• Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
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• 제43권4호
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• pp.309-316
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• 2009

목적: $^{18}$F-FDG PET/CT는 다양한 장관내 악성 종양을 발견하는데 높은 민감도를 보이고 있다. 하지만 $^{18}$F-FDG가 다양한 형태로 장관 내 생리적, 병리적 섭취증가를 보이기 때문에 그 특이도는 낮다. 이 연구는 장관 내 국소적인 $^{18}$F-FDG 섭취증가를 보일 때 생리적 섭취와 병리적 섭취를 감별하는 데 있어 추가 지연(dual time point) $^{18}$F-FDG PET/CT의 임상적 유용성을 알아보고자 하였다. 대상 및 방법: 2007년 1월부터 2008년 6월까지 장관 내 국소적인 섭취증가를 보여 추가 지연 촬영 $^{18}$F-FDG PET/CT를 실시한 132명(남:여=77:55, 나이 62.8$\pm$11.6세)을 대상으로 하였다. $^{18}$F-FDG 정맥 주사 후 50-60분 후에 조기 영상을 촬영하였고, 정맥 주사 후 4-5시간에 국소 섭취 증가 부위를 포함하고 있는 복부 부위에 대해 추가 지연 촬영을 실시하였다. 초기 영상에서 보였던 국소적 섭취가 지연 영상에서 보이지 않거나 이동하였을 경우에는 생리적 섭취증가로 간주하였고, 지연 영상에서 지속적으로 관찰되는 섭취증가에 대해서는 대장내시경과 병리조직 검사를 실시하였다. 지연 영상에서 지속적으로 관찰되는 장관 내 섭취에 대해서는 각각 Suvmax값과 조기 영상과 지연 영상의 Syvmax값의 차이($\Delta$%Suvmax)를 계산하였다. 결과: 132명의 환자에서 153개의 국소적 섭취증가병소를 관찰할 수 있었다. 이 중 72개 병소에서는 지연 영상에서 섭취 증가가 사라져 생리적 섭취로 판단할 수 있었다. 조기 영상에서만 보였던 생리적 섭취는 맹장을 포함한 오름 결장에서 가장 많이 관찰되었다. 지연 영상에서도 지속적으로 섭취증가를 보인 81개 병소에서 61개는 악성 종양으로 확진되었고, 14개는 양성 질환으로 확인 되었다. 나머지 6개의 병소는 대장내시경에서 특이소견을 보이지 않아 생리적 섭취로 확인되었다. 악성 종양은 $\Delta$%Suvmax가 20.8%$\pm$18.7%로 통계적으로 유의하게 증가하였고, 반대로 리 악성에서는 3.7%$\pm$24.2%로 감소하였다. 가장 유용한 진단적 가치를 주는 요소는 $\Delta$%Suvmax 임을 확인하였고, 악성과 비악성 질환을 감별하는데 임계수를 -5%로 정하였을 때 가장 좋은 민감도, 특이도, 정확도를 보였다. 결론: $^{18}$F-FDG PET/CT를 이용한 추가 지연 촬영은 생리적 섭취와 병리적 섭취를 감별하는데 있어 검사의 특이도를 높이고 불필요한 검사를 줄일 수 있는 유용한 비침습적 방법으로 생각된다.

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제65권1호
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• pp.96-106
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• 2022

