• The Journal of Natural Sciences
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.9-17
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• 1997

We studied on the decoloring efficiency of a dying and finishing industrial wastewater containing reactive dyes in the ozone treatment system. The wastewater containing reactive dyes improved the decolorization by the ozone oxidation. In order to determine the optical conditions for ozonation, various operation factors such as initial wastewater concentrations, pH, temperature, and ozone dose were evaluated. Ozone utilization rate was improved in general with the increase of initial concentration of wastewater. And the decolorization speed or reactive dyes was more decreased in deep color of blue series than in light color such as yellow series. The colorization of wastewater containing reactive dyes was changed step through midle color depending upon increasing of ozone treated time. The efficiency of decolorization for wastewater was improved with the pH increased and the temperature of ozone treatment system decreased.

• The Journal of Natural Sciences
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.27-34
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• 1996

The phagocytosis and chemotaxis of murine macrophages after treated with saponin fractions are investigated. Phagocytic appearance against yeast was photographed by dying with Wright-Giemsa. Phagocytic activity of peritoneal macrophage was invreased in diol saponin treatment by 48% and was decreased in total saponin treatment by 35%. The ingestion of alveolar macrophage was increased by 50% maximally. Peritoneal chemotactic activity was shown in 17% increases and only diol saponin had effect in alveolar macrophage by 16%. According to SDS-PAGE method the contents of actin did not show any alterations.

• Development and Reproduction
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.297-306
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• 2010

Tributyltin (TBT), an endocrine disrupting chemical, has been reported to decrease testicular function by causing apoptosis in the testis, but this mechanism is not fully understood. Thus, in this study we examined whether TBT induces adipogenesis of the Leydig cells to find out the correlation between adipogenesis and apoptosis in the testis. Three week old SD male rats were orally administrated with sesame oil, 1 mg/kg of TBT, or 10 mg/kg of TBT daily for 1 week and weighed after administration. The testes obtained on day 8 were weighed and stained with BODIPY and TUNEL kit. Using total RNA extracted from the isolated Leydig cells, adipogenesis and apoptosis-related genes were analyzed by real-time PCR. The testicular weights of the rats treated with 10 mg/kg TBT were significantly decreased compared to those in the control rats treated with sesame oil. As a result of BODIPY staining, the number of Leydig cells stained with BODIPY was increased in the rats treated with 10 mg/kg TBT compared with the control rats. Similar to BODIPY staining results, the TUNEL assay showed that the apoptosis of Leydig cells was increased in TBT treated rats. The results of the gene expression analysis in the Leydig cells showed that the expression of adipogenesis-related genes (PPAR${\gamma}$, aP2, Perilipin, CD36) and apoptosis-related genes (TNFRSF1A, TNFSF10) was increased after TBT administration. The present study demonstrates that TBT induces the expression of adipogenesis-related and apoptosis-related genes in the Leydig cells leading to adipogenesis and apoptosis in the testes. These results suggest that the dysfunction of Leydig cells by TBT exposure may cause a loss in testicular function.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.207-220
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to investigate sensibility words related with eco-friendly in the two media fashion magazines and internet newspapers and to analysis their appearance frequency and changes by the year through 1999~2010. Most frequently used words are 'nature, eco, cotton, natural fiber, health, fresh, clear, preservation, harmony, com fiber, and Lohas'. The words are divided in 4 groups: 'Nature/Environment, Material/Fiber, Human, and Adjectives/Micell'. A point of appearing time is analyzed: 'ecology, memory-shape material, organic, spa' were used before 2000, 'nature environment, eco-friendly, stretch material, wellbeing, substitute, recycling' were in 2000-2001, 'smart material, eco material, green' in 2002-2003, 'coolbiz, Lohas, natural dye' in 2004-2005, 'herb medicine, sustainable, warmbiz' in 2006-2007, 'greensumer, greenlife, solar energy, forest bath' in 2008-2009. Looking into their changes, in early 2000, the words of eco-friendly emotion and sensibility had appeared frequently relatively, but later on they decreased, and again recently increased showing highest appearing frequency. 'Nature/Environment' words have appeared recently very much, while 'Human' sensibility words have not changed much or decreased a little. 'Adjective/Micell' words has increased little bit recently. 'Material/Fiber' words showed decrease at fashion magazine, while they increased at the pages of internet news.

