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Comparison of Protein Electrophoresis Fractions in the Leptospirosis Patient Serum

  • Kim Chong Ho;Park Seung-Taeck;Oh Geum-Ga
    • 대한의생명과학회지
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    • 제10권3호
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    • pp.253-257
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    • 2004
  • The mechanisms by which leptospires caused disease are not well understood. A number of putative virulence factors have been suggested, but with few exceptions their role in pathogenesis remains unclear. In these days, many cases of leptospirosis are diagnosed by serological immunoassay. Leptospirosis is characterized by the histopathology of liver, kidney, heart, and lung, but the electrophoresis fractions of serum protein are not compared. We analyzed total protein, albumin, aspartic aminotranferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), alkaline phosphatase (ALP), creatinine and urea nitrogen (UN) in sera of patients diagnosed leptospirosis. Total protein and albumin were decreased in 18.5% and 31.2% of patients, respectively. AST, ALT, ALP, UN and creatinine were increased in 90.4%, 66.9%, 28.0%, 15.9% and 10.8% of patients, respectively. We performed cellulose acetate membrane electrophoresis (EP) on sera of patients increased both of AST and ALT, and of patients increased both of creatinine and UN. In patients increased both of AST and ALT, and in patients increased both of AST and ALT, the relative percentage of albumin to total protein in patient serum was dcreased in 89.1 % of patients. α₁-globulin, α₂-globulin, β-globulin and γ-globulin were increased in 85.1 %, 75.2%, 33.6% and 98.0% of patients, respectively. In patients increased both of creatinine and UN, the relative percentage of albumin to total protein in patient serum was dcreased in 93.8% of patients. α₁-globulin, α₂-globulin, β-globulin and γ-globulin were increased in 87.5%, 100%, 31.2% and 93.8% of patients, respectively. These data indicate that infection of Leptospira causes severe liver damage to most of leptospirosis patients, but doesn't cause renal damage to most of them. The relative rate of serum protein electrophoresis fractions to total protein are not identical with them of typical hepatitis patient.

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항정자항체 검출에 있어서 gelatin 정자응집검사법 및 정자부동화검사법의 비교관찰 (A Comparison of the Kibrick Macro-Agglutination Test and the Isojima Micro-Immobilization Test for Antisperm Antibody in Male Sera)

  • 소병억;김세철
    • Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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    • 제12권1호
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    • pp.41-46
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    • 1985
  • Various immunoserologic and cellular immunity techniques have been used to explore the presence of antisperm antibodies in the serum and seminal plasma of male patients and in the blood and genital fluid of infertile women. Several recent comparative investigations using various assays to detect and quantitate levels of antibody to human spermatozoa have produced widely varying results. So the first WHO workshop on iso- and autonatibodies to human spermatozoa in 1974 tried to establish some unification in the techniques used. The purpose of this study is to compare the results of two methods-the Kibrick macro-agglutination test and the Isojima micro-immobilization test-using the same test materials based on recommandation from WHO workshop. The results are as follows: 1. Twenty normal controls showed negative reactions in all the 2 tests. Out of 25 patients, the positive sera were noted in 15 (60%) on the Kibrick test and 13 (51%) on the Isojima test. 2. Twelve (48%) out of 25 patients showed positive reactions in the two tests, and 16 (64%) out of 25 patients showed positive reaction in one or more tests. 3. The titers of the antisperm antibodies on the Kibrick test was higher than that on the Isojima test. Therefore, it seems to be possible to increase the chances of detection of the antisperm antibodies, if two tests are imployed.

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갑상선질환에서 갑상선 자극면역글로불린측정의 의의에 관한 연구 -Micro법 갑상선세포배양에 의한 측정의 기본적 검토- (Thyroid Stimulating Immunoglobulin Bioassay Using Cultured Human Thyroid Cells; A Simplified Micromethod)

  • 이명철;정준기;조보연;고창순;이문호;안일민;안희권
    • 대한핵의학회지
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    • 제19권1호
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    • pp.95-102
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    • 1985
  • The activation of adenylate cyclase of human thyrocytes in primary cell culture and the release of c-AMP into the medium are used to detect b-TSH and TSAb in sera of patients with autoimmune thyroid disease. Sera of patients are used directly as a part of cell culture without immunoglobulin precipitation. In the above TSI bioassay, TSAb pooled serum show c-AMP concentration between that of 1mU/ml and 10 mU/ml b-TSH but normal control pooled serum doesn't show any detectable c-AMP response. Ninety fiye percent of untreated Graves' patients shows TSAb activity above normal range, 20% of Hashimoto's and 36% of euthyroid Graves' patients show detectable TSAb activity.

