The HBV DNA Amounts in Serum Have No relationship with ALT level and Hetergeneous Population Coexits in Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection

Chun, Yoon-Keun,Ha, Joo-hun,Hong-Jung-Woo,Oh, Soo-Myung,Kim, Sung-Soo 경희대학교 동서의학연구소 1999 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON EAST-WEST MEDICINE Vol.1999 No.1

Yoon-Keun Chun¹,Joohun Ha□Hong-Jung Woo□, Soo Myung Oh□,Sung Soo Kim□ ¹Department of Molecular Biology, College of Medicine,²Department of Surgery, college of Medicine,³Department of Internal Medicine, College of Oriental Medicine,and ⁴East-Weat Medical Reserch Institute,Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea. The HBV DNA Amounts in Serum Have No relationship with ALT level and Hetergeneous Population Coexits in Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection. Proceedings of International Symposium on East-West Medicine, Seoul. 212-230, 1999. -Hepatitis B is caused by hepadnavirus. Hepatitis B virus replicates through 3.5kb pregenomic RNA intermediate which is regulated by core promoter. Pathogenesis of hepatitis B virus has been bilieved the result of host immune response. But recently many studies have reported that high level of viral replication caused by mutation in core promoter might result in severs hepatitis. But these studies were performed in vitro, not in vivo. So there is yet debate about which factor, viral of host factor, is more important in pathogenesis of hepatitis B virus. So we measured real viral replication level in 204 chronic hepatitis B patients by quantifying HBV DNA from sera by our novel PCR-based more sensitive method, and compared these results with ALT level measured from same sera, which indicates liver cell damage. Surprisingly there are no significant correlation between HBV DNA quantity and ALT level. Then we cloned core promoter region. In SSCP, we found that many viral mutants coexist in one patient. Base on SSCP result, we chose main viral core promoter type in each patients, which is thought to determine overall viral replication level in this patient. Main type of core promoter region of each 41 patients were directly sequenced. And with these we measured promoter activity by luciferase assay system and compared promoter activity with on another. We found tha there were some differences in promoter activity according to core promoter sequences. And we constructed replication-competent viral constructs with core promoter from 41 patients and Transfected these into HepG2 cell and measured HBV DNA by southern blot. There were also differences in HBV DNA quantity according to core promoter sequences. On these all results we investigated correlation between the effect of HBV core promoter on viral replication in vitro and HBN DNA quantity, ALT level from sera of each patients. We found there is no significant correlation among them. As a result, we concluded that in determining severity chronic hepatitis B patients, host factors of each patient is more important rather than replicative activity of virus itself.

서울의 Penicillinase Producing Neisseria Gonorrhoeae 발생빈도(1996)

김재홍,황동규,전재홍,김윤석,김중환,김용준,이창균,임동진,김현수,조창근,김경문,박상훈,전우형,김희성,이호정,차명수,김갑형,김형석,김석우,황지환,박병순,권오상,이민수,송기훈,성소영,이인섭,부태성 대한화학요법학회 1999 대한화학요법학회지 Vol.17 No.2

Background : In recent years, gonorrhea has been panedemic and remains one of the most commom STDs in the world, especially in developing countries. Objective & Methods: For the detection of a more effective therapeutic regimen and assessing the prevalence of PPNG, we have been trying to study the patients who have visited the VD Clinic of Choong-Ku Public Health Center in Seoul since 1980 by means of the chromogenic cephalosporin method. Results: In 1996, 139 strains of N. gonorrhoeae were isolated, among which 53(39.0%) were PPNG. Conclusion: Our results suggests that after a peak of 74.3% in 1993, the prevalence of PPNG in Seoul is gradually declining.

