The non-metric analysis of the skulls is very useful for estimating sex and determination of ancestry, the accuracy tends to depend on the amount of experiences of the observers, and so inter-observer errors might be happened. Many researchers are trying to find out more objective methods for determination of ancestry. The purpose of this presentation is to show the usefulness of moire contourography for analyzing the skull. The master screen that is similar to the gratings was made by steel rods, which were arranged as equally spaced parallel lines. Halogen light source was illuminated by lantern slide projector. The skeletal materials were documented crania, composed of 87 male and 47 female, from William M. Bass Donated Skeletal Collection housed at the Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee. The skulls were placed just behind the master screen as anatomical position using cubic craniophore. The angle between the light source and camera was 65degrees, the distance between camera and the master screen was 1.2 m. Frontal view, left lateral and right lateral view were taken. From the frontal view, fringe patterns were analyzed for first five contour lines which were mainly located around the Glabella. The results were as followed; Type I for male was 53% and female was 4%; Type II for male was 29% and female was 2%; Type III for male was 2% and female was 15%; Type IV for male was 6% and female was 55%. From the lateral view, fringe patterns were analyzed for first four contour lines. However, first and second contour lines were critical to determine the shape and the results were as followed; Type I for male was 52% and female was 22%; Type II for male was 38% and female was 26%; Type III for male was 8% and female was 17%; Type IV for male was 2% and female was 35%. According to this study, different fringe patterns might be dependent on the degree of development of bone marker such as Glabella, Supercillary arch, Euryon and Mastoid process. For example, Supercillary arches were very well developed and slope of forehead above the Glabella was declined, fringe pattern showed reverse triangle shape. If Supercillary arches were poorly developed and slope of forehead above the Glabella was flat, fringe pattern showed home plate shape. The present research shows that moire contourography might be used as more objective methods for estimating sex. And it would be helpful to determine the ancestry when the lateral aspects were analyzed. In the future, continuing study need to be performed with same master screen for different ancestry.
Anthropology ; Bass ; Female ; Forehead ; Humans ; Male ; Mastoid ; Skull* ; Steel ; Tennessee

Recoverin is a member of the large family of EF-hand calcium binding proteins (Baimbridge et al., 1992), and it is thought to be involved in the regulation of phosphodiesterase in photoreceptors and in the phosphorylation of activated rhodopsin (Polans et al., 1996). Although the functional significance of recoverin in cone bipolar cells is not fully understood, the antiserum against recoverin has been widely used to identify a certain population of cone bipolar cells (Milam et al., 1993; Sasso's Pognetto et al., 1994; Euler & W sle, 1995). GABA is well known to act as major neurotransmitters in the mammalian central nervous system including retina. This study was conducted to identify the development process of recoverin-labeled cone bipolar cells, and the timing points of synaptic formation of the labeled bipolar cells and GABAergic amacrine cells in the rat retina. The results were as follows; In the adult rat retina, recoverin-labeled cone bipolar cells were subdivided into twotypes; type 2 cells with axon terminal stratified in sublamina a of the inner plexiform layer (IPL), and type 8 cells with axon terminals stratified in sublamina b of the IPL. Recoverin-labeled cone bipolar cells began to appear from postnatal day 5. The axon terminals of recoverin-labeled type 2 cone bipolar cells stratified at postnatal day 10, while those of type 8 cone bipolar cells stratified at postnatal day 13. The axon terminals of type 2 cone bipolar cells made ribbon synapses onto GABAergic amacrine cells in the IPL at postnatal day 10. These results demonstrate that recoverin-labeled type 2 cone bipolar cells differentiate earlier than recoverin-labeled type 8 cone bipolar cells, and suggest that GABAergic amacrine cells may play important roles in visual processing of recoverin-labeled type 2 cone bipolar cells by making synapse onto these cells at early stage. Synapses between type 2 cone bipolar cells and GABAergic amacrine cells are formed about the time of postnatal day 10 for visual processing.
Adult ; Amacrine Cells* ; Animals ; Calcium-Binding Proteins ; Central Nervous System ; gamma-Aminobutyric Acid ; Humans ; Neurotransmitter Agents ; Phosphorylation ; Presynaptic Terminals ; Rats* ; Recoverin* ; Retina* ; Rhodopsin ; Synapses

