PURPOSE To determine the incidence and epidemiological characteristics of work-related asthma in Korea. METHODS During 2004-2009, the Korea Work-Related Asthma Surveillance (KOWAS) program collected data on new cases of work-related asthma from occupational physicians, allergy and chest physicians, regional surveillance systems, and workers' compensation schemes. The incidence was calculated ...

Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is a myeloproliferative disorder characterized at the molecular level by the expression of Bcr-abl, a 210-kDa fusion protein with deregulated tyrosine kinase activity. Encouraged by the clinical validation of Bcr-abl as the target for the treatment of CML by imatinib, we sought to identify pharmacological agents that could target this kinase by a distinct mech...

Previous studies from this group have shown that limit size lipid-based systems – defined as the smallest achievable aggregates compatible with the packing properties of their molecular constituents – can be efficiently produced using rapid microfluidic mixing technique. In this work, it is shown that similar procedures can be employed for the production of homogeneously sized unilamellar vesic...

Great strides were made during the last century in the management of diabetes in pregnancy. Before the discovery of insulin in 1921 the outlook for the diabetic mother and her fetus was abysmal. With the advent of insulin, an emphasis on a team approach to care, improved methods of fetal surveillance, and a focus on metabolic normalisation brought about by intensive insulin regimens and home gl...

N-Methyl-2-[3-((E)-2-pyridin-2-yl-vinyl)-1H-indazol-6-ylsulfanyl]benzamide (axitinib) is an oral inhibitor of vascular endothelial growth factor receptors 1–3, which is approved for the treatment of advanced renal cell cancer. Human [C]-labeled clinical studies indicate axitinib’s primary route of clearance is metabolism. The aims of the in vitro experiments presented herein were to identify an...

Günümüzde geliþen teknolojinin bize sunduðu pozitron emisyon tomografi (PET), magnetoensefalografi, tek foton emisyon komputerize tomografi (SPECT), bilgisayarlý beyin tomografisi, manyetik rezonans gibi görüntüleme yöntemleri ile birlikte elektroensefalografi (EEG) (uyarýlmýþ potansiyeller ve olaya iliþkin potansiyeller de dahil olmak üzere) sadece araþtýrma amaçlý deðil doðrudan klinik uygula...

This paper provides procedures for constructing unbiased simultaneous prediction limits on the observations or functions of observations of all of k future samples using the results of a previous sample from the same underlying distribution belonging to invariant family. The results have direct application in reliability theory, where the time until the first failure in a group of several items...

According to higher-order thought accounts of phenomenal consciousness it is unlikely that many non-human animals undergo phenomenally conscious experiences. Many people believe that this result would have deep and far-reaching consequences. More specifically, they believe that the absence of phenomenal consciousness from the rest of the animal kingdom must mark a radical and theoretically sign...