BACKGROUND: Patients with cancer are treated with chemotherapeutics that cause adverse effects, including erectile dysfunction (ED). OBJECTIVES: We investigated erectile function in rats after the administration of anticancer agents based on data ...
BACKGROUND: Because androgen replacement therapy (ART) is not performed immediately after the onset of androgen deficiency, the treatment is considered to be late. AIM: To investigate the effects of late ART, starting 4 weeks after castration of r...
Tomoya Kataoka   Taiki Mori   Jun Suzuki   Yuto Kawaki   Yohei Kito   Yuji Hotta   Yoshihiro Kawade   Yasuhiro Maeda   Kazunori Kimura   
The journal of sexual medicine 18(8) 1337-1345 2021年8月
BACKGROUND: Chemotherapeutics, one of the standard treatment options for cancer worldwide, have various adverse effects, including erectile dysfunction (ED). AIM: To investigate erectile function in an animal model after administration of the anti...
Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase 1 (IDO1) is a key enzyme associated with immunomodulation through its regulation of the tryptophan-kynurenine (Kyn) pathway in advanced cancers, including metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC). However, the failure of ...
The enzyme, indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase 1 (IDO), catabolizes tryptophan (Trp) in the kynurenine (Kyn) pathway, and is important in suppressing antitumor immune responses in the tumor microenvironment. With regard to previously untreated patients w...