• 제목/요약/키워드: Serum opacity factor

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Blood Levels of IL-Iβ, IL-6, IL-8, TNF-α, and MCP-1 in Pneumoconiosis Patients Exposed to Inorganic Dusts

  • Lee, Jong-Seong;Shin, Jae-Hoon;Lee, Joung-Oh;Lee, Won-Jeong;Hwang, Joo-Hwan;Kim, Ji-Hong;Choi, Byung-Soon
    • Toxicological Research
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    • 제25권4호
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    • pp.217-224
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    • 2009
  • Inhaled inorganic dusts such as coal can cause inflammation and fibrosis in the lung called pneumoconiosis. Chronic inflammatory process in the lung is associated with various cytokines and reactive oxygen species (ROS) formation. Expression of some cytokines mediates inflammation and leads to tissue damage or fibrosis. The aim of the present study was to compare the levels of blood cytokines interleukin (IL)-$1\beta$, IL-6, IL-8, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-$\alpha$ and monocyte chemoatlractant protein (MCP)-1 among 124 subjects (control 38 and pneumoconiosis patient 86) with category of chest x-ray according to International Labor Organization (ILO) classification. The levels of serum IL-8 (p= 0.003), TNF-$\alpha$ (p=0.026), and MCP-1 (p=0.010) of pneumoconiosis patients were higher than those of subjects with the control. The level of serum IL-8 in the severe group with the small opacity (ILO category II or III) was higher than that of the control (p=0.035). There was significant correlation between the profusion of radiological findings with small opacity and serum levels of IL-$1\beta$(rho=0.218, p<0.05), IL-8 (rho=0.224, p<0.05), TNF-$\alpha$ (rho=0.306, p<0.01), and MCP-1 (rho=0.213, p<0.01). The serum levels of IL-6 and IL-8, however, did not show significant difference between pneumoconiosis patients and the control. There was no significant correlation between serum levels of measured cytokines and other associated variables such as lung function, age, BMI, and exposure period of dusts. Future studies will be required to investigate the cytokine profile that is present in pneumoconiosis patient using lung specific specimens such as bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF), exhaled breath condensate, and lung tissue.

국내분리 Erythromycin-Clindamycin 내성 Streptococcus pyogenes에 대한 Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis 양상 분석 (Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis Profile of Erythromycin-Clindamycin Resistant Streptococcus pyogenes Isolated in Korea)

  • 이영희;황규잠;이광준;박강수;배송미;성화영;김기상;이종삼
    • 대한미생물학회지
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    • 제35권2호
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    • pp.171-180
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    • 2000
  • Ninety two strains of Streptococcus pyogenes were isolated from patients with pharyngitis, scarlet fever, skin infection, and invasive streptococcal infections in Seoul, Korea from January to December, 1998. All isolates were epidemiologically characterized by T protein serotype, and serum opacity factor (OF) detection to phenotypes. To analyze the genetic relationship, fifty two isolates including 32 erythromycin-clindamycin (Em-Cm) resistant strains, 20 antimicrobial susceptible strains were attempted to the pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). T protein serotype showed 16 kinds in distribution including T12 and T4. Among the total isolates, 40 strains (43.5%) belonged to the T12 serotype and twenty strains (21.7%) to T4 serotype. On the other hand, when infection aspect of S. pyogenes isolates were analysed by T serotype distribution, T12 type was predominant for pharyngitidis which contributed to 21 strains (53%) and for skin infection isolates which contributed to 11 strains (28%), respectively. In case of T4 type, it was the most predominant pharyngitidis isolates which contributed to 8 strains (40%). In T serotype distribution of Em-Cm resistant strains, 27 strains (84%) of the thirty two showed T12 serotype. In minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values of Em-Cm resistance isolates, thirty two isolates showed resistant to erythromycin 27 strains (84%), had high MIC of >$128\;{\mu}g/ml$. And also to clindamycin, twenty two strains (69%) had high MIC of >$128\;{\mu}g/ml$. When OF detection of Em-Cm resistance of S. pyogenes isolates were analyzed by T serotype distribution, T12 serotype isolates revealed that all of the isolates except one strain were OF negative. In PFGE profile analysis to Em-Cm resistance isolates, of the twenty seven, Em-Cm resistance of T12 serotype isolates, 26 strains showed identical PFGE profile and all of these isolates revealed that OF negative. Eighty four percent of Em-Cm resistance S. pyogenes isolates had identical phenotype and PFGE profile. These results strongly suggested that the Em-Cm resistant S. pyogenes isolates from Seoul area showed close genetic correlation and PFGE could be available tool for molecular epidemiology.

