Abstract:
The present invention provides a composition containing α-lipoic acid and N-acetylcysteine as active ingredients. The mixed composition of α-lipoic acid and N-acetylcysteine of the present invention can reduce a risk of side effects due to drugs with synergetic effects due to merge administration of two drugs, and can be usefully used for preventing or treating obesity with excellent effects of inhibiting a weight gain compared to each single composition containing α-lipoic acid or N-acetylcysteine.
Abstract:
A method for distinguishing between pulmonary arteries and pulmonary veins and a method for quantifying blood vessels are disclosed. The method for distinguishing between pulmonary arteries and pulmonary veins includes: forming a set of pulmonary vessels for points corresponding to pulmonary vessels, wherein each of the points of the set of pulmonary vessels has weight information; forming a tree from the points of the set of pulmonary vessels by using the weight information; and distinguishing between the pulmonary arteries and the pulmonary veins by separating the tree into a plurality of regions. The method for quantifying blood vessels includes: extracting blood vessels as a three-dimensional set of voxels based on medical images of an organ; finding the voxels of blood vessels included in a region of interest of the organ; and quantifying length information of the blood vessels by using the found voxels.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a marker composition that includes sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P) protein and that may be used to predict the risk of fracture or osteoporosis; a kit that includes an antibody that specifically binds to the S1P protein and that can be used to predict the risk of fracture or osteoporosis; and a method that can be used to obtain information that allows prediction of the risk of fracture or osteoporosis and includes measurements of S1P protein concentrations by measuring the binding of a S1P-specific antibody to S1P protein. The S1P protein disclosed herein is highly expressed in individuals with fracture, regardless of their bone mineral density. Accordingly, it may be useful as a biomarker of the risk of fracture or osteoporosis.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a corneal endothelial tissue transplantation system for easily and precisely moving corneal endothelial tissue inserted into an anterior chamber of an eyeball. To this end, the corneal endothelial tissue transplantation system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a tissue carrier to which cultured corneal endothelial tissue is attached and which is inserted into an anterior chamber of an eyeball, a magnetic field generation module including at least one magnetic field generator which generates a magnetic field for moving the tissue carrier, and a support plate which supports the magnetic field generator, and a user input module which receives an input signal for controlling the magnetic field generator from a user.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method, a composition, and a kit for preoperative prediction of prognosis after liver cancer surgery at an early stage by detecting, in a blood sample obtained from a liver cancer patient prior to surgery, an SORD marker, or an SORD marker together with an AFP marker.
Abstract:
A tympanum image processing apparatus may comprise: a processor which extracts, from a tympanum image, a tympanum outline of the tympanum image and earwax region of the tympanum image by using a first machine learning model, obtains, on the basis of the tympanum outline of the tympanum image, a target image of the entire tympanum, a tympanum outline of the target image, and earwax region of the target image, and generates a transformed image in which an abnormal region of the target image is changed to a normal region; and a display which displays at least one of the transformed image and the target image so that a tympanum region of the transformed image is aligned at a position corresponding to the position of a tympanum region of the target image.
Abstract:
An antibody derived from a cancer survivor and use thereof. More particularly, among antibodies derived from survivors of 5 or more years from breast cancer surgery, an antibody showing high binding strength to cancer cells and having an inhibitory effect on the growth and migration of cancer cells is selected to identify an antigen of the antibody. The antibody is then highly likely to contribute to the survival of cancer patients and unlikely to cause adverse effects upon administration, and thus, can be widely used clinically for preventing and treating cancer and inhibiting metastasis.
Abstract:
Disclosed are a cognitive training providing apparatus and a method thereof. The cognitive training providing apparatus includes a display module, a memory that stores health status information of a trainee, pieces of multimedia content, and a plurality of training tasks, an input module that receives a response of the trainee, and a control module that selects first multimedia content corresponding to the health status information among the pieces of multimedia content, selects a first training task corresponding to the first multimedia content among the plurality of training tasks, organizes game content by placing the first training task in the first multimedia content, and performs a cognitive training operation by outputting the game content through the display module.
Abstract:
A method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes obtaining a first finding region in a first medical image and size information of the first finding region; identifying a second finding region matching the first finding region in a second medical image obtained after the first medical image; obtaining size information of the second finding region; and generating diagnosis assistance information based on the size information of the first finding region and the second finding region.
Abstract:
A catheter apparatus for photodynamic therapy includes: a catheter movable to a lesion site of tissues; a stent installed to be inserted into and retracted from an end of the catheter such that a length thereof is adjustable, and coated with a photosensitizer, and an optical fiber inserted into the catheter to be movable to be positioned at a central portion of the stent. The optical fiber irradiates the photosensitizer with a laser to activate the photosensitizer in a state where the stent is pulled out from the catheter and expanded.