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    ํ•™์œ„๋…ผ๋ฌธ (์„์‚ฌ) -- ์„œ์šธ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต ๋Œ€ํ•™์› : ์˜๊ณผ๋Œ€ํ•™ ์˜ํ•™๊ณผ, 2020. 8. ๋ฐ•์ˆ˜๊ฒฝ.์„œ๋ก : ์œ ๋ฐฉ์•”์€ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ์œ„ํ—˜์„ ์ฃผ๋Š” ์•”์ด๋ฉฐ ์ด์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ์œ„ํ—˜๋„๋Š” ์ƒ์‹ ์š”์ธ๋“ค๊ณผ ์™ธ์ธ์„ฑ ํ˜ธ๋ฅด๋ชฌ์— ๊ธฐ์ธํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ž˜ ์•Œ๋ ค์ ธ ์žˆ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ด๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์œ ๋ฐฉ์•”๊ณผ reproductive factors ๊ฐ„์˜ ์—ฐ๊ด€์„ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€ ๋ถ„์„ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋“ค์€ ๋งŽ์ด ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์œผ๋‚˜ ์•„์ง๊นŒ์ง€ ์ „์ฒด reproductive factors ๊ฐ„์˜ ์ตœ์‹  ๋™ํ–ฅ์„ ์—ฐ๊ตฌํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ์ธ์„ ํฌํ•จํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ถ€์กฑํ•œ ํ˜„์‹ค์ด๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๋ณธ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ฒด๊ณ„์  ๋ฌธํ—Œ ๊ณ ์ฐฐ ๋ฐ meta-analysis๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ถ€์กฑํ•œ ํ•œ๊ตญ์ธ์˜ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์žฌ ์ˆ˜๋ฆฝํ•˜๊ณ  ํ•œ๊ตญ์ธ์˜ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์™€ ๋น„๊ต๋ฅผ ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•˜์—ฌ ์ „์„ธ๊ณ„์ธ์˜ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋น„๊ต ๋ถ„์„์„ ํ•œ ๋’ค ๊ฐ ์š”์ธ๋“ค์— ๊ฑธ๋งž๋Š” ๋ฒ”์ฃผ๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜๋ฆฝํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•: ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•˜์—ฌ ์šฐ์„  ์ฒด๊ณ„์  ๋ฌธํ—Œ ๊ณ ์ฐฐ์„ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•œ ๋’ค, ํ†ต๊ณ„์ ์ธ ๊ธฐ๋ฒ•์„ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€ ๋ถ„์„์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•œ๋‹ค. PICO ๊ธฐ๋ฒ•์„ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰์–ด ์ „๋žต์„ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰์›์œผ๋กœ๋Š” PubMed์™€ KoreaMed๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋…ผ๋ฌธ ์ค‘ ์œ ๋ฐฉ์•”๊ณผ ๊ทธ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ์œ„ํ—˜ ์š”์ธ๋“ค์˜ ์œ„ํ—˜๋„ ์‚ฐ์ถœ ๋ฐ ์‹ ๋ขฐ๊ตฌ๊ฐ„ ์‚ฐ์ถœ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๋…ผ๋ฌธ๋“ค์„ ์„ ํƒํ•˜์—ฌ random effect model (๋ณ€๋Ÿ‰ํšจ๊ณผ ๋ชจํ˜•)์„ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์ „์ฒด summary RR์„ ์‚ฐ์ถœํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๋””์ž์ธ, ๋‚˜๋ผ๋ณ„ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ถœํŒ ์—ฐ๋„๋กœ subgroup analysis (ํ•˜์œ„ ๊ทธ๋ฃน ๋ถ„์„)์„ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ: ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ธ๊ตฌ์ง‘๋‹จ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ๊ฐ ์š”์ธ๋“ค์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ์œ ๋ฐฉ์•” ํ•œ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์˜ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ฐ ์š”์ธ๋“ค์˜ ์ธ๊ตฌ์ง‘๋‹จ ๊ธฐ์—ฌ์œจ (PAF)๋ฅผ ๊ณ„์‚ฐํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ(RRs)๋“ค์€ 1๋ณด๋‹ค ํฐ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฐ์ถœ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฐ๋ก ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ์ƒ์‹์š”์ธ๋“ค์ด ์œ ์˜ํ•จ์„ ๋ณด์˜€์œผ๋‚˜ ์ž„์‹  ์—ฌ๋ถ€, ๋ชจ์œ  ์ˆ˜์œ  ์—ฌ๋ถ€, ๊ฒฝ๊ตฌํ”ผ์ž„์•ฝ ๋ณต์šฉ ์—ฌ๋ถ€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ ์œ ์˜ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Œ์„ ๋ณด์˜€๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์ด ์ธ๊ตฌ์ง‘๋‹จ์„ ์„ธ๊ณ„๋กœ ํ™•์žฅํ•˜์˜€์„ ๋•Œ, ๊ฒฝ๊ตฌํ”ผ์ž„์•ฝ์„ ๋ณต์šฉํ•œ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์ด ๊ทธ๋ ‡์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์— ๋น„ํ•ด ์•ฝ 10%์ •๋„์˜ ์œ ๋ฐฉ์•” ์œ„ํ—˜๋„๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด ํ˜ธ๋ฅด๋ชฌ์น˜๋ฃŒ์ œ๋ฅผ ์‹œํ–‰ํ•œ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์€ ๊ทธ๋ ‡์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์— ๋น„ํ•ด ์•ฝ 30%์ •๋„ ๋†’์€ ์œ ๋ฐฉ์•” ์œ„ํ—˜๋„๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ธ๋‹ค. ๋” ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€, ๋‚˜๋ผ๋ณ„ ํ•˜์œ„ ๊ทธ๋ฃน ๋ถ„์„์„ ์‹œํ–‰ํ•˜์˜€์„ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์œ ๋Ÿฝ๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋Œ€๋ฅ™์„ ์„œ์–‘์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•˜์˜€์„ ๋•Œ, ๊ฐ ์š”์ธ๋“ค์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ์œ„ํ—˜๋„๊ฐ€ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ๋‚˜๋ผ๋ณ„๋กœ ์œ„ํ—˜๋„๊ฐ€ ์‚ฐ๋ฐœ์  ์ด์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๊ฐ ์š”์ธ๋“ค์ด ๋ณดํ˜ธ ์š”์ธ์ธ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์•„์‹œ์•„๊ฐ€ ์„œ์–‘๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” ๋” ๋ณดํ˜ธ ์š”์ธ์„ ๋ณด์ธ๋‹ค. ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ์ถœํŒ ์—ฐ๋„๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•œ ํ•˜์œ„ ๊ทธ๋ฃน ๋ถ„์„ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์ถœํŒ ์—ฐ๋„๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ ์ƒ์‹์š”์ธ๋“ค์˜ ์ฐจ์ด์ ์„ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•˜๊ธด ํ•˜์˜€์ง€๋งŒ 1990๋…„๋„ ์ด์ „์˜ ๋…ผ๋ฌธ๋“ค์˜ ๋ถ€์กฑ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•˜์—ฌ ์œ ์˜ํ•œ ๊ทผ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜๋ฆฝํ•˜์ง€๋Š” ๋ชปํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ๊ณ ์ฐฐ ๋ฐ ๊ฒฐ๋ก : ๋ณธ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋Š” modifiable๊ณผ unmodifiable ํ•œ ์ƒ์‹์š”์ธ๋“ค์˜ ๋ณ€์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๋ชจ์•„ ์œ ๋ฐฉ์•”๊ณผ ๊ทธ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ์ƒ์‹์š”์ธ๋“ค์˜ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋” ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€ ํ•œ๊ตญํ˜• PAF ๊ฐ’์„ ์‚ฐ์ถœํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•˜์—ฌ ํ•œ๊ตญ์ธ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€ ๊ฐ’์„ ์žฌ์ •๋ฆฝํ•จ์ด๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์ธ๊ตฌ๋กœ ํ™•์žฅํ•˜์˜€์„ ๋•Œ์—๋„ ๊ฐ ์ƒ์‹ ์š”์ธ๋“ค์˜ ์œ„ํ—˜๋„๋ฅผ ์žฌ ํ™•์ธํ•จ์— ์žˆ๋‹ค.Introduction: It is well known that breast cancer (BC) is a main risk for women and its association between reproductive and exogenous hormone factors have already undergone many progressions. Also, there have been many meta-analysis studies of breast cancer and each risk factor. However, contemporary research for each factors is needed, especially for the South Korean (hereafter, Korean) population. The purposes of this study are to systematically review the literature of corresponding studies to define a new estimation of a Korean meta-analysis, and to confirm continuous variables into a categorical status. Methods: Firsts, systematic and comprehensive research of a systematic review was conducted. Second, statistical