Tohru Kiyono

ORCID: 0000-0003-1769-403X · 13 papers in corpus
lab-animal 2025
International journal of molecular sciences ·doi:10.3390/ijms26051995

The molecular mechanisms through which endometriosis-related ovarian neoplasms (ERONs) develop from benign endometrioma remain unclear. It is especially a long-standing mystery why ovarian endometrioma has the potential to develop into two …

lab-animal 2025
·doi:10.20944/preprints202502.0858.v1

The molecular mechanisms through which endometriosis-related ovarian neoplasms (ERONs) develop from benign endometrioma remain unclear. It is especially a long-standing mystery why ovarian endometrioma has the potential to develop into two …

lab-animal 2024
Current issues in molecular biology ·doi:10.3390/cimb46040224

Although endometriosis is a benign disease, it is associated with cancer-related gene mutations, such as KRAS or PIK3CA. Endometriosis is associated with elevated levels of inflammatory factors that cause severe pain. In a previous study, w…

lab-animal 2023
Science translational medicine ·doi:10.1126/scitranslmed.add1531

Retrograde menstruation is a widely accepted cause of endometriosis. However, not all women who experience retrograde menstruation develop endometriosis, and the mechanisms underlying these observations are not yet understood. Here, we demo…

lab-animal 2023

Retrograde menstruation is a widely accepted cause of endometriosis. However, not all women who experience retrograde menstruation develop endometriosis, and the mechanisms underlying these observations are not yet understood. Here, we demo…

lab-animal 2021
Stem cell research & therapy ·doi:10.1186/s13287-021-02188-x

BACKGROUND: Thin endometrium adversely affects reproductive success rates with fertility treatment. Autologous transplantation of exogenously prepared endometrium can be a promising therapeutic option for thin endometrium; however, endometr…

lab-animal 2021
Cancers ·doi:10.3390/cancers13133174

Endometriosis-harboring cancer-associated somatic mutations of PIK3CA and KRAS provides new opportunities for studying the multistep processes responsible for the functional and molecular changes in this disease. We aimed to establish a nov…

lab-animal 2020
F&S science ·doi:10.1016/j.xfss.2020.09.001

OBJECTIVE: To establish and characterize cell lines derived from human endometrial epithelial cells (ECs) and mesenchymal cells (MCs) from patients with and without endometriosis. DESIGN: In vitro experimental study. SETTING: University a…

observational 2019
Nature communications ·doi:10.1038/s41467-019-13708-y

Uterine adenomyosis is a benign disorder that often co-occurs with endometriosis and/or leiomyoma, and impairs quality of life. The genomic features of adenomyosis are unknown. Here we apply next-generation sequencing to adenomyosis (70 ind…

lab-animal 2014
Fertility and sterility ·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2014.02.005

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the impact of estrogen contained in oral contraceptives (OCs) on the action of progestin on ovarian endometrioma epithelial cells. DESIGN: Experimental in vitro study and immunohistochemical analysis. SETTING: Un…

lab-animal 2014
The Journal of steroid biochemistry and molecular biology ·doi:10.1016/j.jsbmb.2014.12.008

Dienogest (DNG) is a selective progesterone receptor (PR) agonist and oral administration of DNG is used for the treatment of endometriosis. DNG is considered to act on PR to down-regulate pathophysiological factors associated with endometr…

lab-animal 2009
Molecular human reproduction ·doi:10.1093/molehr/gap042

Dienogest is a specific progesterone receptor agonist with potent oral endometrial activity and is used in the treatment of endometriosis. In this study, we examined the direct effects of dienogest on the proliferation of human endometrial …

lab-animal 2007
Molecular biology of the cell ·doi:10.1091/mbc.e06-09-0872

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), the most common lethal genetic disorder in children, is an X-linked recessive muscle disease characterized by the absence of dystrophin at the sarcolemma of muscle fibers. We examined a putative endometria…