• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• 제64권7호
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• pp.347-354
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• 2021

Background: Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) has emerged as a valuable biomarker of urinary tract infection (UTI) in children. Purpose: This study aimed to compare the diagnostic accuracy of urinary NGAL (uNGAL) with those of serum C-reactive protein (CRP) and white blood cell (WBC) count for predicting UTI and acute pyelonephritis (APN) in febrile children. Methods: The medical charts of children undergoing uNGAL measurements between November 2017 and August 2019 were retrospectively reviewed. Patients with a suspected or diagnosed UTIs were included. The diagnostic accuracies of uNGAL, serum CRP, and WBC count for detecting UTI and APN were investigated. Independent predictors of UTI and APN were investigated using multivariable logistic regression analyses. Results: A total of 321 children were enrolled in this study. The uNGAL levels were higher in the UTI group (n=157) than in the non-UTI group (n=164) (P<0.05). Among children with a UTI, uNGAL levels were higher in the APN group (n=70) than, the non-APN group (n=87) (P<0.05). In the multivariate analysis, uNGAL was independently associated with UTI and APN (both P<0.05). Serum CRP and WBC count were not correlated with the presence of UTI and APN. Receiver operating curve analyses showed that the uNGAL level had the highest area under the curve (AUC) for predicting UTI and APN, respectively (AUC, uNGAL vs. CRP vs. WBC count, 0.860 vs. 0.608 vs. 0.669 for UTI; 0.780 vs. 0.680 vs. 0.639 for APN, all P<0.05, respectively). The predictive values and likelihood ratios of uNGAL were superior to those of serum CRP and WBC count for detecting UTI and APN at each cutoff level. Conclusion: UNGAL may be more useful than serum CRP and WBC count for identifying and assessing UTI in febrile children.

• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• 제48권4호
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• pp.416-424
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• 2005

목 적 : 가와사끼병 환아의 특성과 관상동맥 이상, IVIG에 대한 비반응 및 병의 재발 등에 대해 관련된 인자를 찾아보고자 하였다. 방 법 : 1990년 9월부터 2003년 12월까지 본원에 내원, 가와사끼 병으로 진단받고 IVIG을 투여한 1,000명을 대상으로 후향적으로 분석하였다. 내원시 관상동맥 확장군과 관상동맥 정상군을 비교하였고 IVIG 1회 투여에 대한 반응군과 비반응군 및 재발군과 비재발군의 비교도 시행하여 두 군간에 의미있는 요인을 찾아보려고 하였으며 재발된 환아를 대상으로 처음 발병시와 두번째 발병시의 각종 자료를 분석하였고 두 군간에 관상동맥 이상이 생기는 정도도 비교해 보았다. 또한 첫 IVIG을 투여하기 전까지의 발열기간과 상관비례하는 인자를 알아보려 하였다. 결 과 : 1) 관상동맥 확장은 16%에서 관찰되었으며 중등도 이상(${\geq}5mm$)의 관상동맥 확장 및 중증(${\geq}8mm$) 관상동맥 확장의 빈도는 각각 2%와 0.5%로 나타났다. 또한 입원당시 관상동맥 이상의 빈도는 1년간 추적관찰 했을 때와도 비슷한 수준을 보였다. 2) 첫 IVIG을 투여하기 전까지의 발열기간이 길수록(7일 이상), 첫 IVIG 투여 종료 후부터 최종적으로 열이 소실될 때까지의 기간이 길수록, 남아일수록, 내원 당시 검사상 Hgb(10 g/dL이하), Hct(30% 이하)수치가 낮을수록, WBC 수치($12,000/mm^3$ 이상)및 과립구 분율이 높을수록, CRP 값이 높을수록(10 mg/dL 이상), Harada's score가 높을수록(4점 이상) 관상동맥 이상군과 관련이 있었다. 3) IVIG 한번 투여에 반응이 없었던 경우는 8%였으며 내원당시 검사수치상 WBC 수치가 높을수록($12,000/mm^3$ 이상), 과립구 분율이 높을수록, CRP 수치가 높을수록(10 mg/dL 이상), SGPT가 높을수록, Harada's score가 높을수록(4점 이상), 농뇨를 보일수록 1회의 IVIG 투여에 반응이 없었다. IVIG을 두 번이상 투여한 군에서는 한번 투여에 반응이 있었던 군보다 향후 재발율이 더 높았다. 또한 중증도 이상의 관상동맥 확장의 경우는 두 번 이상 투여하게 된 군에서 의미있게 높았다. 4) 재발은 6%에서 나타났고 재발을 예측할 수 있는 지표는 없었으며 재발한 환아들에서 관상동맥 이상의 빈도 또한 별 차이가 없었다. 5) 재발된 환아들의 처음 발병시와 두 번째 발병시의 비교에서, 두 번째 발병시에 WBC 수치와 CRP 값은 첫 번째 발병시 보다 낮았고 첫 IVIG 투여 전까지의 발열기간도 낮았으나 두 군간에 관상동맥 이상이 생기는 정도에는 차이가 없었다. 6) 첫 IVIG을 투여하기 전까지의 발열기간과의 상관 인자 조사에서는, WBC 수치와 CRP 값, Harada's score의 경우 양의 상관관계를 보였고 Hgb의 경우 음의 상관관계를 보였다. 결 론 : 내원 당시 높은 WBC 수치와 CRP 값 및 Harada'score는 관상동맥 병변 발생 및 IVIG 투여에 대한 비반응과 관련이 있으며 또한 첫 IVIG을 투여하기 전까지의 발열기간과도 상관관계가 있었다. 따라서 되도록이면 조기에 발견하여 IVIG을 투여하는 것이 비록 비반응률을 낮추지는 못하더라도 관상동맥 병변 발생의 위험률은 낮출 수 있을 것으로 생각된다. 또한 IVIG 비반응군에서는 차후 재발률이 더 높았으며 중등도 이상의 관상동맥 확장이 더 많이 발견되었으므로 이들을 대상으로 한 집중적인 치료와 관리가 도입될 필요가 있다. 재발을 예측할 수 있는 기타 지표는 찾아볼 수 없었으며 따라서 보호자의 교육을 통한 조기 발견 및 치료에 지속적으로 노력을 기울여야 할 것이고 재발한 환아들에서 관상동맥 이상의 빈도가 증가하지 않은 점은 현재 이루어지고 있는 이러한 노력의 성과로 여겨진다.

