J Sugawara

No ORCID on file · 3 papers in corpus
review 1999
Gynecologic and obstetric investigation ·doi:10.1159/000052854

Defects in the cell-mediated immune system may play a role in the pathogenesis or progression of pelvic endometriosis. Possible mediators include macrophages, interleukins-1 and -6, and tumor necrosis factor-alpha. More recent work points t…

lab-animal 1997
Fertility and sterility ·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(97)00226-4

OBJECTIVE: We evaluated the secretion of hepatocyte growth factor by eutopic endometrial stromal cells in vitro. DESIGN: Eutopic endometrial stromal cells were isolated and the culture supernatants were collected after 48 hours of incubati…

observational 1994
The Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine ·doi:10.1620/tjem.172.221

Macrophage colony stimulating factor (M-CSF) concentrations in the peritoneal fluid of 44 infertile patients were measured. The concentration of M-CSF was significantly higher in the patients with endometriosis than in those without endomet…