Age-Associated Changes in the Vascular Renin-Angiotensin System in Mice

Yoon, Hye Eun,Kim, Eun Nim,Kim, Min Young,Lim, Ji Hee,Jang, In-Ae,Ban, Tae Hyun,Shin, Seok Joon,Park, Cheol Whee,Chang, Yoon Sik,Choi, Bum Soon Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity Vol.2016 No.-

<P><I>Background</I>. This study evaluated whether the change in the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) is associated with arterial aging in mice.<I> Methods</I>. Histologic changes and expressions of transforming growth factor-<I>β</I> (TGF-<I>β</I>), collagen IV,<I> fibronectin</I>, angiotensin II (Ang II), angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE), angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), angiotensin II type 1 receptor (AT1R), angiotensin II type 2 receptor (AT2R), prorenin receptor (PRR), Mas receptor (MasR), endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS), NADPH oxidase 2 and oxidase 4 (Nox2 and Nox4), 8-hydroxy-2′-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG),<I> 3-nitrotyrosine</I>, and superoxide dismutase 1 and dismutase 2 (SOD1 and SOD2) were measured in the thoracic aortas from 2-month-old, 12-month-old, and 24-month-old C57/BL6 mice.<I> Results</I>. Twenty-four-month-old mice showed significantly increased aortic media thickness and expressions of TGF-<I>β</I>, collagen IV, and fibronectin, compared to 2-month-old and 12-month-old mice. The expressions of PRR, ACE, and Ang II, and AT1R-positive area significantly increased, whereas expressions of ACE2 and MasR and AT2R-positive area decreased with age. The expressions of phosphorylated serine<SUP>1177</SUP>-eNOS, SOD1, and SOD2 decreased, and the 8-OHdG-positive area and the 3-nitrotyrosine-positive area increased with age. The expression of Nox2 significantly increased with age, but that of Nox4 did not change.<I> Conclusions</I>. The enhanced PRR-ACE-Ang II-AT1R axis and reduced ACE2-MasR axis were associated with arterial aging in mice. </P>

Five 2030 Scenarios for the Family and Related Policy Implications

Hye-kyung Chang,Eun-ji Kim,Young-ran Kim,So-young Kim,Bo-young Sun 한국여성정책연구원(구 한국여성개발원) 2014 Gender Studies and Policy Review Vol.7 No.-

This research has been designed as the second-year project of the four-year Special Research (2011-2014) effort. The main purpose of this current project is to develop potential scenarios regarding families of the future by predicting directions of change. In order to elaborate these scenarios, the five areas of demographic environment, labor and economic environment, science and technology, political environment, and perceptions of the family were singled out as major areas affecting the outlook on the future family. Next, the Delphi technique was applied in order to identify key drivers behind future changes in the family for each respective area. Next, the trend in changes was forecasted for each area and hypotheses were crafted regarding the impact of these changes on the lives of women and their families. Caretaking, inequality, and family values were selected as the main axes of the scenarios, based on a combination of the hypotheses. Next, the three axes were juxtaposed, resulting in a total of eight scenarios from which five were selected. These five scenarios include the conflict between personal values and family life scenario, the polarization of family life scenario, the loose but intimate family scenario, the coexistence of equal society and unequal family scenario, and the maximized familial burden scenario. According to a nation-wide survey of 5,000 people regarding these five scenarios, the loose but intimate family scenario was identified as the most preferred. In order for South Korea to progress toward this scenario, this research suggests reinforcement of social security policy, evaluation of overall care policy and future directions, and refinement of laws and institutions in accordance with the strengthening perception of an individual-oriented family.

