• Korean Journal of Acupuncture
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.47-54
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• 2003

목적 : 본 연구는 염증유발 내독소인 LPS 자극을 통한 면역 스트레스에 대한 약침의 치료효과와 기전을 알아보기 위해 설계되었다. LPS를 통한 염증반응은 다양한 기전을 통해 이루어지는 데 특히, 산화질소(NO)를 생성하는 효소인 iNOS의 활성은 시상하부에서 NO의 생성을 촉진함으로써 염증반응을 발현시키는 중요한 역할을 하는데 약침이 LPS로 인해 활성화된 iNOS의 발현에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지 알아보고자 하였다. 실험방법 : 흰쥐에 LPS를 투여하고 2시간 경과한 후 약침 (소염방, 대한약침학회)을 경혈 (합곡, 족삼리)에 좌,우 각각 0.2cc 씩 피하 투여하고 RT-PCR 방법을 통하여 면역활성에 중요한 역할을 하는 시상하부에서의 iNOS의 mRNA 발현을 알아 보았다. 실험결과 : LPS 투여로 인하여 증가하였던 iNOS mRNA가 약침치료를 통해 현저하게 감소하였다. 그러나 비경혈점 (미추부위 임의혈)에 약침을 투여한 군 경혈점에 생리식염수를 투여한 군에서는 iNOS mRNA 가 감소하지 않았다. 이는 약침이 LPS를 투여한 흰쥐의 시상하부에서 iNOS의 mRNA 발현에 조절작용을 가지고 있는 것을 보여주는 결과로 약침이 면역활성에 중요한 역할을 하는 NO의 생성을 억제함으로써 면역 스트레스에 치료효과를 나타내는 것으로 보여진다. 결론 : 본 연구는 약침치료가 면역반응의 중추기관인 시상하부에서 면역반응의 중요한 조절인자인 NO의 생성을 조절하는 기전을 통해 그 치료효과를 나타내는 것을 밝혔고 더 나아가 약침에 대한 현대과학적 연구에 중요한 발판을 마련했다는 점에서 그 의의를 가지고 있다고 사료된다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Applied Pharmacology
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• 1994.04a
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• pp.247-247
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• 1994

Acteoside는 일명 Verbascoside로 불리우는 Phenylpropanoid glycoside에 속하는 화합물로 이미 보고되어진 생리활성으로는 Cytotoxic effect, Anti bacterial effect, Immunosuppressive effect, C-AMP Phospaestrase의 저해활성등 여러가지 생리활성이 보고되어 있다. 저자등은 마주송이풀의 성분을 규명하는 가운데 acteoside가 주성분임을 확인하게 되었고 이 식물이 한의서에서 관절염등에 사용되어 진다는 점에서 소염활성을, 식물을 건조할때 흑색으로 변하는데 착안하여 iridoid glycoside의 존재가 추정되어 iridoid glycoside의 일반 생리활성인 담즙분비 촉진작용과 간장보호 작용을 검색하던 중 phenylpropanoid glycoside인 acteoside에서도 담즙분비촉진 작용과 간장보호작용의 지견을 얻었기에 보고하고자 한다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.243-250
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• 2003

The extinction behavior and the unsteady response of augmented reduced mechanism(ARM) have been investigated by adopting an OPPDIF code and a numerical solver for the flamelet equations. By comparing the performance of the ARM based on Miller and Bowman's mechanism(MB-ARM) with that of the ARM based on GRI-Mech 3.0(GRI-3.0-ARM), it is identified that the MB-ARM is more suitable for the unsteady calculation because it is relatively less stiff than GRI-3.0-ARM during an ignition process. The steady results using the MB-ARM, which is modified to predict reasonably the extinction point of experiment, are in excellent agreement with those from full mechanism. Under the sinusoidal transient disturbances of scalar dissipation rate, the unsteady responses of the flame temperature and species concentrations using a modified MB-ARM show in very close agreement with those from full mechanism. It is presumed that above modified MB-ARM is very suitable for the unsteady simulation of turbulent flames because it gives not only a low computational cost but also a good prediction performance for flame structure, extinction point and unsteady response.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.440-446
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• 2003