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.33 no.9
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• pp.693-702
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• 2023

The present study examined the rate of cell growth and differentiation potential into adipocytes in A549 lung adenocarcinoma cells exposed to each adipogenic medium containing glucose metabolism hormones, such as thyroxine (T4) thyroid hormone and glucocorticoid (GC) adrenal steroid hormone, as well as pioglitazone (PGZ), a PPARγ agonist. Following each adipogenic treatment for 2 weeks, the rate of cell growth was significantly (p<0.05) inhibited, and the level of telomerase activity was significantly (p<0.05) decreased in the PGZ-based adipogenic medium containing both T4 and GC hormone compared with those containing each T4 or GC hormone. Moreover, the adiposome-like vesicles were highly reacted with Oil-Red O staining solution, and the levels of transcripts expressed in the differentiating adipocytes for adipogenesis, including adinopectin, leptin, and resistin, were significantly (p<0.05) increased in the PGZ-based adipogenic medium containing both T4 and GC hormone compared with those of the adipogenic medium containing each T4 or GC hormone, implying that adipocytic differentiation has fully occurred in the A549 cancer cells. Based on present observations, the PGZ-based adipogenic medium containing both T4 and GC efficiently induces inhibition of cell growth and cellular differentiation into adipocytes in A549 cancer cells rather than in the adipogenic medium containing only T4 or GC hormone. Adipogenic treatment could provide potential probability in cancer chemotherapy.

• Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.199-207
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• 2009

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to compare the decidual NK cell populations between increased pre-conceptional peripheral NK cell population and normal pre-conceptional peripheral NK cell population in women with a history of recurrent abortion. Methods: Fourteen women with history of recurrent abortion and elevated pre-conceptional peripheral NK cell, above 15% of peripheral lymphocyte population were included in this study. As a control, twelve women with history of recurrent abortion and their peripheral NK cell percentage showed below 15% were included. Distribution of $CD56^+$ and $CD16^+$ NK cells in paraffin embedded decidual tissues including implantation sites were examined by immunohistochemical staining using anti-CD56, 16 monoclonal antibodies. After immuohistochemical staining, the numbers of decidual NK cells were counted and compared these results between study and control groups. Results: There was significant difference in decidual $CD56^+$ NK cell count ($170.1{\pm}132.1$ vs. $68.3{\pm}66.1$, p=0.02) between increased peripheral $CD56^+$ NK cell group and control group. But, there showed no statistically significant correlation between decidual $CD56^+$ NK cell count and peripheral $CD56^+$ NK cell percentage (r=0.229, p=0.261). Also there was no statistically difference decidual $CD16^+$ NK cell count between study and control group ($25.70{\pm}11.72$ vs. $31.17{\pm}22.67$), and no correlation between decidual $CD16^+$ NK cell and peripheral $CD16^+$ NK cell percentage (r=-1.40, p=0.535). Conclusions: This study shows that decidual $CD56^+$ NK cell are significantly increased in decidua of women exhibiting a history of recurrent abortion with increased $CD56^+$ peripheral NK cell. This study suggests that the percentage of peripheral NK cell reflect the expression of decidual NK cell. Consequently, pre-conceptional peripheral blood NK cell population can be the useful marker for detecting the risk of subsequent miscarriage.

