Hongyu Xie

ORCID: 0000-0002-5752-9066 · 4 papers in corpus · active 2017-2018

Study types

  • review 3
  • article 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 4
  • dysmenorrhea 1
  • chronic_pelvic_pain 1
  • die_deep_infiltrating 1
  • dyspareunia 1
article 2018
Journal of pain research ·doi:10.2147/jpr.s168715

PURPOSE: Recent studies have shown that abnormal distribution of pelvic nerves contributes to endometriosis-associated pain. However, the relationship between neurogenesis and pain severity in endometriosis still remains uncertain, which ma…

review 2018
Reproductive biomedicine online ·doi:10.1016/j.rbmo.2018.12.025
review 2018
Reproductive biology and endocrinology : RB&E ·doi:10.1186/s12958-018-0441-z

Endometriosis is a complex and heterogeneous disorder with unknown etiology. Dysregulation of macrophages and innervation are important factors influencing the pathogenesis of endometriosis-associated pain. It is known to be an estrogen-dep…

review 2017
Journal of neuroinflammation ·doi:10.1186/s12974-017-0828-3

Dysregulation of the immune system in endometriotic milieus has been considered to play a pivotal role in the pathogenesis of endometriosis. Macrophage recruitment and nerve fiber infiltration are the two major characteristics of this aberr…