analysis of the meta-analysis was sequentially conducted. Third, PICO (Population, Intervention, Comparison, and Outcome) statements were used for search strategies and update searching was performed in the journal PubMed until the publication of April 30, 2020. The literature representing the relative risk ratio (RR), odds ratio (OR) or hazard ratio (HR) of the association between breast cancer and reproductive factors and 95% confidential intervals (CIs) were selected. Pooling the effect size was estimated by using the random effect model. A subgroup analysis was performed according to the study design, country and publication date. Results: For the results of the Korean population, we set the reference in the direction of larger than 1 to calculate the population attributable risk (PAF) later. As a result, most of the reproductive variables were significant except for parity, duration of breastfeeding and oral contraceptive use. However, the trend of breast cancer and reproductive factors was the same as the global trend. For the Global population, the risk of medication of an oral contraceptive was approximately 10% higher than the general healthy women. On the other hand, the use of the combination of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) had approximately 30% higher risk than the general healthy women. Furthermore, in the subgroup analysis by country of the Global population, if the reproductive factors were at the risk point, the risk was sporadic by the various reproductive factors. Also if the reproductive factors were at the protective point, then Asian countries were more protective to breast cancer then Western countries (age at menarche, parity, number of childbirths, and duration of breastfeeding). In subgroup analysis by publication date, the relation of publication date has revealed in some reproductive factors, but it was difficult to calculate the rationale due to the lack of 1990s publication study. Conclusions: This study summarized the modifiable factors and unmodifiable factors of breast cancer and confirmed the trend of the risk of breast cancer. Also, in order to calculate the Korean PAF model, we conducted a Korean meta-analysis to produce the latest indicators. Furthermore, we categorized and identified appropriate categories of continuous reproductive variables.โ… . Introduction 1 1. Epidemiology of breast cancer 1 2. The relationship between reproductive factors and exogenous hormone factors 1 3. Breast cancer of Korean population attributable risk (PAF) 2 4. Objectives 3 โ…ก. Materials and Methods 5 1. Search and selection of literature for systematic review and meta-analysis 5 2. Study group for raw data analysis 6 3. Data Extraction 7 4. Statistical analysis 7 A. Systematic review and meta-analysis 7 B. Raw data analysis 8 โ…ข. Results 10 1. Results of Korean meta-analysis to estimate the summary RR of each reproductive factors 10 A. Incidence of breast cancer 10 B. Mortality of breast cancer 14 2. Meta-analysis of the Global population 19 3. Subgroup analysis of Global population 23 A. Study design 23 B. Country (Continent) 26 C. Publication date 35 โ…ฃ. Discussion 39 1. Summary of the results 39 A. Korean meta-analysis: 1st objective 39 B. Global population meta-analysis: 2nd & 3rd objective 40 2. Biological plausible mechanism 42 3. Limitations and strengths of our study 44 โ…ค. Conclusion 45 โ…ฅ. Reference 97 ์ดˆ ๋ก 111Maste