• Proceedings of the Korean Fiber Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.392-395
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• 2002

효소는 주로 면직물의 전처리 및 염색가공에 사용되고 있는데, 공업적으로 적용되고 있는 예로는 아밀라제에 의한 호발, 셀룰라제에 의한 감량 및 유연가공을 들 수 있고, 최근 미국과 일본을 중심으로 연구되고 있는 펙티나제에 의한 정련은 공업화 가능성이 매우 높은 것으로 보고되고 있으며, 글루코스 옥시다제에 의한 표백은 아직연구 초기 단계에 있다. 효소정련이란 기존의 수산화나트륨 대신에 효소를 사용하여 행하는 정련을 말하며, 장점으로는 50-6$0^{\circ}C$ 정도의 온도에서 행하기 때문에 기존 정련법과 비교시 에너지와 용수를 절약할 수 있는 것, 폐수 중에 방출되는 오염물질의 양을 현격하게 줄일수 있을 것, 우수한 생분해성으로 인한 수질오염을 감소시킬 수 있을 것, 부드럽고 스무스하여 자연스런 태를 부여하는 것 및 재현성이 높은 것 등이다. (중략)

• Journal of Veterinary Clinics
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.467-468
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• 1999

인도의 도축장에서 27두의 염소의 폐를 검사하여 진균성 폐렴의 발생을 조사하였다. 27두 중 노령의 쇠약한 암컷 염소 1두에서 Candida albicans에 의한 폐렴이 진단되었다. 이 염소의 부검소견으로서 폐엽에 다양한 경화와 회백색의 결정상 병변이 관찰되었다. 폐렴병변 조직의 날인표본을 만든 후 Gram과 PAS 염색을 한 결과 Candida albicans와 일치하는 많은 수의 가성균사와 효모균이 관찰되었다. 병변조직을 Pal 배지와 Sabouraud 한천배지에 접종한 결과 Candida albicans가 두텁게 증식되었다. 혈청으로 실시한 한천 겔 면역확산시험에서 Candida albicans에 대한 가느다란 침강선이 생성되었다. 쇠약하고 노령인 환축에 있어서 기회성 진균의 역할이 강조되었다.

• Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.91-98
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• 1996

산업장이나 생활환경에서 접하기 쉬운 수용성 염화물을 중심으로 19개 원소 24종의 금속화합물이 Chinese Hamster Don 세포에 있어서의 sister chromatid exchange(SCE) 출현빈도에 미치는 영향을 조사하였다. Chinese Hamster Don 세포에 대한 자매염색분체 교환출현빈도의 증가가 $CrO_3, K_2CrO_4, K_2Cr_2O_7, MnCl_2, K_2SeO_3, CH_3HgCl$ (p<0.01), $CoCl_2, Na_2HAsO_4, HgCl_2$ (p<0.05) 9종의 금속화합물에서 나타났으며, dose-response relationships이 현저한 금속화합물은 6가 크로화합물과 $K_2SeO_3$이었다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Fashion and Beauty
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• v.3 no.1 s.4
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• pp.61-71
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• 2005

Everything of the world we live in has its own unique color. Those colors move us, enrich our every day life, and make us happy. When we have our hairs dyed by a color we like, we may look different, feeling confident and activated. We select a color fur our hair color design depending on such symbolic aspects as our life styles, self-images or personalities. Namely, we tend to choose a color the image of which we like. Such a tendency implies that it should be important to study hair colors in multi-faceted ways. The purpose of this study was to survey people's preferences of hair color tone images depending on their demographic and physical variables and thereby, determine the correlations between their preferences and variables. For this purpose, hair colors tones were classified into 11 categories and thereby, subjects' preferences of hair tones were analyzed in terms of the image adjective combinations. The results of this study can be summarized as follows; As a result of analyzing subjects' preferences of hair color tones depending on their such demographic variables as gender, age group and marital status, it was found that males tended to prefer dark tones more than females, and that those in their 30's or older tended to select dark tones more than those in their 20's. On the other hand, the married preferred medium bright tones more than the singles. Furthermore, such physical variables as body size, weight and apparel size were found correlated with hair color tone preferences. To be specific, shorter people desired more to have their hair colors match with their natural ones not to be less exposed to others. Lastly, as a result of analyzing the correlation between hair color tone preferences and weight and apparel size, it was found that fat people tended more to prefer medium bright color tones than normal or slim people.