The Return of an Old Worm: Cerebral Paragonimiasis Presenting with Intracerebral Hemorrhage

Koh, Eun Jung,Kim, Seung-Ki,Wang, Kyu-Chang,Chai, Jong-Yil,Chong, Sangjoon,Park, Sung-Hye,Cheon, Jung-Eun,Phi, Ji Hoon The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences 2012 JOURNAL OF KOREAN MEDICAL SCIENCE Vol.27 No.11

<P>Paragonimiasis is caused by ingesting crustaceans, which are the intermediate hosts of <I>Paragonimus</I>. The involvement of the brain was a common presentation in Korea decades ago, but it becomes much less frequent in domestic medical practices. We observed a rare case of cerebral paragonimiasis manifesting with intracerebral hemorrhage. A 10-yr-old girl presented with sudden-onset dysarthria, right facial palsy and clumsiness of the right hand. Brain imaging showed acute intracerebral hemorrhage in the left frontal area. An occult vascular malformation or small arteriovenous malformation compressed by the hematoma was initially suspected. The lesion progressed for over 2 months until a delayed surgery was undertaken. Pathologic examination was consistent with cerebral paragonimiasis. After chemotherapy with praziquantel, the patient was monitored without neurological deficits or seizure attacks for 6 months. This case alerts practicing clinicians to the domestic transmission of a forgotten parasitic disease due to environmental changes.</P>

A case of erosive vitreoretinopathy

Seong Eun Kyung,Moo Hwan Chang,Jun Young Ji 대한안과학회 2002 Korean Journal of Ophthalmology Vol.16 No.1

Hereditary vitreoretinopathies are potentially blinding inherited disorders characterized by an abnormal-appearing vitreous gel and associated retinal changes. Four of these disorders, Stickler’s syndrome, Wagner’s disease, erosive vitreoretinopathy, and Goldmann-Favre syndrome, exhibit marked syneresis of the vitreous gel. Erosive vitreoretinopathy has associated retinal pigment epithelial changes, poor night vision, visual field defects, and abnormal electroretinographic findings; symptoms not found in Stickler’s syndrome. A 36-year-old man with progressive visual loss and a visual field defect had no systemic disease. His vitreous cavity was liquefied. Vitreous strands and a cataract were found in both eyes. Pronounced RPE degeneration was found superotemporally in both eyes and a bullous rhegmatogenous retinal detachment in the left eye accompanied two retinal tears. His visual field showed a ring scotoma in both eyes and the ERG finding was abnormal. We report one case of erosive vitreoretinopathy with retinal pigment epithelial changes, rhegmatogenous retinal detachment, visual field defects, abnormal electroretinographic findings, marked vitreous syneresis and cataract. These symptoms are distinct from previously described entities.

종창성 홍반 루푸스 18예의 임상, 병리조직학적 고찰

양지혜 ( Ji Hye Yang ),원종현 ( Chong Hyun Won ),장성은 ( Sung Eun Chang ),이미우 ( Mi Woo Lee ),최지호 ( Jee Ho Choi ),문기찬 ( Kee Chan Moon ) 대한피부과학회 2010 대한피부과학회지 Vol.48 No.5

Background: Lupus erythematosus tumidus (LET) is a rare subset of chronic cutaneous lupus erythematosus, and LET is clinically characterized by erythematous, succulent, urticarial plaques on the sun-exposed areas and LET is histopathologically characterized by the presence of perivascular and periadnexal lymphocytic infiltrates with interstitial mucin deposition. Objective: We investigated the clinical and histopathological features of LET in Korean patients. Methods: A retrospective study was conducted on 18 patients who were diagnosed with LET between 1993 and 2010. The clinical characteristics, histopathological and laboratory findings, association with other subsets of lupus and the course of disease were analyzed. Results: LET occurred predominantly in females, with the gender ratio being 1:8. The mean age at diagnosis was 31.3 years. Two of 18 patients (11.1%) were previously diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) or they had discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE) simultaneously. The most common clinical features were erythematous patches, nodules or plaques and the most common site was the face. Eight of eighteen patients (44.4%) had photosensitivity and this value was lower than that of the previous reports. The antinuclear antibody (ANA) was negative or weakly positive in 13/15 (86.7%) cases. The main histopathological characteristics were perivascular and/or periadnexal lymphocytic infiltrates, and interstitial mucin deposition. Epidermal changes were absent or there were minimal changes. The treatments included antimalarial drugs, dapsone and topical and systemic corticosteroid. The patients showed a good response to the treatments without scarring. Conclusion: A clinicopathological review of 18 LET cases revealed results that were similar to those of the previous reports, although there were some differences in the gender ratio and frequency of photosensitivity. Further studies are needed to elucidate the cause of such differences. (Korean J Dermatol 2010;48(5):402~408)

