• Journal of Dental Rehabilitation and Applied Science
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.123-129
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• 2016

Whereas a somatic pain notifies tissue damage, a neuropathic pain presents disorder of the nerve itself. The causes of neuropathic pains are trauma, infection, chronic irritation by adjacent tissue and so on. The iatrogenic trauma or infection also causes traumatic neuropathy, which may exert a bad influence on doctor-patient relationship. Some of related dental treatments are implantation (directly or indirectly through heating), root canal treatment, teeth extraction, block anesthesia, mandibular surgery. If inappropriate management is performed after nerve trauma, there will be many chances to develop chronic neuropathy for the patient. It is important that the sign of nerve trauma have to be caught by the practitioner as soon as possible and treated properly.

• Korean Journal of Clinical Laboratory Science
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• v.54 no.2
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• pp.157-162
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• 2022

The purpose of the direct cortical and subcortical stimulation technique is to prevent false positives caused by transcranial electrical motor evoked potentials (TceMEP) in surgery on patients with brain tumors that have occurred around the motor cortex and to preserve the correct mapping of motor areas during surgery and the corticospinal tract. In addition, it reduces the trial and error that occurs during the intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring (INM) process and minimizes the test time, so that accurate information is communicated to the surgeon with quick feedback on the test results. The most important factors of this technique are, first, examination at a stimulus threshold of a certain intensity, and second, maintaining anesthesia depth at an appropriate level to prevent false positives from occurring during surgery. The third is the installation of a multi-level channel recording electrode on the opposite side of the area of operation to measure the TceMEP waveform and the response to direct cortical and subcortical stimulation in as many muscles as possible. If these conditions are maintained, it is possible to predict causes that may occur in other factors, not false positives, from the INM test.

• Journal of the korean academy of Pediatric Dentistry
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.95-100
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• 2011

Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva(FOP) is characterized by episodes of permanent heterotopic ossifications of soft tissues throughout the body. FOP is inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern, but most cases result from new mutations in the ACVR1 gene. Even minimal trauma can cause permanent ossifications of soft tissues and give rise to complications following routine dental care. Dental block anesthesia, severe stretching of the jaw and biopsies are all contraindicated in children with FOP. There is no effective treatment. Since the prevalence of FOP is very low and most patients with FOP are misdiagnosed during childhood, they undergo dangerous and unnecessary treatment that can lead to permanent harm. For patients with FOP, early diagnosis and prevention of complications are most important. This study aims at contemplating the characteristic features and consideration factors for the dental treatment of FOP patients in relation to the case of an eight years-and-one month old boy who was referred to Pediatric Dentistry due to prolonged retention of mandibular right and left deciduous central incisors after being diagnosed with sporadic FOP at Pediatric Orthopaedics, Seoul National University Hospital, and received dental treatment without the exacerbation of the FOP symptoms.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Dental Administration
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.1-12
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• 2017

Although dental hygienists have performed chair-side assisting and other dental cares as well as preventive dental cares in Korea, medical technician law confines duties of dental hygienists as closed narrative. The aim of this study was to investigate difference in perception of duties of dental hygienists in dental clinic between dentists and dental hygiene students. A total of 245 copies of questionnaires were distributed to dentists and students by post-mail. Only 42 dentists and 30 students in an area replied these questionnaires about the present and future duties of dental hygienists after providing written consent. Both groups agreed that intra and extra oral X-ray taking, education about oral health behavior, instruction after dental treatment, chair-side assisting, consulting for patients, scaling, initial impression taking, management of dental materials and equipment, sterilization of equipment, and receiving dental bills are duties of dental hygienists. However, they had different perceptions about various dental treatments as duties of dental hygienists even if they were under instructions of a dentist, including infiltration anesthesia, filling in cavity, intramuscular injection, FC change, canal irrigation, orthodontic treatment including separating, ligature bracket bonding and removing, setting crown and bridge, making individual, removing implant screw, and so on. These findings demonstrated that there were different perceptions about duties of dental hygienists between dentists and dental hygiene students, especially on dental treatment.

• The Korean Journal of Pharmacology
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.27-40
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• 1992

The purpose of the present study is an attempt to investigate the effect of intraventricular taurine, which is a naturally occuring amino acid containing sulfur and has inhibitory action in brain, on heart rate and blood pressure in the urethane anesthetized rabbits and also to elucidate the mechanism of its cardiovascular actions. Taurine $(0.15{\sim}1.5\;mg)$ injected into the lateral ventricle of anesthetized normontensive rabbits produced a dose-related fall in arterial blood pressure and heart rate, which were marked and long-lasting along with considerable respiratory depression. However, the intravenous administration of taurine at the same dose with intraventricular injection did not induce any changes in blood pressure as well as heart rate. Depressor responses induced by taurine were inhibited significantly by pretreatment with chlorisondamine, clonidine, strychnine and bicuculline but not by atropine, vagotomy, propranolol and metoclopramide. Moreover, taurine did not affect the pressor responses of norepinephrine. Taurine-induced bradycardic effects were blocked clearly by pretreatment with chlorisondamine, propranolol, clonidine, strychnine and bicuculline, while they were not influenced by atropine, vagotomy and metoclopramide. These experimental results suggest that intraventricular taurine causes long-lasting hypotensive and bradycardic actions, and that these cardiovascular effects may be exerted through taurinergic (glycinergic) and GABAergic receptors which are associated with catecholaminergic neurons in brain.

