Lijuan Zhao

ORCID: 0000-0003-4238-3815 · 6 papers in corpus
observational 2024
Medicine ·doi:10.1097/md.0000000000040864

This prospective pilot cohort study aimed to ascertain the optimal duration of progesterone supplementation prior to frozen embryo transfer (FET) in women undergoing hormone replacement therapy (HRT) cycles. A total of 127 participants were…

lab-animal 2022
Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) ·doi:10.1007/s43032-021-00562-x

The cause of endometriosis, which is characterized by the existence of functional endometrial tissue outside the uterine cavity, is poorly understood. Seminal plasma (SP) is rich in multiple cytokines that may promote endometrial tissue sur…

nonrandomized-trial 2021
Stem cell research & therapy ·doi:10.1186/s13287-021-02499-z

BACKGROUND: Unresponsive thin endometrium caused by Asherman syndrome (AS) is the major cause of uterine infertility. However, current therapies are ineffective. This study is to evaluate the effect of transplantation with collagen scaffold…

observational 2020
Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics ·doi:10.1007/s10815-020-01764-z

PURPOSE: To examine the expression of MUC16 in the endometrium peri-implantation period in three different cohort studies. METHODS: This was a retrospective observational cohort study. A total of 245 participants were recruited in three se…

case-report 2018
International journal of surgery case reports ·doi:10.1016/j.ijscr.2018.10.021

INTRODUCTION: Rectal endometriosis is rare in women and imaging characteristics are similar with that of rectal cancer, which is one of the most common malignancies. PRESENTATION OF CASE: A 36 years old woman with a suspicious diagnosis of…

lab-animal 2017
Endocrinology ·doi:10.1210/en.2017-00495

Inflammation can interfere with endometrial receptivity. We examined how interleukin 1β (IL-1β) affects expression of the uterine gap junction protein connexin 43 (Cx43), which is known to be critical for embryonic implantation. We used an …