• 대한임상검사과학회지
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.144-152
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• 2004

With technological advances in automatic hematology analyzers, primary and screening differential counts of white blood cells (WBC) are done with automatic hematology analyzers. They are using different measurement and analysis principles, so differences in WBC differentials and WBC morphology flag exist. This study was carried out to analyze WBC differential counts and WBC morphology flags comparing them with the manual method. Patient EDTA samples in Vacutainer requested for WBC differentials were analyzed with XE-2100. And those samples with suspect flags messages index over 100 were selected and were analyzed with ADVIA-120. Peripheral blood smear film was subsequently made. Three investigators counted 200 cells each (600 cells) in 111 Wright-Giemsa stained blood films. Between two automatic hematology analyzers, neutrophil, lymphocyte, eosinophil, and monocyte showed good correlations, but basophil had moderate correlation. Among automatic hematology analyzers and manual count, neutrophil, lymphocyte, and eosinophil had good correlations, but monocyte had moderate correlation. XE-2100 had higher monocyte, which was due to atypical lymphocyte and myeloblast. LUC in ADVIA-120 was not due to monocyte in XE-2100. Morphology flagging rates were 146.9% in XE-2100 and was 93.2% in ADVIA-120. Positive predictive values of morphology flag were 58.2% in XE-2100 and 54.4% in ADVIA-120. Flags such as atypical lymphocyte, immature granulocyte, and left shift had higher predictive values and those such as N-RBC, platelets clump, and blast had lower ones. Between automatic hematology analyzers, WBC differentials showed good correlations. Predictive values for morphology flags can be variable with changing criteria. Reviewing criteria for WBC differentials and morphology flags should be established in each laboratory with regards to size of laboratory and patients it serves.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.1007-1021
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• 2018

