Kaoru Niimi

No ORCID on file · 5 papers in corpus · active 2017-2022

Study types

  • article 4
  • review 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 3
  • mesh:D004715 1
  • endometrioma 1
article 2022
Peritoneal restoration by repurposing vitamin D inhibits ovarian cancer dissemination via blockade of the TGF-β1/thrombospondin-1 axis
·doi:10.1016/j.matbio.2022.03.003

Ovarian cancer (OvCa), a lethal gynecological malignancy, disseminates to the peritoneum. Mesothelial cells (MCs) act as barriers in the abdominal cavity, preventing the adhesion of cancer cells. However, in patients with OvCa, they are tra…

article 2020
Appendiceal intussusception from endometriosis
·doi:10.5180/jsgoe.36.1_185

Appendiceal intussusception secondary to endometriosis is extremely rare. We report a case of left ovarian endometriosis with endometriosis-induced appendiceal intussusception in a 42-year-old woman presenting with rectal bleeding and left-…

article 2020
Establishment and characterization of cell lines from human endometrial epithelial and mesenchymal cells from patients with endometriosis
F&S science ·doi:10.1016/j.xfss.2020.09.001

Objective To establish and characterize cell lines derived from human endometrial epithelial cells (ECs) and mesenchymal cells (MCs) from patients with and without endometriosis. Design In vitro experimental study. Setting University and na…

review 2019
Endometriosis and cancer
Free radical biology & medicine ·doi:10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2018.12.015

Endometriosis, characterized by the presence of extra-uterine endometrium, is a common gynecologic disorder in reproductive-age women. Although the detailed molecular mechanism of etiology remains unelucidated, recent studies have gradually…

article 2017
A novel mechanism of neovascularization in peritoneal dissemination via cancer-associated mesothelial cells affected by TGF-β derived from ovarian cancer
·doi:10.3892/or.2017.6104

Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is believed to cause peritoneum dissemination through microenvironmental cell‑to-cell communication between the tumor and mesothelium, leading to the further acquisition of progressive and metastatic potentia…