The patterns of the moir'e fringe were investigated in 178 modern Korean skulls (112 males and 66 females) using moir'e contourography. The analysis of fringe patterns was executed using image analyzer on the photographs taken from anterior, both lateral, posterior and superior aspects. In the anterior aspect, the center of fringe was the glabella. The cotyledon shape of fringe (type I) was the most frequently observed in males (77%), but reverse triangular shape (type II) and rhomboid shape of fringe (type III) were more frequently observed in females. In the lateral aspect, the euryon, the center of fringe, was located at higher (4 mm) and more lateral (3 mm) position in females than in males. The contour patterns were more irregular (type I) in males than in females where the stripes were arranged more concentrically (type II, III). In the posterior and superior aspects, there was no difference between males and females in the shape of fringe patterns. The relative position of the opisthocranion, the center of fringe in the posterior aspect, was high by 35 mm to eye -ear plane on the average in both sexes. The stripes in the superior aspect were arranged concentrically in both sexes, but wider in females than in males. The results of this nonmetrical study suggest that the analysis of the moir'e fringe patterns in the Korean skulls is a new method for sex discrimination in the field of forensic anthopology.
Cotyledon ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Sexism ; Skull*

This experiment was performed to evaluate the morphological responses of the cecal mucosa of the mouse, inoculated with Ehrlich carcinoma cells in the inguinal area, following administration of 5-fluorouracil, mitomycin C or adriamycin. Healthy adult ICR mice weighing 25 gm each were divided into normal and experimental groups. In the experimental groups, each mouse was inoculated with 1 x 10(7) Ehrlich carcinoma cells subcutaneous in the inguinal area. From next day, 0.2 mL of saline, 5-fluorouracil (30 mg/kg), mitomycin C (400 microgram/kg) or adriamycin (2 mg/kg) were injected subcutaneously to the animals every other day, respectively. The day following the 7th injection of anticancer drugs, each mouse was injected with a single dose of 0.7 micro Ci/gm of methyl-3H-thymidine (25Ci/mmol, Amersham Lab, England) through tail vein. Seventy minutes after the thymidine injection, animals were sacrificed. The number of the labeled epithelial cells of the cecal crypts (mean number of labeled epithelial cells per 3.5 mm length of mucosa) were observed and evaluated. On histological study, in the experimental control and mitomycin C-treated mice, general morphology of the cecal mucosae was similar. And in the 5-fluorouracil-treated mice, slightly swelled epithelial cells and expanded lumen of the intestinal crypts were observed. But in the adriamycin-treated groups, slightly disrupted intestinal crypts, a large number of basophilic epithelial cells and the expanded lumen of the intestinal crypts were observed. On autoradiographic study, number of the labeled cells of normal control, experimental control, 5-fluorouracil treated, mitomycin C-treated, or adriamycin-treated groups were 362.2+/-56.12, 350.7+/-71.13, 215.7+/-80.55, 144.2+/-34.60 and 125.0+/-37.45, respectively. In the adriamycin and mitomycin C-treated groups, poorly-labeled cells containing only a few silver grains were observed more frequently than in those of the normal and experimental control groups. From the above results, adriamycin and mitomycin C suppressed the DNA synthesis of the epithelial cells of the cecal mucosa more severely as compared with 5-fluorouracil did. Especially, adriamycin was more harmful than mitomycin C and 5-fluorouracil on the cecal mucosae.
Adult ; Animals ; Antineoplastic Agents* ; Basophils ; Edible Grain ; DNA* ; Doxorubicin ; Epithelial Cells ; Fluorouracil ; Humans ; Mice* ; Mice, Inbred ICR ; Mitomycin ; Mucous Membrane* ; Silver ; Thymidine ; Veins