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    ํ•™์œ„๋…ผ๋ฌธ (๋ฐ•์‚ฌ) -- ์„œ์šธ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต ๋Œ€ํ•™์› : ์ž์—ฐ๊ณผํ•™๋Œ€ํ•™ ์ƒ๋ช…๊ณผํ•™๋ถ€, 2021. 2. ์•ˆ๊ด‘์„.Once inside the host cell, DNA viruses must overcome the physical barrier posed by the nuclear envelope to establish a successful infection. The mechanism underlying this process remains unclear. Here I show that the herpesvirus exploits the immune adaptor STING to facilitate nuclear import of the viral genome. Following the entry of the viral capsid into the cell, STING binds to the viral capsid and mediates capsid docking to the nuclear pore complex and subsequent accumulation of the viral genome in the nucleus. Depleting STING in cells permissive to HCMV inhibits viral gene expression, and overexpressing STING renders nonpermissive cells susceptible to HCMV and HSV-1 viral gene expression, suggesting that this proviral activity of STING is conserved throughout the herpesvirus family. Intriguingly, in monocytes as HCMV latent reservoirs, STING deficiency delays the establishment of HCMV latency and leads to a defective viral reactivation. My findings identify STING as a pro-viral host factor crucial in herpesvirus infection.ํ—ˆํ”ผ์Šค๋ฐ”์ด๋Ÿฌ์Šค ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜์ธ ์ธ๊ฐ„๊ฑฐ๋Œ€์„ธํฌ๋ฐ”์ด๋Ÿฌ์Šค(HCMV)์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์ธ ๊ฐ์—ผ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์„ธํฌ๋ง‰ ํ†ต๊ณผ์™€ ํ•ต๋ง‰ ํ†ต๊ณผ ํ›„ ํ•ต ์•ˆ์œผ๋กœ์˜ ๋ฐ”์ด๋Ÿฌ์Šค ๊ฒŒ๋†ˆ ์ „๋‹ฌ์ด ํ•„์ˆ˜์ ์ด๋‹ค. ์ง€๊ธˆ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ธ๊ฐ„๊ฑฐ๋Œ€์„ธํฌ๋ฐ”์ด๋Ÿฌ์Šค์˜ ์„ธํฌํˆฌ๊ณผ์„ฑ์„ ๊ฒฐ์ •์ง“๋Š” ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์„ธํฌ๋ง‰ ์ˆ˜์šฉ์ฒด ๋‹จ๋ฐฑ์งˆ๋“ค์ด ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌ๋˜์—ˆ๋˜ ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด, ํ•ต๋ง‰ ํ†ต๊ณผ ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์ˆ™์ฃผ ๋‹จ๋ฐฑ์งˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋Š” ๋ฏธ๋น„ํ•˜๋‹ค. ๋ณธ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋Š” ํ•ต๋ง‰ ํ†ต๊ณผ ๊ณผ์ •์— ์žˆ์–ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์–‘์„ฑ์  ๋งค๊ฐœ์ž๋กœ์„œ STING์˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ ๊ทœ๋ช…ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ์ด์ „๊นŒ์ง€์˜ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, STING์€ ์ธํ„ฐํŽ˜๋ก  ๋ฐ˜์‘์„ ๋งค๊ฐœํ•˜๋Š” ํ•ญ๋ฐ”์ด๋Ÿฌ์Šค์  ์‹ ํ˜ธ์ „๋‹ฌ ๋‹จ๋ฐฑ์งˆ๋กœ ์•Œ๋ ค์ ธ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ณธ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ˆ™์ฃผ์„ธํฌ ๋‚ด์—์„œ STING์˜ ๋ฐœํ˜„์ด ์ ์œผ๋ฉด ๊ทน์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๊ฐ์—ผ ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ํ•ต ์•ˆ์œผ๋กœ์˜ ๋ฐ”์ด๋Ÿฌ์Šค ๊ฒŒ๋†ˆ ์ „๋‹ฌ ํšจ์œจ์ด ๊ฐ์†Œํ•˜๊ณ  ์œ ์ „์ž ๋ฐœํ˜„์ด ์ง€์—ฐ ๋ฐ ๊ฐ์†Œ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, STING์ด ๋ฐ”์ด๋Ÿฌ์Šค ์บก์‹œ๋“œ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฌผ๊ณผ ํ•ต๊ณต๋ณตํ•ฉ์ฒด๊ฐ€ ํšจ์œจ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๋„์™€์ฃผ๋Š” ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์  ๋งค๊ฐœ ๋‹จ๋ฐฑ์งˆ์ž„์„ ์ƒํ™”ํ•™์  ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ ํ™•์ธํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ STING์˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์—ญํ• ์€ ๋ฐ”์ด๋Ÿฌ์Šค ์šฉ๊ท  ๊ฐ์—ผ ์„ธํฌ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ž ๋ณต-์žฌ์ƒ์‚ฐ ๊ฐ์—ผ ์„ธํฌ ๋ชจ๋‘์—์„œ ํ†ต์šฉ๋˜๋Š” ์„ธํฌ ๋น„ํŠน์ด์  ํ˜„์ƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ—ˆํ”ผ์Šค๋ฐ”์ด๋Ÿฌ์Šค์—์„œ๋„ ๊ด€์ฐฐ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฏธ๋ฃจ์–ด ๋ณด์•„ ์ง„ํ™”์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ž˜ ๋ณด์กด๋œ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ ์„ ๊ฒ€์ฆํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ๋ณธ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์„ ์ฒœ์„ฑ ๋ฉด์—ญ ๋ฐ˜์‘๊ณผ ๋ฐ”์ด๋Ÿฌ์Šค ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๊ฐ์—ผ ๊ณผ์ • ๊ฐ„์˜ ์ƒํ˜ธ์ž‘์šฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊นŠ์€ ์ดํ•ด์˜ ์‹œ๋ฐœ์ ์„ ๋งˆ๋ จํ•˜๊ณ , ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€ ๋ฐฑ์‹  ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์— ์žˆ์–ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๋‹จ์ดˆ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋‹ค.โ… . ABSTRACT 1 โ…ก. INTRODUCTION 3 1.Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV). 3 2.Entry and post-entry of HCMV. 5 3.Misdelivery of the viral genome at Nuclear Pore Complex (NPC) and innate immunity. 12 4.Cytosolic DNA sensing pathway. 15 โ…ข. RESULTS 18 1.STING is critical for HCMV gene expression during immediate-early phase infection. 18 2.The proviral role of STING does not involve its canonical innate immune function. 28 3.STING plays a role in nuclear import of the HCMV genome. 36 4.STING-facilitated binding of the viral capsid to Nup358 of the NPC is crucial for HCMV infection. 48 5.Ectopic expression of STING converts otherwise non-permissive cells to a susceptible state for herpesvirus infection. 82 6.Establishment of latency and reactivation of HCMV in monocytes is STING-dependent. 98 โ…ฃ. DISCUSSION 111 โ…ค. EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURES 116 โ…ฅ. REFERENCES 127 โ…ฆ. ABSTRACT IN KOREAN 135 โ…ง. APPENDIX 137Docto

