3.A clinical study on amenorrhea.
Hyeong Jong LEE ; Young Wook SUH
Korean Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 1993;36(4):490-496
No abstract available.
Amenorrhea*
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Female
4.A clinical study on amenorrhea.
Hyeong Jong LEE ; Young Wook SUH
Korean Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 1993;36(4):490-496
No abstract available.
Amenorrhea*
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Female
5.Development of a device constantly stimulating tuning fork and variability of its vibration perception time.
Jong Young LEE ; Dae Yong HONG ; Hyeong Ryeol YOON
Korean Journal of Preventive Medicine 1991;24(1):93-97
No abstract available.
Vibration*
6.Vector competence of Anopheles lesteri Baisas & Hu (Diptera: Cullicidae) to Plasmodium vivax in Korea.
E Hyun SHIN ; Tong Soo KIM ; Hyeong Woo LEE ; Jong Soo LEE ; Won Ja LEE
The Korean Journal of Parasitology 2002;40(1):41-44
Three anopheline mosquitoes in Korea were studied for their abilities as vectors for Plasmodium vivax. The female mosquitoes of Anopheles lesteri, An. pullus and An. sinensis were allowed to suck malaria patient blood until fully fed, and they were then bred for 2 weeks to develop from malaria parasites to sporozoites. The result from the above confirmed the sporozoites in one An. lesteri of one individual and five An. sinensis of six individuals. We also reconfirmed that An. sinensis was the main vector to transmit malaria and An. lesteri as well as An. sinensis were able to carry Korean malaria parasites. Therefore, we propose that diversified study is needed to manage malaria projects.
Adult
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Animals
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Culicidae/*parasitology/*physiology
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Female
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Humans
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*Insect Vectors
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Korea
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Malaria/parasitology/transmission
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Male
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*Plasmodium vivax
7.Percutaneous catheter drainage of pancreatic pseudocyst.
Jin Jong YOU ; Goo LEE ; In Oak AHN ; Hyeong Gon LEE ; Sung Hoon CHUNG
Journal of the Korean Radiological Society 1993;29(6):1247-1252
Percutaneous catheter drainage (PCD) of pancreatic pseudocyst has been reported to have good therapeutic results, low complications, and short hospital course. To find the clinical and radiological findings which can predict the treatment period for PCD, we retrospectively correlated the clinical data (presence of invection, initial and 1 week follow-up serum and aspirate amylase level, daily drainage amount) and radiological findings (evidence of fistula, PCD route, inital size of pseudocyst) with the treatment period in each case. The age ranged from 20 to 64 years(mean:39.8 years) and male to female ratio was nine to one. When the cavity was obliterated after PCD and did not recur after tube removal without a surgical treatment, we regarded the patient to be cured. Mean treatment period was 20.2 days and nine patients(90%) were cured. We think that the factors shortening treatment period are the presence of superimposed infection and the abrupt decrease of the amount of daily drainage for the first week. But the presence of fistula to the pancreatic duct may prolong the treatment period. In conclusion, PCD is safe and effective in the treatment of pancreatic pseudocyst, and the clinical ad radiological findings are expected to be able to predict the treatment period of PCD.
Amylases
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Catheters*
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Drainage*
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Female
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Fistula
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Follow-Up Studies
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Humans
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Male
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Pancreatic Ducts
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Pancreatic Pseudocyst*
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Retrospective Studies
8.Observations on the Grouping Pattern of Scalp Hairs and Compound Hair in a Normal healthy Population.
Seok Jong LEE ; Do Won KIM ; Jae Bok JUN ; Sang Lip CHUNG ; Kuk Hyeong LEE
Korean Journal of Dermatology 1994;32(6):998-1004
BACKGROUND: Although one hair usually arises from a single follicular opening in normal healthy subjects, we can see two or more hairs emerging from the single opening through close inspection. The latter is called "compound hair", described by Lowenthal in 1946, however, few reports on this have been made since. Histopatholoigcally two or more hairs which have an independant external root sheath arise from one follicular opening like its clinical appearance. We examined the distribution and density of compound hair in order to define its difference according to anatomical sites and aging process. OBJECTIVE AND METHOD: We counted the number of hairs in the circle(2 cm in diameter) at te frontal, temporal and occipital scalp of 24 old young men(22.5+/-2.0 years old) and 24 old men(64.4+/-12.9 years old), respectively. RESULTS: The summated number of grouped hair, which was mostly regarded at compound hair, was greater in the young group than in old group in the frontal area, but was smaller in young group than in old group in from the temporal and occipital areas. The proportion of grouped hair to total hair in the older group was lower in the frontal area, but higher in the temporal and occipital areas(p<0.05, p<0.01) according to aging process, however, no significant change was seen between the frontal area and the sum of single hair to compound hair was significantly decreased in the temporal and occipital areas(p<0.05, p<0.01) according to aging process, however, no significant change was seen between the frontal area and the sum of the three tested areas. CONCLUSION: Compound hairs are observed frequently on the scalp of normal healthy subjects and are most frequently seen on the occipital scalp in both of the young and old.
Aging
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Hair*
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Scalp*
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Tuberculosis, Cutaneous
9.Serum CA 125 levels in preeclampsia.
Jong Ha PARK ; Jung Jai SEO ; Hyeong Jong LEE ; Jong In KIM ; Taek Hoon KIM ; Sung Do YOON
Korean Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 1993;36(1):17-23
No abstract available.
Pre-Eclampsia*
10.Aspartic proteases of Plasmodium vivax are highly conserved in wild isolates.
Byoung Kuk NA ; Eung Goo LEE ; Hyeong Woo LEE ; Shin Hyeong CHO ; Young An BAE ; Yoon KONG ; Jong Koo LEE ; Tong Soo KIM
The Korean Journal of Parasitology 2004;42(2):61-66
The plasmepsins are the aspartic proteases of malaria parasites. Treatment of aspartic protease inhibitor inhibits hemoglobin hydrolysis and blocks the parasite development in vitro suggesting that these proteases might be exploited their potentials as antimalarial drug targets. In this study, we determined the genetic variations of the aspartic proteases of Plasmodium vivax (PvPMs) of wild isolates. Two plasmepsins (PvPM4 and PvPM5) were cloned and sequenced from 20 P. vivax Korean isolates and two imported isolates. The sequences of the enzymes were highly conserved except a small number of amino acid substitutions did not modify key residues for the function or the structure of the enzymes. The high sequence conservations between the plasmepsins from the isolates support the notion that the enzymes could be reliable targets for new antimalarial chemotherapeutics.
Amino Acid Sequence
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Animals
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Aspartic Endopeptidases/*genetics
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Base Sequence
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Cloning, Molecular
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Conserved Sequence
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DNA, Protozoan/chemistry/genetics
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Human
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Plasmodium vivax/*enzymology/genetics/isolation & purification
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Polymerase Chain Reaction
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Sequence Alignment
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Sequence Analysis, DNA
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Support, Non-U.S. Gov't