Vida Kocbek

No ORCID on file · 8 papers in corpus · active 2013-2016

Study types

  • article 7
  • review 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 8
  • chronic_pelvic_pain 1
  • endometrioma 1
article 2016
Journal of reproductive immunology ·doi:10.1016/j.jri.2016.06.004
review 2016
Human reproduction update ·doi:10.1093/humupd/dmv060

BACKGROUND: Endometriosis, the growth of endometrial tissue outside the uterine cavity, is associated with chronic pelvic pain, subfertility and an increased risk of ovarian cancer. Current treatments include the surgical removal of the les…

article 2016
Molecular human reproduction ·doi:10.1093/molehr/gaw054

STUDY QUESTION: Can the activity of the IκB kinase (IKKβ) complex in endometriotic cells contribute to endometriotic lesion survival? SUMMARY ANSWER: There is a constitutive activity of the IKKβ catalytic complex in peritoneal and deeply in…

article 2015
The Journal of molecular diagnostics : JMD ·doi:10.1016/j.jmoldx.2015.01.006
article 2014
Chemico-biological interactions ·doi:10.1016/j.cbi.2014.11.009
article 2014
Gynecological endocrinology : the official journal of the International Society of Gynecological Endocrinology ·doi:10.3109/09513590.2014.898055

In our previous low-density-array gene-expression analysis we found an increased expression of biglycan gene in ovarian endometriosis patients. In the present study we evaluated biglycan expression at the protein level in tissue, serum and …

article 2014
Gynecological endocrinology : the official journal of the International Society of Gynecological Endocrinology ·doi:10.3109/09513590.2014.975690

Our previous gene expression analysis identified phospholipase A2 group IIA (PLA2G2A) as a potential biomarker of ovarian endometriosis. The aim of this study was to evaluate PLA2G2A mRNA and protein levels in tissue samples (endometriomas …

article 2013
Gynecological endocrinology : the official journal of the International Society of Gynecological Endocrinology ·doi:10.3109/09513590.2013.769516

The aim of this study was to evaluate serum and peritoneal fluid (PF) glycodelin-A concentrations in women with ovarian endometriosis. Ninety-nine matched pairs of serum and PF samples were included in our study. The case group comprised 57…