Eun‐Ju Lee
ORCID: 0000-0001-9446-1059
· 4 papers in corpus
other
2025
BACKGROUND: Approximately 100,000 human endogenous retroviruses (HERV) are integrated into the human genome. Most HERVs are not expressed; however, transcription within the family HERV-K, a class II beta-retrovirus, occurs in specific cance…
observational
2023
BACKGROUND: The intra-abdominal cavity, surrounded by adipocytes, is the main metastatic site of epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, and peritoneal cancer. Epidemiological and molecular studies have demonstrated a link between adipose tissu…
observational
2016
Endometriosis is a major cause of disability in women, and 40% to 50% of patients experience disease recurrence by 5 years after surgery. This multicenter retrospective cohort study (N = 588) determined the rate and risk factors for recurre…
lab-animal
2013
Mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) is known to be a major negative regulator of autophagy. Recent studies have shown that mTOR activity is abnormally increased in endometriotic lesions. In endometriosis, abnormal mTOR activity may contrib…