• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.123-135
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• 2013

Exposure to manganese (Mn) is associated with neurobehavioral effects. There is disagreement on whether commonly occurring exposures in welding, ferroalloy, and other industrial processes produce neurologically significant neurobehavioral changes representing parkinsonism. A reviewof methodological issues in the human epidemiological literature onMnidentified: (1) studies focused on idiopathic Parkinson disease without considering manganism, a parkinsonian syndrome; (2) studies with healthy worker effect bias; (3) studies with problematic statistical modeling; and (4) studies arising from case series derived from litigation. Investigations with adequate study design and exposure assessment revealed consistent neurobehavioral effects and attributable subclinical and clinical signs and symptoms of impairment. Twenty-eight studies show an exposure-response relationship between Mn and neurobehavioral effects, including 11 with continuous exposure metrics and six with three or four levels of contrasted exposure. The effects of sustained low-concentration exposures to Mn are consistent with the manifestations of early manganism, i.e., consistent with parkinsonism. This is compelling evidence thatMnis a neurotoxic chemical and there is good evidence that Mn exposures far below the current US standard of $5.0mg/m^3$ are causing impairment.

• 대한불안의학회지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.56-60
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• 2023

Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is rare atypical Parkinsonism accompanied by various psycho-behavioural problems. In this case report, we describe the diagnostic and treatment progress of a 65-year-old PSP patient who visited the psychiatric clinic with a depressed mood and lumbar pain resulting in a suicide attempt. Over the course of 30 months of treatment, typical characteristics of PSP, such as postural instability, dyskinesia, cognitive dysfunction and supranuclear gaze palsy, became prominent, and magnetic resonance imaging and the F-18 FP-CIT positron emission tomography revealed midbrain atrophy and reduced dopamine uptake in the basal ganglia. When treating elderly patients with depression, parkinsonism symptoms such as gait disturbances, frequent falls, tremors, and rigidity should be closely examined.

• 한국의학물리학회지:의학물리
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.108-123
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• 2003

IPD와 MSA, PSP환자를 SPM2를 이용하여 정상인과 환자그룹간 비교를 시행하여 국소 뇌 당대사의 분포에 대한 통계적 뇌 지도를 구현하고, 이 통계적 뇌 지도를 기본 패턴으로 하여 IPD와 APD를 분류하는데 유용하게 활용하고, SPM 방법으로 진단하였을 때의 민감도와 특이도를 알아보고자 한다 $^{18}$ F-FDG PET 영상에서 24명의 Parkinsonism 환자를 신경과 분류에 의해 IPD, MSA, PSP 환자로 구분하여 뇌 신경계질환에 대한 병력이 없는 같은 연령 대 22명의 정상인과 비교하고 환자 그룹 간 비교를 시행하여 SPM 방법과 육안 판독으로 분석하고 대사저하 부위를 통계적 뇌 지도로 구현하여 국소화하였다. 18F-FDG PET에서 IPD로 진단된 8명의 환자를 동일한 PET 표준공간으로 이동하여 정상인과 비교한 결과 전두엽에서 75% (8명중 6명), 두정엽에서 38% (8명중 3명), 측두엽에서 50% (8명중 4명)가 감소한 패턴을 보였고, MSA로 진단된 9명의 환자는 미상핵 보다 조가비핵에서 44% (9명중 4명), 뇌교(pons)에서 56% (9명중 5명)가 감소한 패턴을 보였고 전두엽에서 56% (9명중 5명), 두정엽과 측두엽에서 33% (9명중 3명), 소뇌에서 44% (9명중 4명)가 감소한 패턴을 보였다. PSP에서는 선조체와 전두엽에서 57% (7명중 4명), 측두엽에서 29% (7명중 2명), 두정엽에서 14% (7명중 1명)가 SPM으로 분석한 결과 뇌 당대사가 줄어든 패턴을 보였다. 조가비핵(Z=3.5), 뇌교(Z=3.3) 그리고 소뇌(Z=3.2)에서 IPD보다 MSA에서 감소된 뇌 패턴을 보여 MSA와 IPD를 구별할 수 있는 요인으로 결정할 수 있었고 대상회(Z=2.7), 조가비핵(Z=3.3), 시상(Z=3.9) 그리고 중뇌(Z=2,6)가 IPD 보다 PSP에서 감소된 패턴을 보여 PSP와 IPD를 구별할 수 있는 요인으로 결정할 수 있었다. SPM2를 이용하여 분석한 결과 IPD에서는 민감도 75%, 특이도 100%, MSA에서는 민감도 100%, 특이도 75%, PSP에서 민감도 86%, 특이도 94%로 $^{18}$ F-FDG PET에서 통계적 뇌 지도를 기본 패턴으로 IPD와 APD를 분류하는데 SPM 방법이 유용한 결과를 보였다.

