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Hemifacial Spasm Caused by Brain Tumor

  • Park, Sang-Ku;Hyun, Soon-Chul;Lim, Sung-Hyuk;Park, Chan-Woo;Park, Jin-Woo;Kim, Dong-Jun;Kim, Ki-Eob;Kim, Gi-Bong
    • Korean Journal of Clinical Laboratory Science
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    • v.45 no.3
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    • pp.124-129
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    • 2013
  • Separating of the facial nerve caused by compression near the blood vessels that cause the blood vessels and surgery when the hemifacial spasm, facial spasms, will disappear. These impacts have occurred very rarely and seen in this paper as facial spasms due to a brain tumor. The size of a brain tumor grows, which will put pressure on the surrounding facial spasm. Treated hemifacial spasm symptoms disappear through the removal of a brain tumor that occurs because saw.

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P53 transcription-independent activity mediates selenite-induced acute promyelocytic leukemia NB4 cell apoptosis

  • Guan, Liying;Huang, Fang;Li, Zhushi;Han, Bingshe;Jiang, Qian;Ren, Yun;Yang, Yang;Xu, Caimin
    • BMB Reports
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    • v.41 no.10
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    • pp.745-750
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    • 2008
  • Selenium, an essential trace element possessing anti-carcinogenic properties, can induce apoptosis in cancer cells. We have previously shown that sodium selenite can induce apoptosis by activating the mitochondrial apoptosis pathway in NB4 cells. However, the detailed mechanism remains unclear. Presently, we demonstrate that p53 contributes to apoptosis by directing signaling at the mitochondria. Immunofluorescent and Western blot procedures revealed selenite-induced p53 translocation to mitochondria. Inhibition of p53 blocked accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and loss of mitochondrial membrane potential, suggesting that mitochondrial p53 acts as an upstream signal of ROS and activates the mitochondrial apoptosis pathway. Selenite also disrupted cellular calcium ion homeostasis in a ROS-dependent manner and increased mitochondrial calcium ion concentration. p38 kinase mediated phosphorylation and mitochondrial translocation of p53. Taken together, these results indicate that p53 involves selenite-induced NB4 cell apoptosis by translocation to mitochondria and activation mitochondrial apoptosis pathway in a transcription-independent manner.

Obtainment and Characterization of Brain Tumor Cell Using Vasopressin-SV40 T Ag Transgenic Mouse

  • Kim, Sung-Hyun;Lee, Eun-Ju;Kim, Myoung-Li;Park, Jun-Hong;Cho, Kyoungin;Jung, Boo-Kyung;Kim, Hee-Chul;Hwnag, Sol-Ha;Lee, Hoon-Taek;Ryoo, Zae-Young
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Developmental Biology Conference
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.105-105
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    • 2003
  • In previous reports, pVPSV.IGR2.1 transgenic mouse were described that brain tumor and lymphoma by reason of Vasopressin-SV40 T antigen. In this study, we produced pVPSV.IGR3.6 transgenic mouse that used pVPSV.IGR3.6 vector. Expression of transgene was vary different in transgenic mouse. We obtained 6 transgenic mouse line, moreover they had died at the age of 2-6 weeks without transmitting the transgene to their offspring, and had tumorigenesis on same location with pVPSV.IGR2.1 transgenic mouse. Only a founder mouse was investigated for expression of fusion gene. Here we extended this transgenic approach to the study of tumor progression. From the mouse, we confirmed brain tumor cell, after then cultured for investigate characterization. In this report, we demonstrate that reduction of survival rate in transgenic mouse fused vasopressin gene length, acquisition of brain tumor cell, composition with astrocyte cells and neuronal cells. Finally, cells had no change with increase of passage.

