Takai N
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· 11 papers in corpus
· active 1995-2011
Study types
- article 7
- review 2
- other 1
Condition tags
- endometriosis 10
- adenomyosis 2
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Frequent coauthors
- Nasu K 11
- Noriyuki Takai 10
- Kaei Nasu 10
- Narahara H 8
- Nishida M 7
- Hisashi Narahara 7
- Masakazu Nishida 6
- Ueda T 5
- Tsutomu Ueda 5
- Kawano Y 4
review
2011
Endometriosis, a common, benign, estrogen-dependent disease affecting 3-10% of women of reproductive age, is characterized by the ectopic growth of endometrial tissue that is found primarily in the peritoneum, ovaries and rectovaginal septu…
review
2011
Endometriosis, a disease affecting 3% to 10% of women of reproductive age, is characterized by the ectopic growth of endometrial tissue under the influence of estrogen. It is also becoming recognized as a condition in which ectopic endometr…
article
2011
BACKGROUND: Accumulating evidence suggests that various epigenetic aberrations play definite roles in the pathogenesis of endometriosis. We investigated the histone acetylation status in endometriosis and the application of the histone deac…
article
2008
It is very rare that endometriotic lesions in the rectovaginal septum cause ileus. We report a case of bowel obstruction due to endometriotic lesions in the rectovaginal septum in a 22-year-old woman whose barium enema presented with apple-…
2008
Tamoxifen is widely used for endocrine treatment and breast cancer prevention. It acts as both an estrogen antagonist in breast tissue and an estrogen agonist in the female lower genital tract. Tamoxifen causes severe gynecologic side effec…
article
2006
Most of the current medical treatments for endometriosis aim to downregulate estrogen activity. However, a high recurrence rate after medical treatment has been the most significant problem. BAY 11-7085, a soluble inhibitor of NK-kappaB act…
article
2006
BACKGROUND: Most of the current medical treatments for endometriosis aim to down-regulate the estrogen activity. However, a high recurrence rate after medical treatments has been the most significant problem. Beta-hydroxyisovalerylshikonin …
article
2005
Most of the current medical treatments for endometriosis aim to down-regulate the estrogen activity. However, a high recurrence rate after medical treatments has been the most significant problem. Bufalin is a major digoxin-like immunoreact…
article
2004
In order to evaluate the involvement of cell proliferation and apoptosis in the pathogenesis of endometriosis, we investigated the effects of interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) on cell growth inhibition and apoptosis of cultured ovarian endometri…
article
1999
In spite of many references to carcinoma arising from endometriosis at extrauterine sites, there are few documented cases of carcinoma developing in association with adenomyosis. We present 2 rare cases of adenocarcinoma arising from adenom…
other
1995
Using immunohistochemical techniques, we studied the expression of c-erb B-2 in normal human endometrial tissue (n = 8), endometriosis interna (adenomyosis) (n = 8) and endometriosis externa (endometriotic cyst of the ovary) (n = 6). The gl…