• Korean Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.55-61
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• 2013

Objectives : Alzheimer's disease(AD) and mild cognitive impairment(MCI) affect several nervous structures involved with the autonomic nervous system. Association between neuropsychiatric deficits and heart rate variability has been observed. But cardiac autonomic function in AD has been scarcely studied and the results reported are conflicting. We investigated autonomic function in normal control, MCI, AD using heart rate variability(HRV) technique. Methods : Time and frequency-domain variability of 5-min R-R interval series was comparatively evaluated in 26 normal control subjects, 22 MCI subjects and 34 AD subjects. Analysis of variance(ANOVA) was used to compare the differences across groups. Correlations between MMSE-KC and HRV components were performed using Pearson's correlation coefficient. Results : No significant difference was observed among the groups in time, frequency-domain analysis of HRV(p>0.05). HRV were not found to be significantly correlated with the degree of cognitive impairment. Conclusions : There were no differences in HRV with MCI, AD subjects when compared with normal controls. Further investigation is required to use HRV technique as noninvasive parameters of MCI and AD.

• Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.389-398
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• 2018

This study was to investigate the antioxidant and anti-amyloid activities of the extract (KP-HE) from Kalopanax pictus (KP) fermented with Hericium erinaceum (HE) mycelium. Antioxidant activity was evaluated based on 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl radical (DPPH) and 2,2'-azino-bis (3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid) radical(ABTS) scavenging assays. In all assays, the extracts from KP, HE and KP-HE had the potential for antioxidant activities. However, antioxidant activity of KP-HE significantly scavenged DPPH radical as compared to the KP and HE. The result suggested that the antioxidant component was increased in the process of KP fermented with HE. KP-HE was shown to significantly inhibite peroxyl radical-mediated DNA strand breakage whereas KP and HE did not inhibit DNA strand breakage. The aggregation of the amyloid-${\beta}$ ($A{\beta}$) peptide is involved in the pathological process of Alzheimer's disease(AD). In this study, the effects of KP, HE and KP-HE on the aggregation of $A{\beta}_{1-42}$ were investigated. KP and HE had little effect on $A{\beta}$ aggregation and KP-HE effectively inhibited $A{\beta}$ aggregation. KP-HE effectively inhibited $A{\beta}$ induced cell death and significantly increased of the 20.3% cell survival at $300{\mu}g/mL$ concentration. KP-HE also decreased intracellular reactive oxygen specie levels in $A{\beta}$-treated cells. The results suggested that KP-HE had antioxidant and anti-amyloid activities. Therefore, KP-HE could potentially be used as a valuable functional food ingredient to prevent neurodegenerative disorders such as AD.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.47 no.4
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• pp.40-46
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• 2010

In this paper, we use the Raman spectra measured from platelet to the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease(AD). The Raman spectra used in the experiments were preprocessed with the following method and then fed into the classifier. The first step of the preprocessing is a simple smoothing followed by background elimination to the original spectra to make it easy to measure the intensity of the peaks. The last step of the preprocessing was peak alignment with the reference peak. After the inspection of the preprocessed spectra, we found that proportion of two peak intensity at 743 and 757 $cm^{-1}$ and peak intensity at 1658 $cm^{-1}$ are the most discriminative features. Then we apply mapstd method for normalization. The method returned data with means to 0 and deviation to 1. With these two features, the classification result involving 278 spectra showed about 95.5% true classification in case of MLP(multi-layer perceptron). It means that the Raman spectra measured from platelet would be effectively used to the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.

• The Science & Technology
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• no.10 s.413
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• pp.8-10
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• 2003

부정적 생각은 면역기능 떨어뜨린다/ 간접흡연, 심장질환 위험 높여/ 먼지만한 오염탐지 결정체 개발/ 적포도주 · 땅콩 속에 수명연장 물질/ 잘못된 생활 - 식습관이 심장병의 원인/ 웨스트나일 바이러스 백신 개발/ 치매환자 기억상실 유발 단백질 발견/ 첨단 나노기술 방탄군복 개발 추진/ 사람-토끼 DNA가진 잡종배아 생산/ 구리가 알츠하이머병 유발 가능성/ 항우울제로 새 신경세포 성장 촉진

• The Science & Technology
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• no.11 s.414
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• pp.8-10
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• 2003

동물원 야생동물 이상행동 관찰돼/ 동전 크기 칩에 인간유전자 집적/ 흉터 없는 초고속 상처치료 물질 발견/ 글리백, 알츠하이머 병에도 효과/ CERN, 12개국 참여 차세대 컴퓨터망 구축/ 적색육, 인체에 해로운 면역반응 유발/ 스트레스 비만과 각종 성인병 유발/ '푸들'종 개 게놈지도 작성/ 줄기세포, 난자에서도 추출 가능/ 첫 육지식물 4억7천500만년 전 출현/ 고대 그리스數체계는 이집트에서 차용