토양으로부터 分離한 Bacteriophage의 특성

박현균,김도경,박경진,전홍성,박종필,김종승,김성준 조선대학교 부설 유전생물공학연구소 1992 유전생물공학연구지 Vol.2 No.-

환경 미생물 분야와 산업미생물 분야 및 분자생물학 분야에서 주목을 받고 있고, 많은 연구가 된 새로운 E. coli의 bacteriophage를 토양으로 부터 분리해서, 그 물리적인 특성과 핵산을 밝혀내, phage상호간의 관련성을 검토하여 보았다. 그 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 1. 토양으로 부터 분리한 phage는 숙주균에 따라 SJ-1, SJ-2, SJ-3, SJ-4, SJ-5, SJ-6, SJ-7이라 명명하였다. SJ phage들은 높은 숙주특이성을 나타내 phage SJ-2, SJ一7은 단일종 숙주균에만 감염이 되었고, SJ-1, SJ-3, SJ-4, SJ-5, SJ-6은 다중독성을 나타내었다. 2. 7종류의 SJ-phage는 본 실험조건하에서는 모두 virulent phage임이 밝혀졌다. 모든 용균반의 형태는 중앙이 투명한 둥근 모양이었으며 주변에 무리가 있는 것과 없는것 두가지 형태를 나타냈다. 용균반의 크기는 1-5mm이었으며, SJ-5phage의 용균반이 5mm로서 가장 컸고 SJ-7 phage가 가장 적었다. 숙주균은 OD_600 0.3-0.5상태에서 가장 감염되기가 좋았다. 그리고 상층배지의 한천 농도와 양은 0.5%와 3ml이 가장 좋은 조건이었다. 3. 일단 증식 실험의 결과를 보면 SJ-phage는 잠복기가 15-50분이었고 평균 phage방출수는 190-250이었다. SJ-6과 SJ-7이 잠복기가 15분으로 가장 짧았고 SJ-4가 50분으로 가장 길었다. 평균 방출수는 SJ-3과 SJ-5가 250정도로 많았으며 SJ-1과 SJ-2는 약 190정도였다. 4. SJ-phage는 PD buffer에서 안정하였고, magnesium ion 5×10^-3M의 첨가는 phage에게 큰 안정성을 주었다. SJ-phage는 pH6과 pH9사이에서 안정하였으며 그 pH는 숙주균의 최적 pH였다. SJ-phage의 온도 불활성화는 40 ℃이상에서 불활성화되기 시작하여 60 ℃이상에서는 완전히 불활성화 되었다. 자외선 조사에 의한 불활성화에서 SJ-phage는 120초 이후에 완전히 불활성화 되었다. All phages used in this experiment were isolated from soil of the surburbs of Chun-Nam, and they designated as phage SJ-1, SJ-2, SJ-3, SJ-4, SJ-5, SJ-6, SJ-7. The hosts were JM105, JM109, K802, LE392, MC1000, MV1184 and PSM CC, respectively. These phages were virulent under the experimental conditions. They produced plaques with dear and round without halo. The size of plaques was 1-5mm in diameter. SJ-phages were stable in 5×10^-3M Mg^2+. Thermostability experiments indicated that SJ-phages were stable at 37℃. Optimal pH of the phages were 6-9. Exposure of the phages to U.V. for 120 seconds resulted in complete inactivation. In one-step growth experiments, the latent period at 37 ℃ was about 15-50 min and the average burst see was 190-250. Agarose gel electrophoresis of the phage DNA showed single band of high molecular weight from SJ-1 to SJ-7 phages

메모리 공유형 다중 프로세서의 동기화를 위한 Spin-Lock 기법의 성능 분석

홍춘표,이종임,남상균 대구대학교 과학기술연구소 1997 科學技術硏究 Vol.4 No.3

Most of the shared-memory multiprocessor system provide a hardware primitive for supporting mutually exclusive accesses to shared data. The hardware primitive consists of instructions that atomically read and write a single memory location. When a processor is accessing a shared data, the lock is set to busy, and other processors must wait until the lock is released. This paper analyse the characteristics of four spin-lock alternatives, and compare the performance of the proposed scheme through the simulation on shared-memory multiprocessor (Sequent-Balance). The simulation results show that all the spin-lock alternatives for synchronization degrade overall performance as the number of spinning processors increases. In addition, a variant of Ethernet backoff scheme shows good performance even for large numbers of spinning processors. Because of its simplicity, backoff scheme has better performance when there is no contention for the lock.