지속가능발전목표(SDGs) 내 성평등 독자 목표의 국내이행을 위한 지표 연구

장은하(Eun Ha Chang),문유경(You Kyung Moon),조혜승(Hye Seung Cho),김정수(Jung Soo Kim),김지현(Ji Hyun Kim) 한국여성정책연구원(구 한국여성개발원) 2018 여성연구 Vol.98 No.3

2015년 국제사회는 새천년개발목표 (Millennium Development Goals, 이하 MDGs)를 대체 할 새로운 국제개발목표로 지속가능발전목표(Sustainable Development Goals, 이하 SDGs)를 채택하였다. SDGs는 17개 목표(goals)와 169개의 세부목표(targets), 그리고 244개의 지표로 구성되었으며 2030년까지 달성을 목표로 한다. MDGs에서와 마찬가지로, SDGs에서는 성평등을 위한 독자 목표(Goal 5)로 “양성평등 및 여성과 여아의 권한강화”가 채택되었다. 독자 목표인 5번의 경우 MDGs와는 달리 구조적 변화를 촉구하는 항목들이 대거 포진되어 성평등 달성에 있어서 전환적(transformative)인 변화를 추구하고 있다. 본고는 SDGs의 국내이행의 착수를 앞두고, SDGs 성평등 목표의 이행 점검을 위한 국내 가용통계를 점검하고, 향후 SDGs 성평등 목표의 국내이행점검을 위한 기초 매핑을 제시함으로써, 국내이행을 위한 지표 수립에 기여하고자 한다. 이를 위해 이론적 배경으로 SDGs 내 지표 수립과정을 소개하고 특히 성평등 목표의 범위와 지표 수립 과정을 보다 자세히 서술한다. 이어서 SDGs 국내이행을 위한 거버넌스 체계를 소개하고 현재까지 수행된 연구들을 개괄한다. 본 연구의 분석을 위해서는 SDGs 글로벌 지표의 정의의 완성도와 현재 국내통계의 가용상태를 고려하여 4가지의 범주로 구성된 분석틀을 고안하였다. 연구방법으로는 국내･외 관련 문헌을 검토하였다. 연구결과, SDGs의 효과적인 국내이행을 위해서는 정의가 불확실한 지표에 대해 조작적 정의가 선행될 필요가 있으며, 국내 가용통계가 부재하거나 미흡한 지표의 경우 이에 대한 추가개발의 필요함이 드러났다. 결론에서는 분석내용을 토대로 국내 SDGs 이행을 위한 시사점을 도출하여 논의하였다. This research explores the status and future tasks of national implementation of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 in South Korea by especially focusing on indicators. Among its 17 goals and 169 targets, SDGs sets forth gender equality and empowerment of women and girls as a stand-alone goal 5, and gender issues are also cross cut in other goals as well. The independent as well as cross cutting nature of gender related issues imply the quintessential nature of gender in attaining the overall SDG targets. In particular, SDG goal 5, unlike Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), pursues transformative changes in achieving gender equality with a number of indicators urging structural changes. Given this context, this paper examines the meaning and the availability of national data corresponding to SDG 5’global indicators, and provides implications for South Korea’s establishment of SDG 5 indicators for national implementation. As a theoretical background, we first outline the process of setting up the indicators of SDGs with particular focus of Goal 5, and then we introduce the governance system for SDGs implementation in South Korea and analyze the existing literature for this study. For methods, this study employs document reviews. We created an analytical matrix, using two pillars ; indicators’ definitions and availability of national data. Based on this matrix, this research categories each indicators into four groups. As results, this study reveals that several indicators require operational definition for domestic implementation and development of gender-sensitive domestic data for future implementation in South Korea. In conclusion, we present practical implications for future implementation of SDG goal 5 and its indicators in South Korea. The results of this study can be used as basic research for establishing national indicators for the implementation of gender-related SDG targets in South Korea, and ultimately to achieve the goal of gender equity in SDGs.

