Study types
- article 30
- other 4
- preprint 2
- review 2
- letter 1
Condition tags
- endometriosis 35
- mesh:D004715 25
- endometrioma 11
- adenomyosis 6
- infertility 3
- mesh:D004412 2
- chronic_pelvic_pain 2
- die_deep_infiltrating 2
- dysmenorrhea 2
- dyspareunia 1
Top journals
Frequent coauthors
- Jo Kitawaki 39
- Takahide Mori 37
- Fumitake Ito 24
- Khaleque Newaz Khan 22
- Izumi Kusuki 20
- Yukiko Tanaka 17
- Akira Fujishita 15
- Hiroyuki Okimura 14
- Hisashi Kataoka 14
- Osamu Takaoka 12
other
2025
STUDY QUESTION: Does the restoration of regulatory T cells (Tregs) suppress the progression of endometriosis? SUMMARY ANSWER: Adoptive transfer of Tregs suppresses the progression of endometriosis and reduces the levels of helper T (Th)-ce…
erratum
2024
The authors regret “We are very sorry for the careless printing mistake in the proper alignment of case numbers in Table 2, Table 3 of the mentioned article. These case numbers [(n = 25) and (n = 782)] should be read above the line and belo…
other
2024
OBJECTIVE: We examined the prevalence and risk factors in association with neonatal uterine bleeding (NUB) by retrospective search of contemporary and historical medical records and investigated the possible association between the history …
article
2023
Menstrual blood, containing high iron levels, can undergo retrograde transport into the abdominal cavity. Excess iron causes oxidative stress and inflammation. Iron metabolism is regulated by hepcidin, and serum hepcidin levels are increase…
article
2023
BACKGROUND: It has been hypothesized that the origin of early-onset endometriosis could be from endometrial mesenchymal stem cells (eMSCs) in neonatal uterine blood (NUB). There is no information on the possible mechanistic basis linking an…
article
2023
Objectives: The effects of laparoscopic surgical management in women with stage III/IV endometriosis remain controversial. The standard extent of resection for stage III/IV endometriosis with deep endometriosis to treat endometriosis-associ…
preprint
2022
preprint
2022
article
2022
article
2022
article
2022
article
2022
CONTEXT: Progesterone resistance including progesterone receptor (PR) deficiency contributes to the pathophysiology of endometriosis; however, whether the PR expression levels in ovarian endometrioma (OE) correlate with the postoperative re…
article
2021
STUDY QUESTION: Is there any change in the distribution of microvilli and microtubules in the apical endometria of women with adenomyosis? SUMMARY ANSWER: We observed microvilli damage in the apical endometria and an axonemal alteration cha…
article
2021
PROBLEM: Despite abundant reports on the risk role of uterine outflow tract obstruction in endometriosis, information on the occurrence of endometriosis in women with Chlamydia trachomatis infection causing fallopian tube obstruction is unk…
other
2021
OBJECTIVE: We examined the hypothesis that antibiotic treatment with or without gonadotropin releasing hormone agonist (GnRHa) may decrease intrauterine infection with consequent decrease in tissue inflammation, cell proliferation and angio…
article
2021
Abstract Purpose Human adenomyosis has an adverse effect on female fertility. Exact mechanistic basis is still unclear. We investigated the occurrence of chronic endometritis (CE) in different types of human adenomyosis. Methods This is a p…
article
2020
Chronic inflammation in endometriosis is associated with increased risk of future cardiovascular disease; however, no studies have investigated the cardiovascular risk of women who have undergone hormonal therapy for endometriosis. We inves…
article
2020
PROBLEM: Inflammation and immune responses play crucial roles in the development of endometriosis. Although interleukin-9 (IL-9) has a pro-inflammatory function in chronic inflammatory diseases, its function in endometriosis remains unknown…
letter
2020
article
2020
BACKGROUND: The Vagi-Pipe® is a useful device for performing a total laparoscopic hysterectomy. The conventional model of the Vagi-Pipe® is unable to grasp the uterus during colpotomy for recovery of the resected uterus. However, the modifi…
article
2019
article
2019
article
2019
CONTEXT: Regulatory T (Treg) cells and T-helper-17 (Th17) cells may be involved in endometriosis. Information on the pattern of change in the percentages of Treg and Th17 cells in the peripheral blood (PB) and peritoneal fluid (PF) of women…
review
2019
BACKGROUND: It has been well established that endometriosis is an estrogen-dependent disease. Although the exact pathogenesis of the disease is still unclear, it is known to be characterized by estrogen-dependent growth and maintenance of t…
article
2019
STUDY QUESTION: Is a peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ coactivator 1α (PGC-1α)-mediated pathway involved in the development of endometriosis? SUMMARY ANSWER: PGC-1α plays critical roles in inflammation and cell proliferation of e…