Objective : The most common complication of anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) is cage subsidence and maintenance of disc height affects postoperative clinical outcomes. We considered cage subsidence as an inappropriate indicator for evaluating preservation of disc height. Thus, this study aimed to consider patients with complications such as reduced total disc height compared to that before surgery and evaluate the relevance of several factors before ACDF. Methods : We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 40 patients who underwent stand-alone single-level ACDF using a polyetheretherketone (PEEK) cage at our institution between January 2012 and December 2018. Our study population comprised 19 male and 21 female patients aged 24-70 years. The minimum follow-up period was 1 year. Twenty-seven patients had preoperative bone mineral density (BMD) data on dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry. Clinical parameters included sex, age, body mass index, smoking history, and prior medical history. Radiologic parameters included the C2-7 cobb angle, segmental angle, sagittal vertical axis, disc height, and total intervertebral height (TIH) at the preoperative and postoperative periods. Cage decrement was defined as the reduction in TIH at the 6-month follow-up compared to preoperative TIH. To evaluate the bone quality, Hounsfield unit (HU) value was calculated in the axial and sagittal images of conventional computed tomography. Results : Lumbar BMD values and cervical HU values were significantly correlated (r=0.733, p<0.001). We divided the patients into two groups based on cage decrement, and 47.5% of the total patients were regarded as cage decrement. There were statistically significant differences in the parameters of measuring the HU value of the vertebra and intraoperative distraction between the two groups. Using these identified factors, we performed a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis. Based on the ROC curve, the cut-off point was 530 at the HU value of the upper cortical and cancellous vertebrae (p=0.014; area under the curve [AUC], 0.727; sensitivity, 94.7%; specificity, 42.9%) and 22.41 at intraoperative distraction (p=0.017; AUC, 0.722; sensitivity, 85.7%; specificity, 57.9%). Using this value, we converted these parameters into a bifurcated variable and assessed the multinomial regression analysis to evaluate the risk factors for cage decrement in ACDF. Intraoperative distraction and HU value of the upper vertebral body were independent factors of postoperative subsidence. Conclusion : Insufficient intraoperative distraction and low HU value showed a strong relationship with postoperative intervertebral height reduction following single stand-alone PEEK cage ACDF.

• BMB Reports
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.100-106
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• 2007

The wound-inducible lipoxygenase obtained from maize is one of the nontraditional lipoxygenases that possess dual positional specificity. In this paper, we provide our results on the determination and comparison of the kinetic constants of the maize lipoxygenase, with or without detergents in the steady state, and characterization of the dependence of the kinetic lag phase or initial burst, on pH, substrate, and detergent in the pre-steady state of the lipoxygenase reaction. The oxidation of linoleic acid showed a typical lag phase in the pre-steady state of the lipoxygenase reaction at pH 7.5 in the presence of 0.25% Tween-20 detergent. The reciprocal correlation between the induction period and the enzyme level indicated that this lag phenomenon was attributable to the slow oxidative activation of Fe (II) to Fe (III) at the active site of the enzyme as observed in other lipoxygenase reactions. Contrary to the lagging phenomenon observed at pH 7.5 in the presence of Tween-20, a unique initial burst was observed at pH 6.2 in the absence of detergents. To our knowledge, the initial burst in the oxidation of linoleic acid at pH 6.2 is the first observation in the lipoxygenase reaction. Kinetic constants (Km and kcat values) were largely dependent on the presence of detergent. An inverse correlation of the initial burst period with enzyme levels and interpretations on kinetic constants suggested that the observed initial burst in the oxidation of linoleic acid could be due to the availability of free fatty acids as substrates for binding with the lipoxygenase enzyme.

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.115-122
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• 2000

A Bacillus thuringiensis designated NT0423, belonging to B. thuringiensis subsp. aizawai (H 7), was isolated from samples of dust and soil of sericultural farms. B. thuringiensis NT0423 having dualspecificity against Lepidoptera and Diptera produced bipyramidal inclusions consisting of two major polypeptides of approximately 130- and 70-kDa. Proteolytic processing by trypsin and gut juice of Bombyx mori yielded predominant proteins with molecular masses of about 66-kDa. The whole crystal protein of B. thuringiensis NT0423 immunologically was related to that of B. thuringiensis subsp. aizawai. PCR analysis showed that B. thuringiensis NT0423 has at least five crystal protein genes including cryIA(a), cryIA(b), cryIC, cryID and cryIIA, and southern blot was determined the location of each gene on intact and enzyme-digested plasmid DNA fragments. Except for cryIA(a) gene on the high molecular weight plasmid of 165-kb, all of four genes were located on the plasmid of 66-kb. The production of $\beta$-exotoxin from B. thuringiensis NT0423 was identified by the HPLC analysis. In addition, the $\beta$-exotoxin showed its ability to prevent pupation of treated larvae of house flies (Musca domestica) from developing into normal adults.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제14권7호
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• pp.3419-3424
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• 2013

