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Clinical Applications of 3T MR Spectroscopy

  • Choe, Bo-Young;Baik, Hyun-Man;Chu, Myung-Ja;Jeun, Sin-Soo;Kang, Sei-Kwon;Chung, Sung-Taek;Park, Chi-Bong;Oh, Chang-Hyun;Lee, Hyoung-Koo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Medical Physics Conference
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    • 2002.09a
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    • pp.345-351
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    • 2002
  • The purpose of this study was to assess clinical proton MR spectroscopy (MRS) as a noninvasive method for evaluating brain tumor malignancy at 3T high field system. Using 3T MRI/MRS system, localized water-suppressed single-voxe1 technique in patients with brain tumors was employed to evaluate spectra with peaks of N-acetyl aspartate (NAA), choline-containing compounds (Cho), creatine/phosphocreatine (Cr) and lactate. On the basis of Cr, these peak areas were quantificated as a relative ratio. The variation of metabolites measurements of the designated region in 10 normal volunteers was less than 10%. Normal ranges of NAA/Cr and Cho/Cr ratios were 1.67${\pm}$018 and 1.16${\pm}$0.15, respectively. NAA/Cr ratio of all tumor tissues was significantly lower than that of the normal tissues (p=0.005), but Cho/Cr ratio of all tumor tissue was significantly higher (p=0.001). Cho/Cr ratio of high-grade gliomas was significantly higher than that of low-grade gliomas (P=0.001). Except 4 menigiomas, lactate signal was observed in all tumor cases. The present study demonstrated that the neuronal degradation or loss was observed in all tumor tissues. Higher grade of brain tumors was correlated with higher Cho/Cr ratio, indicating a significant dependence of Cho levels on malignancy of gliomas. Our results suggest that clinical proton MR spectroscopy could be useful to predict tumor malignancy.

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M. tuberculosis Somatic Antigen Specific CD8+T cell Responses in BCG-Vaccinated Subjects (BCG 예방접종을 받은 개체에서 유도되어 있는 결핵균 균체항원에 특정한 CD8+T 세포의 보호 면역반응)

  • Cho, Jang-Eun;Cho, Sang-Nae;Lee, Kyung Wha;Park, Seung Kyu;Cho, Sungae
    • Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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    • v.59 no.3
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    • pp.272-278
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    • 2005
  • Background : The immune responses mediated by CD8+T cells are known to be significant in controlling M. tuberculosis infections. In order to determine the role of cytotoxic CD8+T cells in the protective immune mechanism in latently infected subjects, this study examined whether or not the cytotoxic immune responses of CD8+T cells specific to the M. tuberculosis somatic antigens are induced in BCG vaccinated healthy subjects. Methods : Cytotoxicity and $IFN-{\gamma}$ elispot assays were used to investigate the activities of CD8+T cells specific for the $thyA_{30-38}$ peptide epitope in circulating peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from BCG-vaccinated HLA-A*0201 and A*0206 subjects. Results : The results indicate the cytotoxic and $IFN-{\gamma}$ immune responses of CD8+T cells specific for $thyA_{30-38}$ were induced in BCG vaccinated healthy subjects. Conclusion : The cytotoxic and $IFN-{\gamma}$ responses by CD8+T cells specific for the M. tuberculosis somatic antigens are induced in BCG-vaccinated subjects, and appear to be involved in the protective immune mechanism in latently infected people against a M. tuberculosis infection.

Study on Production of Transgenic Pig Harboring Tissue Plasminogen Activator Gene

  • Park, Jin-Ki;Jeon, Ik-Soo;Lee, Yun-Keun;Lee, Poongyeon;Kim, Sung-Woo;Kim, Jung-Ho;Han, Joo-Hee;Park, Chun-Gyu;Min, Kwan-Sik
    • Proceedings of the KSAR Conference
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    • 2003.06a
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    • pp.43-43
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    • 2003
  • This study was conducted to produce transgenic pig harboring human tissue plasminogene activator (tPA) gene. Two different tPA genes containing bovine $\beta$-casein promoter and mouse uroplakin promoter were prepared for microinjection and confirmed the expression level of tPA protein from the CHO (Chinese hamster ovary) cell lines by gene transfection. Concentration of tPA expression from the six cell lines (all of CHO cells) were average 212.4 ng/ml. Reconstructed DNA to used the CHO cell were microinjected into the pronuclei of in vivo embryos The total of 2,307 zygotes were collected from 95 donors and 1,851 embryos were in 1-cell stage which were visualized the pronuclei for DNA microinjection. The concentration of linear DNA was 2.0 ng per microliter and injected into zygotes with two pronuclei on an inverted Nikon microscope equipped with narishige micromanipulator and modulation contrast optics. The 541 embryos injected with bovine $\beta$-casein promoter-tPA were transferred to 22 recipients. The 1,154 embryos injected with mouse uroplakin promoter-tPA were transferred to 51 recipients. Sixty nine offspring from 9 delivered sows were produced. We analysed the transgenes with PCR methods from 69 offsprings, but could not detect the PCR product from piglet tails DNA.

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Short Introduction to $T_EX$ and Typography ($T_EX$과 타이포그래피에 관한 소고)

  • Cho Jin-Hwan
    • Communications of Mathematical Education
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    • v.19 no.4 s.24
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    • pp.823-837
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    • 2005
  • [ $T_EX$ ] is a typesetting system created by Donald E. Knuth for producing publication-quality scientific books and journals. It is famous for the line breaking algorithm, the formatting of complex mathematical formula, and the powerful macro programming capability. Recently $T_EX$ plays a new role of an automatic typesetting engine. The paper describes $T_EX$ in the framework of typography by comparing with DTP softwares and word processors.

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