Furuhashi M

To study the pathological contribution of fatty acid (FA) metabolism regulators including fatty acid binding protein 4 (FABP4), FABP5, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPARα), and PPARγ in ovarian carcinoma, non-cancerous h…

Apoptosis has recently been proposed to represent programmed cell death. Several investigations have revealed that uterine endometrium in mammals can be regulated by apoptosis. However, apoptosis may be less likely to occur in human eutopic…

Assisted reproductive technology is a widely accepted treatment for infertile women with endometriosis. The presence of an ovarian endometrial cyst reduces the quality of oocytes, while surgical resection of endometrioma may reduce the ovar…

We reviewed 1246 vaginal hysterectomies performed at Handa City Hospital between January 1984 and December 1996. We divided the patients into 2 groups: those with leiomyomas (n = 893) and those with adenomyosis (n = 353). There was no diffe…

To clarify whether apoptosis is involved in endometriosis, we obtained eutopic endometrial tissues along with endometriotic tissues from the uterus (adenomyosis) (n = 12) and from the ovary (n = 12) from patients undergoing gynaecological s…