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Expression Characteristics of Proteins of the Insulin-like Growth Factor Axis in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Patients with Preexisting Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

  • Ding, Jing;Tang, Jie;Chen, Xin;Men, Hai-Tao;Luo, Wu-Xia;Du, Yang;Ge, Jun;Li, Cong;Chen, Ye;Cheng, Ke;Qiu, Meng;Liu, Ji-Yan
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • v.14 no.10
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    • pp.5675-5680
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    • 2013
  • Background: Preexisting type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) affects the prognosis and mortality of patients with some cancers. Insulin like growth factor (IGF) and insulin receptor (IR) signaling axes play important roles in both cancer and diabetes development. We aimed to explore the expression characteristics of proteins in IGF/IR axis in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cases with preexisting T2DM. Methods: Fifty-five NSCLC patients with preexisting T2DM were retrospectively included and matched by 55 NSCLC without diabetes at a 1:1 ratio. The expression of proteins in IGF/IR axis was detected by immunohistochemical staining. Clinicopathological data were collected to analyze their relationship with the protein expression. Results: Both IGF 1 receptor (IGF-1R) and insulin receptor substrate 2 (IRS-2) showed higher expression in the NSCLC with T2DM group, compared with those without T2DM. The high expression of IGF-1R and IRS-2 were found to be negatively associated with lymph node metastases and T staging in the T2DM group, respectively, and IRS-2 expression was also found more in the subgroup whose T2DM duration was more than 4 years. No difference was detected in the expression of IRS-1, IGF-1, IGF-2, IGFBP3, IR and mTOR between groups with or without T2DM. Conclusion: Our study found higher expression of IGF-1R and IRS-2 proteins in NSCLC patients with preexisting T2DM, and that there was an association with early stage NSCLC, which suggested that IGF signaling may play an important early event in development of NSCLC associated with diabetes.

Problems and Developing Directions of the Legal System Related to Laboratory medical testing (검체검사 관련 법제도의 문제점 및 발전방향)

  • Hwang, Yoo-Sung;Jeong, Jeong-Ile
    • The Korean Society of Law and Medicine
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.209-229
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    • 2008
  • When we are totalizing the lawsrelated to the medical, as the Laboratory medical testing is a kind of the medical act, it is the regulation that the medical technologist can analyze the specimen using in vitro diagnostic devices and diagnosticdrugs under the guidance of doctor or dentist from a corresponding medical institution and can report through verification and interpretation. However, in real medical fields, 'the guidance of doctor' is seriously in-sufficient or even the person who is not the medical technologist is executing. Furthermore the cases that produce inspection results with devices or reagents which are not validated nor approved have been frequently occurred. The result of Laboratory medical testing derived from this procedure can become the important information for the disease control of a country, and also can be decisive to the definite diagnosis and the prognostic monitoring about the patient disease. In spite of its significant medical act to be applicable to an unique proof with the related expert appraisal result in the medical mal-practice lawsuit, our reality in which the quality control is not properly working due by the costs and the labor shortage related to the Laboratory medical testing is quietly in bad condition. Even from now, the government should recognize the significance of the Laboratory medical testing and must achieve more strict administrative management as well as the law maintenance.

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Molecular Cloning, Identification and Characteristics of a Novel Isoform of Carbamyl Phosphate Synthetase I in Human Testis

  • Huo, Ran;Zhu, Hui;Lu, Li;Ying, Lanlan;Xu, Min;Xu, Zhiyang;Li, Jianmin;Zhou, Zuomin;Sha, Jiahao
    • BMB Reports
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    • v.38 no.1
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    • pp.28-33
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    • 2005
  • A gene coding a novel isoform of carbamyl phosphate synthetase I (CPS1) was cloned from a human testicular library. As shown by cDNA microarray hybridization, this gene was expressed at a higher level in human adult testes than in fetal testes. The full length of its cDNA was 3831 bp, with a 3149 bp open reading frame, encoding a 1050-amino-acid protein. The cDNA sequence was deposited in the GenBank (AY317138). Sequence analysis showed that it was homologous to the human CPS1 gene. The putative protein contained functional domains composing the intact large subunit of carbamoyl phosphate synthetase, thus indicated it has the capability of arginine biosynthesis. A multiple tissue expression profile showed high expression of this gene in human testis, suggesting the novel alternative splicing form of CPS1 may be correlated with human spermatogenesis.