Steady-state structure and acoustic pressure responses of GH$_2$-LOx diffusion flames in stagnation-point flow configuration have been studied numerically with a detailed chemistry to investigate the acoustic instabilities. The Rayleigh criterion is adopted to judge the instability of the GH$_2$-LOx flames from amplification and attenuation responses at various acoustic pressure oscillation conditions for near-equilibrium to near-extinction regimes. Steady state flame structure showed that the chain branching zone is embedded in surrounding two recombination zones. The acoustic responses of GH$_2$-LOx flame showed that the responses in near-extinction regime always have amplification effect regardless of realistic acoustic frequency. That is, GH$_2$-LOx flame near-extinction is much sensitive to pressure perturbation because of the strong effect of a finite-chemistry.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.494-502
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• 1997

Experiments on corresponding jet flames with stagnant point diffusion flames have been carried out in initial injection periods. A compensated measurement of maximum flame temperature, which is based on the ion signal, has been employed to inspect flame responses to time-varying strain rates. The flame responses are obtained at two conditions for the slowly time-varying strain rate and the case of flame extinction, and analyzed to confirm similarity between a stagnant point diffusion flame and an evolving jet diffusion flame. Nonsteady effects are addressed via the comparison between several time scales. The time variation with low strain rates, in which illustrates the flame behavior of the upper branch far from extinction in the well-known S-curve, is confirmed to produce a quasi-steady flame response through the nonsteady experiments. The time variation with strain rates in the case of flame extinction indicates an unsteady effect of flame response. It is therefore found that the flame responses near jet tip depend on time histories of characterized strain rates in the developing process.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.1026-1038
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• 1995

Although aloe lost a lot of its previous popularity in modern clinical uses as medicine numerous scientific researches still have claimed the beneficial properties(curing and general tonic effect) of aloe gel. Whereas considerable contradictory reports have helped to confuse the aloe gel issue and continually aroused controversy about aloe gel efficacy. However health food, cosmetic and medicinal products made from aloe gel are widely available in the world market especially in U.S.A. so the growing of Aloe plant and the processing of A. vera gel have become big industries in some countries. In some previous papers the salicylic acid, one of the common trace gel components, was thought to have an analgetic and antinflammatory effect. Large amount of Mg ion in the gel was suggested to act as anesthetic, Mg-lactate as antihistamic, and Aloctin A(a glycoprotein) as wound healer by promoting the cell growth. The carboxypeptidase and bradykinase activity in the gel were proposed to have the pain relieving and antiinflammatory effect. But any of thes etheories concerining the physiological action of the trace gel components has not been demonstrated by modern pharmacology, and failed to be supported by clinical research. It was suggested by some research workers that trace amount of anthraquinone compounds in the gel play an important role to act as false substrate inhibitors for PG and TX production(antiprostanoid effect), by which, they believed, inflammation, burn and frostbite, and infected wound could be healed. This hypothesis has not been substantiated. Butthe suggested antimicrobial action, antidiabetic, and antidotic effect of aloe gel are likely to be attributed to the trace anthraquinone compounds. In a lot of recent experimental reports it has been claimed that aloe gel polysaccharides(acetylglucomannan, acetylmannan, and glycoprotein) have the antimicrobial, antinflammatory, antitumour, and infected wound healing effect by immunoenhancement. It is hoped that these effects will be soon documented in clinical studies, then the controversy on aloe gel beneficial effect will cease. In the 30 days subchronic toxicity test the lowest observed adverse effect level of acemannan(acetylmannan) on dog was 5.0 mg/kg, IP. But the aloe gel is generally agreed to be harmless and non toxic even for the internal use such as health food. In the case of idiosynrasy one must keep the delayed type hypersensitivity reaction of aloe gel in mind. In conclusion it seem to be impossible to simply refuse a lot of evidences made by research workers who have claimed aloe gel's beneficial effects and to deny the fact that there had been long therapeutic histories of Aloe plants.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.697-704
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• 2004

