• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.95-97
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• 2003

Despite recent advances in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction, the ability to repair extensive myocardial damage is limited. To develop a new therapy for myocardial infarction, we examined the possibility of regenerating myocardium by implanting bone marrow-derived mononuclear cells(BM-MNC) . Histological and immunohistochemical examination showed myocardium regeneration and angiogenesis in the cell transplantation site. Isolated perfused (Langendorff) heart experiments revealed enhanced functions of heart. These results suggest that BM-MNC transplantation induce cardiac muscle regeneration and that this approach could be applied as a possible treatment for myocardial infarction.

• Applied Microscopy
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 1976

To investigate the nature of typhoid cells, three cases of clinically, serologically and histopathologically proven typhoid lesions of the small intestine and regional lymph nodes were studied light and electron microscopically, Light microscopically, typhoid cells were swollen mononuclear cells characterized by abundant amount of eosinophilic cytoplasm and frequent phagocytoses of red blood cells, bacterial clumps and other tissue debris. These cells were pyronin negative, Electron microscopically, these cells showed marked and diffuse dilatation of RER cisternae and disappearance of ordinary cytoplasmic organelles, but frequent phagocytosed materials, The meaning and reason of RER cisternal dilatation and reduction of cytoplasmic organelles were discussed, and are regarded as degenerative process due to bacterial endotoxin. Although there was hot enough cytoplasmic organelles to pinpoint the origin of typhoid cells, active phagocytosis and evidences against being either plasmacytic or lymphocytic nature favored retuculoendothelial nature of the typhoid cells.

• Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.1628-1634
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• 2004

This study was aimed to verify the anti-diabetic activity of Kangdangboeumbang(KBB) in NOD mice which is Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus(IDDM). The reduction of blood glucose after oral administration between 14 weeks by 2 weeks period to a NOD mice in KBB extract treatment group was showed from 7 day after comparing with control group. KBB extract treatment group increasd insulin secretion amount of serum than control group and decreased IFN­γ production. The pancreatic β-cells is destroyed by Th1-dependent autoimmune disease in NOD mice. KBB extract treatment group intercepted the progress of edematous islet controlling inflammatory mononuclear cells of infiltration that also destruction of pancreatic β-cells electively in a NOD mice.

• Journal of Veterinary Clinics
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.172-176
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• 2004

We described the clinical signs, gross lesions, histopathological lesions, and electronmicroscopy of pig Foot-and-Mouth Disease cases which had occurred in 2002, Korea. Grossly affected pigs showed vesicles on snout, tongue, coronary band, and udder. Histoapthologically, severe intercellular edema and necrosis of prickle cells, and separation between epidermis and dermis were found on the mucosa of tongue and coronary band. And myocardial necrosis and mononuclear cells infiltration in myocardium were found. Electronmicroscopically numerous picornavirus particles(18∼22 nm in diameter) were found in the cytoplasm of prickle cells. By those results, we confirm that those cases were typical FMD cases.

• Journal of Veterinary Clinics
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.214-217
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• 1999

An 8-month-old male orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) housed in Everland Zoo-logical Gardens died after having 10 day history of depression, anorexia and acute respiratory distress. On necropsy, the lung failed to collapse and showed diffuse red consolidation. Microscopically, the alveoli were filled with large amounts of red blood cells, fibrin and varing number of hemosiderin-laden macrophages. The alveolar septa were thickened due to infiltrated mononuclear cells and congestion and are occasionally necrotic. Escherichia coli was isolated from the lung, spleen and kidney. The result of antibiotic sensitivity test of the isolated organism was also described.

• Journal of Veterinary Clinics
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.37-41
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• 1999

The immunostimulating effects of egg white derivatives (EWD) on the phagocytic response of feline peripheral blood polymorphonuclear cells (PMN) as well as mono- nuclear cells (MNC) were examined. The phagocytic activity was analyzed by a flow cytometry system. The EWD showed directly an enhanced effect on the phagocytic response of MNC but not PMN. The phagocytic activity of MNC was enhanced by culture supernatant from MNC and PMN treated with EWD, respectively. Similarly, the phagocytic activity of PMN was enhanced by culture supernatant from MNC but not PMN treated with EWD. It was, therefore, indicated that the enhanced phagocytic activity of feline PMN could be mainly mediated by humoral factor(s) released from MNC treated with EWD. These results suggested that EWD could enhance the phagocytosis of feline peripheral blood phagocytes.

• Korean Journal of Veterinary Research
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.441-445
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• 1996

A case of necrotizing meningoencephalitis was described in a 3-year-old female pug dog. Significant histopathological changes were confined to the brain. Histopathologically, brain lesion of the pug dog was characterized by (1) severe lymphocyte, plasma cell and macrophage infiltration in the meninges and gray and white matter of the cerebral hemisphere, (2) perivascular mononuclear cell cuffing and (3) focal polioencephalomalacia in the gray matter of cerebrum. Replicate sections of the brain and lung were negative for fungal infection, canine distemper and toxoplasmosis on PAS stain and immunohistochemistry, respectively. Based on clinical signs, histopathological and immunohistochemical studies, this case was diagnosed as necrotizing meningoencephalitis in pug dog that had not been preriously described in Korea.

• Biomedical Science Letters
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.295-302
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• 2017

Mononuclear osteoclast precursors derived from hematopoietic progenitors fuse together and then become multinucleated mature osteoclasts by macrophage-colony stimulating factor (M-CSF) and receptor activator of nuclear factor-${\kappa}B$ ligand (RANKL). Especially, the binding of RANKL to its receptor RANK provides key signals for osteoclast differentiation and bone-resorbing function. RANK transduces intracellular signals by recruiting adaptor molecules such as TNFR-associated factors (TRAFs), which then activate mitogen activated protein kinases (MAPKs), Src/PI3K/Akt pathway, nuclear factor-${\kappa}B$ (NF-${\kappa}B$) and finally amplify NFATc1 activation for the transcription and activation of osteoclast marker genes. This review will briefly describe RANKL-RANK signaling pathways and key molecules critical for osteoclast differentiation.

• Childhood Kidney Diseases
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.228-232
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• 2006

Acute interstital nephritis can occur by acetaminophen, but it is rarely presented as acute renal failure with azotemia. We report a case of acute interstitial nephritis induced by acetaminophen in a 14-year-old girl who developed non-oliguric acute renal failure. She has taken acetaminophen to control the persistent throat pain for the last two months. Renal biopsy revealed diffuse infiltration of mononuclear inflammatory cells admixed with eosinophils in the edematous interstitia. After the discontinuation of acetaminophen and the administration of corticosteroid, the serum creatinine level returned to normal.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.1149-1153
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• 2006

In this study, nuclease-resistant RNA aptamers that are specific for Jurkat T leukemia cells were selected by a subtractive systemic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment (SELEX) method. A randomized nuclease-resistant RNA library was incubated with normal peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) in each round to preclude RNAs that recognize the common cellular components on the surface of normal and cancer cells. The precluded RNAs were used for the selection of Jurkat T cell-specific aptamers, and the specific RNAs were then gradually enriched from start to the following selections. After 16 rounds of the subtractive SELEX, the selected aptamers were found to preferentially bind to Jurkat T cells, but not to the normal PBMC, evidenced by fluorescence-activated cell sorting analysis. Thus, the subtractive SELEX can be used to identify ligands to cancer-specific biological markers without prior knowledge of the nature of markers. The aptamers could be applied to specific cell sorting, tumor therapy, and diagnosis, and moreover, to find cancer cell-specific markers.