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Heon-Jin Lee

Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Dentistry, Kyungpook National …
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Oxytocin: the great facilitator of life

HJ Lee, AH Macbeth, JH Pagani, WS Young 3rd - Progress in neurobiology, 2009 - Elsevier
Oxytocin (Oxt) is a nonapeptide hormone best known for its role in lactation and parturition.
Since 1906 when its uterine-contracting properties were described until 50 years later when …

Vasopressin: behavioral roles of an “original” neuropeptide

HK Caldwell, HJ Lee, AH Macbeth… - Progress in neurobiology, 2008 - Elsevier
Vasopressin (Avp) is mainly synthesized in the magnocellular cells of the hypothalamic
supraoptic (SON) and paraventricular nuclei (PVN) whose axons project to the posterior pituitary. …

A conditional knockout mouse line of the oxytocin receptor

HJ Lee, HK Caldwell, AH Macbeth, SG Tolu… - …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Oxytocin plays important roles in reproductive physiology and various behaviors, including
maternal behavior and social memory. Its receptor (Oxtr) is present in peripheral tissues and …

[HTML][HTML] Extracellular RNAs in periodontopathogenic outer membrane vesicles promote TNF-α production in human macrophages and cross the blood–brain barrier in …

…, SY Choi, Y Lee, JW Park, SH Hong, HJ Lee - The FASEB …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Among the main bacteria implicated in the pathology of periodontal disease, Aggregatibacter
actinomycetemcomitans (Aa) is well known for causing loss of periodontal attachment and …

MicroRNA-124 regulates osteoclast differentiation

Y Lee, HJ Kim, CK Park, YG Kim, HJ Lee, JY Kim… - Bone, 2013 - Elsevier
Osteoclasts are specialized cells for bone-resorption originated from precursors of
macrophage/monocyte lineage. The receptor activator of NFκB ligand (RANKL) initiates osteoclast …

Oxytocin receptor knockout mice display deficits in the expression of autism-related behaviors

…, EB Defensor, VJ Bolivar, WS Young III, HJ Lee… - Hormones and …, 2012 - Elsevier
A wealth of studies has implicated oxytocin (Oxt) and its receptors (Oxtr) in the mediation of
social behaviors and social memory in rodents. It has been suggested that failures in this …

[HTML][HTML] Impairments in the initiation of maternal behavior in oxytocin receptor knockout mice

ME Rich, EJ deCárdenas, HJ Lee, HK Caldwell - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Oxytocin (Oxt) acting through its single receptor subtype, the Oxtr, is important for the
coordination of physiology and behavior associated with parturition and maternal care. Knockout …

[HTML][HTML] Microbe-host communication by small RNAs in extracellular vesicles: vehicles for transkingdom RNA transportation

HJ Lee - International journal of molecular sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are evolutionary well-conserved nano-sized membranous
vesicles that are secreted by both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. Recently, they have gained …

[HTML][HTML] Delivery of periodontopathogenic extracellular vesicles to brain monocytes and microglial IL-6 promotion by RNA cargo

…, SY Choi, JH Lee, SH Hong, HJ Lee - Frontiers in molecular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Gram-negative bacterial extracellular vesicles (EVs), also known as outer membrane vesicles
(OMVs), are secreted from bacterial cells and have attracted research attention due to their …

Analysis of microRNA-size, small RNAs in Streptococcus mutans by deep sequencing

HJ Lee, SH Hong - FEMS microbiology letters, 2012 - academic.oup.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are important modulators of gene expression in eukaryotic cells. However
RNAs of the same size in bacteria have not been specifically discussed previously. Here…