• Journal of the korean academy of Pediatric Dentistry
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.467-475
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• 1998

악안면 영역에 동통이 가하여지면 회피반사의 일종인 개구반사가 유발되며, 개구반사의 크기는 뇌간의 중추에 전달된 동통의 크기에 비례한다. 따라서 동통의 정도를 악이복근의 근전도를 이용하여 정량화 할 수 있고 동통의 지표로 이용할 수 있다. 본 실험은 악안면동통에 의하여 유발된 개구반사의 크기가 침점(족삼리) 전기자극으로 감소되는지와 이러한 전기침의 효과가 나타나는데 opioid 물질이 관여하는지에 대하여 연구하고자 하였다. 8주 이상, 150g이상의 Sprague-Dawley계 쥐 34 마리를 암수 구별없이 이용하여 실험하였다. 복강 내 Urethane용액(1.5g/kg)을 주입 전신마취하고 악이복근을 노출시켜 근전도 기록을 위한 한쌍의 선전극을 삽입하였다. 동통유발을 위하여 구강내 하악 이공주변에 0.1mm의 선전극을 한쌍 삽입하고 전기자극기에 연결하였다. 유해자극 조건은 duration $100{\mu}sec$, interval 5sec의 pulse로 정하고 자극의 크기는 개구반사를 일으키는 역치의 2배 크기로 하며 매 측정시마다 동일 자극을 10회식 가하여 평균하였다. 침점의 전기자극을 위하여 침점의 하나인 족삼리(Zusanli)에 표면전극(넓이 $0.4cm^2$ 정도)을 부착하고 자극부위가 약한 근수축을 일으키는 강도인 $100{\mu}sec$, 5V, 2Hz의 자극을 20분간 가하였다. 악이복근의 근전도는 교류증폭기 (Dam80, WPI, USA) 에서 1000배 증폭하여 유해자극이 가해진 순간 oscilloscope 에서 관찰하여 그 크기를 측정하였다. 침점의 전기자극으로 나타나는 진통효과가 opioid의 분비와 관련있는지 알아보기 위하여 opioid 의 길항제인 naloxone(0.2mg/kg)을 복강 내로 투여하였다. 실험군을 4군(group I - IV)으로 분류하였고 각 군에서 근전도를 측정한 단계는 다음과 같다. group I : control 침점에 전기자극 20 분간 가한후(EA), 20분후(EA20) group II : control 침점에 전기자극 20분간 가한후(EA), naloxone 투여 20분후(NX) group III : control naloxone 투여 5분후 침점에 전기자극 20분 가한후(NxEA20) group IV : control naloxone 투여 20분후(NX20) 구강내에 가해진 유해자극에 의하여 발생하는 악이복근 근전도는 족삼리 침점의 전기자극으로 그 크기가 감소하였고 이러한 침점자극의 효과는 naloxone의 투여로 인하여 억제되었다. 이와 같은 결과는 침점자극으로 진통작용이 나타나는데에 opioid 물질이 관여하고 있음을 시사한다.

• Journal of the korean academy of Pediatric Dentistry
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.368-375
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• 2011

The aim of this study was to evaluate the position of the mandibular foramen in panoramic radiographs of Korean children to provide information for successful inferior alveolar nerve block anesthesia. 240 panoramic radiographs of 7 to 15-year-old boys and girls were analyzed. The subjects were divided into 4 groups in boys and girls according to their age.; 7-8, 9-10, 11-12 and 13-15 years old. The shortest distances from the center of the mandibular foramen to the anterior border of ramus, to the posterior border of ramus, to the antegonial notch and to the mandibular notch and the perpendicular distances from the center of the mandibular foramen to the occlusal plane were measured. The following results were obtained. 1) Although the relative position of the mandibular foramen in the ramus of mandible tended to move anteriorly for both genders with age, the vertical position did not correlate with age. 2) The mandibular foramen moved upward in relation to the occlusal plane with age, and showed statistically significant correlation with age(p<0.05). 3) The mandibular foramina of boys, when compared to those of girls, were located more superiorly in relation to the occlusal plane and more superiorly and posteriorly in the ramus of mandible.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.533-536
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• 2019

Recombinant baculoviruses are widely used to express heterologous genes in cultured insect cells. Recombinant baculoviruses can serve as gene-transfer vectors for expression of recombinant proteins in a wide range of mammalian cell types. Baculovirus system has significant benefits in view of safety, large-scale, and high level of gene expression. In this study, baculoviral vectors which were reconstructed from pOPINEneo-3C-GFP vector, were recombined with cytomegalovirus (CMV) promoter, green fluorescent protein (GFP), and p53 with NcoI and XhoI. These recombinant vectors were infected with various cells and cell lines. The baculovirus vector thus developed was analyzed by comparing the metastasis and expression of the recombinant genes with conventional vectors. These results suggest that the baculovirus vector has higher efficiency in metastasis and expression than the control vector. This work was supported by a grant from Mid-Career Researcher Program(NRF-2016R1A2B4016552) through the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning(MSIP).