Cancer represents one of the most significant threats to human health on a global scale. Hence, the development of effective cancer prevention strategies, as well as the discovery of novel therapeutic agents against cancer, is urgently required. In light of this challenge, this research aimed to evaluate the effects of several potent bioactive peptides and proteins contained in crocodile white blood cell extract (cWBC) against LU-1, LNCaP, PC-3, MCF-7, and CaCo-2 cancer cell lines. The results demonstrate that 25, 50, 100, and $200{\mu}g/ml$ cWBC exhibits a strong cytotoxic effect against all investigated cell lines ($IC_{50}$ $70.34-101.0{\mu}g/ml$), while showing no signs of cytotoxicity towards noncancerous Vero and HaCaT cells. Specifically, cWBC treatment caused a significant reduction in the cancerous cells' colony forming ability. A remarkable suppression of cancerous cell migration was observed after treatment with cWBC, indicating potent antimetastatic properties. The mechanism involved in the cancer cell cytotoxicity of cWBC may be related to apoptosis induction, as evidenced by typical apoptotic morphology features. Moreover, certain cWBC concentrations induced significant overproduction of ROS and significantly inhibited the $S-G_2/M$ transition in the cancer cell. The molecular mechanisms of cWBC in apoptosis induction were to decrease Bcl-2 and XIAP expression levels and increase the expression levels of caspase-3, caspase-8, and p53. These led to a decrease in the expression level of the cell cycle-associated gene cyclin-B1 and the arrest of cell population growth. Consequently, these findings demonstrate the prospect of the use of cWBC for cancer therapy.

• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• 제38권7호
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• pp.521-532
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• 2005

The prevalence of atopic dermatitis (AD) continues to rise in industrialized countries related to Western lifestyle, including dietary habits, especially imbalance of intake of dietary fatty acids. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the dietary fatty acids and the assess the blood fatty acid composition and immune parameters in AD patients. AD (n = 50) patients and gender ${\cdot}$ age matched healthy controls (HC) were studied in case-control clinical trail. Current fatty acids intake status was determined by 3-day food record method. Blood sample were collected from 30 subjects in each group and blood fatty acid composition and immune parameters were analysed. AD patients consumed less PUFA and their n-6/n-3 PUFA ratio was higher than that of HC. Both the ratios of PUFA and MUFA were positively correlated with SCORAD in AD patients (p < 0.05). In the AD patients, there were abnormalities in the fatty acid composition of the RBC and WBC, SFA being significantly high and most n-3 PUFA being significantly low. Moreover, both the ratios of EPA and DHA in WBC were negatively correlated with dietary n-6/n-3 PUFA ratio in AD patients (p < 0.05). Serum total IgE and IL-4 levels of AD patients increased significantly compared with the levels of HC (p < 0.01). Ratios of monocyte and eosinophil in WBC of AD patients increased significantly compared with the levels of HC including total WBC count (p < 0.01), and ratios of Iymphocyte and basophil in WBC of AD patients decreased significantly compared with the levels of HC (p < 0.05). Moreover, the ratios of eosinophil in WBC were positively correlated with dietary P/M ratio (p < 0.05), and the ratios of monocyte in WBC were positively correlated with n-6/n-3 PUFA ratio (p < 0.05) in AD patients. This results indicated that AD patients had significantly high intake of dietary n-6/n-3 PUFA compared with HC. Imbalance of intake of dietary fatty acids affected fatty acid compositions in the RBC and WBC, and these lead to immune imbalance and grow worse of AD.

• Korean Journal of Acupuncture
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.598-603
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• 2012

Objectives : This study aimed to evaluate the effects of Polygoni avicularis Herba Herbal-acupuncture( PaH-HA) at KI10(Umgok) on nephritis induced by lipopolysaccharide(LPS) in rats. Methods : Rats were allocated into normal, control, and 3 experimental groups. The rats in the control group were intra-peritoneally injected with LPS for nephritis induction. The rats in the groups of experiment 1, experiment 2, and experiment 3 were treated with single needle prick, saline injection, and PaH-HA, respectively at KI10 three times for a week and then injected with LPS. To evaluate the effects of PaH-HA at HI10, WBC count in blood, serum CINC-1, renal TNF-${\alpha}$ and renal MPO were measured. Results : Needle prick at KI10 suppressed the increase of WBC in blood and CINC-1 in serum of LPS-stimulated rats. Saline injection at KI10 suppressed the increase of WBC in blood. PaH-HA at KI10 suppressed the increase of WBC in blood, CINC-1 in serum, and MPO in kidney of LPS-stimulated rats. Conclusions : PaH-HA at KI10 has an anti-inflammatory effect on LPS-induced nephritis in rats and there may be a synergism between KI10(Umgok) stimulation and PaH-HA Solution.

