• Journal of Periodontal and Implant Science
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.1003-1012
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• 1996

The induction of a phenotype with preoperties may have clinical significance in the acceleration of the wound-healing process. Wound contraction involves a specialized cell known as the myofibroblast. The myofibroblasts can be identified by their intense staining of actin bundles with anti-actin antibody. Tissue-specific actin distribution is correlated with the contractile activity of the myofibroblasts and smooth muscle etc. This study was performed to determine the expression of actin filaments in the cytoplasm of cultured human gingival fibroblsts after GaAs laser(BIOSAER, Korea) irradiation. Human gingival fibroblasts were cultured from explants of normal interdental gingival tissue. The third-generation fibroblasts were used for immunohistochemical study. The cultured fibroblasts were exposed $0.53joule/cm^2$(lmW, 7 mimutes) of energy density, and then observed by immunohistochemical method using, rabbit anti0gelsolin, hen smooth muscle polyclonal antibody(Chemicon international inc.), and biotinylated goat anti-rabbit IgG(Vectastain) 24-, 36-, 48-hour after laser irradiation Following results were obtained ; 1. In nonirradiated cultures, round shaped active fibroblasts with abundant cytoplasm and prominet nucleoli were observed. 2. In 24- and 36-hour cultures after laser irradiation, spindle shaped cells with long process were observed. The intensity of stain was seen in cytoplasm of these modified fibroblasts. 3. In 48-hoour cultures after laser irradiation, stained spindle shape cell were not observed. The results suggest that the effect of the galium-arsenide laser treatment on cultured gingival fibroblasts is the rapid development of cytoplasmic actin filaments.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제13권12호
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• pp.6455-6461
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• 2012

Objective: E-cadherin has been identified as a tumor suppressor in many types of carcinoma. However, some studies recently suggested that the role and expression of E-cadherin might be more complex and diverse. In the present study, we evaluated the prognostic value of E-cadherin expression with reference to levels in membranes and cytoplasm, and the membrane/cytoplasm ratio, in hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs) after curative hepatectomy. Methods: The expression of E-cadherin was assessed by immunohistochemistry in HCC tissue microarrays from 125 patients, and its prognostic values and other clinicopathlogical data were retrospectively analyzed. Patients were followed for a median period of 43.7 months (range 1 to 126 months). Results: Univariate analysis demonstrated that a high membrane/cytoplasm (M/C) ratio of E-cadherin expression was associated with poor overall survival (OS) (P =0.001) and shorter time to recurrence (TTR) (P=0.038), as well as tumor size, intrahepatic metastasis, and TNM stage. In contrast, neither membrane nor cytoplasmic expression of E-cadherin was related with OS and TTR. Furthermore, multivariate analysis confirmed the M/C ratio to be an independent predictor of OS (P=0.031). ${\chi}^2$ tests additionally showed that the M/C ratio of E-cadherin expression was related with early stage recurrence (P=0.012), rather than later stage recurrence. Conclusion: The M/C ratio of E-cadherin expression is a strong predictor of postoperative survival and is associated with early stage recurrence in patients with HCC.

• 한국작물학회지
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• 제49권5호
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• pp.407-409
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• 2004

Thirty-nine out of eighty-five barley varieties/strains survived until heading stage in the saline experimental field $(0.03-0.05\%\;salt)$ and they were used for pollen study. Light and scanning electron microscopic observations revealed two distinctive types of barley pollens: one transparent and small in size and the other dark and larger. In addition, both types of pollens were stained with Alexander's stain and it was found that the smaller and transparent pollen was cytoplasm-devoid (CD) while the larger pollen was cytoplasm-rich (CR). Sixteen out of 39 barley varieties/lines grown in the saline soil had CR pollens, which were rarely observed in the barley plants grown in the non-saline soil. Moreover, it was observed that salt stress severely reduced seed setting in the varieties having degenerated pollens. These results suggest that salt stress affects the fertility of barley pollen. The sterile pollen was undersized and lack of cytoplasm probably due to abortion. Furthermore, a varietal difference existed in the response of pollen development to salt stress.