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진폐증 환자에서의 혈청내 IL-8 농도 (The Evaluation of IL-8 in the Serum of Pneumoconiotic patients)

  • 안형숙;김지홍;장황신;김경아;임영
    • Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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    • 제43권6호
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    • pp.945-953
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    • 1996
  • 연구배경: 진폐증을 비롯한 급만성 염증성 폐질환의 공통적인 병태생리는 활성화된 대식세포에서 분비되는 싸이토카인에 의해 염증세포 특히 독성 산화물질이나 단백분해효소 등을 분비하는 호중구의 침윤이 중요한 역할을 하며 염증이 지속되는 경우 비가역적인 섬유화를 가져오게 된다. 최근 강력한 호중구 화학주성인자로 밝혀진 IL-8은 TNF ${\alpha}$나 IL-1 에 의해 단핵세포나 대식세포, 섬유모세포등에서 분비되며 단백분해효소나 열 등에 안정하여 긴 반감기를 갖고 있어 다른 화학주성인자에 비해 지속적인 염증반응을 일으킨다. 실험 진폐증에서 유리규산에 폭로된 대식세포에서 TNF ${\alpha}$ 와 IL-1 이 증가함이 밝혀졌고, 유리규산과 같이 배양한 단핵세포에서 호중구 화학주성이 증가하며 lL-8 항체에 의해 호중구 화학주성이 억제됨이 보고된 바 있어 저자들은 IL-8 이 진폐증의 병태생리에서도 중요한 역할을 할 것으로 가정하게 되었다. 이에 진폐증 환자에서 IL-8의 분비가 증가하였는지 여부와 진폐증의 진행정도에 따른 IL-8 농도의 상관관계를 알아보고 진폐증의 조기진단에 IL-8을 생화학적 지표로 이용하고자 본 연구를 시도하였다. 방법: 분진 폭로력이 없는 아파트 경비원 16명을 대조군으로 하였고, 환자군은 흉부 X 선상 ILO 분류에 따라 의사진폐증군 16명, 소음영 진폐증군 16명, 대음영 진폐중군 16명을 대상으로 혈액 3$m{\ell}$를 채취하여 혈청을 얻은 다음 sandwich enzyme immnoassay technique 을 사용하여 IL-8을 정량분석하였다. 결과: 1. 대조군에 비하여 소음영 진폐증군과 대음영 진폐증군에서 연령이 높게 나타났으나 흡연력에는 차이가 없었으며 진폐증군사이에 분진 폭로력에도 유의한 차이는 없었다. 2. IL-8의 농도는 대조군에서 $17.85{\pm}33.85pg/m{\ell}$였던 것에 비하여 의사진폐증군에서 $70.50{\pm}53.63 pg/m{\ell}$ 소음영 진폐증군에서 $107.50{\pm}45.88pg/m{\ell}$ 대음영 진폐증군에서 $132.50{\pm}73.47pg/m{\ell}$로 대조군에 비하여 유의하게 증가하였다(p<0.001). 3. 진폐증군에서 진폐증이 진행할수록 IL-8 은 증가하는 경향을 보였고, 분산분석에서 다중비교를 하였을 때 의사진폐증군과 대음영 진폐증군사이에 통계적으로 유의한 차이가 있었다(p<0.05). 4. 진폐증 병형과 IL-8 농도사이에 상관계수는 0.4199(p<0.05)로 미약하지만 통계적으로 유의한 상관관계를 보여주었다. 결론: 진폐증의 조기진단을 위한 생화학적 지표로 IL-8 의 유용성이 클 것으로 기대되며 향후 진폐증에서의 IL-8항체의 호중구억제와 폐손상에 대한 방어 효과에 관한 연구가 이루어져야 할 것으로 생각된다.

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