임플란트 식립을 위한 상악동 점막 거상술의 결과

천상득,정보연,이승은,윤홍식,진병로 영남대학교 의과대학 2003 Yeungnam University Journal of Medicine Vol.20 No.2

Background: Although dental implantation has become widespread and acceptable treatment for dental prosthodontics, maxillary posterior jaw region is often complicated by the pneumatization of the maxillary sinus and physiological resorption of the alveolar bone. When this occurs, the residual bone between the floor of the sinus and the crestal ridge is inadequate for the placement of implants. The sinus elevation procedure provides a way to increase the amount of available bone and to allow the placement of longer implants. Materials & methods: We studied 11 patients requiring the implant placements and the maxillary sinus elevation simultaneously from 1996 to 2003 in our clinic. Nine patients were males and two patients were females, aged from 39 to 72(mean=51.6). Four patients had medical compromised states; angina pectoris, diabetes, hypertension, hepatitis. Patients didn't show any pathologic findings clinically or radiographically. We studied the success and survival rate of implants, factors increasing the osseointegrating capacity of implants. Results: The success rate of osseointegration of implants was 93%. At least 6 months after loading on implants, the survival rate of implants was 78.5%. Autogenous bone graft and adequate residual bone height(>6mm) increased survival rate of implants. Conclusion: Successful implant placement with maxillary sinus elevation mainly depends on sufficient residual bone height, healthy maxillary sinus, autogenous bone graft.

재가노인의 일상생활동작수행의 의존성과 생활만족에 관한 연구

홍춘실,김현리,이상화 충남대학교 의과대학 지역사회의학연구소 1997 충남의대잡지 Vol.24 No.1

This study was conducted to analyse the correlation between the ADL dependency and life satisfaction. Data were collected from the 102 home resident eldery who have no dementia by cognition test. The age distribution f subjects were 65 years and over The data were collected from January 16th to February 15th, 1997. The instruments used for this study were a survey of general characteristics(10 items), physical function(15 items), life satisfaction(20 items). The data were analysed by using an SPSS program and included percentage, t-test, ANOVA & Pearson correlation coefficient. The result of the study are summarized as follows: 1. The mean of ADL dependency score was 5..912 in a possible range of 15 to 60 when 15 indicates high dependency and 60 incicates low dependency. 2. The mean of life satisfaction score was 20.363 in a possible range of 0 to 40 when 0 indicates low life satisfaction and 50 indicates high life satisfaction. 3. The relationship between ADL dependency and life satisfaction for old people in home proved to be of statistically highly negative correlation(r=-.2553 P=.01). 5. General characteristics related to life satisfaction was educational status, household status, economic status, personality, perception of health(P<0.05). In conclusion, it was identified that ADL dependency is the important variable influencing the life satisfaction of the elderly. Therefore, more efforts are needed to decreased the ADL dependency of the elderly to enhance life satisfaction of the elderly.

선형예측 부호화 방법에 의한 2.4kbps 음성 데이타 감축방식

洪星埈,楊天錫 대구산업정보대학 1991 논문집 Vol.5 No.-

The LPC-10 speech data compression algorithm is implemented with computer program and invested through computer simulation. The simulation results show that the algorithm provides relatively good quality at the transmission rate of 2.4kbps. According to the investigation of the effect of channel errors on the algorithm in digital mobile radio communication, the algorithm has the good quality below the bit error rate of around 5×10^(-3).

TDMA 셀룰라 시스템에서 개별-탭 계수를 이용한 적응 등화기에 관한 연구

홍성수,박래수,한현택,김학춘,정찬주,나상동 조선대학교 동력자원연구소 1995 動力資源硏究所誌 Vol.17 No.1

Demodulation wants to adaptive equalizer to minimize interference of intersymbol which generate in multipath fading channel results from signal time and variety multi propagation through channel in digital radio network systems. Therefore using transition ratio of transfer and receiver system and the number of forward and backward using existing individual taps, we study improvement algorithms which generated bit error ratio by signal in frequence select fading. We analysis and compare linear equalizer and decision feedback nonlinear equalizer. Proposed algorithm is more efficent in fading environment when compared of step size by channel character which estimated existing least square and ITLMS algorithm. In this paper, using ITLMS algorithm by decision feedback BER is reduced for intersymbol interference by narrowband TDMA multipath fading in invironment without individual tap weight overlay.