Bifurcation behavior of ignition and extinction of catalytic reaction is theoretically investigated in a stagnation-point flow. Considering that reaction takes place only on the catalytic surface, where conductive heat losses are allowed to occur, activation energy asymptotics with a overall one-step Arrhenius-type catalytic reaction is employed. For the cases with and without the limiting reactant consumption, the analysis provides explicit expressions, which indicate the possibility of multiple steady-state solution branches. The difference between the solutions with and without reactant consumption is in the existence of an upper solution branch, and the neglect of reactant consumption is inappropriate for determining extinction conditions. For larger values of reactant consumption, the solution response is all monotone, suggesting that multiple solutions are not possible. It is shown that bifurcation Damkohler numbers increase (decrease) with increasing of conductive heat loss (gain) on the catalytic surface, which means that smaller (larger) values of the strain rate allow the surface reaction to tolerate larger heat losses (gains). Lewis number of the limiting reactant can also significantly affect bifurcation behavior in a similar way to the effect of heat loss.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.10 no.11
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• pp.465-472
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• 2021

In this paper, we present an approach for detection of adverse drug reactions from drug reviews to compensate limitations of the spontaneous adverse drug reactions reporting system. Considering negative reviews usually contain adverse drug reactions, sentiment analysis on drug reviews was performed and extracted negative reviews. After then, MedDRA dictionary and named entity recognition were applied to the negative reviews to detect adverse drug reactions. For the experiment, drug reviews of Celecoxib, Naproxen, and Ibuprofen from 5 drug review sites, and analyzed. Our results showed that detection of adverse drug reactions is able to compensate to limitation of under-reporting in the spontaneous adverse drugs reactions reporting system.

• Journal of dental hygiene science
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.79-83
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• 2010

This study manufactured hydrogel, which was contained NSAIDs(non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) Ketorolac tromethamine and hydrolyzed products of gardeniae fructus extract, and experimented viscosity, surface tension, tensile strength and bio-adhesiveness by using hairless mouse. Thus, it was performed in expectation for being probably able to develop as effective auxiliary agent of periodontal disease after non-surgical or surgical periodontal treatment. As a result, the following conclusions were obtained. 1. Out of KGE and KGH gel materials, the content of ketorolac tromethamine was 1.02~0.97%. The content of geniposide was 0.34% in KGE gel A and C. However, it got lower to 0.11% in KGH gel B and D. The content of genipin wasn't shown in KGE gel A and C, but was shown with 0.13% in KGH gel B and D. 2. As for viscosity according to temperature in gel material, the gel, which used independently Carbopol 940 as gel inoculant, maintained the higher viscosity than the gel, which added Poloxamer 407. The surface tension in each material showed 34.77~40.58 dyne/cm at 37. As for tensile strength in material, KGH gel B was shown the higher tensile strength in about 3.5 times compared to the control group. 3. As for bio-adhesiveness, the back-skin upper part(epidermis) and abdomen skin were shown to be 50.62 N in KGH gel B, thereby having indicated higher value in about 5 times compared to control group. The back-skin lower part(dermis) and abdomen skin were shown to be 35.93 N in KGH gel B, thereby having indicated higher value in about 3.5 times compared to control group.

• Herbal Formula Science
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.27-36
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• 2022

Objective : The purpose of this study is to present a case report with the adult patient who needed active treatment of pityriasis rosea with severe pruritus, and did not respond to steroid treatment in the preceding month. Methods : The subject is an adult patient with pityriasis rosea over the age of 40 without any other diseases. We administered Korean medicine treatment with Bangpungtongseong-san (防⾵通聖散) and acupuncture. The effects of the treatment were evaluated via scales including Pruritus score, Pityriasis Rosea Severity Score (PRSS), and picture. Results : After the treatment Pruritus score/PRSS index of the case changed from 8/20 to 0/0. No other severe adverse reactions were reported. No more recurrence or pruritus was confirmed in follow-up. Conclusions : Korean medicine treatment with Bangpungtongseong-san showed marked improvement in pruritus and skin symptoms of pityriasis rosea in need of active care. With the lack of existing clinical reports of pityriasis rosea, we found that Korean medicine treatment could be an effective way, and it is expected that Bangpungtongseong-san could be administered to pityriasis rosea patients. Randomized-controlled trial for further evaluation will be needed in the future.