Junwon Lee

Macrophage inflammatory protein-1 alpha (MIP-1 alpha) gene expression is abnormally regulated in multiple myeloma (MM) owing to imbalanced expression of the acute myeloid leukemia-1A (AML-1A) and AML-1B transcription factors. We hypothesized that the increased expression ratios of AML-1A to AML-1B also induced abnormal expression of other hematopoietic and bone-specific genes that contribute to the poor prognosis of MM patients with high levels of MIP-1 alpha. We found that interleukin-3 (IL-3)

Recent studies suggest that the intracoronary administration of bone marrow (BM)-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) may improve left ventricular function in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). However, there is still argumentative for the safety and efficacy of MSCs in the AMI setting. We thus performed a randomized pilot study to investigate the safety and efficacy of MSCs in patients with AMI. Eighty patients with AMI after successful reperfusion therapy were randomly assigned

Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-related activation-induced cytokine (TRANCE) induces osteoclast formation from monocyte/macrophage lineage cells via various transcription factors, including the Mi transcription factor (Mitf). Here, we show that inhibitors of differentiation/DNA binding (Ids), helix-loop-helix (HLH) transcription factors, negatively regulate TRANCE-induced osteoclast differentiation. Expression levels of Id1, Id2, and Id3 genes are significantly reduced by TRANCE during osteoclastoge

In patients with polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy, pachydrusen was prevalent and associated with thicker choroid. Polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy with pachydrusen was highly associated with choroidal vascular hyperpremeability and pachyvessel morphology than other types of drusen.

Newly screened immunoglobulin kappa light chain clonality assays may be useful to distinguish VRL from uveitis with high specificity. When sub-retinal pigment epithelium or retinal infiltration is severe and extensive, the IL-10-to-IL-6 ratio may not be typical and should be carefully interpreted.

sequencing identifies mutational signatures of vitreoretinal lymphoma

There is substantial evidence supporting the concept that a selective 5-HT₂(C) receptor modulator should provide benefit in the treatment of a variety of CNS disorders. Although research efforts have identified several promising 5-HT₂(C) receptor modulators that display high functional selectivity, further clinical efficacy and safety data are needed to prove their actual clinical utility. Therefore, the query for selectively acting 5-HT₂(C) receptor modulators is still ongoing.

In spectral-domain OCT, RNFL thickness was underestimated in eyes with increasing negative refraction power and overestimated with increasing positive refraction power.

We argue the value of unsupervised metalearning and discuss the attendant necessity of suitable similarity, or distance, functions. We leverage the notion of diversity among learners used in ensemble learning to design a distance function for the clu

We investigated the incidence and risk factors of late age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in the fellow eye (FE) without significant drusen of patients with unilateral exudative macular neovascularization (MNV). In this retrospective study, 241 eligible patients who were followed-up for more than 3 years were enrolled. We analyzed the incidence and hazard ratios (HRs) of late AMD in the FE according to demographic and ophthalmologic variables. Hypopigmentation on color fundus photography (CF

Purpose:To investigate the prevalence of a newly defined drusen type, pachydrusen, soft drusen, and subretinal drusenoid deposits in eyes with polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy and fellow eyes and the relationship between each drusen type and the choroidal thickness, vascular morphology, and hyperpe