Yang B

ORCID: 0000-0002-7155-6079 · 53 papers in corpus
lab-animal 2011
Expression of the stem cell marker, Nanog, in human endometrial adenocarcinoma
International journal of gynecological pathology : official journal of the International Society of Gynecological Pathologists ·doi:10.1097/pgp.0b013e3182055a1f

The embryonic stem cell self-renewal gene, Nanog, has been shown to be expressed in several tumor types and to regulate tumor development. The aim of this study was to carry out a detailed analysis of Nanog expression in human endometrial a…

observational 2008
A case-control study of the association between urinary cadmium concentration and endometriosis in infertile Japanese women
The Science of the total environment ·doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.05.006

Cadmium may act like an estrogen and be a potential risk factor for estrogen-related diseases such as breast cancer and endometriosis. Here, we tested the hypothesis that higher cadmium exposure is associated with endometriosis among infert…

lab-animal 2008
RU486 did not exacerbate cytokine release in mice challenged with LPS nor in db/db mice
BMC pharmacology ·doi:10.1186/1471-2210-8-7

BACKGROUND: Glucocorticoids down-regulate cytokine synthesis and suppress inflammatory responses. The glucocorticoid receptor (GR) antagonist RU486 may exacerbate the inflammatory response, and concerns over this exacerbation have limited t…