    Guideline for Appropriate Use of Cardiac CT in Heart Disease1

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    Heart disease is one of the leading causes of deaths in Korea, along with malignant neoplasms and cerebrovascular diseases. The proper diagnosis and management for patients with suspected heart diseases should be warranted for the public health care. Advances in CT technology have allowed detailed images of the heart to be obtained, which enable evaluations not only of the coronary arteries but also of other cardiac structures. Currently, the latest multi-detector CT machines are widespread around Korea. The appropriate use of cardiac CT may lead to improvements of the physicians' medical performances and to reduce medical costs which eventually contribute to promotions of public health. However, until now, there has been no guidelines regarding the appropriate use of cardiac CT in Korea. We intend to provide guidelines for the appropriate use of cardiac CT in heart diseases based on scientific data. The purpose of this guideline is to assist the clinicians and other health professionals when using cardiac CT for diagnosis and treatments of heart diseases.ope

    Assessment of extracellular volume fraction using dual-energy CT in doxorubicin-induced dilated cardiomyopathy in a rabbit model : comparison with contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging and histology

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    Dept. of Medicine/๋ฐ•์‚ฌPurpose: To assess the feasibility of extracellular volume (ECV) fraction using dual-energy computed tomography (CT) and to compare it with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) T1 mapping and histologic findings. Materials and methods: A dilated cardiomyopathy rabbit (DCR) model was made by injecting doxorubicin into the rabbits (adult male New Zealand white rabbits, 3-4 kg) at doses of 1.0 mg/kg twice a week. Every rabbit underwent both dual-energy CT and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) within two hours with pre-/post-contrast T1 mapping using modified Look-Locker inversion recovery (MOLLI) sequence, late gadolinium enhancement (LGE), and cine MR on a clinical 3-T system. The rabbits underwent CT and MR examination before drug administration (control group) and DCR model at various post-modeling intervals (6 weeks, 12 weeks or 16 weeks after DCR modeling). CT ECV was quantitatively assessed by measuring Hounsfield units (HUs) in the septum in a cardiac short-axis view on iodine maps. MR ECV was assessed in the same area with CT. The left ventricle ejection fraction (LVEF) was obtained from the cine MR images using Simpson''s method. Results: Fifteen rabbits were scanned prior to modeling, and then four controls were sacrificed for histology. The remaining eleven underwent DCR modeling and were scanned at various post-modeling intervals (Group I; 6-week modeling, n = 11: group II; 12-week modeling, n = 8: and group III; 16-week modeling, n = 5). The mean CT ECV values (%) of group I-III were significantly higher than control group (Control vs. group I vs. group II vs. group III; 28.5 (range, 25.9-31.3) vs. 35.3 (range, 30.2-40.1) vs. 41.9 (range, 35.6-44.1), vs. 42.1 (range, 39.2-46.4), p < 0.001) and there was a good correlation between CT ECV and MR ECV (r = 0.888, p < 0.001) and between CT ECV and degree of fibrosis (r = 0.811 p < 0.001) Conclusion: ECV using dual-energy CT shows good correlation with MRI and histology. Noninvasive measurement of ECV in animals with doxorubicin-induced diffuse myocardial fibrosis is feasible with dual-energy CT without misregistration errors.ope

    ์ €์šฉ๋Ÿ‰ ๋ฒ ํƒ€์ฐจ๋‹จ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋‚ฎ์€ ์‹ฌ๋ฐ•์ˆ˜ ๋ฌด์ฆ์ƒ ํ™˜์ž์˜ ์‹ฌ๋ฐ•์ˆ˜, ์‹ฌ๋ฐ•๋ณ€ํ™”, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ „ํ–ฅ์  ๋™์กฐํ™” ์‹ฌ์žฅ CT์— ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ์˜ํ–ฅ1

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    Purpose : We assessed the effect of a low-dose ฮฒ-blocker on heart rate (HR), HR variability (HRV) and image quality of prospective electrocardiography-gated coronary CT angiography (CCTA) in healthy subjects with low HR. Materials and Methods : CCTA was performed with a 64-slice CT in 75 subjects with a HR of less than 65 beats per minute (bpm). Subjects were divided into 2 groups: Group 1 (G1), 35 with a low dose ฮฒ-blocker; and Group 2 (G2), 40 without pre-medication. The image quality (IQ) of the CCTA was assessed on a 4-point grading scale (1, poor; 4, excellent). Results : Initial HR (bpm) was not different between the 2 groups. HR during CCTA was lower in G1 than G2 (50.3 ยฑ 5.6 vs. 53.3 ยฑ 4.8, p = 0.016). HRV was not different between the 2 groups. Per-segment analysis showed better IQ at the mid-segment of the right coronary artery (3.0 ยฑ 0.9 vs. 2.5 ยฑ 1.1, p = 0.039) and the first diagonal branch (3.4 ยฑ 0.6 vs. 3.1 ยฑ 0.7, p = 0.024), in the G1 than the G2 group, respectively. The IQ was negatively correlated with HR, but no correlation was found between HRV and IQ. The IQs in the per-vessel analysis were not different between the 2 groups. Conclusion : Low-dose ฮฒ-blocker reduced HR and improved the IQ of CCTA in a few segments, even at a HR of less than 65 bpm. However the effect was limited.ope

    Dual-Energy CT for Pulmonary Embolism: Current and Evolving Clinical Applications

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    Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a potentially fatal disease if the diagnosis or treatment is delayed. Currently, multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) is considered the standard imaging method for diagnosing PE. Dual-energy CT (DECT) has the advantages of MDCT and can provide functional information for patients with PE. The aim of this review is to present the potential clinical applications of DECT in PE, focusing on the diagnosis and risk stratification of PE.ope

    Regional Amyloid Burden Differences Evaluated Using Quantitative Cardiac MRI in Patients with Cardiac Amyloidosis

