Yui Kitaoka

No ORCID on file · 5 papers in corpus · active 2002-2005

Study types

  • article 3
  • other 1
  • review 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 5
  • adenomyosis 2
article 2005
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism ·doi:10.1210/jc.2004-0871

Allograft inflammatory factor-1 (AIF-1) is a cytokine originally identified in rat cardiac allografts with chronic rejection. AIF-1 is expressed in various human immune-related tissues and is thought to play a role in inflammatory responses…

article 2005
Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/humrep/deh890

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic significance of CA-125 for endometriosis without ovarian endometriomas. METHODS: Preoperative serum CA-125 levels were measured in 775 consecutive women diagnosed by laparosco…

other 2004
American journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989) ·doi:10.1111/j.1600-0897.2004.00168.x

PROBLEM: Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha is a major cytokine involved in inflammatory and immune function. The aim of this study was to investigate whether polymorphisms at positions -1031, -863 and -857 in the TNF gene promoter region (T…

article 2004
Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/humrep/deh337

BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is a multifactorial disease with possible genetic predisposition and involvement of environmental factors in its pathogenesis. Cytokines may play important roles in the pathogenesis of endometriosis. The aim of thi…

review 2002
The Journal of steroid biochemistry and molecular biology ·doi:10.1016/s0960-0760(02)00260-1