Modulation of Gene Expressions and Enzyme Activities of Methionine Sulfoxide Reductases by Cold, Aba or High Salt Treatments in Arabidopsis

Oh, Jee-Eun,Hong, Suk-Whan,Lee, Yunsook,Koh, Eun-Ji,Kim, Kideok,Seo, Youngwon,Chung, Namhyun,Jeong, Moonsoo,Chang,Chang, Cheolseong,Lee, Byoungcheon,Kim, Kyoung Heon,Lee, Kwangwon,Lee, Hojoung 생명자원연구 2005 생명자원연구 Vol.13 No.-

GIS기법을 이용한 하천 교란 실태의 분석(II)

박은지,김계현,장창래,Park, Eun-Ji,Kim, Kye-Hyun,Jang, Chang-Lae 한국공간정보학회 2008 한국공간정보시스템학회 논문지 Vol.10 No.4

현재 시행되고 있는 하천의 정비는 하천 고유의 특성을 간과한 채 이용적 측면에서 진행되고 있으며 그 결과 하천의 인공화 및 생태계의 악영향이 심화되고 있다. 친환경적인 하천 복원의 개념이 국내에 도입되었고 이를 위한 기술 개발 연구가 진행 중이지만 현재 인위적인 하천교란의 요인과 하천교란에 따른 영향 등의 정량적 평가 기술의 수립은 아직 미흡한 상태이다. 이러한 정량적 평가 기술의 수립을 위해서는 하천 교란의 요인 및 그 영향을 판단하기 위한 하천의 변화 양상 분석이 우선되어야 한다. 이를 위해 항공사진 및 GIS기법을 이용하여 국내 주요 하천의 교란에 따른 하천의 평면 변화 양상을 조사하고 분석함으로써 하천교란 조사기술 개발에 응용할 수 있는 방안을 제시하고자 하는 연구가 선행된 바 있다. 본 연구에서는 하천 교란이 발생한 댐 하류의 지역을 추가로 선정하여 선행 연구와 같은 방법으로 하천 교란 실태를 분석함으로써 GIS를 이용한 하천 교란 실태 분석 방법의 효용성을 확인하고자 하였다. 연구 결과 하천의 변화 양상을 확인하였으며 대상 하천의 사행도 및 저수의 구체적인 제반 수치를 제시할 수 있었다. 또한 분석 결과를 바탕으로 현재 이루어지고 있는 하천의 정비 및 복원 사업이 하천의 흐름에 어떠한 영향을 미치는 지 예측을 가능하게 하였다. 본 연구 결과를 바탕으로 GIS기반의 하천 교란 평가 기법 정립을 위한 추가 연구가 필요하며, 이를 통하여 보다 효율적인 하도 안정문제에 관한 대책 수립 및 친환경적 하천 복원이 가능할 것으로 사료된다. Current re-arrangement of rivers and waterways have been made uniformly ignoring characteristics of individual rivers thereby aggravating artificial river restructuring. On the contrary, quantitative techniques to evaluate the aftermath of artificial river disturbance such as uprising of river bed, intrusion of foreign fisheries, and changes of ecological habitats are not available. To establish such quantitative techniques, analysis of the river changes to evaluate the major causes of the river disturbance and its impacts is essential. Therefore, research for proposing a method which can be applied for the development of techniques to investigate river disturbance according to the major factors for the domestic rivers using airphotos and GIS techniques was preceded. In this study, the study area on the downstream of the river was selected and analysis of river disturbance using preceding method was done to confirm the benefit of analyzing river disturbance using GIS techniques. Trend analysis of the waterway sinuosity and changes of the flow path leaded to detailed verification of the river disturbance for specific location or time period, and this enabled to generate relatively accurate numbers representing sinuosity of the waterway and relevant changes. Also, it is possible to predict the effect on the current re-arrangement of the river and waterway to river flow using the analysis of past river change. It is necessary to establish GIS based proper measures for environmental river restoration using the results from this study and future works.