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남아프라카 지역내 한타바이러스 존재에 관한 혈청 역학적 증거 (Seroepidemiologic Evidence for the Presence of Hantavirus in South Africa)

  • 이평우;박만성
    • 대한바이러스학회지
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    • 제29권1호
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    • pp.11-22
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    • 1999
  • Sero-epidemiologic survey has been carried out to establish serologically the presence of hantavirus in areas of South Africa. The survey was oriented to search natural infection in both of humans and wild rodents and involvement of human disease. The normal human sera were collected from the residents in urban and rural areas of Western Cape, and rural area of Eastern Cape province. The rodent sera came from various species of rodents trapped in Northern Cape and Western Free provinces. The patient sera were selected from the patients of renal failure, pulmonary syndrome and pyrexia of unknown origin (PUQ) according to diagnostic chart among the patients hospitalized in major hospitals of Cape Town area. The sera were screened and titrated by IFA test using antigens of Hantaan (HTN), Seoul (SEO), Puumala (PUU), and Prospect Hill (PH) viruses primarily. Positive cases were subjected to differential IFA test using HTN, PUU and PH antigens and plaque reduction neutralization test for further confirmation. Anti-hantavirus antibodies were detected from 2 of 352 rural, 1 of 172 urban residents of E. Cape, and 5 of 118 rural, 5 of 368 urban residents of W. Cape. The antibody was also demonstrated from 5 of 221 wild rodents, and it was appeared that 2 different species, Aethomys namaquensis and Tatem leucogaster, are involved. Among 318 patients tested, 3 who were diagnosed as chronic renal failure, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and glomerulonephritis were proved to be positive. The reaction patterns obtained from all of these positive sera were distinct from hantaviral sero-patterns ever established. This result suggests that new viruses may exist in this area and play an possible etiologic role in human disease. The feature of serologic survey on anti-hantavirus antibody demonstrable newly from African wild rodents which are different from reservoir species in other continents elicits a conjecture that the virus may be different from known hantaviruses ever found. This fact also suggests that an expanded role in etiologic involvement with other unknown human diseases by newly emerging hantaviruses may be possible in this areas.

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Immunoblot를 이용한 폐흡충 비항원의 특이 항원대의 증명 (Demonstration of species-specific and cross reactive components of Paragonimus tvestermani crude worm antigen by EITB)

  • 주경환;안혁;정명숙;임한종
    • Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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    • 제27권1호
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    • pp.9-14
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    • 1989
  • 폐흡충중의 진단은 일반적으로 객담에서 충란을 검출하는 것이 가장 확실한 진단법으로 간주되고 있지만 이소기생의 경우는 물론, 본 기생충의 감염자 및 감염 강도의 감소로 인해 실제 폐에 기생한 경우에 있어서도 객담 검사의 민감도가 매우 낮아져 혈청학적 검사의 필요성이 점차 대두되고 있다. 따라서 식염수 추출액을 항원으로 하여 효소면역 측정법을 실시하는 방법으로 면역 진단을 실시하고 있으나 조항원의 단백 구성이 복잡하여 간흡충을 비롯한 몇몇 흡충류 감염자 혈청에서 교차 반응이 야기되고 있다. 그동안 정제 항원을 만들고자 하는 시도가 많았음에도 불구하고 특이 항원의 분리는 실제로 불가능하였다. 이와 같은 문제점을 보완하기 위하여 폐흡충 조항원을 SDS-PAGE로 전기영동한 다음 EITB를 이용하여 항원대별 항원성 및 특이성을 관찰하여 폐흡충 조항원의 폐흡충증 혈청에 대한 특이 반응대를 확인해 보고자 하였다. 실험에 사용된 항원은 실험적으로 개에 감염시켜 24주만에 얻은 폐흡충 성충의 식염수 추출액이며 3∼20%의 linear gradient gel에서 SDS-PAGE하였다. Silver 염색한 결과 229 kDa∼10kDa 사이에서 26개의 항원대를 구성하고 있었으며 주요 항원대에 대하여 EITB를 실시한 결과 폐흡충 감염자 혈청은 229, 91, 60, 50, 35∼31, 27, 25, 21, 17, 11 및 10kDa의 분자량을 갖는 항원대와 반응하였다. 간흡충 감염자 혈청은 35∼31, 19, 11및 17 kDa의 항원대와 반응하였고 낭미충 감염자 혈청은 229, 31∼31, 27, 25 및 17kDa의 항원대와 반응하였다. 광절열두조충 1예도 17 kDa의 항원대와 반응하였다. 따라서 91, 60, 21 및 10kDa의 항원대 중 일부가 폐흡충 조항원에 있어서 체홉충에 대한 종특이 항원대로 생각되었으며 향후 immunoblot을 이용한 폐흡충중의 면역진단에 이용될 수 있는 항원대로 간주할 수 있었다.

