New diagnostic criteria and operative strategy for cesarean scar syndrome: Endoscopic repair for secondary infertility caused by cesarean scar defect.

Aim: The aim of the present study was to assess the efficacy of endoscopic repair for secondary infertility caused by post-cesarean scar defect (PCSD). Our investigation focused on the validity of new diagnostic criteria and selection methods.

Material And Methods: The subjects were 22 women with secondary infertility due to PCSD with retention of bloody fluid in the uterine cavity.

Expression of thymidine phosphorylase as an effect prediction factor for uterine cervical squamous cell carcinoma after radiotherapy: an immunohistochemical study.

Prognoses in cases of uterine cervical squamous cell carcinoma treated with radiotherapy were investigated in association with immunohistochemical expression of an angiogenic factor, thymidine phosphorylase (TP). Forty-six cases of uterine cervical squamous cell carcinoma mainly treated with radiotherapy during 1992-2001 at our clinic were studied. All were diagnosed as stages IIB to IVA.

Potentiation of tumor eradication by adoptive immunotherapy with T-cell receptor gene-transduced T-helper type 1 cells.

Adoptive immunotherapy using antigen-specific T-helper type 1 (Th1) cells has been considered as a potential strategy for tumor immunotherapy. However, its application to tumor immunotherapy has been hampered by difficulties in expanding tumor-specific Th1 cells from tumor-bearing hosts. Here, we have developed an efficient protocol for preparing mouse antigen-specific Th1 cells from nonspecifically activated Th cells after retroviral transfer of T-cell receptor (TCR)-alpha and TCR-beta genes.