• Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.237-240
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• 1991

Cortisol, epinephrine and norepinephrine concentration in the antecubital and internal spermatic vein were measured and compared each other in 22 varicocele patients to investigate a possible toxic role of these materials to cause impairment of the spermatogensis. The results were as follow. 1) There were no significant differences of cortisol, epinephrine and norepinephrine concentrations between in the internal spermatic vein and in the peripheral vein, 2) Also in 6 patients who showed the abnormal findings on semen analysis and 7 patients who showed the impaired spermatogenesis on testicular biopsy, no significant differences of cortisol epinephrine and norepinephrine concentration were found between in the peripheral vein and in the internal spermatic vein. Therefore, cortisol, epinephrine and norephrine are not regarded as toxic materials responsible for the impairment of spermatogenesis in varicocele.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.187-190
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• 1993

A study was conducted to compare and determine the incidence of ultrastructural alterations in the testes of Philippine carabaos and crossbred buffaloes. Thirteen Philippine carabao bulls and twenty five crossbred male buffaloes were used in this study. Testicular biopsy was used to get tissue samples which were prepared for histologic evaluation using the electron microscopy method. There was no significant difference in Sertoli cell alterations between Philippine carabaos and crossbred buffaloes. However, more crossbred buffaloes (40%) had both Sertoli cell and spermatogenic cell alterations which were significantly higher compared to the 7.7% occurrence in Philippine carabaos. Sertoli cells of crossbred buffaloes exhibited intracavitary structures and exaggerated infoldings of the nuclear envelope (36%), nuclear bleb (16%), and intracytoplasmic vacuolations (16%). Philippine carabaos exhibited few ultrastructural alterations which were mainly intracytoplasmic vacuolations in Sertoli cells (15%).

• 대한기관식도과학회지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.204-208
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• 2000

Endobronchial metastases from extrathoracic primary malignancies are uncommon. Breast, renal, and colonic carcinomas are primary sites most likely to give rise to endobronchial metastases. A number of other tumours have been reported as being complicated by endobronchial metastasis, including ovarian, thyroid, uterine, adrenal, testicular and prostatic carcinomas. The incidence of endobronchial metastasis has been estimated at 2% in patients who died of metastatic disease. Lung parenchymal metastases are common manifestations in patients with rectal cancer, however spread to the major airway is extremely rare. We herein report a case of endobronchial metastasis from rectal adenocarcinoma. A 69-year-old male patient who had been previously treated with surgical resection with rectal cancer presented with a 8-month history of gradually increasing dyspnea and non-productive cough. Clinical and radiological investigations revealed endobronchial metastasis involving, and penetrating, the lower carina and the left main bronchus. We confirmed endobronchial metastasis from the rectal carcinoma by bronchoscopic biopsy.

• Journal of Genetic Medicine
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.11-15
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• 1998

This paper reports 3 cases with 46,XX sex reversed male. Three 46,XX hypogonadal subjects showed complete sex reversal and had normal phallus and azoospermia. We studied them under clinical, cytogenetic and molecular aspects to find out the origin of the sex reversal. Patients had markedly elevated serum follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and lutenizing hormone (LH) and decreased or normal range of serum testosterone. The testicular volumes were small (3-8ml). Testicular biopsy showed Leydig cell hyperplasia and atrophy of seminiferous tubules. We obtained the results of normal 46,XX, and the presence of Y chromosome mosaicism was ruled out through XY dual fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH). By using polymerase chain reaction (PCR), we amplified short arm (SRY, PABY, ZFY and DYS14), centromere (DYZ3), and heterochromatin (DYZ1) region of the Y chromosome. PCR amplification of DNA from these patients showed the presence of the sex-determining region of the Y chromosome (SRY) but didn't show the centromere and heterochromatin region sequence. The SRY gene was detected in all the three patients. Amplification patterns of the other regions were different in these patients; one had four amplified loci (PABY+, SRY+, ZFY+, DYS14+), another had two loci (SRY+, ZFY+) and the other had two loci (PABY+, SRY+). We have found that each patient's translocation elements had different breakpoints at upstream and downstream of the SRY gene region. We conclude that the testicular development in 46,XX male patients were due to insertion or translocation of SRY gene into X chromosome or autosomes.

• Reproductive and Developmental Biology
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.163-168
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• 2005