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Porphyromonas gingivalis biofilm에 대한 면역혈청의 침투력에 대한 Fusobacterium nucleatum의 조절효과 (Fusobacterium nucleatum modulates serum binding to Porphyromonas gingivalis biofilm)

  • 최점일;김성조;김수진
    • Journal of Periodontal and Implant Science
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    • 제31권4호
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    • pp.661-668
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    • 2001
  • P. gingivalis를 단독면역하거나 또는 Fusobacterium nucleatum 선면역 후 P. gingivalis 항혈청을 각각 얻어냈다. 두 종류의 항혈청이 P. gingivalis biofilm을 침투해 들어가는 능력을 confocal laser scanning microscope를 이용하여 비교 감증하였다. 항혈청의 P. gingivalis에 대한 avidity index도 측정하였다. 결과적으로 F. nucleatum의 선면역은 P. gingivalis 특이 항혈청에 대해 세균성 biofilm의 침투능력을 저하시키고, 동일한 세균에 대한 avidity도 감소시켰다.

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Probability of Antibody Formation against Circumsporozoite Protein of Plasmodium vivax among Korean Malaria Patients

  • Nam, Ho-Woo;Song, Kyoung Ju;Ahn, Hye Jin;Yang, Zhaoshou;Chong, Chom-Kyu;Cho, Pyo Yun;Ahn, Seong Kyu;Kim, Tong-Soo
    • Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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    • 제52권2호
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    • pp.143-149
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    • 2014
  • To evaluate the seroprevalence against circumsporozoite protein (CSP) of Plasmodium vivax in sera of Korean patients, the central repeating domain (CRD) of CSP was cloned and analyzed. From the genomic DNA of patient's blood, 2 kinds of CSPs were identified to belong to a VK210 type, which is the dominant repeating of GDRA(D/A)GQPA, and named as PvCSPA and PvCSPB. Recombinantly expressed his-tagged PvCSPA or PvCSPB in Escherichia coli reacted well against sera of patients in western blot, with the detecting rate of 47.9% (58/121), which included 15 cases positive for PvCSPA, 6 cases positive for PvCSPB, and 37 cases for both. The mixture of PvCSPA and PvCSPB was loaded to a rapid diagnostic test kit (RDT) and applied with the same set of patient sera, which resulted in detection rates of 57.0% (69/121). When the protein sequences of PvCSPA were compared with those of P. vivax in endemic regions of India and Uganda, they were compatibly homologous to PvCSPA with minor mutations. These results suggested that the recombinant PvCSPA and PvCSPB loaded RDT may be a milestone in latent diagnosis which has been a hot issue of domestic malaria and important for radical therapy in overlapped infections with P. falciparum in tropical and subtropical areas. During the biological process of malarial infection, exposure of CSP to antigen-antibody reaction up to 57.0% is the first report in Korea.

