Shi Z

No ORCID on file · 22 papers in corpus · active 2009-2026

Study types

  • article 4
  • other 2
  • review 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 6
  • chronic_pelvic_pain 1
  • infertility 1
review 2026
Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) ·doi:10.1007/s43032-026-02124-5

Endometriosis is a hormone-dependent chronic inflammatory disease associated with pain and infertility, remains diagnostically and therapeutically challenging due to its multifactorial nature. Molecular mechanisms of the dynamic changes dur…

2025
Frontiers in pediatrics ·doi:10.3389/fped.2025.1536314

This case series explores the diagnostic overlap between OHVIRA syndrome (obstructed hemivagina and ipsilateral renal anomaly) and Gartner duct cyst (GDC) with ipsilateral renal dysplasia in two prepubertal girls. Both cases exhibited simil…

2025
Reproductive biology and endocrinology : RB&E ·doi:10.1186/s12958-025-01395-y

BackgroundThis study aimed to obtain high-resolution endometrial gland images under high-definition hysteroscopy from in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer (IVF-ET) patients and perform image recognition to analyze their density and op…

2025
PLoS medicine ·doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1004630

BackgroundDifferent endometrial preparation protocols are used prior to frozen-thawed embryo transfer (FET). Optimization of endometrial preparation protocols is mandatory to improve live birth rate and obstetric and perinatal outcomes. In …

2025
Journal of functional biomaterials ·doi:10.3390/jfb16050151

Rapid hemostasis and wound healing are crucial severe trauma treatment. Natural mechanisms often prove insufficient, spurring research for innovative biomaterials. This review focuses on cellulose-based materials, which are promising due to…

article 2025
Human molecular genetics ·doi:10.1093/hmg/ddaf065

Mesenchymal cells constitute the primary structural support elements within endometriotic lesions, yet their pivotal roles in endometriotic pathogenesis remain largely uncharted. This study aimed to construct a single-cell atlas of endometr…

article 2025
Reproductive biology and endocrinology : RB&E ·doi:10.1186/s12958-025-01508-7

BACKGROUND: Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are commonly used to alleviate pain associated with endometriosis (EMS), yet the impact of their long-term use on disease progression remains unclear. This study investigates the du…

2025
Frontiers in molecular biosciences ·doi:10.3389/fmolb.2025.1653627

Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a complex disease involving multiple systems throughout the body with unknown pathogenesis and is characterized by chronic fatigue. To date, no effective treatment for CFS has been found, as well as biomark…

2024
Reproductive biology and endocrinology : RB&E ·doi:10.1186/s12958-024-01275-x

ObjectiveThis study aimed to evaluate the impact of adding 4 mg estradiol valerate to progesterone for luteal support on pregnancy rates in IVF cycles following a long protocol with reduced luteal serum estradiol levels post-hCG triggering.…

other 2024
Frontiers in medicine ·doi:10.3389/fmed.2024.1440157

Observational studies have reported an association between gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and endometriosis. We conducted a two-sample and bidirectional Mendelian randomization analysis to determine whether those associations are ca…

2023
Frontiers in endocrinology ·doi:10.3389/fendo.2023.1283197

BackgroundHuman chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) as one of the first signals secreted by the embryo to the mother may have a direct effect on the endometrium at implantation. The current study was aim to compare the clinical outcomes after froz…

other 2023
Molecular and cellular endocrinology ·doi:10.1016/j.mce.2023.111952

Endometriosis is characterized by the presence of endometrial tissue outside the uterus that not only causes severe pelvic pain and infertility but also increased risk for ovarian carcinogenesis in women of reproductive age. Here, we found …

article 2023
Chinese medical journal ·doi:10.1097/cm9.0000000000002649

Endometriosis, a heterogeneous, inflammatory, and estrogen-dependent gynecological disease defined by the presence and growth of endometrial tissues outside the lining of the uterus, affects approximately 5-10% of reproductive-age women, ca…

2021
Diagnostic pathology ·doi:10.1186/s13000-021-01104-4

BackgroundImpaired endometrial receptivity is a major reason for embryo implantation failure. There's a paucity of information regarding the role of circRNAs on endometrial receptivity. Here, we investigated the function of hsa_circ_001946 …

2021
Frontiers in pharmacology ·doi:10.3389/fphar.2021.697643

Melatonin (N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine; MLT) has been shown to have a renal-protective effect against kidney injury. However, the mechanisms underlying the protective role of MLT in sepsis-induced renal injury are yet to be revealed. In th…

2020
Frontiers in genetics ·doi:10.3389/fgene.2020.616998

Background: Autophagy plays an important role in the development of cancer. However, the prognostic value of autophagy-related genes (ARGs) in cervical cancer (CC) is unclear. The purpose of this study is to construct a survival model for p…

2019
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery ·doi:10.21037/qims.2019.09.03

Masses involving the abdominal wall are common in clinical practice and have many etiologies, including tumors and tumor-like lesions. Abdominal wall tumors include primary and secondary tumors, the former of which constitute a heterogeneou…

article 2019
European review for medical and pharmacological sciences ·doi:10.26355/eurrev_201908_18719

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the regulatory role of long non-coding ribonucleic acid (lncRNA) BRAF-activated non-coding RNA (BANCR) in rats with endometriosis (EMs) and its mechanism of action. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 30 healthy, unm…

2019
Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity ·doi:10.1155/2019/2197017

Acute lung injury (ALI) is a critical event involved in the pathophysiological process of acute pancreatitis (AP). Many methods have been widely used for the treatment of AP-ALI, but few are useful during early inflammation. Lipoxin A4 (LXA…

2016
Oncotarget ·doi:10.18632/oncotarget.7525

High levels of arsenic in drinking water, soil, and air are associated with the higher incidences of several kinds of cancers worldwide, but the mechanism is yet to be fully discovered. Recently, a number of evidences show that dysregulatio…

2010
International journal of andrology ·doi:10.1111/j.1365-2605.2009.01031.x

The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) is a ligand-activated transcription factor that mediates diverse dioxin toxicities. While the acute effects of activation of the AhR pathway by 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) have been a focus…

2009
Reproductive toxicology (Elmsford, N.Y.) ·doi:10.1016/j.reprotox.2009.03.004

The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) mediates the effects of many endocrine disruptors and contributes to the loss of fertility in polluted environments. Female rats exposed chronically to environmentally relevant doses of the AHR agonist 2,…