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Review of Biochemical Bone Metabolism Markers Change in Osteoporosis Incidence Factors (골다공증 발생요인에 따른 골대사 생화학적 지표의 변동 고찰)

  • Lee Hye-Ja
    • The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.412-422
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    • 2002
  • The use of biochemical markers of bone turnover may be particular interest in the investigation of bone disorders with osteoporosis. Serum osteocalcin(OC), total alkaline phosphatase and procollagen C, reflecting bone formation, and urinary pyridinium cross-links excretion, reflecting bone reabsorption have been measured in hyperthyroidism, postmenopause women, after testosterone supplementation, androgen, testosterone and estrogen deficiency, bone mineral density degree, age duration. Bone marks which is reflect to metabolic bone disorders are biochemical indices method to measure enzyme activity about bone formation, bone absorption and bone components in blood or urine. Bone metabolism biochemical marks are correlated with osteophorotic agents and also represent significantly different between bone mineral density and bone biochemical marks. Therefore if we develope and use bone metabolism marks which have higher sensitivity and specificity in bone formation and bone absorption, I think that these bone biochemical marks can have utility in the clinical application to predict osteoporosis risk group, bone loss, bone fracture and response degree to treatment of osteoporosis risk groups.

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Theoretical Study for the Characteristics of Finasteride (피나스테라이드의 특성에 대한 이론적 연구)

  • Lee, Chul-Jae;Jung, Maeng-Joon;Kim, Dong-Yeub
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.69-74
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    • 2013
  • Finasteride, ($5{\alpha}$, $17{\beta}$)-N-(1,1-dimethylethyl)-3-oxo-4-azaandrost-1-ene-17-carboxamide), is a 5a-reductase enzyme inhibitor. This enzyme converts testosterone to the more potent androgen, a-dihydrotestosterone. This molecules a logical medical treatment for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), as it induced a reduction in serum dihydrotestosterone and prostatic specific antigen levels with a concomittant increase in blood testosterone concentration . Despite its widespread use, little has been published concerning its molecular properties. Therefore, in this study, in order to explain characteristics of finasteride, total energy, net charge, vibrational mode of melatonin are calculated by PM3 methods of HyperCam 8.0.

Clinical and Electrodiagnostic Features of Kennedy Disease (Kennedy 병의 임상적, 전기 진단적 특징)

  • Oh, Byeong Cheol;Lim, Young-Min;Kim, Kwang Kuk
    • Annals of Clinical Neurophysiology
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.11-15
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    • 2003
  • Backgrounds: Kennedy disease is a X-linked recessive disease characterized by bulbar symptoms, proximal muscle weakness, and gynecomastia. Methods: We analyzed clinical symptoms and performed electrodiagnostic studies on 6 patients. Results: We found following features: 1) proximal muscle weakness 2) bulbar symptoms, as dysarthria, facial and tongue atrophy 3) hyporeflexia or areflexia 4) fasciculations, predominantly on face, and proximal upper extremities 5) decreased sensory nerve action potentials(SNAPs) 6) chronic neurogenic changes in needle EMG. Conclusions: Kennedy disease is characterized by degenerative process of anterior horn cell and dorsal root ganglion without upper motor neuron dysfunction. Increased triple nucleotide CAG repeats(>38) in androgen receptor gene of Xp21 will confirm early stage of this disease.

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Activation of Hypoxia Inducible Factor-1 Alpha by Estrogen Receptor Alpha (에스트로젠 수용체알파에 의한 Hypoxia Inducible Factor-1의 전사 활성조절)

  • Ryu, Kwang-Hee;Lee, Young-Joo
    • YAKHAK HOEJI
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    • v.54 no.2
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    • pp.102-105
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    • 2010
  • Our previous results showed that hypoxia inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) activated estrogen receptor (ER) in the absence of ligand. In this study, we have studied the effect ER overexpression on the activation of HIF-1. ER overexpression induced transcription activation of hypoxia response element driven luciferase and vascular endothelial growth factor. As a negative control, the effect of ER on androgen receptor response element was used. Our result indicate that the two ER$\alpha$ and HIF-1 signaling pathways shares part of the activation pathway.

