Yejee Lim

We examined 8-hydroxyguanine (8-OH-Gua) formation and 8-OH-Gua repair enzyme activity in pulmonary type-II-like epithelial cells to determine whether oxidative stress induced by asbestos plays a role in its carcinogenic mechanism. A549 cells were incubated with crocidolite asbestos at concentrations of 0, 10, 50 and 100 microg/ml over 27 h. We then evaluated 8-OH-Gua formation, 8-OH-Gua repair enzyme activity and gene expression of 8-oxoguanine-DNA glycosylase 1 (hOGG1) and human MUtT homologue

AIMS: We sought to investigate the effect of adenosine pretreatment on the incidence of myonecrosis after non-urgent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). METHODS AND RESULTS: This was a prospective, randomized, open-label study. Patients who were scheduled for non-urgent PCI in de novo native coronary arteries were eligible. All patients were pretreated with aspirin and clopidogrel. Myonecrosis was measured by creatine kinase-myocardial band (CK-MB) elevation after PCI. A total of 62 patien

Background Caregivers of patients who wear conventional diapers are required to check for voiding every hour because prolonged wearing of wet diapers causes health problems including diaper dermatitis and urinary tract infections. However, frequent checking is labor intensive and disturbs patients’ and caregivers’ sleep. Furthermore, assessing patients’ urine output with diapers in an acute care setting is difficult. Recently, a smart diaper system with wetness detection technology was developed

BACKGRUOUND: No consensus exists regarding the early use of subcutaneous (SC) basal insulin facilitating the transition from continuous intravenous insulin infusion (CIII) to multiple SC insulin injections in patients with severe hyperglycemia other than diabetic ketoacidosis. This study evaluated the effect of early co-administration of SC basal insulin with CIII on glucose control in patients with severe hyperglycemia. METHODS: Patients who received CIII for the management of severe hyperglyce

An inverse association between coffee consumption and the risk of diabetes mellitus (DM) has been observed. However, little is known about this association in Koreans, although they are now among the top global consumers of coffee. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the association between the prevalence of DM and the amount of coffee consumption using a unit of exact measurement, regardless of the type of coffee consumed. This study was based on data acquired from the Korea Nation

This paper considers a problem of variable selection in quantile regression with autoregressiveerrors. Recently, Wu and Liu (2009) investigated the oracle properties of the SCADand adaptive-LASSO penalized quantile regressions under non identical but independenterror assumption. We further relax the error assumptions so that the regression modelcan hold autoregressive errors, and then investigate theoretical properties for our proposedpenalized quantile estimators under the relaxed assumption. O

In this study we have examined the effect of silica particles on the proliferation of Rat2 cells, a rat fibroblast cell line. The effect of silica on the production of platelet-derived growth factor AA (PDGF-AA) and transforming growth factor β (TGFβ) in Rat2 cells were evaluated using ELISA and immunocytochemical analysis. Silica induced a significant increase in growth factor levels produced by Rat2 cells. Production of growth factors in silica-stimulated Rat2 cells was dose dependent, reachin