Chih-Chao Hsu

ORCID: 0000-0001-9552-1949 · 2 papers in corpus
article 2008
The American Journal of Pathology ·doi:10.2353/ajpath.2008.080199

Aberrant expression of the steroidogenic acute regulatory (StAR) protein in human endometriotic stromal cells plays an important role in the development of endometriosis. Prostaglandin E(2) (PGE(2)) is a potent inducer of StAR expression in…

article 2003
Endocrinology ·doi:10.1210/en.2003-0289

Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR) regulates the first committed step in the biosynthesis of steroids, and thus aberrant expression of StAR in endometriotic implants plays a critical role in the etiology of endometriosis. However…