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Assessment of neovascularization during bone healing using contrast-enhanced ultrasonography in a canine tibial osteotomy model: a preliminary study

  • Jeon, Sunghoon;Jang, Jaeyoung;Lee, Gahyun;Park, Seungjo;Lee, Sang-kwon;Kim, Hyunwook;Choi, Jihye
    • Journal of Veterinary Science
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.10.1-10.12
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    • 2020
  • Blood perfusion of skeletal muscle and callus was evaluated using contrast-enhanced ultrasonography (CEUS) in a canine osteotomy model to determine the applicability of CEUS in the assessment of neovascularization during fracture healing and to compare the vascular signals on CEUS between external skeletal fixation and cast-applied dogs. In 6 Beagle dogs, a simple transverse osteotomy was performed at the left tibial shaft and external skeletal fixation (n = 3) or a cast (n = 3) was applied. Radiography, power Doppler ultrasonography (power Doppler), and CEUS were performed until complete union was achieved. On CEUS, vascular changes were quantitatively evaluated by measuring peak intensity (PI) and time to PI in the soft tissue and callus and by counting the vascular signals. Vascular signals from the soft tissue were detected on power Doppler and CEUS on day 2. Significantly more vascular signals were detected by CEUS than by power Doppler. On CEUS, PI in the surrounding soft tissue was markedly increased after the fracture line appeared indistinctively changed on radiography in all dogs. In the cast-applied dogs, vascular signals from the periosteal and endosteal callus were detected on CEUS before mineralized callus was observed on radiography. CEUS was useful in assessing the vascularity of soft tissue and callus, particularly in indirect fracture healing, and provided indications of a normally healing fracture.

A Comparative Study of Ayurvedic Five-element Novel and Western Element Theory (아유르베다 5원소설과 서양 원소이론 비교 고찰)

  • Choi, Jung-soon;Lee, Geo-ryong
    • Journal of Naturopathy
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.56-65
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    • 2021
  • Purposes: This study is to examine the causes of limitations of modern western science and philosophy through Ayurvedic thought, and to seek the path of holism for the development of national healing projects. Methods: Therefore, it was inferred that the background of modern Western civilization and the reality of the national healing project would share the flow. In order to examine this, the difference between the East and West's 'recognition of the body and the mind' and the 'perspective on the origin of existence' was examined, and the characteristics of the Ayurvedic five-element novel were examined. Results: Through that process, the "mind and body dualism" in the West and the absence of the "empty element( 空 Śunya)" in Western four-element novels were pointed out as the cause of the limitations. In the sense that the 'empty element' is an invisible world and an immaterial world, it was concluded that the absence of justice was a limitation of Western civilization and a problem of the reality of the national healing project. Conclusions: I hope that this study will lead to continuous research on Ayurvedic ideology and research in the field of natural healing, thus contributing to the development of national healing projects and leading to health, well-being, and self-healing of the people.

The Experiences and Future Challenges in Providing of Social Service based on Agro-healing - Focusing on Agro-healing Farms Participated in Gyeonggi-do Community Service Investment Pilot Project - (치유농업 기반의 사회서비스 제공 경험과 향후 과제 - 경기도 지역사회서비스 투자사업 시범사업 참여 치유농장을 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Eun-Hye;Kim, Jeong-Eun;Ryu, Jin-Seok
    • Journal of Korean Society of Rural Planning
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.93-103
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    • 2023
  • The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences and future challenges in providing of social service based on agro-healing. The study conducted was a general qualitative research which involved the collection and analysis of experiences shared by four representatives of participating in Gyeonggi-do community service investment pilot project. The data were gathered through individual in-depth interviews, and the findings were thoroughly analyzed to draw meaningful insights. The study revealed three main topics of discussion: "knowing the necessity of entering social services," "thresholds to be crossed to enter social services," and "future tasks". Based on the these results, implications for the development of community social services related to agro-healing were suggested, and the limitations were also discussed.

THE INDUCTIVE CAPACITY OF PRIMARY CULTURED ORAL MUCOSAL KERATINOCYTES IN SKIN WOUND HEALING OF ATHYMIC NUDE MICE (배양된 구강점막 각화상피세포가 누드마우스 피부 창상 치유에 미치는 효과)

  • Kim, Hyun-Sil;Kim, Nam-Hee;Kim, Jin;Cha, In-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.308-315
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    • 2004
  • Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the mechanism of promoted skin wound healing in skin defects with primary cultured oral mucosal keratinocytes. Materials and methods: Thirty adult female nude mice weighing $20{\pm}2g$ were used for the experiment. Primary cultured and suspended oral mucosal keratinocytes, labeled with BrdU, were scattered onto $1.5cm{\times}1.5cm$ sized full thickness skin defects in the experimental group(N=15), and no grafts were placed the control group(N=15). They were sacrificed at 3 days, 1 week and 2 weeks after the treatment respectively. Histological examination of each wounds were performed to review the healing progress on measuring the length from the wound margin to regenerating epithelial front. The role of keratinocytes were assessed by double immunohistochemical staining with Anti-BrdU and Anti-cytokeratin AE1/3. Results: In the experimental group the wound was completely covered with regenerating epithelia in 2 weeks, but partially regenerated in the control group. The immunohistochemical studies unexpectedly reveal that most of regenerating epithelial cells were induced from marginal epithelium of the margin, not from the scattered keratinocytes. Conclusion: We could successfully confirm that graft of primary cultured oral mucosal keratinocytes promotes the regeneration of skin defects.

