Satoru Motoyama
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· 6 papers in corpus
· active 2004-2015
OBJECTIVE: Endometriosis is an immune-related, chronic inflammatory disease with polygenic predis-position. Cell adhesion molecules are expressed in endometriotic lesions, and in cells and tissues that are involved in the development and pr…
Endometriosis is a complex trait, which means that multiple susceptibility genes interact with one another and the environment to produce the phenotype. One of the genes previously implicated in the disease is CYP17; this encodes the enzyme…
BACKGROUND: Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) is a multifunctional proinflammatory cytokine, associated with various inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. Elevated TNF-alpha levels in peritoneal fluid have been reported in women with …