본 연구는 New Zealand White 수토끼에서 춘기발동 기간 동안에 혈청내 IGF-I(insulin-like growth factor-I)과 GH(growth hormone) 수준의 변화, 정자 형성에 따른 정소내 세포 구성 변화 및 이들 측정치들 간에 관계를 조사하기 위하여 실시되었다. 주령과 관련된 정소내 세포의 DNA 함량 변화 조사를 위하여 $10\~28$주령 수토끼 정소 조직의 fine-needle biopsy를 flow cytometry(FCM)로 분석하였다. 생체중은 $12\~20$주령 때 크게 증가되었고(P<0.05), 28주령 체중은 3.4kg이었다. 혈청 IGF-I 수준(451.3ng/mL)은 20주령에서 가장 높았으며(P<0.05), 그 후 낮은 수준으로 유지되었다. 혈청 GH 수준은 183.3pg/mL으로 다른 주령 때보다 현저히 높았으며(P<0.05), 상승시기가 IGF-I보다는 다소 빨랐다. 정소 조직세포 중 1C-세포의 상대적 비율은 18주령 때 $48.2\%$로 16주령보다 크게 상승되었고(P<0.05), 주령 증가와 더불어 $68\%$로 증가되었다. 2C-세포 비율은 18주령 때 $26.8\%$로 16주령의 $54.3\%$보다 현저히 낮았다(P<0.05). 4C-세포 비율은 18주령 때 $9.9\%$를 제외하고 $2\~6\%$를 유지하였다. 이상 결과에서 토끼는 춘기 발동 개시가 약 18주령에 일어나고 이 기간 중 IGF-I과 GH 수준의 변화가 나이 또는 체성장과 관계가 있었으며 그 영향이 정자 형성과 관련이 있음을 알 수 있었다. Fine-needle biopsy와 연계된 FCM은 춘기 발동 개시와 관련된 정자의 형성 과정을 평가하는데 매우 정확한 방법임을 확인할 수 있었다. 평균 CK-MB치는 $17.4\pm29.7\;IU/L$였다. 전체적인 이식편의 개통률은 $99.1\%\;(214/216)$(좌내유동맥 $100\%$, 요골동맥. $98.4\%$, 우내유동맥: $100\%$)를 보였다. 결론: 다중 복합 Y 동맥 이식편을 이용한 완전 동맥 무인공 심폐 바이패스 관상동맥우회술을 기술적인 문제점 없이 시행할 수 있었으며, 우수한 초기 임상 결과와 개통률을 보였다. 저자들은 특히 심장의 둔각 모서리 부위의 우회술시에 기존의 연쇄 문합에 비해 기술적으로 더 용이하며 복잡한 관상동맥우회술이 필요한 환자에게도 도움이 될 것으로 생각한다.보존하는 일에 등한시하여 왔다. 이 때문에 우리 민족 고유의 뿌리를 점차 잃어가고 있다. 이러한 시점에서 도시노점상을 정리하기 위한 목적으로 정부에서 도시 5일장을 개장한 것은 역사의 아이러니라 아니할 수 없다. 이렇게 정부주도로 개장된 5일장이 운영되어 온 지 2년이 되어가고 있다. 개장 초기에는 시에서의 지원도 적극적이고 소비자들의 호응도 좋았으나, 최근에 들어 활성화의 속도가 둔화되면서 도시 5일장의 개념을 재정립할 필요성이 제기되고 있다. 정부의 주도로 시작된 5일장이므로 정부의 적극적인 추진하에 풍물시장 번영회와 활성화 방안을 모색해야 한다. 쌍다리 풍물시장의 5일장을 활성화하기 위하여 도시 5일장의 개념을 ${\ulcorner}$국민들의 생활수준이 향상되고 여가를 즐길 수 있는 여건이 형성되고 있으므로 전통문화(향토문화)를 유지하고 시민들의 정서함양에 기여할 수 있는 여가공간 조성${\lrcorner}$으로 규정해야 한다. 이러한 개념 하에 5일장의 주체를 명확히 하기 위해 시청 지역경제과를 중심으로 지자제의 실시에 발맞춰 지역특색에 맞게 5일장을 활성화하기 위한 전학을 수립해야 한다

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제43권6호
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• pp.1008-1018
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• 1996

저자들은 젊은 연령의 성인 남자들에서 종격동에 발생한 원발성 종격동 비정상피종성 생식세포종 3예를 수술적 제거 및 화학요법을 통해 치료하던 중 암표식인자의 의미있는 감소와 종양 크기의 감소를 얻었으나 종양 재발에 대한 보조 화학 요법후 합병증이 발생한 경험을 하였기에 이를 보고하는 바이다.

• Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.172-175
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• 2012

Objective: The aim of this study is to investigate the various causes of male infertility using multiple approaches. Methods: Nine-hundred-twenty infertile male patients were analyzed at their first visit with one physician between January 1 and December 31, 2009. All patients were subjected to physical examination and semen analysis and azoospermic patients underwent hormonal testing, chromosomal tests, and testicular biopsy. Semen analysis was based on the definition of the World Health Organization. Results: Among the 920 patients, 555 patients (60.3%) had semen results within the normal range, 269 patients (29.2%) within the abnormal range, and 96 (10.5%) were diagnosed with azoospermia. Varicoceles were diagnosed in 84 of the 555 normal-range patients (15.1%) and in 113 of the 269 abnormal-range patients (42.0%). Of the 96 patients with azoospermia, 24 patients (25%) were diagnosed with obstructive azoospermia, 68 patients (71%) with non-obstructive azoospermia, and 4 patients (4%) with retrograde ejaculation. Conclusion: Various causes of male infertility have been reported and diverse treatment methods can be adopted for each cause. In this regard, research must be conducted on a larger number of patients to accurately assess the various causes of infertility in Korean patients and to investigate various infertility treatment methods.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제55권3호
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• pp.311-316
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• 2003

저자들은 폐전이가 동반된 고환암 환자에서 bleomycin을 포함한 항암화학요법제 투여 후 발열과 기침을 호소하는 환자에서 발생한 약물 유발성 폐독성으로 인한 폐쇄세기관지기질화폐렴 양상의 폐손상을 문헌 고찰과 함께 보고하는 바이다.

• Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.253-260
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• 2004

Objectives: Klinefelter syndrome is the most common genetic cause of male infertility and presents with 47, XXY mainly or 46, XX/47, XXY mosaicism. It is characterized by hypogonadism and azoospermia due to testicular failure, however, sporadic cases of natural pregnancies have been reported. With the development of testicular sperm extraction (TESE) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), sperm can be retrieved successfully and ART is applied in these patients for pregnancy. It has been suggested that the risk of chromosome aneuploidy for both sex chromosome and autosome is increased in the sperms from 47, XXY germ cells. Considering the risk for chromosomal aneuploidy in the offspring, preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) could be applied as a safe and more effective treatment option in Klinefelter syndrome. The aim of this study is to assess the outcome of PGD cycles by using FISH for sex chromosome and autosome in patients with Klinefelter syndrome. Materials and Methods: From Jan. 2001 to Dec. 2003, PGD was attempted in 8 cases of Klinefelter syndrome but TESE was failed to retrieve sperm in the 3 cases, therefore PGD was performed in 8 cycles of 5 cases (four 47, XXY and one 46, XY/47, XXY mosaicism). In one case, ejaculated sperm was used and in 4 cases, TESE sperm was used for ICSI. After fertilization, blastomere biopsy was performed in $6{\sim}7$ cell stage embryo and the chromosome aneuploidy was diagnosed by using FISH with CEP probes for chromosome X, Y and 17 or 18. Results: A total of 127 oocytes were retrieved and ICSI was performed in 113 mature oocytes. The fertilization rate was $65.3{\pm}6.0%$ (mean$\pm$SEM) and 76 embryos were obtained. Blastomere biopsy was performed in 61 developing embryos and FISH analysis was successful in 95.1% of the biopsied blastomeres (58/61). The rate of balanced embryos for chromosome X, Y and 17 or 18 was $39.7{\pm}6.9%$. The rate of aneuploidy for sex chromosome (X and Y) was $45.9{\pm}5.3%$ and $43.2{\pm}5.8%$ for chromosome 17 or 18, respectively. Embryo transfer was performed in all 8 cycles and mean number of transferred embryos was $2.5{\pm}0.5$. In 2 cases, clinical pregnancies were obtained and normal 46, XX and 46, XY karyotypes were confirmed by amniocentesis, respectively. Healthy male and female babies were delivered uneventfully at term. Conclusion: The patients with Klinefelter syndrome can benefit from ART with TESE and ICSI. Considering the risk of aneuploidy for both sex chromosome and autosome in the sperms and embryos of Klinefelter syndrome, PGD could be offered as safe and more effective treatment option.

• Journal of Genetic Medicine
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.160-164
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• 2010

Y 염색체의 구조적 이상은 남성의 정상적인 고환의 분화와 정자생성과정에 영향을 미친다. 본 증례의 무정자증 남성의 혈액세포에서 관찰된 비정상 Y 염색체는 SRY를 포함한 부분적 단완 중복과 Yq12 이질염색질 결실로 재배열된 일동원체성 derivative Y 염색체이다. 이러한 형태의 Y 염색체에 대해서는 매우 드물게 보고되어 있다. 이는 분자세포유전학 및 분자유전학 검사를 통하여 46,X,der(Y)(pter${\rightarrow}$q11.23::p11.2${\rightarrow}$ pter).ish der(Y)(DYZ3+,DYZ1-,SRY++) 의 결과를 얻었다. 증례의 남성은 비정상 Y 염색체를 가졌음에도 불구하고 정상적인 고환의 크기와 혈액내 성호르몬의 수치는 정상이었다. 하지만 양측성 정계정맥류와 고환생검결과 정자형성기능저하증의 소견을 보였다. 이러한 비정상 Y 염색체는 부계의 감수분열 또는 배발생 초기 단계에서 Y 염색체 자매염색분체의 재배열 또는 Y 염색체내 비대립동종재조합(Non-allelic homologous recombination) 현상 때문에 일어난 것으로 생각되며 환자의 생식세포 분열과정 중 X-Y 성염색체 PAR1 (pseudoautosomal region 1) 부위가 접합하는 2가염색체 (X-Y bivalent) 형성장애기전으로 정자생성 또는 정자성숙 단계에 문제가 생긴 것으로 생각된다. 또한 남성특이영역(male specific region of the Y chromosome, MSY)에서 불임과 관련된 유전자들의 결실과 변이 등의 원인도 배제할 수 없을 것이다. 본 증례는 무정자증 불임남성의 생식과 관련된 표현형이 다양한 원인으로 결정될 수 있음을 시사하며 아울러 불임남성에 대한 보다 정확하고 자세한 분자 세포 유전학적 분석들이 불임 남성의 치료에도 도움이 될 것이라 생각한다.