Osamu Yoshino
No ORCID on file
· 90 papers in corpus
· active 2002-2026
Study types
- article 74
- other 10
- book-chapter 3
- review 2
Condition tags
- endometriosis 76
- endometrioma 18
- infertility 6
- adenomyosis 5
- dysmenorrhea 2
- chronic_pelvic_pain 2
- mesh:D004716 2
- dyspareunia 1
- bladder_endometriosis 1
Top journals
Frequent coauthors
- Yutaka Osuga 71
- Osuga Y 60
- Yoshino O 59
- Kaori Koga 54
- Yasushi Hirota 48
- Yojiro Taketani 42
- Tetsuya Hirata 41
- Miyuki Harada 37
- Taketani Y 35
- Tomone Yano 31
article
2019
AIM: The aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy of T2 star (T2*) mapping in diagnosing ovarian cysts/ tumors. METHODS: diameter circle, was set as much as possible inside ovarian tumors/cysts to measure T2*values, and mean T2* va…
article
2019
Abstract Amenorrhea and osteoporosis are strongly associated in female athletes. Amenorrheic women show lower serum levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) than eumenorrheic women. BDNF is known to regulate bone tissue developmen…
article
2019
ObjectsThere is growing evidence that sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P) is involved in inflammatory diseases. As endometriosis is known as an inflammatory disease, we investigated the role of S1P system in the development of endometriosis.Metho…
article
2018
ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to clarify the expression of Ninj1 in endometriosis and adenomyosis lesions, and its inductive factor in human endometriotic stromal cells (ESCs).BackgroundNerve injury-induced protein 1 (Ninj1) is a molec…
article
2018
Endometrioma is known to be an occurrence site of ovarian cancer, but there is no evidence on how to reduce the risk of canceration. Here, we report three cases of ovarian cancer arising from endometrioma during hormone therapies of GnRH an…
article
2017
BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is a gynaecological disease exhibiting severe pelvic pain, but the mechanism of pain production remains unknown. Bradykinin (BK) is known as an inflammatory mediator, and shows elevated levels in inflammatory disea…
article
2017
article
2016
OBJECTIVE: We investigated α-7 nAchR expression in human peritoneal macrophages and examined whether activation of nAchR might be a new therapy for endometriosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Human peritoneal fluid mononuclear cells (PFMC) were s…
article
2016
article
2016
article
2016
AIM: Recent investigations have demonstrated that athletes with high relaxin-2 levels have a high risk of anterior cruciate ligament injuries, while athletes taking oral contraceptives (OC) have low relaxin-2 levels. It has not yet been cla…
article
2016
The aim of this study is to examine the regulation of follistatin, an activin-binding protein, in endometriosis. Endometrioma stromal cells (EoSCs) were obtained from 9 patients undergoing laparoscopy of the ovarian endometrioma. In culture…
article
2016
article
2016
AIM: The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of hypointensity on T2 star-weighted imaging (T2*WI), which is useful for detecting hemosiderin, in endometriomas and other ovarian tumors. The efficacy of detecting adhesions aro…
article
2015
article
2014
PROBLEM: Immune tolerance to endometriotic cells is important to promote endometriosis. Tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase (TDO) enhances immune tolerance by catabolizing tryptophan to kynurenine. We studied whether interleukin-1β (IL-1β), a typica…
book-chapter
2014
article
2013
CONTEXT: Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory disease in which immune response and production of estrogen in endometriotic tissues are involved in the development of the disease. Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) stimulates aromatase (P450arom) ex…
article
2013
book-chapter
2012
article
2012
The aim of this study is to examine the regulation of follistatin, an activin-binding protein, in endometriosis. Endometrioma stromal cells (EoSCs) were obtained from 9 patients undergoing laparoscopy of the ovarian endometrioma. In culture…
article
2012
ObjectiveTo investigate a new role of interleukin (IL)-17A in endometriosis.DesignLaboratory study.SettingUniversity hospital.Patient(s)Patients with ovarian endometrioma undergoing laparoscopy or laparotomy.Intervention(s)Primary culture o…
article
2012
STUDY QUESTION: Is thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) involved in the pathophysiology of endometriosis? SUMMARY ANSWER: TSLP is up-regulated by interleukin (IL)-1β and may be involved in the development of endometriosis. WHAT IS KNOWN ALRE…
review
2012
Proteinase-activated receptors (PARs) are G protein-coupled receptors activated by various proteinases. PARs play important roles in haemostasis, thrombosis, and inflammation. PAR1 and PAR2 are expressed in endometrial cells from the eutopi…
article
2012
Proteinase-activated receptors (PARs) are G protein-coupled receptors activated by various proteinases. PARs play important roles in haemostasis, thrombosis, and inflammation. PAR₁ and PAR₂ are expressed in endometrial cells from the eutopi…