Zhen Hou

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To develop a noninvasive predictive model based on patients with infertility for identifying minimal or mild endometriosis. DESIGN: A retrospective cohort study. SETTING: This study was conducted at a tertiary referral ce…

Abstract Background: To study whether ILs/TNFs in the follicular fluid (FF) of women with EMs are responsible for impaired follicular development or (and) ovulation or not, and then to explore the underlying mechanisms. Methods: follicular …

RATIONALE: Primary extranodal marginal zone B-cell lymphomas of the fallopian tube is extremely rare. It is a great challenge for fertility and gynecology doctors to manage such cases and also fulfil the reproductive demands of these young …

Objective To study the influence of endometriosis activity on the pregnancy outcomes of patients with recurrent implantation failure (RIF) in in-vitro fertilization/intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection (IVF/ICSI) cycles. The pregnancy outcomes…

Endometriosis (EMs) is a common cause for female infertility, leading to the need for in vitro fertilization (IVF). In clinics, we found the operative oocyte retrieval to be more or less difficult in women with EMs. We hypothesized that EMs…

Introduction: Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory gynecological disorder that causes pelvic pain. Due to the heterogeneity of the disease, response to any treatment in an individual is variable. We aimed to develop in vitro testing that…

Endometriosis is an estrogen-dependent disease. We previously found that the expression of Activin A was upregulated in the peritoneal fluid of patients with endometriosis. The results of the present study indicated that Activin A induced e…

Activin A can stimulate aromatase P450 (P450arom) expression in eutopic endometrial stromal cells (ESCs) of endometriosis by activin type I receptor-Smad pathway. In order to identify Smad3/4 binding to P450arom promoter II that mediates ac…

Tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α), a proinflammatory cytokine, may play an important role in the pathogenesis of endometriosis; therefore, TNF-α inhibitors potentially have an effect on endometriosis. To investigate the effect of anti-TNF-α t…

Objective: To explore the influencing factors of pregnancy outcome during in vitro fertilization( IVF) or intracytoplasmic sperm injection( ICSI) cycles in patients with endometriosis. Methods: A total of 321 patients receiving IVF and( or)…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the factors associated with clinical pregnancy rate of in-vitro fertilization (IVF) in endometriosis related infertility. METHODS: Total of 326 patients with endometriosis related infertility undergoing IVF between Ja…

ObjectiveRecent studies have shown that the local expression of soluble interleukin (IL) -1 receptor type II (sIL-1 RII) in endometrial tissue of women with endometriosis is decreased, and the depression of IL-1 RII was more significant in …

Cytokines are key mediators of intercellular communication and are likely to promote the development and progression of endometriosis. Previous studies provided evidence that endometriosis develops as a result of the pathogenetic factors in…

Objectives: To evaluate if the expression and chemotactic activity of RANTES are different in IL-1β treated autologous eutopic endometrial stromal cells from endometriosis patients compared to non-endometriosis eutopic endometrium.Methods: …

AIM: To develop a gene therapy vector of interleukin-1 receptor II(IL-1RII) with recombinant adenovirus and express IL-1RII in the eutopic stromal cells of endometriosis(EM). METHODS: Get full length of cDNA with IL-1RII gene was obtained b…

ObjectiveTo determine the role of interleukin-1 receptor type II (IL-1RII) in the pathogenesis of endometriosis.DesignCultures of endometrial cells exposed to soluble IL-1RII or the recombinant adenovirus of IL-1RII (rAd-RII).SettingGynecol…