• 대한수의학회지
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.531-540
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• 1989

A new sudden death in rabbits appeared in China and Korea in 1984 and 1985, respectively, and was recognized to be an acute infectious disease caused by a virus. The disease was reported as a "new viral disease," and thereafter, a tentative name of "viral hemorrhagic disease", "hemorrhagic pneumonia" or "viral hemorrhagic pneumonia" has been described in the case reports. But authors had called the viral disease "rabbit viral hepatitis" due to picornavirus infection, because the principal lesion of the disease was an acute hepatitis. The purpose of this report is to describe the electron microscopic findings on the livers in experimentally infected rabbits. All the livers of the affected rabbits were shown to have degenerative changes of a type that is characteristic of acute hepatitis. In the liver cells, there were dilation of rER and mitochondria, vacuole formation of various sizes, and appearances of many virus-like particles in the vicinity of rER, granular bodies and crystalline arrays of viral particles in the cytoplasm with necrotic changes of the nucleus. Clusters of virus-like particles and viral crystals appeared in the cytoplasm of sinusoid endothelial cells and Kupffer's cells with morphological changes of organelles. Also viral crystals were demonstrated in the cytoplasm of macrophages among the liver cells. On the whole, the liver cells had many virus-like particles and a few crystalline arrays of viral particles. Therefore, this implies that the liver cells are the main site of the viral replication in inducing the viremia. It was concluded that the liver was the primary target organ of this viral disease, and the pathological and the ultrastructural evidence suggest that the virus may be belong to genus enterovirus.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.133-140
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• 1977

Nocardia sp의 세포내 징세포구조 및 tellurite 환원초소의 존재부위와 T. T. C. 환원부위를 전자현미경으로 관찰한 것을 요약하면 다음과 같다. 광포내 미세구조에 있어서 unit membrane을 가진 농양구조가 복잡한 형태를 하고 계포질에 내포되어있고 어떤 것은 막구조가 둥글게 감겨있는 형태도 있다. 금속, tellurate염외 석출이 세포질중에 나타나므로 tellurite 및 tellurate 환원효소는 세축질중에 존재한다는 것을 알 수 있다. 그리고T.T.C.의 환원은 세포막 및 세포내막양구조 부분에서 일어난다. 따라서 tellurate환원과 T.T.C.환원은 서로 상이한 부위에서 일어남을 알 수 있다. 구체내에 형성된 T.T.C. tellurate은 도정제인 osmic acid에 의하여 제기화되며, 더우기 탈수제로 사용하고 있는 ethanol에 녹고 아울러 포매각에도 녹기 때문에 약 95％의 formazane이 균체외로 용출되어 나오므로 검정시의 세포내에는 거의 formazane이 존재하지 않기 때문에 전자현미경상의 전자투과성인 부분은 원래 formazane이 형성되었던 부분인 것이다.

• 한국수정란이식학회지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.23-31
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• 2000

This study was conducted to investigate the effects of quiescent treatment of donor cells and activation treatment time of recipient cytoplasm on nuclear remodeling and in vitro development of somatic cell-cloned bovine embryos. Serum starved, confluent and nonquiescent cycling adult skin cells were teansferred into enucleated oocytes. Nuclear transfer oocytes were activated at 30 min, 1 and 2 hrs after electrofusion. Some nuclear transfer embryos(23% to 35%) extruded a polar body, which was not affected by quiescent treatment of donor cells and activiation time of recipient cytoplasm. About 68% of nuclear transfer embryos fused with a serum starved cells has a chromatin clump, but which was not different from embryos fused with confluent(51%) and nonquiescent(47%) cells. The proportion of embryos with a single chromatin clump was sightly increased when nuclear transfer embryos were activated within 30 min after fusion(69%) compared to those were activated at 1 and 2 hrs after fusion, but there was not significantly different. Development rates to the blastocyst stage were 8.6% and 15.9% when serum starved and confluent cells were transferred, which were higher than that of control group. Developmental rate to the blastocyst stage was higher in embryos were activated within 30 min after fusion (17.3%) compared to those of embryos were activated at 1 and 2 hrs after fusion (P<0.05). From the present result, it is suggested that quiescent treatment of donor cells and activation time of recipient cytoplasm can affect the in vitro development. Quiescent plasm activation within 30 min after fusion could increase the number of embryos with a normal chromation structure, which results in increased in vitro development.

• 대한임상검사과학회지
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.122-127
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• 2007

