• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제44권1호
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• pp.87-89
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• 2006

A 55-year old Korean man, living in Mokpo-city, Jeollanam-do, Republic of Korea, visited a local clinic complaining of right upper quadrant pain and indigestion. At colonoscopy, he was diagnosed as having a carcinoma of the ascending colon, and thus, a palliative right hemicolectomy was performed. Subsequently, an adult fluke of Gymnophalloides seoi was incidentally found in a surgical pathology specimen of the lymph node around the colon. The worm was found to have invaded gut lymphoid tissue, with characteristic morphologies of a large oral sucker, a small ventral sucker, and a ventral pit surrounded by strong muscle fibers. This is the first reported case of mucosal tissue invasion by G. seoi in the human intestinal tract.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제60권3호
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• pp.155-161
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• 2022

All living organisms are destined to die. Cells, the core of those living creatures, move toward the irresistible direction of death. The question of how to die is critical and is very interesting. There are various types of death in life, including natural death, accidental death, questionable death, suicide, and homicide. The mechanisms and molecules involved in cell death also differ depending on the type of death. The dysenteric amoeba, E. histolytica, designated by the German zoologist Fritz Schaudinn in 1903, has the meaning of tissue lysis; i.e., tissue destroying, in its name. It was initially thought that the amoebae lyse tissue very quickly leading to cell death called necrosis. However, advances in measuring cell death have allowed us to more clearly investigate the various forms of cell death induced by amoeba. Increasing evidence has shown that E. histolytica can cause host cell death through induction of various intracellular signaling pathways. Understanding of the mechanisms and signaling molecules involved in host cell death induced by amoeba can provide new insights on the tissue pathology and parasitism in human amoebiasis. In this review, we emphasized on the signaling role of NADPH oxidases in reactive oxygen species (ROS)-dependent cell death by pathogenic E. histolytica.

• 한국컴퓨터산업학회논문지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.49-56
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• 2007

빔의 열적효과는 세포조직의 서로 다른 구성성분과 레이저 빔의 서로 다른 파장에서 다른결과를 나타내며 세포조직에서 온도증가는 먼저 응고가 이루어지고, 절단이나 탄화과정이 일어나며 $300^{\circ}$이상에서는 세포조직의 파괴에 의한 증발이 발생하게 된다. $CO_2$ 레이저는 최소한 조직손상으로 이러한 효과를 얻는데 최적이라고 보며 0.1mm의 최소한의 세포조직 깊이에서 일어나는 효과의 근본적인 장점은 생체조직이나 내장기관에 안정적이다. $CO_2$레이저사용에 있어서 단점은 무엇보다도 세포파괴에서 생성되는 입자들의 부품흡착 등으로 결과적으로 레이저의 출력감소가 일어나는데, 영 전압, 영 전류 스위칭 포워드 컨버터를 도입하여 기존의 하드 스위칭 포워드 컨버터에 있어서 Turn-off, on시 발생되는 스위칭 방식을, 적용함으로써 1차 측 스위칭 소자의 Turn-off, on시 영전압, 영전류 스위칭을 이루어 정밀도가 요구되는 산부인과용 $CO_2$ 연속 형 레이저의 고압출력 모듈에 따른 펄스 트랜스의 안정화에 필수적으로 기여하며, 레이저 출력과 안정화가 되도록 설계 및 제작한 결과, 기존제품보다 향상된 결과를 가져왔다. 추후 시스템적으로 보완을 하면 우수한 결과가 될 것으로 사려된다.

• 한국어병학회지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.97-105
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• 2017

Parasitic leeches could directly (through causing poor growth, anemia and wound in the fish) and indirectly (by predisposition of the fish to secondary bacterial and fungal infections) affects their hosts. In the present study, fishes that were attacked by leeches in natural and experimental environment were studied. Pathologic samples were obtained from damages at the site of leech bite, as well as kidney and liver of the fish. Histopathological examination revealed numerous lesions at the site of leech bite including tissue demolition, detachment at the site of leech bite in the epidermis of epithelial tissue in the skin, destructed nucleus in epithelial cells of the skin plus necrosis in the damaged skin and weak inflammatory penetration to acute necrotic damages along with piercing dermis layer. Pathologic lesions in the kidney included some changes such as proliferation by increasing glomerular cells and membrane cells in capillary vein of the kidney, blood cell necrosis in kidney with infiltration of white blood cells mainly mononuclear and less polymorphonuclear which are the symptoms of anemia due to blood feeding and sucking by leeches. There was also a chronic kidney infection probably originated from another part of body such as skin. Moreover, leeches caused hemorrhagic anemia due to blood consumption of the hosts, which led to observation of immature red blood cells. Also results showed that diseases induced by leeched in fish could be acute or chronic, which depends on size of fish, species of leech and severity of infection.

• 한국양식학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국양식학회 2004년도 수산관련학회 공동학술대회 발표요지집
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• pp.513-513
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• 2004