• The Science & Technology
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• v.33 no.2 s.369
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• pp.43-50
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• 2000

21세기의 여명은 생명공학과 함께 밝아 오기 시작했다. 먼저 1990년부터 30억달러의 연구개발비를 투입하여 미국을 비롯한 세계 15개국가의 3백50여개의 연구기관이 참여하여 추진하는 인간게놈계획이 2000년대 초에 마무리되어 14만개의 사람 유전자가 어떻게 구성되어 있는가 지도를 보듯 한눈에 알아 볼 수 있는 '유전자지도'가 선보인다. 그래서 심장병, 암, 알츠하이머병과 심지어는 에이즈까지 포함하여 유전자의 잘잘못과 관련된 모든 질병의 원인을 근본부터 밝힐 수 있게 되어 특히 의학과 약학을 포함한 생명과학에는 새로운 지평이 펼쳐진다. 세계 주요 연구기관과 저명한 과학자들이 진행중인 연구개발을 통해 21세기의 생명과학의 주요 분야를 전망한다.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.53 no.3
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• pp.387-391
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• 2009

• Korean Journal of Biological Psychiatry
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.238-245
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• 2009

Objectives : Mild Alzheimer's disease(AD) is uncertain to be related to visuospatial working memory subsystem dysfunction. We used the self ordered pointing test(SOPT) to find the characteristics of visuospatial working memory in mild AD. Methods : We compared the visuospatial working memory abilities of 20 patients with mild AD and 20 normal elderly controls(NC) using SOPT, of which stimuli consisted of two stimuli types(A : abstract, C : concrete) and two stimuli numbers(8 and 12). Therefore, working memory was tested using C8, C12, A8, and A12 stimuli conditions in SOPT. Mixed-model ANOVA was conducted with the AD and NC groups as between-subjects factor, with stimuli types and stimuli numbers as the within-subjects factors and with SOPT error rates as the dependent variable. Results : The AD group showed higher error rates in SOPT than the NC group. The NC group showed low error rates in concrete stimuli than in abstract stimuli and in small stimuli numbers than in large stimuli numbers. And the AD group showed no differences between stimuli types or stimuli numbers. Conclusion : AD patients showed a poor performance in visuospatial working memory using concrete stimuli. The result suggests that there is a non-transformation from visual input to phonological working memory in AD. Patients with AD showed a poor performance although in small stimuli number condition of SOPT. It suggests that in AD, visuospatial working memory is not working well although in low central executive loads.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.47 no.4
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• pp.289-307
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• 2016

This paper introduces a software system and process model for constructing domain-specific relation extraction datasets semi-automatically. The system uses a set of terms such as genes, proteins diseases and so forth as inputs and then by exploiting massive biological interaction database, generates a set of term pairs which are utilized as queries for retrieving sentences containing the pairs from scientific databases. To assess the usefulness of the proposed system, this paper applies it into constructing a genic interaction dataset related to Alzheimer's disease domain, which extracts 3,510 interaction-related sentences by using 140 gene names in the area. In conclusion, the resulting outputs of the case study performed in this paper indicate the fact that the system and process could highly boost the efficiency of the dataset construction in various subfields of biomedical research.

• Korean Journal of Adult Nursing
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.367-377
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• 2016

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the quality of life (QoL) in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and their and caregivers and its influencing factors. Methods: A descriptive research design was used. 211 pairs of AD patients and their caregivers were recruited from a neurology outpatient clinic of S medical center in Seoul, Korea. Caregivers completed several structured questionnaires regarding AD patients' QoL as well as their QoL, patients' behavioral and psychological symptoms, patients' activities of daily living (ADL), social support, and quality of relationship between AD patients and caregivers. Cognitive status of AD patients was assessed by the researchers using Korean Mini-Mental State Examination. Results: The scores of QoL were 26.91 for AD patients and 85.62 for their caregivers. In the multiple regression, factors associated with AD patients' QoL were the quality of relationship (${\beta}$=.44), ADL (${\beta}$=-.33), patient's age (${\beta}$=.20), caregivers' QoL (${\beta}$=.20), and patient's gender (${\beta}$=.11). Factors associated with caregivers' QoL were the quality of relationship (${\beta}$=.34), relationship (${\beta}$=.32), patient's QoL (${\beta}$=.26), caregivers' gender (${\beta}$=.18), social support (${\beta}$=.12), and the level of caregivers' education (${\beta}$=.12). Conclusion: To improve the QoL in AD patients and their caregivers, strategies to promote their quality of relationship are needed.