Ddt Increase Aromatase Gene Expression and Activity in Leydig Cells

  • Lee, Kyung-Jin;Kim, Ji-Young;Shin, Dong-Weon;Cho, Young-Rhan;Jung, Kyung-Sik;You, Ho-Jin;Jeong, Hye-Gwang
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Toxicology Conference
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    • 2003.10b
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    • pp.137-137
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    • 2003
  • Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) is a widespread environmental pollutant. Earlier reports have demonstrated that DDT is an endocrine-active compound capable of affecting early-stage sexual differentiation in male rats. Experiments based on receptor binding affinity and receptor-mediated transcriptional activation have identified DDE as an androgen receptor antagonist.(omitted)

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Inhibitory Activities of Chinese Herbs that Clear Heat on $3{\alpha}-Hydroxysteroid$ dehydrogenase (한방청열제의 $3{\alpha}-Hydroxysteroid$ dehydrogenase에 대한 억제효과)

  • Ahn, Jung-Su;Choi, Seung-Youn;Kwon, Yong-Soo;Kim, Chang-Min
    • Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.8-12
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    • 1998
  • $3{\alpha}-Hydroxysteroid$ dehydrogenase $(3{\alpha}-HSD)$ is one of the main enzymes involved in the metabolism of the active androgen, dihydrotestosterone. The NAD(P)-linked $3{\alpha}-HSD$ of rat liver cytosol is powerfully inhibited by the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in rank-order of their therapeutic potency. This observation has now been developed into a rapid screen for predicting the potency of products that show anti-inflammatory effect. 52-Chinese Herbs that clear heat were screened by using this method.

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Aplastic Anemia Secondary to Methimazole-Case Report and Review- (Methimazole에 의한 재생불량성빈혈(再生不良性貧血) - 증례보고(症例報告) 및 문헌고찰(文獻考察))

  • Hong, Kee-Suck;Lee, Gwon-Jun;Kim, Byoung-Kook;Koh, Chang-Soon;Lee, Mun-Ho
    • The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.71-75
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    • 1977
  • A case is reported of aplastic anemia occuring during Methimazole therapy. Since this seems to be a kind of self-limiting disease having considerably rapid recovery, much more detailed supportive therapy is considered to be crucial rather than any other corticosteroid or the androgen therapy.

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동자개 Pseudobagrus fulvidraco에서의 tamoxifen 첨가 먹이 공급 효과. 2. 체성분

  • 박인석;오흥식;임재현;구재근
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Fisheries Technology Conference
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    • 2001.05a
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    • pp.226-227
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    • 2001
  • 어류에서 steroid hormone은 그 분자 구조를 변환시켜, 물질대사를 증진시킴과 동시에 androgen효과를 억제 시킴으로서 어류 양식산업에서 성장촉진제로 사용되고있다(Higgs et al., 1982). 동자개 Pseudobagrus fulvidraco(Siluriformes, Bagridae)는 우리나라의 황해와 남해로 유입되는 유속이 완만한 하천의 모래나 진음이 많은 바닥에 서식하고, 국외로는 중국. 대만 및 시베리아 동부에도 분포하고 있으며(김,1997) 현재 양식 산업화가 진행되고 있는 어종이다. Tamoxifen은 동자개에서 효과적인 성전환 효과를 보이는 비 steroid계 hormone임이 이미 밝혀진 바(김, 1999),본 연구는 양식 산업성 증대 목적으로 tamoxifen 첨가 먹이 공급시 체성분을 분석하여 그 효과를 평가하고자 한다. (중략)

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Precision Medicine in Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer (거세저항성전립선암에서 정밀의학에 대한 고찰)

  • Kim, Won Tae;Yun, Seok Joong;Kim, Wun-Jae
    • The Korean Journal of Urological Oncology
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.97-102
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    • 2018
  • Prostate cancer is usually managed by androgen deprivation therapy after failure of primary treatment. However, such therapies are only temporarily effective in prostate cancer patients, and the most patients experience the progression to castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). Docetaxel chemotherapy is conventional effective treatment for CRPC but has many adverse effects. In CRPC patients, treatment decisions were not typically base on the recognitions of inter-individual differences. Therefore, there are growing interests for precision medicine in CRPC. In this review, we summarized the precision medicine such as candidate target genes and potential therapies in CRPC.

Quantification of Three Prohibited Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids in Equine Urine using Gas Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry

  • Young Beom Kwak;Shaheed Ur Rehman;Hye Hyun, Yoo
    • Mass Spectrometry Letters
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.104-109
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    • 2023
  • Anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) are used illegally to enhance muscle development and increase strength and power. In this study, a reliable, and sensitive quantitative method was developed and validated using heptafluorobutyric acid anhydride (HFPA) derivatives for the simultaneous detection of prohibited AAS (testosterone [TS], boldenone [BD], 5α-estrane-3β,17α-diol [EAD]) using gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (GC-MS/MS). For processing the samples, solid phase extraction, methanolic hydrolysis, and liquid-liquid extraction were used. For detection using mass spectrometry, the multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) mode was used with the electron ionization (EI) positive mode. The method was evaluated for selectivity, linearity, lower limit of quantification, intra- and inter-day precision, accuracy, and stability. The results showed that the method was accurate and reproducible for the quantitation of the three steroids. The developed method was finally applied to the analysis of a suspect gelding urine sample received from the Asian Quality Assurance Program (AQAP).