J W Choi

..reticulocyte production during iron deficiency...

..Serum sTfR concentration has significant relationships with blood reticulocyte counts in healthy subjects and with serum ferritin levels in IDA patients...

..In short, blood lead and serum copper concentrations have important relationships to leukocyte counts and iron parameters in adolescents...

..This study investigated the relationships of bone mineral density (BMD) with body composition, basal metabolic rate (BMR), and fat distribution...

..Increased blood lead concentrations in anaemic subjects significantly decreased after iron supplementation...

..To investigate the association between Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection and iron deficiency anaemia (IDA)...

..In short, elevated serum hepatic enzyme activities are associated with TBF and a high prevalence of fatty liver is observed in subjects with elevated TBF...

..In summary, iron deficiency leads to increased production of immature reticulocytes. Erythropoietic activity is more closely associated with log ferritin values than with sTfR concentrations in iron-deficiency anemia...

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..In summary, erythropoietic activity is significantly more active in patients with AML compared to ALL and in patients with NHL with BM involvement, compared to NHL without BM involvement...

..35, p <0.05) in women and WHR (r = 0.25, p <0.05) and TBF (r = 0.21, p <0.05) in men. In conclusion, serum sAPO-1 appears to have an important relationship to serum lipid levels and body adiposity in healthy adults...

..05), but not correlated with leukocyte differentials and platelet counts. In conclusion, soluble TRAIL does not seem to influence leukocyte and platelet production but has an important relationship to erythropoiesis in healthy adults...

..In summary, respiratory function is more closely associated with BMR in elderly persons, compared to lean body mass, waist-to-hip ratio, or body fat mass, and these associations are stronger in men than in women...

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..45, p <0.05) and serum iron concentrations (r = 0.40, p <0.05) in iron deficient subjects. In summary, IGF-I seems to have an important relationship to iron metabolism and protoporphyrin synthesis in adolescents...

..To investigate the associations of body mass index (BMI) and total body fat (TBF) vs. blood lipid concentrations, we measured six anthropometric parameters, body fat mass, and serum lipid profiles in 1529 apparently healthy adults...

..Iron transport to the foetus appears to be independent of maternal iron deficiency. However, iron transport and erythropoiesis in newborns seems to decline from the time that the mothers acquire frank iron deficiency anaemia...

..68, p < 0.01) and triglyceride (r = 0.71, p < 0.01). In short, this study shows that serum triglyceride and total cholesterol levels change in parallel with serum alkaline phosphatase activity during and after normal pregnancy...

..Measurement of sTfR in combination with RMI may improve the assessment of erythropoietic activity during pregnancy...

..To investigate the relationships between respiratory function and osteoporosis, 132 premenopausal and 98 postmenopausal women were evaluated...

..We investigated whether hypercholesterolemia influenced the values of mean corpuscular volume (MCV) and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR)...

..35, p <0.05) in diabetic patients. In conclusion, long-term glycemic control does not contribute to fetal-type erythropoiesis, but increased NOx production seems to play an important role in the enhanced HbF synthesis of diabetics...

..The tPA levels correlated strongly with the plasma fibrinogen concentrations ( r=0.52, P<0.01). In short, this study shows that tPA levels change in parallel with plasma fibrinogen concentrations during and after normal pregnancy...

..The sTfR concentration correlated significantly with RMI (r = 0.61, P < 0.01) and middle-fluorescence reticulocytes (r = 0.59, P < 0.01). In short, body iron depletion induces elevation of immature reticulocyte fractions and RMI...

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..322, P<0.01) and the RMI ( r(2)=0.369, P<0.01). In conclusion, iron deficiency anemia increases NO production, and elevated NOx concentrations in iron deficiency anemia return to normal with iron supplementation...

..This study was aimed at investigating the usefulness of serum transferrin receptor (sTfR) and ferritin in anemic patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) compared with bone marrow storage iron and other tests for anemia...

..12), and LDL-C (r = 0.24 vs 0.15). In short, compared to BMI, TBF reflects serum lipid concentrations more closely. During adolescence, the association between TBF and serum lipid concentrations is stronger in males than in females...

..05) and total cholesterol (r = 0.21, p < 0.05) in women. In conclusion, serum TRAIL concentrations are associated with serum lipid levels and body adiposity in healthy adults, but are unrelated to a subject's age or gender...

..2). Breakpoint 11q25 has not previously been reported. Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction and fluorescence in-situ hybridization demonstrated the BCR/ABL rearrangement...

..Elevated NOx concentrations during pregnancy return to normal within 12 wk after delivery...

..01). In summary, refrigerated storage of human blood improves the stability of platelet responsiveness to agonists. Storage at RT causes platelet non-responsiveness to epinephrine and disturbs the release reaction of endogenous ADP...

..In summary, this study shows that critical changes of hematologic parameters occur when blood is exposed to 50 degrees C, and that the anticoagulating property of EDTA is altered upon exposure to high temperature...

..The pigmented strain was oxidase negative and indole positive, whereas the nonpigmented strains were oxidase positive and indole negative. The patients were successfully treated by debridement and with appropriate antibiotics...

..TIVA with propofol and remifentanil may be preferable to VIMA with sevoflurane alone because it leads to smoother, more rapid induction, more rapid awakening and lower stress responses to surgical stimuli...

..Pre-operative MRA and intra-operative ScO(2) monitoring may help to identify patients at increased risk of brain damage during or following CABG...

..Obliteration of the parent artery as well as the aneurysmal sac with coils could be considered in a lower basilar aneurysm of a dissecting nature...

..05). Thus, DN has implications for the severity of sepsis and may be valuable to assess the prognosis of patients with suspected sepsis...

..3- and 1.7-fold higher in women with blood type AB than in those with blood type O. Thus, ABO blood group status seems to have a significant relationship to the prevalence of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women...

..However, younger age is not related to prognosis, and mortality risk decreases to that of the luminal A subtype, which is known to have the best prognosis after a few years...

..41, p<0.05) in women. CONCLUSION: Apoptotic activity seems to have an important relationship to biochemical parameters, especially hepatic enzymes, total protein, triglyceride, and uric acid in elderly persons...

..Use of corrected 17-OHP values provide limited but helpful information in screening for CAH by reducing the rate of false-positive results, especially in premature infants...

..Fetal hemoglobin (HbF) production is not restricted to fetal erythropoietic organs during EMH. A shift of erythropoiesis to fetal hematopoietic organs in EMH does not necessarily induce HbF synthesis in adulthood...

..01). In conclusion, a high prevalence of elevated F-blast production is noted in hypo RA, suggesting that the assessment of F-blasts in bone marrow can be used as an additional tool for differentiating hypo RA from acquired AA...

..Vimentin coexpression in CD5+ IVL might be evidence of origin from a subset of prefollicular B-cells...