Estimation of biological profile for skeletal remains by forensic anthropological examination would be possible based on physical anthropological studies which were statistically analyzed. However, physical anthropological studies for Korean population are not enough to establish biological profile for Korean because there is lack of documented osteological specimens in Korea. Recent study suggested that physical anthropological examination could be possible on the three dimensional data which were reconstructed from computed tomography, instead of preparing skeletal specimen by defleshing bone. One of the aim of this study is to evaluate Digital Korean database which were composed of computed tomographic images of 100 cadavers. The other is to perform statistical analysis on morphometrics for segmented atlas whether the results could be helpful to estimate sex in Korean. We measured 100 segmentation atlases (male 51, female 49) from the Digital Korean database which were under the control of Catholic Institute for Applied Anatomy, The Catholic University of Korea. Measurements of segmented atlas were carried out by using Mimics software (Simulation module, Version 13.0, Materialise NV, Belgium), and values of measurement were performed statistical analysis by IBM(R) SPSS(R) (version 20.0, Armonk, New York). Among 19 measurements, the width of atlas showed most crucial element for estimating sex, which was consistent with the result using dried bones of atlas and hit ratio of discriminant functions was 88.0%. 76.7 was the cut-off score of discriminant functions. This results showed that morphometrics for segmented atlas could be helpful in estimating sex using the Digital Korean database. In the future, we expect that the other researchers could more actively use the Digital Korean database as a good specimen for physical and forensic anthropological study.
Cadaver ; Female ; Human Body* ; Humans ; Korea

In this study, cerebral functional laterality patterns of medical students in the year 2005 were compared with those in the year 1995. Questionnaires on the behavior patterns were asked, and the laterality patterns were classified as right hemispheric (R)-balanced hemispheric (B)-left hemispheric (L). 385 students were studied (210 male and 175 female). Of the 3 categories, male students showed the patterns of R (42.8%), B (31.9%) and L (25.3%). Female students showed R (45.2%), B (30.9%) and L (23.9%). As the above result shows, laterality patterns of male and female were similar. The above data were compared with the another data in the article reported in 1995. Previous report showed that R (63.5%), B (24.9%) and L (11.6%) in the male students, and R (49.0%), B (22.4%) and L (28.6%) in female students, respectively. From the above results, It was suggested that cerebral laterality patterns of medical students in the year 2005 shifted toward left, but it still remained 42~45% in right hemispheric as contrast to 24~25% in left hemispheric. Hemispheric shift was interpreted as that, it may be the result of student's adaptative or competitive activities in the fast changing social environment.
Cerebrum ; Female ; Functional Laterality ; Humans ; Male ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Social Environment ; Students, Medical*

The purpose of this study was to examine the ultrastructural characteristic of the normal pylorus mucosa, and their structural changes induced by the ligation of common bile duct of the male rabbits weighing about 1.5 kg each. Experiment animals were divided into normal, sham operation, and experimental groups. Common bile duct ligation was performed under ether anesthesia and anjmals were sacrificed on the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th and 14th day after operation. The mucosal specimen of the pylorus, were fixed and embedded with common method. The sections were cut on a LKB-V ultratome, and observed under a JEM 100CX II electron microscope. The results were as follow : 1. In the early stages (1st, 3rd, 5th day groups) following the ligation, surface mucous cells have the various electron densities and shape of the mucous granules. In the late stages (7th, 14th day groups) following the ligation, many surface mucose cells containing numerous electron dense mucous granules are seen. 2. In the early stage of the ligation of bile duct, secretory function of EC cells was depressed, but in the later stage, the cells showed recovered secretory activity. 3. Secretory function of D cells was depressed on the early groups after the ligation of common bile duct, but they showed recovered secretory activity from the late groups after the ligation of the common bile duct. 4. Secretory function of G cells was activated on the early groups after the ligation of common bile duct, but they showed depressed secretory activity from the late groups after the ligation of the common bile duct. Considering the above findings, common bile duct ligation probably causes the dysfunction of the pyloric surface mucous cells that results in delayed mucous formation and secretion, and recovered mucous secretory function on the late stages. EC cells and G cells, depressed the secretory activities on the early stages and recovered on the late stages of the ligation of common bile duct. But D cells in the pyloric mucosa was activated on the early groups after the ligation of common bile duct ligation, but they was depressed secretory activities on the late groups.
Anesthesia ; Animals ; Bile Ducts ; Common Bile Duct* ; Ether ; Gastrin-Secreting Cells ; Humans ; Ligation* ; Male ; Mucous Membrane* ; Pylorus ; Rabbits ; Somatostatin-Secreting Cells

