Yui Kitaoka
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· 5 papers in corpus
· active 2002-2005
Study types
- article 3
- other 1
- review 1
Condition tags
- endometriosis 5
- adenomyosis 2
Top journals
Frequent coauthors
- Hisato Koshiba 5
- Kitawaki J 5
- Kitaoka Y 5
- Honjo H 5
- Jo Kitawaki 5
- Hideo Honjo 5
- Koshiba H 5
- Mariko Teramoto 4
- Teramoto M 4
- Hiroshi Obayashi 3
article
2005
Allograft inflammatory factor-1 (AIF-1) is a cytokine originally identified in rat cardiac allografts with chronic rejection. AIF-1 is expressed in various human immune-related tissues and is thought to play a role in inflammatory responses…
article
2005
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic significance of CA-125 for endometriosis without ovarian endometriomas. METHODS: Preoperative serum CA-125 levels were measured in 775 consecutive women diagnosed by laparosco…
other
2004
PROBLEM: Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha is a major cytokine involved in inflammatory and immune function. The aim of this study was to investigate whether polymorphisms at positions -1031, -863 and -857 in the TNF gene promoter region (T…
article
2004
BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is a multifactorial disease with possible genetic predisposition and involvement of environmental factors in its pathogenesis. Cytokines may play important roles in the pathogenesis of endometriosis. The aim of thi…
review
2002
Endometriosis, defined as the presence of endometrial glands and stroma outside of the uterine cavity, develops mostly in women of reproductive age and regresses after menopause or ovariectomy, suggesting that the growth is estrogen-depende…