A Study on the Healing Environment Design for Medical Clinic (의료 시설의 치유 환경 디자인에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Young-Mi;Kim, Sung-Hye
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Interior Design Conference
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.173-174
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    • 2007
  • This project was planned to construct the healing environment in medical clinic. The concepts of design were extracted from the literatures on this subject, and reflected on the output of design. The main concepts for the healing environment consisted of light, control of privacy and communication, efficiency, comfort, and identity. As a result the healing values had been realized in this medical clinic with design concepts, and we expected that they would provide users of this clinic with well-being society.

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Host modulation therapy for improving the osseointegration of dental implants under bone healing-suppressed conditions: a preclinical rodent-model experiment

  • Young Woo Song;Jin-Young Park;Yoon-Hee Kwon;Wooyoung Eric Jang;Sung-Jin Kim;Jeong Taeg Seo;Seok Jun Moon;Ui-Won Jung
    • Journal of Periodontal and Implant Science
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    • v.54 no.3
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    • pp.177-188
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    • 2024
  • Purpose: Placing dental implants in areas with low bone density or in conditions where bone healing is suppressed is challenging for clinicians. An experiment using a rodent model was performed with the aim of determining the efficacy of host modulation by increasing the systemic level of cholesterol sulfate (CS) using Irosustat in the context of the bone healing process around dental implants. Methods: In 16 ovariectomised female Sprague-Dawley rats, 2 implant fixtures were placed in the tibial bones (1 fixture on each side). At 1 week after surgery, the high-CS group (n=8) received Irosustat-mixed feed, while the control group (n=8) was fed conventionally. Block specimens were obtained at 5 weeks post-surgery for histologic analysis and the data were evaluated statistically (P<0.05). Results: Unlike the high-CS group, half of the specimens in the control group demonstrated severe bone resorption along with a periosteal reaction in the cortex. The mean percentages of bone-to-implant contact (21.5%) and bone density (28.1%) near the implant surface were significantly higher in the high-CS group than in the control group (P<0.05), as was the number of Haversian canals (by 5.3). Conclusions: Host modulation by increasing the CS level may enhance the osseointegration of dental implants placed under conditions of impaired bone healing.

Autonomic Self Healing-Based Load Assessment for Load Division in OKKAM Backbone Cluster

  • Chaudhry, Junaid Ahsenali
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.69-76
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    • 2009
  • Self healing systems are considered as cognation-enabled sub form of fault tolerance system. But our experiments that we report in this paper show that self healing systems can be used for performance optimization, configuration management, access control management and bunch of other functions. The exponential complexity that results from interaction between autonomic systems and users (software and human users) has hindered the deployment and user of intelligent systems for a while now. We show that if that exceptional complexity is converted into self-growing knowledge (policies in our case), can make up for initial development cost of building an intelligent system. In this paper, we report the application of AHSEN (Autonomic Healing-based Self management Engine) to in OKKAM Project infrastructure backbone cluster that mimics the web service based architecture of u-Zone gateway infrastructure. The 'blind' load division on per-request bases is not optimal for distributed and performance hungry infrastructure such as OKKAM. The approach adopted assesses the active threads on the virtual machine and does resource estimates for active processes. The availability of a certain server is represented through worker modules at load server. Our simulation results on the OKKAM infrastructure show that the self healing significantly improves the performance and clearly demarcates the logical ambiguities in contemporary designs of self healing infrastructures proposed for large scale computing infrastructures.

Install and Evaluation of Community Design Workshop Program for Regional Linking Cooperation Projects -Case Study on Community Design Workshop of 'Sejong Healing Road 100 Project'- (지자체간 연계협력사업 추진을 위한 마을만들기 대학 프로그램의 적용과 평가 -세종대왕 100리길 사업 마을만들기 대학의 사례를 중심으로-)

  • Park, Chung-Shin;Kim, Seung-Geun
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Rural Architecture
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.43-50
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    • 2015
  • The purpose of this study is to examine application possibility as the inhabitants educational program for community design workshops of regional linking cooperation project "Sejong healing road 100 project". As a results follows : First, It can confirm inhabitants ability reinforcement through administration of the 8-week educational program, and a participation rate is important in it. Second, 'The tool of inhabitants opinion expression using a Post-it' is easy as a tool of the workshops, and the effect improves if It use a drawing together. Third, 'The tool of inhabitants opinion expression using figure card' is the most effective as expression of the inhabitants intention as a tool of the workshops, but preparations process is complicated. Moreover, for the inhabitants participation in regional linking cooperation projects, the development system of a more systematic inhabitants intention expression is necessary.

Valuing Estimation of forest healing function of Jangseong Healing Forest (장성 치유의숲의 산림치유기능에 대한 가치평가)

  • Kim, Jin-Seon;Kim, Eui-Gyeong;Kim, Dong-Hyun;Shin, Hye-Jin
    • Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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    • v.103 no.3
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    • pp.453-461
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    • 2014
  • As interest in 'Forest therapy' continues to increase, local governments as well as Korea Forest Service (KFS) are actively promoting a project to create 'healing forests' nationwide. In this situation, it is necessary to examine whether such a policy is suitable. Therefore, the main purpose of this study is to estimate the use value of Jangseong healing forest which is the most-visited place among the national healing forests. To achieve this aim, a survey of randomly selected 400 visitors was conducted in Jangseong healing forest. 391 surveys were used for analysis, excluding 9 untruthful answers. And 1.5 bounded dichotomous choice contingent valuation method (CVM) was used to estimate the economic value of Jangseong healing forest. As a result, the average willingness to pay ($wTP_{mean}$) for the use fee of Jangseong healing forest was 35,010 won per visitor per day. And the annual use value of Jangseong healing forest was estimated to be worth almost 7.5 billion won.