This experiment was performed to evaluate the morphological responses of the intestinal gland of the mouse, rectum inoculated with Ehrlich carcinoma cells, following administration of 5- fluorouracil, mitomycin C or AG60. Healthy adult ICR mice weighing 25 gm each were divided into normal and experimental groups (tumor control group, 5-fluorouracil, mitomycin C treated group, and AG60 treated group). In the experimental groups, each mouse was inoculated with 1*10 (7) Ehrlich carcinoma cells subcutaneously in the inguinal area. From next day, 0.2 mL of saline, 5-fluorouracil (30 mg/kg), mitomycin C (400 microgram/kg) or AG60 (5 mg/kg) were injected subcutaneously to the animals every other day, respectively. The day following the 7th injection of anticancer drugs, each mouse was injected with a single dose of 0.7 microCi/gm of methyl-3H-thymidine through tail vein. Seventy minutes after the thymidine injection, animals were sacrificed. The number of the labeled epithelial cells of the rectal crypts (mean number of labeled epithelial cells per 3.5 mm length of mucosa) were observed and calculated. On histological study, in the rectum of mitomycin C treated groups, narrowed intestinal gland, a number of the nectotic changed epithelial nuclei and loosely arranged lamina propria were observed. But in the AG60 treated group, morphological changes of the rectum were not observed. On autoradiographic study, number of the labeled cells of normal control, tumor control, 5-fluorouracil (30 mg/kg) treated, mitomycin C (400 microgram/kg) treated and AG60 (5 mg/kg) treated groups were 246.3+/-42.30, 253.8+/-20.54, 172.7+/-19.02, 108.7+/-17.67 and 53.8+/-11.70, respectively. In the AG60 and mitomycin C treated group, poorly-labeled cells containing only a few silver grains of 3H-thymidine were observed more frequently than in those of the normal control group. From the above results, AG60 (5 mg/kg) and mitomycin C (400 microgram/kg) are more suppressed the DNA synthesis of the cells of the rectal crypts as compare with 5- fluorouracil (30 mg/kg). And AG60 does not result any histological defect on the rectal mucosa. These results suggest that AG60 is expected as one of most effective anticancer drugs.
Adult ; Animals ; Edible Grain ; DNA* ; Epithelial Cells ; Epithelium* ; Fluorouracil* ; Humans ; Intestinal Mucosa ; Mice* ; Mice, Inbred ICR ; Mitomycin* ; Mucous Membrane ; Rectum ; Silver ; Thymidine ; Veins

