Xu A

No ORCID on file · 15 papers in corpus
qualitative 2026
International journal of women's health ·doi:10.2147/ijwh.s626045

ObjectiveTo explore the lived experiences of decisional conflict and support needs of women during their first assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatment, providing evidence for optimizing clinical decision support and patient-centere…

observational 2025
International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics ·doi:10.1002/ijgo.16022

To investigate the risk factors influencing very early preterm and early preterm births in twin pregnancies after in vitro fertilization (IVF) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). This retrospective study analyzed 2042 twin pregnanc…

review 2025
PeerJ ·doi:10.7717/peerj.20342

Tryptophan (Trp) is one of the essential amino acids, and its metabolic pathway is essential for the maintenance of normal human physiological activities. Among them, various metabolites and rate-limiting enzymes of the tryptophan-kynurenin…

other 2024
Frontiers in microbiology ·doi:10.3389/fmicb.2024.1417904

INTRODUCTION: Previous research has established associations between alterations in gut microbiota composition and various gynecologic tumors. However, establishing a causal relationship between gut microbiota and these tumors remains neces…

observational 2024
Medicine ·doi:10.1097/md.0000000000039553

To investigate the effects of pretreatment with long-acting gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist (GnRH-a) before frozen-thawed embryo transfer (FET) on pregnancy outcomes in patients after minimal-mild (stages I-II) peritoneal endometrios…

lab-animal 2024
Archives of gynecology and obstetrics ·doi:10.1007/s00404-024-07854-y

PURPOSE: This study aimed to establish a protocol for efficiently isolating and expanding adenomyotic lesion-derived endometrial mesenchymal stem cells (A-eMSCs) in vitro. METHODS: Three different methods-namely, the enzymatic method, the …

observational 2023
BMC pregnancy and childbirth ·doi:10.1186/s12884-023-05920-y

BACKGROUND: The study investigated whether specific ultrasonographically observed endometrial features (including endometrium type and thickness) were linked to ectopic pregnancy after stimulated cycles with fresh embryo transfer. METHOD: …

other 2023
Medicine ·doi:10.1097/md.0000000000036749

Stem cell factor (SCF) is implicated in cell growth, proliferation, differentiation, migration, and apoptosis. SCF in follicular fluid (FF) and granulosa cells (GCs) plays a key role in oocyte maturation and clinical pregnancy; however, the…

review 2023
International journal of molecular sciences ·doi:10.3390/ijms241612655

Fatty acid-binding protein-4 (FABP4), commonly known as adipocyte-fatty acid-binding protein (A-FABP), is a pleiotropic adipokine that broadly affects immunity and metabolism. It has been increasingly recognized that FABP4 dysfunction is as…

meta-analysis 2023
Pain ·doi:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002681

Neuroimaging is a powerful tool to investigate potential associations between chronic pain and brain structure. However, the proliferation of studies across diverse chronic pain syndromes and heterogeneous results challenges data integratio…

observational 2022
Frontiers in endocrinology ·doi:10.3389/fendo.2022.884553

INTRODUCTION: Endometrium characteristics that are most likely to induce ectopic pregnancy were investigated on the basis of the data of 5,960 pregnant freeze-thaw cycles. METHODS: A total of 5,960 pregnancy cycles after freeze-thaw embryo…

lab-animal 2020
Gene ·doi:10.1016/j.gene.2020.144926

Endometriosis is a frequent gynecologic disease in the world. CircRNAs can exert a crucial role in various diseases. Nevertheless, little is known about its roles in endometriosis. We investigated the involvement of circ_0061140 in endometr…

other 2019
Reproductive biology and endocrinology : RB&E ·doi:10.1186/s12958-019-0516-5

BACKGROUND: There is much value in identifying non-invasive ways of measuring endometrial receptivity, as it has the potential to improve outcomes following in vitro fertilization (IVF). It has been suggested that endometrial echogenicity o…

2016
Journal of therapeutic ultrasound
observational 2002
Zhonghua yi xue yi chuan xue za zhi = Zhonghua yixue yichuanxue zazhi = Chinese journal of medical genetics

OBJECTIVE: To make a comparative study of HLA-DQA1 and HLA-DRB1 allele frequencies in the cases of endometriosis and adeonmyosis. METHODS: The allelic types of HLA-DQA1 and HLA-DRB1 were detected by polymerase chain reaction-sequence speci…