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    Objective: This study aimed to investigate the regional amyloid burden and myocardial deformation using T1 mapping and strain values in patients with cardiac amyloidosis (CA) according to late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) patterns. Materials and methods: Forty patients with CA were divided into 2 groups per LGE pattern, and 15 healthy subjects were enrolled. Global and regional native T1 and T2 mapping, extracellular volume (ECV), and cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR)-feature tracking strain values were compared in an intergroup and interregional manner. Results: Of the patients with CA, 32 had diffuse global LGE (group 2), and 8 had focal patchy or no LGE (group 1). Global native T1, T2, and ECV were significantly higher in groups 1 and 2 than in the control group (native T1: 1384.4 ms vs. 1466.8 ms vs. 1230.5 ms; T2: 53.8 ms vs. 54.2 ms vs. 48.9 ms; and ECV: 36.9% vs. 51.4% vs. 26.0%, respectively; all, p < 0.001). Basal ECV (53.7%) was significantly higher than the mid and apical ECVs (50.1% and 50.0%, respectively; p < 0.001) in group 2. Basal and mid peak radial strains (PRSs) and peak circumferential strains (PCSs) were significantly lower than the apical PRS and PCS, respectively (PRS, 15.6% vs. 16.7% vs. 26.9%; and PCS, -9.7% vs. -10.9% vs. -15.0%; all, p < 0.001). Basal ECV and basal strain (2-dimensional PRS) in group 2 showed a significant negative correlation (r = -0.623, p < 0.001). Group 1 showed no regional ECV differences (basal, 37.0%; mid, 35.9%; and apical, 38.3%; p = 0.184). Conclusion: Quantitative T1 mapping parameters such as native T1 and ECV may help diagnose early CA. ECV, in particular, can reflect regional differences in the amyloid deposition in patients with advanced CA, and increased basal ECV is related to decreased basal strain. Therefore, quantitative CMR parameters may help diagnose CA and determine its severity in patients with or without LGE.ope

    ํŒŒ๋ธŒ๋ฆฌ๋ณ‘์—์„œ์˜ ์‹ฌ์žฅ ์ž๊ธฐ๊ณต๋ช…์˜์ƒ์˜ ์—ญํ• 

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    Fabry disease is a rare X-linked metabolic disorder that is characterized by the accumulation of glycosphingolipids in various organs, resulting from the deficiency of alpha-galactosidase A. Cardiac involvement is relatively common; myocardial inflammation, left ventricular hypertrophy, and myocardial fibrosis secondary to abnormal lipid deposition in myocytes are often observed. Hence, the diagnosis of cardiac involvement is crucial for evaluating patient prognosis. Cardiac MRI is the standard technique for measuring the function, volume, and mass of the ventricles. It is also useful for myocardial tissue characterizations. The evaluation of native myocardial T1 values can facilitate early diagnosis of cardiac involvement, while measurements of left ventricular myocardial mass can be used to monitor treatment outcomes, in patients with Fabry disease. Consequently, cardiac MRI can provide useful information for diagnosing, monitoring, and treating patients with Fabry disease.ope

    Korean guidelines for the appropriate use of cardiac CT

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    The development of cardiac CT has provided a non-invasive alternative to echocardiography, exercise electrocardiogram, and invasive angiography and cardiac CT continues to develop at an exponential speed even now. The appropriate use of cardiac CT may lead to improvements in the medical performances of physicians and can reduce medical costs which eventually contribute to better public health. However, until now, there has been no guideline regarding the appropriate use of cardiac CT in Korea. We intend to provide guidelines for the appropriate use of cardiac CT in heart diseases based on scientific data. The purpose of this guideline is to assist clinicians and other health professionals in the use of cardiac CT for diagnosis and treatment of heart diseases, especially in patients at high risk or suspected of heart disease.ope

    2014 Korean guidelines for appropriate utilization of cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging: a joint report of the Korean Society of Cardiology and the Korean Society of Radiology.

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    Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging is now widely used in several fields of cardiovascular disease assessment due to recent technical developments. CMR can give physicians information that cannot be found with other imaging modalities. However, there is no guideline which is suitable for Korean people for the use of CMR. Therefore, we have prepared a Korean guideline for the appropriate utilization of CMR to guide Korean physicians, imaging specialists, medical associates and patients to improve the overall medical system performances. By addressing CMR usage and creating these guidelines we hope to contribute towards the promotion of public health. This guideline is a joint report of the Korean Society of Cardiology and the Korean Society of Radiology.ope
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