Abstract：
:The reasons for the viral persistence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection are unknown, but are probably related to host immune factors. Several matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) can regulate an inflammatory response. The aim of this study was to assess the effects of the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of MMP-3 and -9 genes on the susceptibility to persistent HBV infection. We studied 489 Korean patients with HBV infection (144 inactive carriers, 182 chronic hepatitis, and 163 liver cirrhosis) and 174 healthy individuals who had recovered from HBV infection. MMP-3 gene SNPs were identified at two polymorphic sites (codon 45 [E45K] and codon 96 [D96D]) and MMP-9 gene SNPs at three polymorphic sites (codon 279 [R279Q], codon 607 [G607G], and codon 668 [Q668R]) in study subjects. The frequency of T allele at third position of codon 96 in the MMP-3 gene was higher in HBV persistence patients when analyzed by co-dominant model (age- and sex-adjusted OR=1.242, 95% CI= 1.001-1.540, p=0.049). In conclusion the T allele at the third position of codon 96 in the MMP-3 gene might be associated with persistent HBV infection.
journal_name
J Korean Med Scijournal_title
Journal of Korean medical scienceauthors
Cheong JY,Cho SW,Lee JA,Lee KJ,Wang HJ,Lee JE,Kim JHdoi
10.3346/jkms.2008.23.1.61subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2008-02-01 00:00:00pages
61-5issue
1eissn
1011-8934issn
1598-6357pii
200802061journal_volume
23pub_type
杂志文章abstract：:Asynchronous bilateral torsion of the spermatic cord in the newborn is extremely rare. We report such a case in a 4-day-old boy with subsequent operative discovery of prior in utero torsion of the contralateral spermatic cord. The diagnosis was made by physical examination, transillumination test, color Doppler ultras...
journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.3346/jkms.2002.17.5.712
更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The classical triad of abdominal pain, vomiting, and bloody stool is absent in chronic intussusception for more than 2 weeks. Here, we report a 6-year-old female with recurrent abdominal pain for 2 months. Ultrasonography of the abdomen revealed an ileocolic-type intussusception. The lesion accompanying the tight fibr...
journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.3346/jkms.2016.31.2.321
更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Although little attention has been paid to the less common rheumatoid involvement of the thoracic and lumbar regions, some studies have shown that rheumatoid synovitis with erosive changes can develop in these diarthrodial joints. We report a patient with seropositive rheumatoid arthritis (RA) involving the thoracic a...
journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.3346/jkms.2010.25.3.472
更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We evaluated alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems in Korean adults by evaluating alcohol consumption and responses to the CAGE questionnaire obtained from the second Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. The age-adjusted prevalence of males who consumed 0, 0.1-20, 20.1-40, or >40 g/day of...
journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.3346/jkms.2008.23.2.199
更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This study aimed to investigate whether the demographic variable-adjustment and supplementation of Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB) score can improve the screening ability of Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) for dementia and its subtypes. Five hundred forty-one non-demented comparison (NC) and 474 dementia (320 Al...
journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.3346/jkms.2013.28.10.1522
更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate whether sperm selection by hyaluronic acid (HA) binding could improve fertilization rate and embryo quality in intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) cycles. Two hundred nineteen oocytes obtained from eighteen women were injected with either HA-bound (n = 107) or conventio...
journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.3346/jkms.2012.27.12.1569
更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:There is a controversy about the effect of having a usual source of care on medical expenses. Although many studies have shown lower medical expenses in a group with a usual source of care, some have shown higher medical expenses in such a group. This study aimed to empirically demonstrate the effect of havi...
journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.3346/jkms.2019.34.e229
更新日期：2019-09-09 00:00:00
abstract：:We evaluated the clinical course of subchondral insufficiency fracture of the femoral head (SIFFH) and its characteristic findings with special regard to joint space narrowing (JSN). Thirty-one cases of SIFFH of mean age 68.9 yr initially underwent limited weight-bearing conservative treatment. During the follow-up pe...
journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.3346/jkms.2014.29.4.593
更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In this cross-sectional study, we aimed to identify distinguishing factors between populations with suicidal ideation recruited from hospitals and communities to make an efficient allocation of limited anti-suicidal resources according to group differences. We analyzed the baseline data from 120 individuals in a commu...
journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.3346/jkms.2017.32.9.1522
更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Small pancreatic cancers (longest diameter
journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.3346/jkms.2007.22.S.S79
更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This observational study aimed at evaluating recent superwarfarin intoxication of Korean patients. Ten patients were diagnosed as or highly suspicious for superwarfarin intoxication. Case report forms described by attending hematologists of the patients were collected and analyzed. Bleeding symptoms were varied among ...
journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.3346/jkms.2010.25.12.1754
更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We investigated the effect and outcome of allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) rescue for aplastic anemia (AA) patients with graft failure after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT). Seven (28%) of 25 AA patients who received BMT from HLA-identical sibling donors developed late graft failure at a media...
journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.3346/jkms.2002.17.4.468
更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Autoimmune sera have been used in the diagnosis of autoimmune diseases as well as the analysis of nuclear substructures. In an attempt to study the biological characteristics of the nuclear matrix, we screened human sera using immunofluorescent staining and immunoblot. We detected antibodies against nuclear matrix (NM...
journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.3346/jkms.1999.14.1.27
更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A 70-yr-old woman complained of left sided chest pain and non-bilious vomiting for four days after taking a gastric bloating agent for an upper gastrointestinal study. The chest radiography revealed gastric air-fluid levels and bowel loops in the left thoracic cavity. An emergency thoracotomy was performed. The abdomi...
journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.3346/jkms.2009.24.3.517
更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Lung squamous cell cancer (SCC) is typically found in smokers and has a very low incidence in non-smokers, indicating differences in the tumor biology of lung SCC in smokers and non-smokers. However, the specific mutations that drive tumor growth in non-smokers have not been identified. To identify mutations in lung S...
journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.3346/jkms.2017.32.11.1784
更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Dexamethasone has been widely used in very low birth weight infants (VLBWI) weighing less than 1,500 g at birth for the prevention or treatment of chronic lung disease (CLD). Recently, however the use of dexamethasone is being reduced, as its association with abnormal neurodevelopmental outcome is known. On the other ...
journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.3346/jkms.2004.19.4.514
更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to find novel loci associated with hyperuricemia using data from a genome-wide association study (GWAS) conducted on healthy Koreans. We conducted a GWAS using data from a community-based cohort study where 3,647 subjects aged 40-89 were recruited by the Korea National Institute of...
journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.3346/jkms.2017.32.9.1451
更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Although congenital renal tumors are rare, congenital mesoblastic nephroma (CMN) is the most common renal tumor in early infancy. It is non-metastatic, well differentiated, amenable to surgical removal, and carries a good prognosis. Polyhydramnios has been detected in most of the published cases of CMN. However, we ex...
journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.3346/jkms.2007.22.2.357
更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In the present study, the authors investigated the management of mechanical valve thrombosis (MVT). From January 1981 through March 2006, 2,908 mechanical valve replacements were performed in 2,298 patients at our institution. Twenty (0.87%) patients presented with MVT, 14 (70.0%) were women, and the mean age of the p...
journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.3346/jkms.2008.23.3.378
更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This paper presents an unusual solid mesenchymal hamartoma of the liver (MHL) in adult. A well defined solid mass in the left lobe of the liver was found in a 57-year-old female. Preoperative radiologic examinations demonstrated solid mass with multifocal calcifications abutting the gallbladder. By light microscopy, t...
journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.3346/jkms.1999.14.3.335
更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Carcinosarcoma of the adrenal gland is an extremely rare variant of adrenocortical carcinoma, characterized by a biphasic pattern of carcinoma and sarcoma-like components. We report a case of adrenal carcinosarcoma occurring in a 61-year-old Korean man who presented with right flank pain of one month duration radiatin...
journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.3346/jkms.1997.12.4.374
更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Genetic damages are frequently found in both tumor and normal cells at carcinogen exposed areas in the patients with upper aerodigestive tract cancer. These phenomena are explained by the multistage process and/or field cancerization theories. The c-erbB-2 proto-oncogene has been amplified in many human tumors includi...
journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.3346/jkms.1997.12.4.311
更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This study was performed to prove the hypothesis that oncogene expressions would have the same patterns with those of cellular growth to growth factors in FRTL-5 cells. Ribonucleic acids of FRTL-5 were extracted at 15', 30', 60' and 120' after administration of growth factors to quiescent FRTL-5, and blotted to the ni...
journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.3346/jkms.1995.10.3.155
更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The GSTP1 and NQO1 have been reported to be associated with an increased risk for smoking related head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of these metabolic gene polymorphisms on the risk of HNSCC. The study population included 294 histologically confirmed H...
journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.3346/jkms.2006.21.6.1075
更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:To investigate the histopathological characteristics of inverted papillomas of the urinary bladder, including the possibility of malignant transformation, we studied the indicators of cellular proliferation activity in 7 inverted papillomas of the bladder including two cases of malignant inverted papilloma of the blad...
journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.3346/jkms.1995.10.2.103
更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Many patients with chronic renal failure (CRF) requiring hemodialysis present with hypertriglyceridemia (HTG). But the exact cause of HTG in CRF is still unknown. Genetic variation of the apo AI-CIII-AIV gene cluster was reported to be associated with primary HTG, atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease. This stud...
journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.3346/jkms.2000.15.3.289
更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is an ascitic fluid infection as a complication of end stage liver disease. The outcome is related to the severity of hepatorenal function, gastrointestinal bleeding, and many others; however it is not well known whether the infection acquisition sites have an effect on the prog...
journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.3346/jkms.2006.21.4.666
更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This study investigated whether tempol, an anti-oxidant, protects against renal injury by modulating phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)-Akt-Forkhead homeobox O (FoxO) signaling. Mice received unilateral ureteral obstruction (UUO) surgery with or without administration of tempol. We evaluated renal damage, oxidative ...
journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.3346/jkms.2014.29.2.230
更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:High-level gentamicin resistance (HLGR) in enterococci has increased since the 1980s, but the clinical significance of the resistance and its impact on outcome have not been established. One hundred and thirty-six patients with bacteremia caused by enterococci with HLGR (HLGR group) were compared with 79 patients with...
journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.3346/jkms.2010.25.1.3
更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：Background:This study aimed to identify the gender-specific characteristics of the surrogate measures of insulin resistance and to establish valid cut-off values for metabolic abnormalities in a representative sample in Korea. Methods:Data were collected from the datasets of the Korean National Health and Nutrition Ex...
journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.3346/jkms.2018.33.e197
更新日期：2018-06-05 00:00:00