• 대한핵의학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한핵의학회 2000년도 2nd Korea-China Congress of Nuclear Medicine and 39th Annual Spring Meeting if the Korea SOciety Nuclear Medicine
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• pp.59.1-59.1
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• 2000

• 한국발생생물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국발생생물학회 2003년도 전기 한국발생생물학회 제16차 학술대회논문집
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• pp.5-5
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• 2003

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• 동의신경정신과학회지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.283-295
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• 2009

Objectives : Parkinson's disease is a chronic neuron-degenerative disease. The medication of dopamine, one of the most common treatment for the disease, has effects of improving the symptom, but when taken for a long term, the medicine brings about side-effects such as the phenomenon of medicinal efficacy disappearance and dyskinesia. In addition, it doesn't have any effects in slowing down or stopping the development of Parkinson's disease. Methods : Accordingly, this study aims to investigate the clinical cases to stop or improve the development of Parkinson's disease by carrying out an independent treatment with Oriental medicine and a combined treatment with Western and Oriental medicines respectively for over 6 months. Results and Conclusions : The results of the study is expected to be an important precedent for the treatment of neuron-degenerative diseases of cranial nerve including Parkinson's disease in the future.

• 대한임상독성학회지
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.137-140
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• 2004

Acute cyanide poisoning is usually the result of attempted suicide which is often lethal within minutes or leads to a very poor prognosis after delayed and inadequate treatment. It affects the cerebral structures with the highest oxygen requirement, such as the basal ganglia, the cerebral cortex. We experienced a-45-year-old man who ingested Potassium Cyanide. He was stuporous. In 25 minutes, respiratory arrest developed and cardiopulmonary resuscitation was done. After return of spontaneous circulation, he admitted to intensive care unit, and conservative treatment was started. The clinical status was improved by degrees, but he couldn't perform daily activity like before. Minimal limitation of movement and memory deficit were left. In magnetic resonance imaging, which taken at the 11th day after admission, there were both basal ganglia and folia of cerebellum abnormality.

• 한국환경성돌연변이발암원학회지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.115-130
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• 2003

Idiopathic Parkinson's disease (IPD) represents a common neurodegenerative disorder. While epidemiological studies have suggested a number of risk factors including age, gender, race, and inherited disorder, the cumulative evidence supports the view that environmental or occupational exposure to certain chemicals may contribute to the initiation and progress of Parkinsonism. More recently, clinical and laboratory investigations have led to the theory that dysregulation of iron, an essential metal to body function, may underlie IPD by initiating free radical reaction, diminishing the mitochondrial energy production, and provoking the oxidative cytotoxicity. The participation of iron in neuronal cell death is especially intriguing in that iron acquisition and regulation in brain are highly conservative and thus vulnerable to interference from other metals that bear the similar chemical reactivity. Manganese neurotoxicity, induced possibly by altering iron homeostasis, is such an example. In fact, the current interest in manganese neurotoxicology stems from two primary concerns: its clinical symptoms that resemble Parkinson's disease and its increased use as an antiknock agent to replace lead in gasoline. This article will commence with addressing the current understanding of iron-associated neurodegenerative damage. The major focus will then be devoted to the mechanism whereby manganese alters iron homeostasis in brain.

• 한국독성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국독성학회 2001년도 International Symposium on Dietary and Medicinal Antimutgens and Anticarcinogens
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• pp.164-164
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• 2001

Manganese (Mn) intoxication causes a parkinsonian syndrome. It may be difficult to distinguish Mn-induced parkinsonism from idiopathic Parkinson disease (IPD). Neuropathological descriptions on the brains with Mn intoxication showed the preferential damage in the globus pallidus and substantia nigra pars reticularis.(omitted)

• 대한핵의학회지
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.34-42
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• 2003

The dopamine transporter (DAT) is responsible for the re-uptake of dopamine from the synaptic cleft and is located on dopaminergic nerve terminals only. DAT single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and positron omission tomography (PET) imaging, therefore, offer the unique opportunity to study via striatal uptake the integrity of presynaptic dopaminergic nerve terminals in vivo. In recent years SPECT and PET using specific ligands binding to DAT have evolved as an useful tool for diagnosing and monitoring progression of neurodegenerative disorders affecting dopaminergic systems. This article briefly reviews the literature dealing with DAT SPECT and PET imaging in parkinsonism and other neurodegenerative disorders.