Korea University · Neuroscience
Professor June Choi's research lab specializes in translational biomedical research, focusing on the intersection of medical imaging, ototoxicity, and inner ear pathology. The lab investigates coronary artery disease using advanced cardiac CT imaging techniques, such as intracoronary attenuation analysis, while also exploring mechanisms of drug-induced hearing loss—particularly cisplatin-induced ototoxicity—using cellular and zebrafish models. A key focus is identifying protective agents, such as apocynin and quercetin, that mitigate oxidative stress and apoptosis in cochlear cells. The lab also examines surgical outcomes in tympanic membrane repair, comparing novel patch techniques with conventional methods. These diverse yet interconnected research directions highlight a commitment to improving diagnostic accuracy and developing protective strategies in cardiovascular and auditory medicine.
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Intracoronary attenuation-based CCTA analyses, TAG and CCO, showed moderate correlation with physiological coronary artery stenosis. The incremental value of TAG or CCO to the evaluation of haemodynamically stenosis by CCTA seemed to be limited.
Our results suggest that there is a relationship between a spike and the loss of residual hearing. It seems that rises in impedance can reflect pathology within the inner ear and predict the future loss of residual hearing.
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Cisplatin is a very effective anticancer drug and generates reactive oxygen species (ROS) such as superoxide anions that can deplete antioxidant protective molecules in the cochlea. These processes result in the death of cochlear hair cells by induction of apoptosis. Apocynin, which is used as a specific nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate oxidase inhibitor, has a preventive effect for intracellular ROS generation. In this study, the effect of apocynin was investigated in a cochlear orga
In conclusion, quercetin showed protective effects against cisplatin-induced toxicity in a zebrafish model. The results of this study suggest the possibility of a protective role of quercetin against cisplatin-induced apoptotic cell death in zebrafish.
The healing ratio of the TM showed no significant difference between the two groups, but the time to heal was significantly shorter in the ESM patch group than in the perforation edge approximation group.
Percutaneous transhepatic cholangioscopy (PTCS) is the most widely used modality for diagnosis and treatment of biliary disease. Although many other novel technologies have been developed based on recent advances in endoscopy, PTCS has its own role. In diagnostics, PTCS is used for evaluation of indeterminate biliary strictures, bile duct tumors, and postoperative biliary strictures that cannot be reached by a peroral approach. In therapeutics, the removal of bile duct stones, dilatation of bile
Low frequency hearing loss responded better than high frequency loss to PTA. When we analyzed pure tone audiogram patterns, all patterns except for the descending type showed better improvement in patients with lower frequency hearing loss than in patients with higher frequency hearing loss.
Aminoglycosides such as neomycin are one of the most commonly prescribed types of antibiotics worldwide. However, these drugs appear to generate free radicals within the inner ear, which can result in permanent hearing loss. We evaluated the effects of edaravone, a neuroprotective agent, on neomycin-induced ototoxicity in transgenic zebrafish. The 5-day post fertilization (dpf) zebrafish larvae were exposed to 125 μM neomycin and various concentrations of edaravone for 1 h. Hair cell survival wa
Aims and background The receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE) is a multiligand cell surface receptor of the immunoglobulin superfamily and a newly recognized invasion-related gene. High mobility group box-1 (HMGB-1) is a 30-kD protein binding to RAGE and acting as a transcription-factor-like protein that regulates the expression of several genes. In this study, the interaction effect between RAGE and HMGB-1 on the migration of SCC7 cells was investigated along with the inhibitory e
RAGE and HMGB-1 were expressed in almost all human head and neck SCC tissues and in SCC7 cells as detected by immunostaining. The migration assay showed that the interaction between RAGE and HMGB-1 increased SCC7 migration activity depending on the level of HMGB-1, and nifedipine inhibited the interaction effect between RAGE and HMGB-1 on SCC7 cells in a dose-dependent manner. The interaction between RAGE and HMGB-1 could be closely associated with metastasis of SCC of the head and neck. Nifedip
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