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Recently patient safety has become overwhelming issue in Korean healthcare societies. Since ancient period, it has been essential principle of medicine. But the word of patient safety was recently emerged....
More than 60 antiviral agents for various infectious diseases such as herpes, hepatitis, influenza, and AIDS are currently prescribed worldwide. Among the viral infections, hepatitis B and influenza are those...
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) play a crucial role in the proliferation and differentiation of human tissue such as bone, cartilage, muscle, fat, and fibroblasts. Various surgical techniques have been developed...
The present study attempts to understand the features of North Korean male defectors' emotive, cognitive and behavioral responses to criminal victimizations when compared with general Korean male population, the reference...
Scabies is one of the most common world-wide arthropod-born diseases in both humans and animals caused by the "itch" mite Sarcoptes scabiei. The incidence of scabies has shown a tendency...
Cardiovascular disease has been one of leading causes of death and has an increasing importance in Korea. However the current treatment modalities for cardiovascular disease have limited efficacy. To overcome...
The aim of this article is to provide guidelines to diagnosis and therapeutics for HLI in Korea. Head lice infestation (HLI) caused by Pediculus humanus capitis is still common in...
Recent advance in the knowledge of stem cell biology and early success in preclinical studies have prompted scientists to design clinical trials for neurodegenerative disorders including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS),...
The generation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from somatic cells demonstrated that adult mammalian cells can be reprogrammed into a pluripotent state by introducing defined transcription factors. iPSCs show...
Multipotent neural stem cells (NSCs) are operationally defined by their ability to self-renew, to differentiate into cells of all glial and neuronal lineages throughout the neuraxis, and to populate developing...
Meconium aspiration syndrome (MAS) is an important cause of respiratory distress in neonates. Surfactant therapy has been used to improve oxygenation for infants with MAS recently. The object of this...
Recent advances in stem cell biology, including the development of optimized cell type-specific culture systems, and the broader understandings of biochemical and molecular signals involved in cell self-renewal and differentiation...