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.33 no.7
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• pp.531-537
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• 2023

Intracellular and axonal transport is mediated by microtubule-dependent motor proteins, such as kinesins and cytoplasmic dynein. Kinesin moves along the microtubule to the positive end of the microtubule, while dynein moves to the negative end of the microtubule. Kinesin-1 was first identified as a kinesin superfamily protein (KIF) that functions in the intracellular transport of various cargoes, including organelles, neurotransmitter receptors, and mRNA-protein complexes, through interactions between the carboxyl (C)-terminal domain and the cargo. It interacts with other cargoes, but the adapter/scaffold proteins that mediate between kinesin-1 and the cargo have yet to be fully identified. In this study, a yeast two-hybrid screen was used to identify adapter proteins that interact with the C-terminal region of KIF5A. We found an association between the C-terminal region of KIF5A and the cyclin-dependent kinase 2-associated protein 1 (CDK2AP1), originally identified in malignant hamster oral keratinocytes. CDK2AP1 bound to the C-terminal region of KIF5A and did not interact with KIF3A (the motor of kinesin-2), KIF5B, KIF5C, and kinesin light chain 1 (KLC1). The C-terminal region of CDK2AP1 is essential for its interaction with KIF5A. When co-expressed in HEK-293T cells, CDK2AP1 and kinesin-1 co-immunoprecipitated and co-localized in the cells. These results suggest that the KIF5A-CDK2AP1 interaction serves as an adapter protein connecting kinesin-1 and the cargo when kinesin-1 transports cargo in cells.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.553-564
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• 1998

Background: The immediate hoot response to LPS is the production of proinflammatory cytokines that act as intercellular mediators in inflammatory reactions, including acute lung injury. These "early response" cytokines transmit signals from recognition cells to target or effector cells. This host response is further amplified by the expression of leukocyte chemoattractants, growth factors, and adhesion molecules, resulting in an array of proinflammatory events. This experiment was performed to define the lung origin of proinflammatory cytokines, such as TNF-$\alpha$, IL 6 in early periods of endotoxin induced acute lung injury (ALI). Method: The healthy male Sprague-Dawley, weighted 150 - 250g, were divided into saline control (NC) and endotoxemia-induced ALI (ETX-), and leukopenic endotoxemia-induced ALI (CPA-ETX-Group) which was induced by cyclophosphamide, 70 mg/kg i.p. injection. Acute lung injury was evoked by LPS, 5 mg/kg, intravenously administered. Bronchoalveolar lavage was performed at 0, 3, 6 h after LPS-treated to estimate the influx of phagocytes and concentration of total protein, and cytokines as TNF-$\alpha$ and IL 6 by a bioassy using MIT method. We also examined the localization of TNF-$\alpha$ and IL 6 protein in endotoxemia-challenged lung tissue by immunohistochemical stain (IH). Results: The total cell, macrophage and PMN count in BALF were elavated in ETX group compared to NC(p<0.05). In CPA-ETX group, total cell and macrophage count in BALF were not changed compared to NC. but PMN count was markedly reduced and it took part in less than 0.1 % of total BAL cells (p<0.01). The protein concentration in BALF were significantly increased in ETX and CPA-ETX group Compared to NC (p<0.05), but there was significant difference between ETX- and CPA-ETX group only at 6 h (p<0.05). This observation suggested that even if PMNs are involved in the pathogenesis of acute lung injury, their role cannot be viewed as essential The concentration of TNF-$\alpha$ and IL 6 in BALF was significantly increased in the ETX- and CPA-ETX group compared to NC. There was no difference between ETX- and CPA-ETX group. In IH, anti-TNF-$\alpha$- and anti-IL 6 antibody was strongly localized at interstitial monocytes and alveolar macrophages in endotoxemia-challenged lung tissue. From above point of view, activated alveolar macrophage/monocyte considered as a prominent source of proinflammatory cytokines in endotoxemia-challenged lung injury. Conclusion: The prominent source of proinflammatory cytokines in early periods of endotoxemia-induced lung injury will be the activated resident macrophages like an alveolar macrophage and interstitial monocytes. The pulmonary macrophage/monocyte will impact the initiation and continuance of lung injury without PMNs's certain inflammatory role, particularly in endotoxemia-induced acute lung injury.