Characterization of a Toxocara canis species-specific excretory-secretory antigen(TcES-57) and development of a double sandwich ELISA for diagnosis of visceral larva migrans

  • Iddawela, R.D.;Rajapakse, R.P.V.J.;Perera, N.A.N.D.;Agatsuma, Takeshi
    • Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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    • 제45권1호
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    • pp.19-26
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    • 2007
  • This study describes the isolation of a Toxocara canis species-specific excretory-secretory(ES) antigen and the development of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay(ELISA) based on this antigen. Analysis of the ES antigens of T. canis, Toxocara vitulorum, Ascaris lumbricoides and Necator americanus larval antigen was performed by SDS-PAGE followed by western blotting. A 57 kDa T. canis-specific antibody fraction(TcES-57) was identified by western blotting and labelling with anti-Toxocara antibodies(from experimental rabbits and human patients) and tracing with anti-human or anti-rabbit peroxidase conjugate. No protein fraction of 57 kDa was detected in ES or larval antigens collected from T. canis, T. vitulorum, A. lumbricoides and N. americanus. Using TcES-57, a specific anti-serum was produced in rabbits and a double sandwich ELISA was developed. This test was validated using known seropositive sera from toxocariasis patients, sera from A. lumbricoides or N. americanus patients, and 50 serum samples from cats. These tests revealed that TcES-57 antigen is specific to T. canis infection and does not cross react with sera of other related infections. Thus, ELISA based on TcES-57 antigen was proven to be an effective tool in the diagnosis of toxocariasis and studies on the role of T. canis in the epidemiology of human toxocariasis.

항-AFP 단일클론 항체를 이용한 간암진단 효과의 검토 (Evaluation of Anti-AFP Monoclonal Antibodies as Immunodiagnostic Reagents for Hepatocellular Carcinoma)

  • 현광자;강희갑;강신성
    • 한국동물학회지
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    • 제38권3호
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    • pp.382-387
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    • 1995
  • 항-AFP 단일 클론 항체를 생산한 다음, 이를 이용한 noncompetitive ELISA 방법으로 정상인과 간암 및 그 밖의 간질환 환자의 혈청내 AFP농도를 측정해 본 결과 간암진단 방법으로는 혈청 AFP농도 측정이 필수적임이 확인되었다. 또한 간암 및 그 밖의 간질환 환자의 조직에 대한 항-AFP-항체의 반응성을 immunperoxidase 방법과 indirect immunofluorescence 방법으로 검정해 본 결과, 간암조직세포 및 일부 간질환 조직세포에서 항-AFP-항체에 대해 양성반응을 나타내었다. 그러나 그 반응성의 정도는 간암조직세포에서 보다 간암조직 주위의 비신생 간세퐁서 더욱 높았다. 그러므로 간암 진단에 있어서 AFP항원을 면역조직화학적으로 검정하는 방법은 적합하지 않았다.

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Proteomic Analysis on Exosomes Derived from Patients, Sera Infected with Echinococcus granulosus

  • Wang, Wen;Zhou, Xiaojing;Cui, Fang;Shi, Chunli;Wang, Yulan;Men, Yanfei;Zhao, Wei;Zhao, Jiaqing
    • Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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    • 제57권5호
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    • pp.489-497
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    • 2019
  • Cystic echinococcosis (CE), a zoonotic disease caused by Echinococcus granulosus at the larval stage, predominantly develops in the liver and lungs of intermediate hosts and eventually results in organ malfunction or even death. The interaction between E. granulosus and human body is incompletely understood. Exosomes are nanosized particles ubiquitously present in human body fluids. Exosomes carry biomolecules that facilitate communication between cells. To the best of our knowledge, the role of exosomes in patients with CE is not reported. Here, we isolated exosomes from the sera of patients with CE (CE-exo) and healthy donors and subjected them to liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry analysis. Proteomic analysis identified 49 proteins specifically expressed in CE-exo, including 4 proteins of parasitic origin. The most valuable parasitic proteins included tubulin alpha-1C chain and histone H4. And 8 proteins were differentially regulated in CE-exo (fold change>1.5), as analyzed with bioinformatic methods such as annotation and functional enrichment analyses. These findings may improve our understanding about the interaction between E. granulosus and human body, and may contribute to the diagnosis and prevention of CE.