25 males, aged 40-60 years, who participated in aerobic-type exercise on moderate intensity(60~85% of MHR), 3~5 days a week for 6~12 months were selected. Data were obtained at pre- and post-participation of tranining period for height, weight, girths of chest and abdomen, body fat, BP, HR, serum cholesterol, triglyceride, HDL-cholesterol, glucose, uric acid, BP and HR during graded treadmil exercise, and VO2max. After training for average 38.4 weeks, significant reductions occured in percent of body fat, HR and SBP both at rest and exercise, triglyceride, but not in cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol. And DBP, HDL-cholesterol were elevated. VO2max was increased apparantly by 16.4%. From the results was concluded that training of aerobic exercise could reduce the risk of coronary heart disease by 1) decreasing myocaridal oxygen demand, 2) improving on lipid profile, 3) increasing cardiac work capacity.
Abdomen ; Adipose Tissue ; Cardiovascular Diseases* ; Cholesterol ; Coronary Disease ; Exercise* ; Glucose ; Humans ; Male ; Oxygen ; Risk Factors* ; Thorax ; Triglycerides ; Uric Acid

PURPOSE: The aquaporins (AQPs) are transmembrane water channel proteins. It is well known that AQP2, -3 and -4 contribute to the urinary concentration in collecting duct (CD) and also reported the presence of these three AQPs in the connecting tubule (CNT). Newborn rats are not capable of producing a concentrated urine. Rats develop the ability to concentrate urine after birth. The purpose of this study was to establish the time of the expression and the distribution of AQP2, -3 and -4 in the developing rat kidney. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Sprague-Dawley rats were used in all experiments. Kidneys were obtained from 16, 18 and 20-day-old fetuses and 1, 4, 7, 14 and 21-day-old pups and preserved and processed for immunohistochemical studies using a preembedding immunoperoxidase procedure. AQP2, -3 and -4 immunoreactivity was detected using rabbit polyclonal antibody and donkey anti-rabbit IgG. RESULTS: AQP2, -3 and -4 appeared first in 16-day-old fetuses in the CD and in 18-day-old fetuses in the CNT. Immunoreactivity for AQP2, -3 and -4 was markedly increased after birth and gradually increased during development. In CNT cells and principal cells, AQP2, -3 and -4 were not distinctly demonstrated on the apical, lateral and basal plasma membrane respectively until 21 days after birth. Distinct polarity of these AQPs both in CNTcells and principal cells were observed at 21 days after birth. CONCLUSIONS: AQP2 -3, and -4 were expressed not only in CD but also in CNT before developing of urine concentrating ability during development and it is concluded that their expression and distribution in CNT may play a role in the development of urine concentration abilities in rat kidney.
Animals ; Aquaporin 2* ; Aquaporins ; Attention ; Cell Membrane ; Equidae ; Fetus ; Humans ; Immunoglobulin G ; Infant, Newborn ; Kidney Concentrating Ability ; Kidney Tubules ; Kidney* ; Parturition ; Rats* ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley

The germ cells first appear from the primitive streak, the splanchnopleure and the allantoic membrane of the embry and they migrate toward the gonadal ridge. It can happen, however, that some of these germ cells may not migrate to the gonadal ridge and may remain at ectopic sites such as the mediastium, the central nervous system, the sacrococcygeal region and the retroperitoneum. Therefore, germ cell tumors can arise from these ectopic sites and according to their totipotentiality of differentiating into embryonic and extraembryonic tissues, such as chorionic tissues and yolk sac, they can develop into various tumors. Generally, the sites in which these tumors are frequently found are the gonads, the sacrococcygeal region, the mediastinum, the retroperitoneum and the intracranial region. The aim of this study was to organize and report the data found on these tumors in the records of 412 patients whose tumor specimens were examined in the Department of Pathology of the Yonsei University, college of Medicine within the 10 year period, 1976~1985. The findings are as follows: 1) In total 412 cases, the ratio of benign to malignant tumors was 5.8:1. 2) Germ cell tumors occur commonly in the ovary (326 cases: 78.6%). It's incidence was followed by the descending order, in the mediastinum (26 cases: 6.3%), testis (23 cases: 5.6%), central nervous system (15 cases: 3.6%), sacrococcygeal region (11 cases: 2.7%) and retroperitoneal space (7 cases: 1.7%). Also, 2 were found in the intraorbital region and 1 each in the pericardium and the kidney. 3) In extragonadal sites, female were much more common and the sex ratio (M:F) showed 1:10 in sacrococcygeal region. 1:2.5 in retroperitoneum and 1:2.3 in mediastinum. 4) Mature teratoma was found most commonly (85.4%). It's incidence was followed by in descending order, seminoma (including dysgerminoma and germinoma) (6.8%), embryonal carcinoma (2.9%), endodermal sinus tumor (2.0%), immature teratoma (1.7%) and mixed forms (1.2%). 5) Benign teratoma takes up mostly at ovary, retroperitoneal space, sacrococcygeal region and mediastinum by 93.3%, 100.0%, 81.8%, 80.9%, respectively. But in testis and intracranial region, malignancy were more common. 6) Embryonal carcinoma and endodermal sinus tumor occured at similar aged group and each was distributed 41.7% and 62.5% respectively at first decade. 87.5% of dysgerminoma occured at 11~30 aged group, 91.7% of germinoma at 11~20 aged group, 67% mature teratoma at 20~40 aged group, 75% of seminoma at 31~50 aged group, so age distribution showed embryonal carcinoma, endodermal sinus tumor, dysgerminoma/germinoma, mature teratoma and seminoma, in increasing order. 7) In 352 cases of mature teratoma, 347 cases (98.6%) were cystic type and 5 cases (1.4%) were solid type. In 7 cases of immature teratoma, 5 cases (71.4%) were solid and 2 cases (28.6%) were cystic. 8) The incidence of bilaterality were 10.2% in mature teratoma, 12.5% in dysgerminoma and 16.7% in seminoma. 9) When the corredation of the tumor markers, alphafetoprotein and human chorionic gonadotropin, with malignancy was checked in 12 out of 28 cases of tumor of the testis. Either alpha fetoprotein of human chorionic gonadotropin was found to be elevated in 3 cases (75%) in which metastasis was already present at the time of diagnosis, where in 8 cases in which neither marker was elevated, metastasis was found to be present in only 1 (12.8%).
Female ; Humans ; Incidence ; Neoplasm Metastasis ; Tumor Markers, Biological

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Takayasu Arteritis*

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Pericardium*

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Polychondritis, Relapsing*

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Polychondritis, Relapsing*

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Neurilemmoma* ; Neurofibromatoses* ; Neurofibromatosis 2*

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Myositis Ossificans progressiva is a very rare disease and not more than five cases have been reported in this country. The symptoms usually appear before the age of six and no case has ever been reported in medical literature in which patient is older than the age of twenty. This author reports here that a 52 years old male was diagnoed as a myositis ossificans progressiva. The patient developed his symptoms when he was lynched by a club during the Korean conflict at the Korean conflict at the age of thirty. Another interesting fact is that is that his daughter has also developed similar symptoms which appeared following an accident when she was run over by an angry cow at the age of six.
Humans ; Korean War ; Male ; Myositis Ossificans ; Myositis ; Nuclear Family ; Rare Diseases