• 대한한방내과학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.519-525
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• 2001

Objectives : In order to study the effect of oriental medical therapy on chronic prostatitis patient, the change of WBC counts on expressed prostatic secretion(EPS) was investigated. Methods : Chronic prostatitis patient who had been diagnosed by EPS test was re-tested as same way after improvement of symptom And then we investigated the change of WBC counts on EPS according to therapeutic period, age, usual habit, herb medicine and symptom of each patient, and his and his sexual partner's past history of STD or UTI. Results : According to the change of WBC counts on EPS, improvement rate was 83.3%, cure rate was 46.7%. The youth who didn't have the usual habit of enduring ejaculation during sexual intercourse, enduring urination and sitting long time a day was improved well. Conclusions : According to the above results, it is suggested that oriental medical therapy is effective to the change of WBC counts on EPS.

• 한방안이비인후피부과학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.8-17
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• 2004

Objective: Under recognition of the similarity between carbuncle in Oriental medicine and inflammatory disease, NeiShuHuangLianJang(N.H.) has been used as an antiphlogistic agent. The present reports shows the anti-inflammatory effects of N.H. Method: Experimental animals made use of 4-5 weeks age(weight 20-25g) ICR(male)mouse. They were farmed individually in a temperature($22{\pm}0.5{\circ}$) and light(06:00 to 18:00 h) controlled room with free access to water and food. The N.H.(1.0g／kg, 3.0g／kg) extracted from NeiShuHuangLianTang were administered intragastrically prior to LPS I.P injection. we measured WBC count, IL-6 level in plasma and TNF-${\alpha}$ level in plasma. Result : 1. N.H. suppressed inflammatory reaction induced by LPS. 2. N.H. suppressed WBC count in inflammatory reaction induced by LPS. 3. N.H. suppressed 1L-6 level in inflammatory reaction induced by LPS. According to above experiments, N.H. was improved its suppression effect against the inflammatory reaction through WBC count and IL-6 level. So N.H. which is used for the inflammatory disease(carbuncle) in Oriental Medicine is assumed to have a curative effects against this disease by controlling WBC count and IL-6 level in plasma.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.565-570
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• 1999

DW2282,(S)-(+)-4-phenyl-1-[1-(4-aminobenzoyl)-indoline-5-sulfonyl]-4,5-dihydro-2-imidazolone hydrochloride, is a new anticancer agent which is thought to exhibit a characteristic mechanism of action in the inhibition of tumor growth. In this study, we estimated the toxicities of DW2282 in mice. When mice were orally dosed for five consecutive days at the dosages of 50, 100 and 150 mg/kg, DW2282 did not induced methemoglobinemia and hypoglycemia at any of these doses. However, increased ALT and AST values were observed in the 150 mg/kg dosing group, and white blood cells (WBC) were significantly decreased at all doses. However, the changes in WBC count, ALT and AST immediately reversed after the cessation of drug administration. In addition, we found that DW2282 did not cause an increase in hemolysis in human blood. Taken together, these data suggested that DW2282 may have a relatively low level of toxicity, and that there may be a quick recovery from any toxicity it dose produce.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.275-285
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• 2009

2007년 1월부터 8월까지의 8개월 동안 삼성서울병원에서 병동 및 외래에서 의뢰된 전 혈구검사 검체를 대상으로 하여 S사의 자동혈액장비의 4 Diff channel과 WBC channel의 결과 비교를 통해 총 백혈구의 과다측정 여부를 판단하였다. 장기적 임상치료를 밟는 환자 중 8개월간의 백혈구 수 비교를 통해 over count라고 판단된 증례는 총 25건이었다. 해당 검체와 동일한 날짜에 실시한 생화학적 검사 중 간 기능(liver function test)의 지표가 되는 AST와ALT에서 정강범위를 벗어나는 경우가 전체 환자의 68%였으며, 총 별리루빈 범위도 전체 검체 중 60%가 허용범위를 넘는 결과를 보였다. 백혈구가 과다 측정된 시점에 환자의 임상정보 결과 Cephalosporin계 4세대 항생제인 cefepime을 98%의 환자들이 투여 받은 상태에 있었다. 백혈구 과다측정은 하나의 원인보다 다양한 원인들이 복합적으로 작용하여 발생하는 것으로 사료된다.