Takashi Nagai

ORCID: 0000-0002-9635-4553 · 4 papers in corpus
article 2020
Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) ·doi:10.1007/s43032-019-00044-1

Endometriosis has several distinguishing features in the ectopic endometrium, including chronic inflammation and fibrosis. According to the retrograde menstruation theory, endometriotic cells are derived from eutopic endometrial cells, and …

other 2020
The American Journal of Pathology ·doi:10.1016/j.ajpath.2019.09.008

Repeated tissue injury and repair and fibrosis play a pivotal role in endometriosis. Fibrotic tissue consists of extracellular matrix proteins, regulated by transcriptional factors promoting cell proliferation and survival. Periostin is one…

other 2019
Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) ·doi:10.1177/1933719118802053

Several features exist that distinguish endometriotic cells from eutopic endometrial cells. Progesterone resistance is one of the main distinguishing features, although how progesterone resistance affects the phenotype of endometriotic cell…

article 2018
·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2018.07.1098