B형간염표면 항원 및 항체(HBsAg와 anti-HBs)에 대한 검사 방법으로 화학발광면역검사법(CIA)을 포함한 면역검사법을 주로 사용하고 있으나 최근 간편한 면역크로마토그래피법(ICA)의 사용이 늘고 있는 추세이다. 본 연구에서는 CIA법을 이용한 정량검사법과 비교하여 신속검사인 ICA법의 민감도를 평가하고자 하였다. 대학병원에 간염검사를 의뢰한 검체 중 CIA법에서 양성 및 음성으로 나온 120 검체를 선정하여 ICA법으로 분석하였다. ICA법과 CIA법의 일치율은 항원 97%와 항체 90%로 나타났다. 항원검사의 ICA법 민감도, 특이도, 양성예측도, 음성예측도는 각각 97%, 100%, 100% 및 96.8%로 나타났으며, 항체검사는 각각 90%, 93.3%, 93.1% 및 90.3%로 나타났다. ICA법을 임상에서 사용 시 결과판독에 주의가 필요하며, 낮은 역가의 경우 검출되지 않는 제한점이 있으므로 예민도가 높은 다른 검사법을 이용하여 이중검사를 시행해야 할 것으로 사료된다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.1925-1929
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• 2014

Background: Vascular endothelial growth factor-C (VEGF-C), which contributes to lymphatic metastasis (LM) in malignant disease, is one of the most important factors involved in physical and pathological lymphangiogenesis. Some VEGF-C related factors such as sine oculis homeobox homolog (SIX) 1, contactin (CNTN) 1 and dual specificity phosphatase (DUSP) 6 have been extensively studied in malignancies, but their expression levels and associations have still to be elucidated in stomach cancer. Methods: We detected their expression levels in 30 paired stomach cancer tissues using quantitative real-time reverse transcription-PCR (qRT-PCR). The expression and clinical significance of each factor was analyzed using Wilcoxon signed rank sum test. The correlation among all the factors was performed by Spearman rank correlation analysis. Results: The results suggest that VEGF-C and CNTN1 are significantly correlated with tumor size, SIX1 with the age and CNTN1 also with the cTNM stage. There are significant correlations of expression levels among VEGF-C, SIX1, CNTN1 and DUSP6. Conclusions: There exists an important regulatory crosstalk involving SIX1, VEGF-C, CNTN1 and DUSP6 in stomach cancer.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제29권12호
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• pp.1675-1681
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• 2016

The aim of this study was to detect positional candidate genes located within the support interval (SI) regions based on the results of red blood cell, mean corpuscular volume (MCV), and mean corpuscular hemoglobin quantitative trait locus (QTL) in Sus scrofa chromosome 13, and to verify the correlation between specific single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) located in the exonic region of the positional candidate gene and the three genetic traits. The flanking markers of the three QTL SI regions are SW38 and S0215. Within the QTL SI regions, 44 genes were located, and runt-related transcription factor 1, dual-specificity tyrosine-(Y)-phosphorylation regulated kinase 1A (DYRK1A), and potassium inwardly-rectifying channel, subfamily J, member 15 KCNJ15-which are reported to be related to the hematological traits and clinical features of Down syndrome-were selected as positional candidate genes. The ten SNPs located in the exonic region of the three genes were detected by next generation sequencing. A total of 1,232 pigs of an $F_2$ resource population between Landrace and Korean native pigs were genotyped. To investigate the effects of the three genes on each genotype, a mixed-effect model which is the considering family structure model was used to evaluate the associations between the SNPs and three genetic traits in the $F_2$ intercross population. Among them, the MCV level was highly significant (nominal $p=9.8{\times}10^{-9}$) in association with the DYRK1A-SNP1 (c.2989 G$F_2$ intercross, our approach has limited power to distinguish one particular positional candidate gene from a QTL region.