Industrial glues contain many kinds of organic solvents and glue sniffing by young people has become a social problem in Korea. Glue vapor may induce chronic toxicities different from those induced by exposures to the solvent of single component. We studied the effects of the inhalation of glue vapor on the primary target organ, the pulmonary epithelium of the respiratory system. Vapor samples of glue were collected for analysis; the components were acetone, n-hexane, methyl cyclopentane, c-hexane, and toluene. For the inhalation of glue vapor, experimental mice were exposed in a whole body chamber for 20 min/d for 3, 5, 7, and 14 d. Control groups were exposed to room air. Animals were euthanized and lung tissues were fixed in 10% neutral formalin for light microscopy, and in 2.5% glutaraldehyde plus 1.5% paraformaldehyde for electron microscopy. The results are as follows. 1. Alcianophilic bands were not detected in the normal alveolar epithelium, but weak alcianophilic bands were detected in bronchioles. Alcian blue-PAS and PAS positive cells were found in the mucosae of mice exposed to glue vapor for 5 and 7 d. 2. Types I and II pneumocytes and capillary endothelial cells were found in the normal alveolar epithelium. The blood-air barrier consists of Type I pneumocytes, a common basal lamina, and the capillary endothelium. 3. The alveolar epithelium of vapor-exposed mice showed more type II pneumocytes. In the longerexposed group, Type I pneumocytes and endothelial cells contained many pinocytotic vesicles. 4. The vapor-exposed lungs showed macrophages in the alveolar space, mild interstitial swelling, and increased numbers of collagenous fibers. Clearly, ultrastructural changes in pulmonary epithelia can occur following glue sniffing.
Acetone ; Adhesives ; Animals ; Basement Membrane ; Blood-Air Barrier ; Bronchioles ; Collagen ; Cyclopentanes ; Endothelial Cells ; Endothelium, Vascular ; Epithelium ; Formaldehyde ; Glutaral ; Inhalant Abuse ; Inhalation* ; Korea ; Lung* ; Macrophages ; Mice* ; Microscopy ; Microscopy, Electron ; Mucous Membrane ; Pneumocytes ; Respiratory System ; Social Problems ; Solvents ; Toluene

This experiment was performed to evaluate the morphological responses of the gastric epithelial cells and the gastric chief cells of the mouse inoculated with Ehrlich carcinoma cells in the inguinal area following administration of acriflavine-guanosine composition (AG60). Healthy adult ICR mice were divided into normal and experimental groups. In the experimental groups, each mouse was inoculated with 1x10(7) Ehrlich carcinoma cells subcutaneously in the inguinal area. The day following the 7th injection of saline or AG60, each mouse was injected with methyl-3H-thymidine through tail vein. Seventy minutes after the thymidine injection, gastric tissues were taken and fixed in 10% buffered neutral formalin. Deparaffinized sections were coated with autoradiographic emulsion EM-1 and dried, and then placed in a light-tight box. The number of labeled epithelial cells in the gastric mucosae were observed and calculated. And for electron microscopic observation, gastric tissues were prefixed with 2.5% glutaraldehyde-1.5% paraformaldehyde solution, followed by post-fixation with 1% osmium tetroxide solution. The ultrathin sections were stained with uranyl acetate and lead citrate. The size of zymogen granules and mitochondria in the gastric chief cells were observed and calculated. On the autoradiographic study, number of labeled cells in the area of 3.5 mm width (6 micrometer thickness) of mouse gastric mucosae of normal control, tumor control and AG60-treated groups were 319.7+/-66.46, 343.7+/-47.72 and 102.3+/-54.99 respectively. On the electron microscopic study, the size of zymogen granule in the gastric chief cells of normal control, tumor control and AG60-treated groups were 0.74+/-0.208 micrometer, 1.18+/-0.291 micrometer and 0.97+/-0.259 micrometer, respectively. And the mitochondrial size of the gastric chief cells of normal control, tumor control and AG60-treated groups were 0.86+/-0.364 micrometer, 1.02+/-0.466 micrometer and 0.92+/-0.390 micrometer, respectively. And in the AG60 treated group, most chief cells did not show any difference in ultrastructure, except that myelin figures were more frequently observed, in comparison with that of nornmal control group. From the above results, AG60 may suppress the DNA synthesis of the gastric epithelial cells, but does not results severe fine structural defect on the gastric chief cells. These results suggest that AG60 is expected as one of the most effective anticancer drugs.
Adult ; Animals ; Chief Cells, Gastric ; Citric Acid ; DNA ; Electrons ; Epithelial Cells ; Formaldehyde ; Gastric Mucosa ; Humans ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred ICR ; Mitochondria ; Mitochondrial Size ; Myelin Sheath ; Organometallic Compounds ; Osmium Tetroxide ; Polymers ; Secretory Vesicles ; Thymidine ; Veins