Manila clam, Ruditapes philippinarum, is commercially and ecologically important marine bivalve in Korea and japan. However, clam landings in the two countries have dramatically declined since the 1980-1990's. In the present study, the protozoan parasite, Perkinsus sp., lectin (host's defense-related glycoprotein) and histopathological features were investigated in Manila clams collected from Gomso Bay in Korea and Ariake Bay in japan (one of the largest clam beds in each country) during summer and fall, 2002-2003. DNA sequences of non-transcribe spacer (NTS), internal transcribed space. (ITS) and 5.85 rRNA of Perkinsus sp. were identical to those of P. atlanticus that was reported in Europe and Korea. For diagnosis of Perkinsus, the fluid thioglycollate medium (FTM) and the 2 M NaOH lysis methods were used. Prevalence of the parasite varied from 92.5-98.7% in Gomso Bay and 35.5-37.9% in Ariake Bay. Infection intensity, in terms of the number of Perkinsuscells per gram tissue wet weight, in the clams of Gomso Bay in fall 2002 averaged 1,010,077-470,937 recording approximately100 times higher than that of Ariake Bay, and these were twice higher than those of summer samples in each location. Mean hemagglutination titer of the clams from Gomso Bay was approximately 60-folds higher than that of clams from Ariake Bay in 2002. In histological preparation of the clams from Gomso Bay in 2002, trophozoites of P. atlanticus were in groups and resulted in severe inflammatory response of host clam. Prevalence of the trematod, Cercaria tapes-like in the clams of Gomso Bay and Ariake Bay were 8.8 % and 10.5% respectively. In conclusion, the clams from Gomso Bay showed more severe pathologic symptoms and higher immune response than those of the clams from Ariake Bay.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.150-154
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• 1977

In the diagnosis of parasitic helminthic diseases, the value of examining and identifying the parasitic eggs and/or adult parasites from patient's urine or stool are well appreciated. However, these methods have a limited value in the diagnosis of tissue or intracellular parasitism, and we have to rely on supplementary methods such as immune-serological test. The author tested the value of gel precipitation reactions as a diagnostic method of clonorchiasis by observing the appearance of bands in rats experimentally infected with Clonorchis sinensis, And the therapeutic effect of CIBA 35'058-Ba was evaluated by this serological method. The antigen was prepared from the adult worms infected in rabbits by Tsuji method. Rats infected with 40 metacercariae each were bled on 7,14,21,26,28,39,42(43),49(53) days after infection to observe the appearance of precipitin bands by both Oucterlony method and immunoelectrophoresis. Fifteen rats were separately infected and treated with CIBA 35'058-Ba in dose of 15mg/kg of body weight. The following results were obtained: 1. It was observed that there exist individual variations in the appearance of the first precipitin band with the range of 2-4 weeks after infection. 2. The number of precipitin bands was increased until 6-7 weeks after infection. In all cases, 3 precipitin bands were appeared by Oucterlony method and 6-7 bands were appeared by immunoelectrophoresis after 6-7 weeks of infecion. 3. It was hardly possible to notice any change in the number of bands after the administration of CIBA 35'058-Ba. This result suggested that the drug has no effect on clonorchiasis which was confirmed by the autopsy of the experimental rats.

• 한국동물위생학회지
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.207-217
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• 2008

This study was carried out to investigate the prevalence of fascioliasis of slaughtered and farmed cattle in Gwangju area from February to November in 2007. A total of 1,000 cattle fecal samples were collected from slaughter houses (n=805) and farms (n=185). Twelve (1.2%) were found as positive cases with excretion of the egg of Fasciola spp in the fecal specimens, and 128 (12.8%) were positive in intestinal parasitism using the flotation and sedimentation procedures. The infection rate of fluke larvae from the slaughtered cattle at abattoirs in Gwangju was 0.75% (6 out of 805 heads). In histopathology, there were several liver lesions such as inflammation with infiltration of eosinophil, polymorphonuclear cells, mononuclear cells and multinucleated giant cells, proliferation of connective tissue, calcification and abscess formation.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.303-309
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• 1999

이 연구를 통하여 바지락 대량 폐사가 발생한 전라북도 곰소만에 서식하고 있는 패류, 바지락, R. philipinarium, 굴 C. gigas, 피조개, S. broughtonii, 피뿔고둥, R. venosa, 등을 대상으로 바지락포자충, Perkinsus sp. 감염 여부 및 정량적인 분석을 수행하였다. 바지락포자충의 감염 진단은 Ray(1952)의 방법에 따라 혐기성배양액인 FTM(Fluid Thioglycollate Media)을 이용하여 배양하였으며, Rugol's iodine으로 염색한 후 해부현미경 하에서 검사하였다. 바지락포자충의 감염 정도는 Mackin (1961)의 기준을 따랐으며 일부 시료는 Choi et al. (1989)의 정량적인 방법에 따라 NaOH로 처리한 후 혈구 계수기로 계수하였다. FTM 분석 결과 곰소만에서 채집된 모든 바지락 개체들은 바지락포자충에 감염된 것으로 나타나 감염율 (prevalence)은 $100\%$였다. Mackin의 기준에 따른 감염 정도 판정에서 평균 2.87로 나타나 중간 정도의 감염 정도를 나타냈다. 바지락 육중량 1g 당 바지락포자충의 개체수는 평균 709,028 개체였으며, 바지락 1개체당 최고 4,091,667 개체의 바지락포자충이 발견되었다. 곰소만에서 채집된 패류를 대상으로한 FTM 검사 결과, 굴에서는 바지락 포자충이 전혀 발견되지 않았으며, 새로막과 피뿔고둥에 대한 조사에서는 피조개 2 개체에서만 각 각 6, 10 개의 바지락 포자충이 발견되었고 피뿔고둥에서는 전혀 발견되지 않았다. 조직병리학적 관찰결과 바지락 아가미의 연결조직에서 무정형의 결절에 쌓여있는 직경 $6\~10\;\mu$m의 tropozoites를 발견하였다. 바지락의 비만도는 개체의 각장이 클수록 낮게 나타나는 경향을 보였으며, 바지락 포자충의 감염정도는 각장이 클수록 높게 나타났다. 바지락포자충은 개체에서 개체로 감염되는 관계로 바지락밀도가 높은 지역에서는 그 전염 속도가 높은 것으로 알려져 대량폐사의 원인 중 하나는 밀식으로 판단되었다.