• 한국응용곤충학회지
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.426-432
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• 1993

경기도 일원의 양잠 농가의 먼지에서 채취한 45개의 샘플중에서 내독소 단백질 결정체를 생산하는 13개의 Bacillus thuringiensis를 분리하였다. 이 중 2개 균주는 파리목에 독성을 나타냈으며, 특히 독성검정에서 NT0423균주의 $LC_{50}$수치는 나비목의 배추좀나방이 최소 1.30$\times$$10^{6}$ CFU/ml이며, 파리목인 빨간 집모기에는 2.88$\times$$10^{5}$ CFU/ml로 나타났다. 새로 분리된 NT0423균주가 생산하는 내독소 단백질 결정체는 주사 전자현미경사진에서 전형적인 이중 피라미드모양을 보였다. 그리고 이 내독소 단백질 결정체의 SDS-PAGE 분석에서는 주요한 130kDa의 polypeptide을 나타내었다. 또한 NT0423균주의 총 플라스미드 DNA분석에서는 9개의 플라스미드를 갖고 있어 기존의 유사한 독성을 나타내는 균주들과 다른 패턴을 보였다.

• 건축역사연구
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.71-94
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• 2008

This study examines the examples and changes of wooden member terms in Yeonggeon-euigwe(營建儀軌) in the era of Joseon Dynasty. As a result of examining examples, about 240 wood member terms were found on the basis of phonetic value and examples different from today's term use were also confirmed. Wood member terms were derived in variety and synonym and different style, that is, coexistence or transition of several notations as the term indicating the same member was found. Derivation of detail terms has the characteristic increasing on the basis of morpheme and formation of different notation followed Chinese notation or was caused by complex coinage features like a coined word of Korea by the meaning of a word and borrowed character notation borrowing sound and it is also related to the specificity of that time which had dual language system. The typical examples without different style for long were pillar, rafter, door and window. Examples with active generation and selection of different styles included beam, capital and bracket-system terms. Different styles were caused by the combination of several notations including borrowed character in the process of Chinese character notation borrowing sound, Korean unique character emphasizing and limiting combination of 木 (wood) with side of character and Chinese. Period showing remarkable change of example notation was the compilation of ${\ll}$the Hwa-Sung-Sung-Euk-Eui-Gue${\gg}$ 華城城役儀軌. ${\ll}$the Hwa-Sung-Sung-Euk-Eui-Gue${\gg}$ is the representative type uigwe made by printed type not by handicraft. Printing by type accompanies unification of the shape of a character necessarily and it was considered that it resulted in the unification of character of different style, the number of strokes and minute difference of strokes, and it was interpreted that common use of intentional notation with the unification of the shape of a character was achieved.

• Journal of Microbiology
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.126-132
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• 2004

A single chain variable fragment (scFv) specific towards B. pseudomallei exotoxin had previously been generated from an existing hybridoma cell line (6E6AF83B) and cloned into the phage display vector pComb3H. In this study, the scFv was subcloned into the pComb3X vector to facilitate the detection and purification of expressed antibodies. Detection was facilitated by the presence of a hemagglutinin (HA) tag, and purification was facilitated by the presence of a histidine tag. The culture was grown at 30$^{\circ}C$ until log phase was achieved and then induced with 1 mM IPTG in the absence of any additional carbon source. Induction was continued at 30$^{\circ}C$ for five h. The scFv was discerned by dual processes-direct enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA), and Western blotting. When compared to E. coli strains ER2537 and HB2151, scFv expression was observed to be highest in the E. coli strain Topl0F'. The expressed scFv protein was purified via nickel-mediated affinity chromatography and results indicated that two proteins a 52 kDa protein, and a 30 kDa protein were co-purified. These antibodies, when blotted against immobilized exotoxin, exhibited significant specificity towards the exotoxin, com-pared to other B. pseudomallei antigens. Thus, these antibodies should serve as suitable reagents for future affinity purification of the exotoxin.