Nobuhisa Yoshikawa

ORCID: 0000-0001-8662-9421 · 7 papers in corpus
other 2025
Journal of extracellular biology ·doi:10.1002/jex2.70073

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are present in body fluids and act as disease biomarkers. Emerging evidence has proven that EVs are released not only from mammalian cells but also from bacteria. Ovarian cancer has a dismal prognosis because of…

observational 2024
BMC cancer ·doi:10.1186/s12885-024-13218-1

BACKGROUND: The accumulation of ascites is a major symptom of ovarian cancer. The volume of ascites is a pathophysiological indicator of the peritoneal environment, such as inflammation and fibrosis; however, the relationship between the vo…

lab-animal 2022
Matrix biology : journal of the International Society for Matrix Biology ·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…

observational 2020
Journal of gynecologic oncology ·doi:10.3802/jgo.2020.31.e47

OBJECTIVE: The impact of systematic retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy (SRL) remains controversial in patients with advanced ovarian clear-cell carcinoma (CCC) who are optimally debulked. METHODS: Between 1986 and 2017, a total of 3,227 women…

observational 2020
Scientific reports ·doi:10.1038/s41598-020-64171-5

The prognostic nutritional index (PNI), which reflects preoperative malnutrition, is useful for predicting the incidence of postoperative complications and has been reported in recent years to predict the long-term prognosis of various mali…

review 2019
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…

observational 2019
European journal of obstetrics & gynecology and reproductive biology: X ·doi:10.1016/j.eurox.2019.100071

INTRODUCTION: The aim of this study was to evaluate the oncologic outcome of women with stage I ovarian endometrioid carcinoma (EC) who underwent fertility-sparing surgery (FSS). MATERIALS AND NETHODS: Between 1986 and 2017, a total of 322…