Critical role of bile acid (BA) in the cellular entry and permissiveness of Hepatitis B virus in vitro

Hong‑Jai Lee,Bo‑Young Shin,Jae‑Seung Moon,Ailyn Fadriquela,Selikem Abla Nuwormegbe,Chun‑Chang Ho,Jin‑Su Shin,Jee‑Sang Yoon,Sang‑Kyou Lee,Soo‑Ki Kim 대한독성 유전단백체 학회 2020 Molecular & cellular toxicology Vol.16 No.3

Background Lack of universal replication system for hepatitis B virus with narrow host range and organ tropism has hampered to uncover the pathogenesis of HBV. Previously, we reported the essentiality of humoral milieu and its components toward HBV and hepatitis C virus survival/viability in vitro. Of these components, the precise role of enterohepatic humoral milieu such as bile acid (BA) on HBV cultivation in vitro and in vivo is unknown. Objective We explored whether BA, specifically taurochenodeoxycholic acid (tCDCA) would directly regulate the viral DNA and surface antigen expression of HBV in vitro, consequently rendering HBV to enter into human or murine immortalized hepatocytes, and non-hepatocytes. Result We found that higher concentration of taurochenodeoxycholic acid (tCDCA) is able to preserve the genomic stability of HBV in cell-free DMEM, showing higher the surface antigenicity than taurocholic acid (tCA). In line, we found that in vitro cell culture condition (100 μmol/L of tCDCA coupled with 1 × 108 g e/mL HBV) would be optimal for HBV entry into target cells. Using this, human (HepG2, Huh7), and rodent (Hepa1c1c7, H4-II-E) hepatoma cell lines were infected by HBV, as evidenced by the presence of HBV biomarkers (HBsAg, and HBV DNA in culture supernatant, as well as HBcAg in cell). Further, cellular entry test revealed that HBV is able to infect 12 different non-hepatic cell lines regardless of species, and organ/tissue, consequently reproducing progeny as confirmed by HBV biomarkers. Last, reinfection test showed that the progenies of HBV from immortalized HepG2, and Hepa1c1c7 cells are able to enter into each or vice versa naïve HepG2, and Hepa1c1c7 cells with or without BA. Conclusion This study demonstrates that enterohepatic humoral milieu such as BA, specifically tCDCA would directly regulate HBV DNA and its surface antigen expression in vitro, consequently rendering HBV to enter into human or murine immortalized hepatocytes, and non-hepatocytes. This is the first note to render HBV permissive to human or rodent hepatic and non-hepatic cells via sole manipulation of humoral milieu, thus establishing the platform for in vitro robust replication system of HBV.

2000년 부산광역시 서구에서 발생한 세균성이질 역학조사 평가

홍상기,김정규,전진호,손혜숙,이종태 인제대학교 백병원 2002 仁濟醫學 Vol.23 No.3

Purposes : Bacillary Dysentery is one of the representative infectious disease that widely occurred in recent years, Korea. This study was performed to propose the helpful advices for control of Bacillary Dysentery outbreak based on an assessment of the results of epidemiological survey for Bacillary Dysentery outbreak on May 16, 2000 in Busan. Methods : Subjects were 7,188 peoples who showed diarrhea and contacted with active participants in a religious meeting and suspected cases surveyed from May 16 to May 31, 2000. Direct interview about participation, presence of diarrhea, and history of spring water drinking, and rectal swab on the patients who had diarrhea were done. Results : Among 7,188 peoples, 458 patients had simple diarrhea, and 135 patients confirmed infected with Shigella sonnei. Among confirmed cases. 94.8% had actively participated the religious meeting. The first case occurred on May 10, and consecutive outbreak was concentrated on May 12 and 13. Elementary school children(40.7%) and their parents(35.6%), and women(65.2%) were majority of the confirmed cases. Drinking history of the spring water during the meeting was highly suspected as a cause of this outbreak(odds ratio=3.29, 95% confidence interval=1.59∼6.82). Food intake history was not checked because with low possibility of causing factor. Conclusions : This outbreak appear to be closely related to drinking not sterilized spring water when participating in a religious meeting. However, actual route of transmission was not defined because the epidemiological survey was started six days after the first attack, and, could not find the causative agent in the spring water. The prompt epidemiological survey thought to be essential and important when occurred episode. And also, cooperation with the corresponding health authorities would be very important when the outbreak occurred distant area as this episode. Personal and public concerns and efforts should be sustained to prevent the outbreak and spread-out of Bacillary dysentery.