Suk Kim

Participation of ezrin in bacterial uptake by trophoblast giant cells (2009)

Watanabe, Kenta, Tachibana, Masato, Kim, Suk, Watarai, Masahisa

Abstract Background Trophoblast giant (TG) cells are involved in systematic removal of bacterial pathogens from the maternal-fetal interface of the placenta. In particular, TG cells have the ability...

Compact stellar systems in the Fornax cluster: a UV perspective (2008)

Mieske, Steffen, Hilker, Michael, Bomans, Dominik J., Rey, Soo-Chang, Kim, Suk, Yoon, Suk-Jin, ...

In recent years, increasing evidence for chemical complexity and multiple stellar populations in massive globular clusters (GCs) has emerged, including extreme horizontal branches (EHBs) and UV...

Sharon Porter- Unit 9 Paper/Project ILS 506-S70 If You Build It…Will They Come? Depends! Patrons and the OPAC (2006)

Sharon Porter, Suk Kim

A school library media specialist for many years and an electronic research center spe-cialist for the last two years, I have observed many “train-wrecks ” in searching the online public access...

Interferon-γ promotes abortion due to Brucellainfection in pregnant mice (2005)

Kim, Suk, Lee, Dong, Watanabe, Kenta, Furuoka, Hidefumi, Suzuki, Hiroshi, Watarai, Masahisa

Abstract Background The mechanisms of abortion induced by bacterial infection are largely unknown. In the present study, we investigated abortion induced by Brucella abortus , a causative agent of...

Isolation and Characterization of Mini-Tn5Km2 Insertion Mutants of Brucella abortus Deficient in Internalization and Intracellular Growth in HeLa Cells

Kim, Suk, Watarai, Masahisa, Kondo, Yuki, Erdenebaatar, Janchivdorj, Makino, Sou-ichi, Shirahata, Toshikazu

Brucella spp. are facultative intracellular pathogens that have the ability to survive and multiply in professional and nonprofessional phagocytes and cause abortion in domestic animals and undulant...

Isolation and Characterization of Mini-Tn5Km2 Insertion Mutants of Brucella abortus Deficient in Internalization and Intracellular Growth in HeLa Cells

Kim, Suk, Watarai, Masahisa, Kondo, Yuki, Erdenebaatar, Janchivdorj, Makino, Sou-ichi, Shirahata, Toshikazu

Brucella spp. are facultative intracellular pathogens that have the ability to survive and multiply in professional and nonprofessional phagocytes and cause abortion in domestic animals and undulant...

Cellular Prion Protein Promotes Brucella Infection into Macrophages

Watarai, Masahisa, Kim, Suk, Erdenebaatar, Janchivdorj, Makino, Sou-ichi, Horiuchi, Motohiro, Shirahata, Toshikazu, ...

The products of the Brucella abortus virB gene locus, which are highly similar to conjugative DNA transfer system, enable the bacterium to replicate within macrophage vacuoles. The replicative...

MSX1 Polymorphism Associated with Risk of Oral Cleft in Korea: Evidence from Case-Parent Trio and Case-Control Studies

Park, Jungyong, Park, Beyoung Yun, Kim, Hyon-Suk, Lee, Jong Eun, Suh, Il, Nam, Chung Mo, ...

Orofacial clefts, including cleft lip with or without palate (CL/P) and cleft palate (CP), are one of the most common congenital malformations in Asian populations, where the rate of incidence is...

Perivascular Epithelioid Cell Tumor (PEComa) of Abdominal Cavity from Falciform Ligament: A Case Report

Choi, Cheol Woong, Kim, Tae Oh, Kim, Kyung Yeob, Lee, Sun Mi, Kim, Gwang Ha, Kang, Dae Hwan, ...

We present a case of perivascular epithelioid cell tumors (PEComas) in the abdominal cavity at the falciform ligament. A 30-yr-old Korean man visited to hospital for the evaluation of a growing,...

Is it possible to differentiate gastric GISTs from gastric leiomyomas by EUS?

Kim, Gwang Ha, Park, Do Youn, Kim, Suk, Kim, Dae Hwan, Kim, Dong Heon, Choi, Cheol Woong, ...

AIM: To evaluate the ultrasonography (EUS) features of gastric gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) as compared with gastric leiomyomas and then to determine the EUS features that could predict...

Right trisegmentectomy with thoracoabdominal approach after transarterial embolization for giant hepatic hemangioma

Seo, Hyung-Il, Jo, Hong Jae, Sim, Mun Sup, Kim, Suk

Hepatic hemangiomas need to be treated surgically in cases where they are accompanied with symptoms, have a risk of rupture, or are hardly distinguishable from malignancy. The present authors...

Polysplenia syndrome with preduodenal portal vein detected in adults

Seo, Hyung-Il, Jeon, Tae Yong, Sim, Mun Sup, Kim, Suk

Polysplenia syndrome, defined as the presence of multiple spleens of almost equal volume, is a rare condition involving congenital anomalies in multiple organ systems. We report this anomaly in a...