars in reproductive medicine ·doi:10.1055/s-2003-41319

Estrogen is an extremely potent mitogen for endometrium and endometriosis. Progesterone, on the other hand, inhibits the mitogenic action of estrogen on endometrium and enhances differentiation. These antiproliferative and differentiative e…

review 2002
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ·doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2002.tb02791.x

Endometriosis is one of the most common causes of infertility and chronic pelvic pain and affects 1 in 10 women in the reproductive-age group. Although existence of this disease has been known for over 100 years, our current knowledge of it…

review 2002
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ·doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2002.tb02767.x

Aromatase activity is absent in normal endometrium. In contrast, aromatase is expressed aberrantly in endometriosis, which gives rise to strikingly high levels of aromatase activity in this tissue. Both aromatase expression and activity are…

article 2002
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism ·doi:10.1210/jcem.87.7.8683

Aromatase P450 (P450arom) is the key enzyme for the biosynthesis of estrogen that is essential for the growth of human endometriosis, a pathology characterized by endometrium-like tissue on the peritoneal surfaces of abdominal organs manife…

review 2002
Journal of reproductive immunology ·doi:10.1016/s0165-0378(01)00132-2
article 2002
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism ·doi:10.1210/jcem.87.5.8486

In human endometriotic stromal cells, markedly high levels of aromatase P450 (P450arom) mRNA and promoter II activity are present and can be vigorously stimulated by PGE(2) via a cAMP-dependent pathway to give rise to physiologically signif…

other 2002
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism ·doi:10.1210/jc.2002-020522

The orphan nuclear receptor steroidogenic factor-1 (SF-1) induces the expression of Müllerian inhibiting substance (MIS) and many steroidogenic genes, including aromatase P450 (P450arom). Dosage-sensitive sex reversal adrenal hypoplasia con…