Akira Yokoi

ORCID: 0000-0003-0789-5102 · 7 papers in corpus · active 2020-2026

Study types

  • article 5
  • other 1
  • review 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 5
  • mesh:D004715 2
  • infertility 1
  • endometrioma 1
article 2026
·doi:10.1038/s43856-026-01704-5

Endometriosis is defined as the ectopic proliferation of endometrial cells. Aberrant signal transduction is present in ectopic endometriotic lesions, and bacteria also contributes to the development of endometriosis by transmitting pathogen…

article 2025
·doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2025.e44099

Abstract Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are secreted from mammalian cells and bacteria and are involved in disease pathogenesis. Recently, bacterial factors have been linked to the pathogenesis of endometriosis. Therefore, identifying host-ba…

other 2024
Frontiers in endocrinology ·doi:10.3389/fendo.2024.1442684

INTRODUCTION: Endometriosis can cause of infertility, and evaluation methods for predicting clinical pregnancy outcomes are desired. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) exist in blood and it contains small non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) that may reflect…

review 2023
iScience ·doi:10.1016/j.isci.2023.108739

The pathogenesis of endometriosis is a complex process, and recent research has introduced novel hypotheses in this field. This review summarizes recent studies on the pathogenesis of endometriosis. We focused on several classical hypothese…

article 2023
Reproductive biology ·doi:10.1016/j.repbio.2023.100821
article 2022
·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
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…