OBJECTIVE: To study the effect of interleukin-1β (IL-1β) on the expressions activin A, follistatin, and cripto in cultured human endometrial stromal cells (HESCs) form patients with endometriosis. METHODS: Cultured HESCs were stimulated wit…
Gene expression profiling of PPARα has been used in several studies, but fewer studies went further to identify the tissue-specific pathways or genes involved in PPARα activation in genome-wide. Here, we employed and applied gene set enrich…
BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is an enigmatic disease. Gene expression profiling of endometriosis has been used in several studies, but few studies went further to classify subtypes of endometriosis based on expression patterns and to identify …
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether polymorphisms of the estrogen receptor alpha (ERalpha) and interleukin-10 (IL-10) genes are associated with endometriosis in a Chinese population. DESIGN: Association study. SETTING: University hospital. P…
The classification of the uterine myoma and adenomyosis from their ultrasound images mainly depends on doctors' experience and lacks objective criterions. Here a novel classification method is proposed using the multiresolution analysis and…