Primo vascular system: past, present, and future.
Primo vascular system: past, present, and future.
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10.1155/2013/240168
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2013
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Ryu Y
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作者:
Lee BC;Akers WJ;Jing X;Perez MI;Ryu Y
What is Primo Vascular System (PVS)? Let us take a journey through oriental medicine in a time machine. Over the past 2000 years, acupuncture and moxibustion in Chinese medicine have been developed based on the concept of the meridian system; however, the anatomical reality of the meridian system has been controversial in various aspects. Even today, the meridian system is still being investigated with well-known anatomical structures. Among them, connective tissues called the fascia system are representative ones for which the putative function of the meridian system has been established and is understood [1]. A fundamental insight into the acupuncture meridian system and its novel anatomical structures was conceived by Kim in the 1960s [2]. According to his idea, the meridian system has the role of circulating DNA microparticles, named “Signals,” with several hormones independently from the cardiovascular and the lymph systems. In the 1970s, Fujiwara tried to duplicate and verify Kim’s findings; however, his works have also been neglected [3]. Since 2002, Soh’s group at Seoul National University, Republic of Korea, has tried to verify the findings of Bonghan Kim’s work, and they found much evidence suggesting that Bonghan Kim’s ideas on the acupuncture meridian system are reasonable [4]. At present, what do we study about the PVS? to answer this question and for insight into current works on this novel system, we have a new special issue, Primo Vascular System, in which we have published several research papers and a few review articles. The research papers can be classified as those directly related to the function of PVS and those focusing on the discovery of this new PVS. Representative articles in the former category are the CH Leem group’s stem cell work “Expression of stem cell markers in primo vessel of rat,” and K.-S. Soh group’s endothelial cell work “Discovery of endothelium and mesenchymal properties of primo vessels in the mesentery.” In the latter category are the works of Y.H. Ryu laboratory “Primo vascular system accompanying a blood vessel from tumor tissue and a method to distinguish it from the blood or the lymph system” SZ Yoon’s medical team “Composition of the extracellular matrix of lymphatic novel threadlike structures: is it keratin?” and B.-C. Lee’s laboratory “Evidence for the primo vascular system above the
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Langevin, Helene M.;Yandow, Jason A.
通讯作者:
Yandow, Jason A.