Nineteen years old female with typical pseudoxanthoma elasticum without family history of the disease, and 26 years old male with characteristic clinical and histopathologic findings of Groenblad-Strandberg syndrome and family history of pseudoxanthoma elasticum in his 9 years old sister were presented.
Adult ; Child ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum* ; Siblings

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Asphyxia*

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Gastroenteritis*

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Humans ; Infant, Low Birth Weight* ; Infant, Newborn

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Pregnancy* ; Uterine Hemorrhage*

This research was conducted to analyze the difference of perception of employee-feeding foodservice according to the types of foodservice. To survey the perception of employee-feeding foodservice among customers, the questionnaire consisted of the perception of employee-feeding foodservice. The questionnaires were sent to randomly selected customers of employee-feeding foodservice 120 each at two public organizations, two companies and two colleges, SPSS was used for descriptive analysis, computing Cronbach's Alpha value and Anova test. 678 of users of self-managed foodservices, and 660 of contracted foodservices, total 1,338 answered for the survey. Among them 67.9%(69.9% at self-managed foodservices, 65.9% at contracted foodservices) were male and 32.1%(30.1% at self-managed foodservices, 34.1% at contracted foodservices) were female. As for the age group, twenties were the major with 48.5% at self-managed foodservices, 56.2% at contracted foodservices. For the reason of visiting cafeteria low price was answered by 40.9% at self-managed foodservices, while approachable location were ranked first by 45% at contracted foodservices. Foodservice perception evaluation of foodservice in four categories showed significant differences: quality of the foods(p<0.001), sanitation(p<0.05), tangibility(p<0.001), empathy(p<0.05). Among the four categories tangibility(2.80+/-0.69) showed the highest perception at self-managed foodservices, while at contracted foodservices quality of foods (2.82+/-0.61) was with highest recognition.
Female ; Humans ; Male ; Surveys and Questionnaires

BACKGROUND: The effects of a newly synthesized potassium channel opener, KR-30816((-)(nitro-2-hydroxymethyl-2-methy-2H-1-benzopyran-4-y1)pyridine oxide) on the action potential of papillary muscles of guinea pigs and the ATP-sensitive potassium channel current(IKATP) of single ventricular muscle cells of rats were examined to make clear its action mechanism of the KATPchannel. METHODS: We used the conventional microelectrode and the excised inside-out patch configuration. RESULTS: KR-30816 caused a shortening of the action potential duration in dose-dependent manner, which was inhibited by glibenclamide(3microM). Before run-down of the K+channel, KR-30816 activated the cardiac ATP-sensitive K+ channel only in the presence of ATP and shifted the dose-response relation curve between [ATP]i and the channel activity to the right in parallel. After run-down of the KATP channel, KR-30816 did not after the channel opening either in the absence or in the presence of UDP. CONCLUSION: These results suggest that KR-30816 antagonizes the inhibitory effect of ATP on the KATPchannel in a competitive manner, thereby enhancing the channel openings.
Action Potentials ; Adenosine Triphosphate ; Animals ; Guinea Pigs ; Heart ; Microelectrodes ; Muscle Cells ; Papillary Muscles ; Potassium Channels* ; Potassium* ; Rats ; Uridine Diphosphate

This study compared he importance of food service, views to the performance, management objectives, and recognition gap about the contract contents towards the dietetic departments of hospitals that manage the patients' food service and managers of contract managed companies, and dieticians. It conducted questionnaires and survey towards the vice director and dieticians of 17 hospitals, over 500 beds, and the persons responsible for contract managed companies and dietitians who were in charge of food service. The hospitals showed significantly(p<0.05) higher the importance scores in menu planning, the distribution of meal, sanitation management, and leadership than those of the contract managed companies. In the difference of hospitals and contract managed companies about performance, it appeared high in the contract managed companies. In the importance of the foodservice management objective, the hospital had significantly(p<0.05) higher scores in the management of client's satisfaction and quality improvement element through management innovation than those of the contract managed companies. In the importance of contract term, the contract method, expense, and payment condition of commission fee were significantly(p<0.05) high scores in the contract managed companies, compared to the hospital.
Fees and Charges ; Food Services ; Humans ; Leadership ; Meals ; Menu Planning ; Nutritionists* ; Quality Improvement ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Sanitation

CD44 is a family of transmembrane glycoproteins involved in cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions. Expression of CD44 isofonns (splice variants) has been shown to be associated with poor prognosis in several human cancers. We evaluated the expression patterns of the CD44 isofortn (CD 44 splice variant v6) in infiltrating ductal carcinoma of the breast by immunohistochemical and RT-PCR method. Paraffin embedded blocks from seventy-five cases of mastectomized samples were analyzed immunohistochemically using monoclonoal antibody against CD44v6. CD44v6 was detected in fifty-seven cases (76%) of the tumor samples. Adjacent normal myoepithelial cells and ductal epithelial cells revealed focal positive reaction to CD44v6. Thirtytwo cases (80.0%) with lymph nodal metastasis revealed overexpression of CD44v6 monoclonal antibody, but twenty-five cases (71.4%) without nodal metastasis also showed positive reaction to CD44v6 monoclonal antibody, and there is no statistically significant value. Other prognostic factors of infiltrating ductal carcinoma, such as tumor size, histologic grade and hormonal receptors did not show any significant correlation with CD44v6 expression. The RT-PCR studies for 9 cases of infiltrating ductal carcinoma showed the same band patterns both in the normal and tumor tissues. From the above results, it is concluded that the expression of CD44v6 is not a valuable prognostic marker of infiltrating ductal carcinoma of breast.
Breast* ; Carcinoma, Ductal* ; Epithelial Cells ; Glycoproteins ; Humans ; Neoplasm Metastasis ; Paraffin ; Prognosis

A case of Porokeratosis (Mibelli) involved to the nail plate in 25 years old male was described, This is rare and the first case of Porokeratosis (mibelli) variety reported in Korea. The clinical and histopathological study revealed characteristic features of this disease. Author reviewed reports of the literature.
Adult ; Humans ; Korea ; Male ; Porokeratosis