Free Paper Presentation : OS-53 ; Factors Associated with Smokers` will for Smoking Cessation in Korea

( Ah Young Leem ),( Chang Hoon Han ),( Chul Min Ahn ),( Tae Hoon Jung ),( Yu Il Kim ),( Jae Yeol Kim ),( Sang Haak Lee ),( Eun Mi Chun ),( Kwang Ha Yoo ),( Ji Ye Jung ) 대한결핵 및 호흡기학회 2014 대한결핵 및 호흡기학회 추계학술대회 초록집 Vol.118 No.-

Background: Smoking is known to increase the risk of chronic disease. Understanding of factors that contribute to smoking cessation may help to develop strategies for smoking behavior change. Methods: Pooled cross-sectional data of 11,924 subjects from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey II-V were analyzed. The stages of change in smoking cessation were categorized into pre-contemplation, contemplation, and preparation. Baseline characteristics, socioeconomic factors, quality of life, psychological characteristics, and tobacco-related factors were compared between the groups. Results: The study population consisted of 32.4% in pre-contemplation, 54.4% in contemplation, and 13.1% in preparation group. While the proportion for pre-contemplation group (37.4% to 28.4%) tended to decrease from 2001 to 2012, that of preparation group (6.4% to 18.1%) tended to increase. The mean age of pre-contemplation group (48.4±16.2) is higher than comtemplation and preparation group (42.2±13.9 and 44.4±15.3; P=0.02). As levels of education and income status increased, the proportion of pre-contemplation tended to decrease, and that of preparation tended to increase. Proportion of blue collar job in pre-contemplation group was higher than in preparation group (67.9% vs 58.1%; P<0.001). In pre-contemplation group, percentage of suicidal ideation within 1 year was higher than contemplation and preparation group (19.3% vs 16.0% and 16.1%). Upon adjusting analysis, the proportion of pre-contemplation group increased with increasing age (OR=1.01; 95%CI 1.01-1.02), and smoking amount (OR=1.04; 95%CI 1.03-1.05). People of pre-contemplation group (vs. preparation) are be less educated (OR=1.99; 95% CI 1.51-2.62), are in single marital status (OR=1.25; 95%CI 1.04-1.50), have lower prevalence of cardiovascular disease (OR=0.48; 95%CI 0.31-0.76), and do less exercise walking (OR=1.36; 95%CI 1.09-1.69) and weight training (OR=1.59; 95%CI 1.35-1.85). Conclusions: We demonstrated a significant association between the stages of change in smoking cessation and age, education, marital status, cardiovascular disease, and amount of exercise.

신정부 과학기술정책 방향 모색

홍성주(Sung Joo Hong),이다은(Da Eun Lee),홍창의(Chang Ui Hong),강민지(Min Ji Kang),우청원(Chung Won Woo),강홍렬,전찬미 과학기술정책연구원 2017 정책연구 Vol.- No.-

With the presidential election in 2017 as a momentum, many people in science and engineering and social organizations gave various science and technology policy proposals. Most of them were reflected in each party’s election pledges. The media also covered lots of science and technology policy issues, which mainly included agendas reflecting the voices of the fields of R&D like research autonomy and people-oriented investment. This task aims to understand how the landscape of science and technology policies changed in an era of political change. To achieve this, we pursued to answer three research questions. First, how are we going to look at the vitalization of science and technology policy issues that occurred in the presidential election and its results? Second, what was it like in the past? Did the previous governments faithfully carry out their science and technology pledges in their science and technology policies? Third, what is the blind spot of policies that failed to attract attention or became a dilemma despite the change in science and technology policies? In order to answer these questions, the research team analyzed the way of establishing the window for science and technology policies during the presidential election in 2017, while also looked at the path taken for science and technology pledges to be implemented as policies during the past 15 years after the Rho Moo Hyun Government. The analysis results showed that we need to take largely four different approaches to science and technology issues. From the medium and long term perspective, it can be divided into issues that need access, issues that need enhancement, issues that need to gain political interests and issues that need to improve rationality. The research team’s results presented important perspective and methodology of looking at science and technology policy by not only being applied as a standard and means, but also provided a framework for devising various methods and means by policy issue. Hopefully, our researches are helpful in the planning and implementation of science and technology policy by the new government, which will be inaugurated in May 2017.