This study is a report about a specific patient whose primary stomach adenocarcinoma metastasized to uterine cervix adenocarcinoma. A thirty-nine year old female patient was initially diagnosed as having metastatic adenocarcinoma in the supraclavicular lymph node. Upon further examination, she was diagnosed with stomach adenocarcinoma. 8 months later, a cervix punch biopsy was performed. The stains used for examination were H&E stain, PAS stain, Alcian blue stain, Mucicarmine stain, Papanicolaou's (Pap.) stain, and as immunohistochemical stains, cytokeratin 7 and 20 were done. In the H&E stain, the tumor cells showed prominent and eccentric nuclei, thin nuclear membrane in abundant mucous cytoplasm, and cylinder shape. In the PAS stain, intracytoplasmic mucin vacuoles were stained with pink, and in Alcian blue and Mucicarmine stains, intracytoplasmic mucin vacuoles were stained with blue and red. As in the above results, she was diagnosed with undifferentiated adenocarcinoma. As found on the cytologic smear preparation of the uterine cervix stained by Papanicolaou's stains, the background was relatively clear, the number of malignant cells was relatively low, and large and eccentric nuclei in abundant cytoplasm were observed. Upon observing the tissue preparation of the uterine cervix biopsy by H&E stain, a clear background, large and eccentric nuclei, and a signet ring cell types were observed, and the number of malignant cells were fewer than in the primary uterine cervix adenocarcinoma. The vacuoles in cytoplasm were observed. The nuclear membrane and chromatin were thick and very rough, and upon observation by cytokeratin 7 and 20 of immunohistochemical stain, the tumor cells indicated a positive rate of 70% and 20%, respectively. According to these results, also she was diagnosed with metastasized uterine cervix adenocarcinoma. In summary of the results of pathologic findings on stomach biopsy and cytologic, histopathologic, and immunohistochemical finding on uterine cervix biopsy, the adenocarcinoma of her uterine cervix could assert the adenocarcinoma of signet ring cell type that was metastasized from the primary undifferentiated adenocarcinoma in stomach.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제39권1호
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• pp.13-21
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• 2001

Pneumocystis carinii causes serious pulmonary infection in immuno-suppressed patients. This study was undertaken to observe the cytoskeletal proteins of P. carinii by immune-electron microscopy. P. carinii infection was experimentally induced by immunosuppression of Sprague-Dawley rats for seven weeks, and their lungs were used for the observations of this study. The gold particles localized actin, tropomyosin, and tubulin. The actin was irregularly scattered in the cytoplasm of the trophic forms but was much more concentrated in the inner space of the cell wall of the cystic forms called the inner electron-lucent layer No significant amount of tropomyosin was observed in either trophic forms or cystic forms. The tubulin was distributed along the peripheral cytoplasm and filopodia of both the trophic and cystic forms rather than in the inner side of the cytoplasm. Particularly, in the cystic forms, the amount of tubulin was increased and located mainly in the inner electron-lucent layer of the cell wall where the actin was concentrated as well. The results of this study showed that the cell wall of P carinii cystic forms is a structure whose inner side is rich in actin and tubulin. The location of the actin and tubulin in P. carinii suggests that the main role of these proteins is an involvement in the protection of cystic forms from the outside environment by maintaining rigidity of the cystic forms.

• Applied Microscopy
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.417-426
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• 1999

농어의 피부는 크게 상피층과 진피층으로 구분된다. 상피층은 지지세포와 단세포선들로 구성된다. 지지세포는 표면세포, 중간세포 및 기저세포로 구분된다. 선세포는 점액분비세포와 곤봉상세포로 구분되는데, 이들의 분포밀도는 곤봉상세포가 더 높다. 표면세포는 편평형 또는 입방형이며 세포질에는 조면소포체가 잘 발달되어 있으며, microridge가 뚜렷하다. 표면세포들은 membrane interdigitation구조와 부착반에 의해서 다른 세포들과 연결되어 있다. 중간세포는 난형이며, 전자밀도는 다른 지지세포 보다 높다. 기저세포는 입방형이며, 세포소기관의 가운데 미토콘드리아의 발달이 현저하며, membrane interdigitation 구조들이 발달되어 있다. 점액분비세포는 막으로 싸인 다수의 분비과립들을 함유한다. 곤봉상세포의 세포질은 수질부와 피질부로 구분되는데, 수질부에서는 핵, 세포소기관, 중심공포가 관찰되며, 피질부에서는 발달된 장미세섬유들이 관찰된다. 곤봉상세포들은 잘 발달된 membrane interdigitation구조와 부착반에 의해서 다른 세포들과 연계되어 있다.

• Applied Microscopy
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.259-269
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• 2006

산왕거미 (Araneus ventricosus) 혈구의 유형을 세포화학적 및 percoll 밀도구배를 이용한 물리화학적 특성에 따라 구분하고, 각각의 미세구조를 고배율의 전자현미경으로 비교 관찰하였다. 혈구는 세포질에 함유된 과립의 유무에 따라 과립혈구와 무과립혈구로 구분되었으며. 과립혈구는 과립의 특성에 따라 다시 산호성 과립혈구와 염기호성 과립혈구, 그리고 헤모시아닌 과립을 함유한 혈색소혈구의 세 가지 유형으로 세분되었다. 산호성 과립혈구는 전체 혈구유형중 약 5%정도를 차지하였으며, 염기호성 과립혈구는 산호성 과립혈구에 비해 과립의 크기가 크고 구형이었다. 한편 무과립혈구는 혈구중 가장 크기가 작은 투명혈구와 심관의 내강에 주로 분포하는 편도혈구, 그리고 탈피 시에만 출현하는 대형의 탈피혈구로 다시 세분되었다.