Komiyama M
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· 3 papers in corpus
Cadmium, one of various environmental toxicants, is known to suppress systemic immunity and to injure the testicular capillary endothelia with resultant necrosis of testicular tissues in mice and rats treated with high doses. Recently, it a…
PURPOSE: Ovarian clear cell adenocarcinoma (OCCA) has been reported to display different characteristics from other histological types of epithelial ovarian cancer, and especially differs from serous adenocarcinoma. We investigated plasmino…
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the factors related to activation of transforming growth factor-beta 1 (TGF-beta1) at sites of endometriosis. STUDY DESIGN: TGF-beta1 is activated by plasmin, which is formed when plasminogen is activated by urokin…