Xuping Shao

No ORCID on file · 1 paper in corpus · active 2024

Study types

  • other 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 1
other 2024
Metformin enhances epithelial cell growth inhibition via the protein kinase-insulin-like growth factor binding protein-1 pathway
Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology : the journal of the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology ·doi:10.1080/01443615.2024.2321651

BACKGROUND: Abnormal stromal-epithelial cell communication is a pathogenic mechanism in endometriosis, and metformin can modulate it. Insulin-like growth factor binding protein-1 (IGFBP1) plays a role in endometriosis, but the exact mechani…