Chi-Chen Chang
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· 19 papers in corpus
· active 2001-2011
Study types
- article 15
- other 3
- letter 1
Condition tags
- endometriosis 19
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Frequent coauthors
- Yao‐Yuan Hsieh 19
- Fuu‐Jen Tsai 18
- Hsieh YY 17
- Chang CC 17
- Tsai FJ 16
- Cheng-Chieh Lin 14
- Chang‐Hai Tsai 12
- Tsai CH 11
- Horng-Der Tsai 5
- Tsai HD 5
article
2011
X-ray repair cross-complementing group 1 (XRCC1) and human 8-oxoguanine glycosylase 1 (hOGG1) play important roles in base excision repair. KCNQ genes comprising voltage-gated ion-channels related with cell stability. Angiotensin II type 1 …
article
2009
ObjectiveTo search for novel peptides and common binding motif that specifically bind to endometriosis.DesignProspective study.SettingDepartment of Biological Science and Technology in national university.Patient(s)Specimens were divided in…
article
2008
DNA repair systems act to maintain genome integrity in the face of replication errors, environmental insults, and the cumulative effects of age. Genetic variants in DNA repair genes such as X-ray repair cross-complementing group 4 (XRCC4) m…
article
2006
Endometriosis and leiomyoma display features similar to malignancy, requiring neovascularization to proliferation and growth. Altered vascular-related genes might be related to the development of endometriosis and leiomyoma. Polymorphisms o…
article
2005
ObjectiveTo investigate the association of endometriosis with estrogen receptor alpha (ER alpha) and cytochrome P450c17alpha (CYP17) gene polymorphisms in light of the fact that estrogen plays a role in the pathogenesis of endometriosis and…
article
2005
Interleukin (IL)-2 R-627*C homozygote and C allele are related to higher susceptibility to endometriosis. Interleukin-12Rbeta1 codon 378 and IL-18 105 gene polymorphisms are not correlated with endometriosis development.
article
2005
Transforming growth factor beta (TGF-B) family members are multi-functional cytokines that play a key role in cellular growth, proliferation, and differentiation. The aim of the study was to investigate whether the TGF-B1-509 gene polymorph…
article
2005
Epithelial cadherin (E-cadherin; CDH1) may influence pericellular proteolysis and intracellular signal transduction, which plays an essential part of tumor invasion. In our study we investigated the correlation between CDH1 gene polymorphis…
article
2005
Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is a regulator of angiogenesis and mediator of sex steroid-induced cell growth and differentiation. We observed that EGFR gene 2073*T-related genotypes and allele are associated with higher susceptibi…
article
2004
Endometriosis displays features similar to malignancy, ranging from neovascularization to local invasion and aggressive spread to distant organs. The altered vascular-related genes might be related to the development of endometriosis. This …
other
2004
Estrogen plays a role in the pathogenesis of endometriosis. The CYP17 gene codes for the cytochrome P450c17alpha enzyme that is involved in the estrogen biosynthesis. We aimed to investigate if CYP17 polymorphism could be used as marker to …
other
2004
Glutathione S-transferase M1 (GSTM1), one member of the GST family, is responsible for metabolism of xenobiotics and carcinogens. Myeloperoxidase (MPO) plays an important role in the oxidation and activation of carcinogens and nitric oxide.…
article
2004
Insulin-like growth factor II (IGF2) has been shown to play a role in abnormal cell growth and carcinogenesis. We investigated if the IGF2 gene Apa I polymorphism at exon 9 was associated with the susceptibility to endometriosis, analyzing …
article
2004
OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) gene 5'-UTR-460 polymorphism could be used as a marker of susceptibility to endometriosis. STUDY DESIGN: Women were divided into 2 groups, endometriosis (n = 122) a…
article
2003
OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether interleukin-10 (IL-10) -627 gene promoter polymorphism could be used as a marker of susceptibility to endometriosis. STUDY DESIGN: Women were divided into 2 groups, endometriosis (n = 130) and nonendometrio…
other
2002
Interleukin-4 (IL-4) is a cytokine with anti-inflammatory properties. Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), a pluripotent proinflammatory cytokine, plays an important role in the process of numerous inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. …
article
2002
ObjectiveTo evaluate the association between endometriosis and the p53 polymorphism.DesignProspective study.SettingDepartment of gynecology and genetics in a medical center.Patient(s)Women with and without endometriosis.Intervention(s)Women…
letter
2001
article
2001
PurposeWe aimed to investigate if interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta) and IL-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1Ra) gene polymorphism could be used as markers of susceptibility in endometriosis.Materials and methodsWomen were divided into two groups: 1)…