Honglan Zhu

ORCID: 0000-0001-6613-8764 · 29 papers in corpus · active 2007-2026

Study types

  • article 14
  • review 5
  • other 4
  • preprint 4
  • case-report 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 29
  • mesh:D004715 18
  • infertility 8
  • dysmenorrhea 3
  • bladder_endometriosis 2
  • adenomyosis 1
other 2026
Journal of clinical medicine ·doi:10.3390/jcm15083021

Background/Objectives: The diagnosis of endometriosis (EM) remains challenging due to the lack of a perfect diagnostic standard and the poor concordance between clinical symptoms and lesion severity. Although laparoscopy is widely used in c…

review 2025
Stem cell research & therapy ·doi:10.1186/s13287-025-04623-9

UNLABELLED: In recent years, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have garnered significant attention as promising therapeutic tools for various diseases. To date, over ten MSC-based therapies have been approved and marketed worldwide, with their …

case-report 2024
Journal of minimally invasive gynecology ·doi:10.1016/j.jmig.2023.10.009
article 2024
Chinese medical journal ·doi:10.1097/cm9.0000000000002910

BACKGROUND: Endometriosis (EM) is a complex benign gynecological disease, but it has malignant biological behavior and can invade any part of the body. Clinical manifestations include pelvic pain, dysmenorrhea, infertility, pelvic nodules, …

article 2024
·doi:10.1136/gocm-2024-000019

Background The dysfunction of the immune system is one of the pathogeneses of endometriosis. Immune cells can not only affect the microenvironment of the endometrium by secreting cytokines and defensins but also promote angiogenesis, growth…

other 2024
Cell reports ·doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2024.113716

Ovarian endometriosis is characterized by the growth of endometrial tissue within the ovary, causing infertility and chronic pain. However, its pathophysiology remains unclear. Utilizing high-precision single-cell RNA sequencing, we profile…

article 2023
Reproductive biology ·doi:10.1016/j.repbio.2023.100826
article 2023
Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular basis of disease ·doi:10.1016/j.bbadis.2023.166895
review 2022
Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology : the journal of the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology ·doi:10.1080/01443615.2022.2040965

This meta-analysis aimed to determine the accuracy of transvaginal ultrasound (TVS) and pelvic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in diagnosing urinary tract endometriosis (UTE). A comprehensive search of the Pubmed and Embase was conducted b…

dataset 2022
·doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.19601958

This meta-analysis aimed to determine the accuracy of transvaginal ultrasound (TVS) and pelvic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in diagnosing urinary tract endometriosis (UTE). A comprehensive search of the Pubmed and Embase was conducted b…

other 2022
Frontiers in endocrinology ·doi:10.3389/fendo.2022.791860

BACKGROUND: Our previous work revealed the high expression of fibrinogen alpha chain (FGA) in patients with endometriosis (EM) and that it could promote the migration and invasion of endometrial stromal cells. Angiogenesis is the key condit…

article 2022
·doi:10.1016/j.rbmo.2022.12.014
article 2021
BMC women's health ·doi:10.1186/s12905-020-01119-x

BACKGROUND: The aim of our present study was to investigate the clinical characteristics, treatment status and complications in women with endometriosis (EM) and tube ovarian abscess (TOA) to determine the possible association between TOA a…

other 2021
Journal of ovarian research ·doi:10.1186/s13048-021-00804-1

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to identify the clinical characteristics of Chinese patients with ovarian endometrioid carcinoma (EC) and clear cell carcinoma (CCC) and to assess the impact of concurrent endometriosis on this group. METHODS: T…

review 2020
Reproductive biomedicine online ·doi:10.1016/j.rbmo.2020.09.014
preprint 2020
·doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-38751/v2

Abstract Background : The aim of our present study was to investigate the clinical characteristics, treatment status and complications in women with endometriosis (EM) and tube ovarian abscess (TOA) to determine the possible association bet…

preprint 2020
·doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-38751/v1

Abstract Background : The aim of our present study was to investigate the clinical characteristics, treatment status and complications in women with endometriosis and tube ovarian abscess (TOA) to determine the possible association between …

preprint 2020
·doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-38751/v3

Abstract Background : The aim of our present study was to investigate the clinical characteristics, treatment status and complications in women with endometriosis (EM) and tube ovarian abscess (TOA) to determine the possible association bet…

article 2020
Chinese medical journal ·doi:10.1097/cm9.0000000000001063

A clinically reliable non-invasive test for endometriosis is expected to reduce the diagnostic delay. Although varieties of biomarkers have been investigated for decades, and cancer antigen-125, cancer antigen-199, interleukin-6, and urocor…

article 2020
Biology of reproduction ·doi:10.1093/biolre/ioaa126

Fibrinogen alpha chain (FGA), a cell adhesion molecule, contains two arginyl-glycyl-aspartic acid (RGD) cell adhesion sequences. Our previous study demonstrated that FGA, as an up-regulated protein in endometriosis (EM), was closely related…

preprint 2020
·doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-115365/v1

Abstract Objective This study aimed to identify the clinical characteristics of Chinese patients with ovarian endometrioid carcinoma (EC) and clear cell carcinoma (CCC) and to assess the impact of concurrent endometriosis on this group. Met…

review 2020
Gynecological endocrinology : the official journal of the International Society of Gynecological Endocrinology ·doi:10.1080/09513590.2020.1862789

The role of leptin in the development of endometriosis has been investigated previously. However, researches on the change of leptin levels in endometriosis remains controversial. So, we aimed to clarify changes of leptin levels in patients…

review 2020
·doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.13482782

The role of leptin in the development of endometriosis has been investigated previously. However, researches on the change of leptin levels in endometriosis remains controversial. So, we aimed to clarify changes of leptin levels in patients…

article 2019
European journal of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology ·doi:10.1016/j.ejogrb.2019.03.020
article 2018
Biology of reproduction ·doi:10.1093/biolre/ioy252

Endometriosis (EM) is a mysterious and complicated disease that has been found to be multifactorial. Recent studies demonstrated that long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play an important role in the pathogenesis of EM. However, the functional an…