Takayama M

No ORCID on file · 7 papers in corpus · active 1999-2026

Study types

  • article 2
  • other 2

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 4
2026
The journal of pain ·doi:10.1016/j.jpain.2025.105584

Vulvodynia, vulvar pain of unknown etiology, lasting 3 months or longer, affects 7% of American women, and has no consistently effective treatment. We aimed to test the efficacy of acupuncture on vulvar pain and dyspareunia and explore the …

2022
Contemporary clinical trials communications ·doi:10.1016/j.conctc.2022.101029

BackgroundVulvodynia, vulvar pain of unknown origin lasting at least 3 months, affects 7% of American women. Dyspareunia, its frequent companion, renders sexual intercourse virtually impossible. Although few therapies are efficacious and ra…

2018
Pilot and feasibility studies ·doi:10.1186/s40814-018-0265-9

BackgroundEfficacy of acupuncture is difficult to demonstrate without a feasible double-blind milieu. Double-blind acupuncture needles have been validated in single session protocols with one or two needles but not been tested in a protocol…

article 2003
The Journal of Pathology ·doi:10.1002/path.1299

A complex network of cytokines mediates the immunoregulatory responses leading to endometriosis. Recent intensive studies suggest that monocyte and T cell chemoattractants contribute to the inflammatory environment of endometriotic implants…

other 2001
Journal of human genetics ·doi:10.1007/s100380170070

The diversity of biological effects resulting from exposure to dioxin may reflect the ability of this environmental pollutant to alter gene expression by binding to the arylhydrocarbon receptor (AHR) gene and related genes. AHR function may…

article 2001
Nihon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine
other 1999
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology ·doi:10.1016/s0002-9378(99)70649-6

OBJECTIVE: Endometriosis is a complex gynecologic disorder that may display features similar to malignancy, including aggressive growth and localized invasion of the myometrium or spread to various organs outside the uterus. Molecular studi…