• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.775-778
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• 2001

Chemokines are small chemotalic cytokines that have a number of biological functions. Some chemokines regulate the proliferation of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells(HSPC). Leukotactin-l(Lkn-l) is a CC chemokine and is known to reduce colony forming unit(CFU). The N-terminal truncated Leukotactin-l(rtLkn-l), produced by Pichia pastoris, suppressed CFU from 40 to 60%. The rtLkn-l protected CFU from cytotoxic effect of anticancer drug such as Ara-C, doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide and 5-FU by cell cycle arrest.

• Toxicological Research
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.117-125
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• 1995

In order to examine the mechanism of asbestos clastogenicity, CHO cells were treated with chrysotile and crocidolite. Crocidolite and chrysotile were able to induce lipid peroxidation in a dose dependent manner. Ultrafiltrate of culture media from CHO cells treated with chrysotile/crocidolite induced sister chromatid exchange in CHO cells. Ultrafiltrate of culture media from CHO cells treated with chrysotile induced chromosome aberration but it was not statistically significant. Simultaneous treatment of 3-Aminobenzamide (3-AB) or cytosine arabinoside (Ara C) with crocidolite had no effect on the frequency of chromosome aberration by crocidolite whetease posttreatment of caffeine significantly increased the chromosomel aberration by crocidolite. This indicated that DNA damage by asbestos took place at late stage of cell cycle. The results suggested that the ultrafiltrate of media contained clastogenic factor (CF) and lipid peroxidation might be involved in the formation of CF.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.214-222
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• 2021

Recently, the growth of e-commerce in Saudi Arabia has been exponential, bringing new remarkable challenges. A naive approach for product matching and categorization is needed to help consumers choose the right store to purchase a product. This paper presents a machine learning approach for product matching that combines deep learning techniques with standard artificial neural networks (ANNs). Existing methods focused on product matching, whereas our model compares products based on unstructured descriptions. We evaluated our electronics dataset model from three business-to-consumer (B2C) online stores by putting the match products collectively in one dataset. The performance evaluation based on k-mean classifier prediction from three real-world online stores demonstrates that the proposed algorithm outperforms the benchmarked approach by 80% on average F1-measure.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.60 no.3
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• pp.637-647
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• 2023

Let R be a commutative Noetherian ring, 𝔞 an ideal of R, M an arbitrary R-module and X a finite R-module. We prove a characterization for Hⁱ_𝔞(M) and Hⁱ_𝔞(X, M) to be 𝔞-weakly cofinite for all i, whenever one of the following cases holds: (a) ara(𝔞) ≤ 1, (b) dim R/𝔞 ≤ 1 or (c) dim R ≤ 2. We also prove that, if M is a weakly Laskerian R-module, then Hⁱ_𝔞(X, M) is 𝔞-weakly cofinite for all i, whenever dim X ≤ 2 or dim M ≤ 2 (resp. (R, m) a local ring and dim X ≤ 3 or dim M ≤ 3). Let d = dim M < ∞, we prove an equivalent condition for top local cohomology module H^d_𝔞(M) to be weakly Artinian.

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.98-102
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• 1993

The therapeutic effectiveness of adenine arabinoside(tora-A) and its conjugate of prednisone(BR-8702-AP) was compared in Herpes simplex Virus Type 1 (HSV-1) infected BALB/C mice. The BALB/C mouse was infected with HSV-1(700 PFU/mouse) intranasally. Among mice infected intranasally with virus, a mortality rate of 100% was observed. On the oral administration of non-toxic doses of ara-A or BR-8702-AP(125 mg /kg/day) for 5 consecutive days 2 hours after virus infection, the tora-A was highly effective in reducing mortality to 0% (P<0.001) and BR-8702-AP was also effective in reducing mortality to 15% (P<0.01). In this model infection, the virus was first replicated in the lung and transmitted to the brain. Both arts-A and BR-8702-AP did not inhibit the viral replication in the lung, but they inhibited the viral transmission to the brain. However, the BR-8702-AP was less effective than the aria-A to prevent transmission of virus to brain. Therefore, the reduced mortality due to tora-A or BR-8702-AP therapy was associated with inhibition of viral transmission to brain.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.137-142
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• 1989

The ethylacetate soluble fraction of Panax ginseng extract, which has been reported to exhibit hematopoietic effect, was divided into three subfractions, i.e., Fr. I, Fr. II and Fr. III by silica gel column chromatography. The hematopoietic effect of each subfraction was examined in rats treated with anticancer agent, Ara-C($1-{\beta}-D-arabinofuranosylcytosine)$). Among them, Fr. III showed 90% recovery of leucocyte and erythrocyte counts in bonemarrow cell depleted rats, suggesting it to be hematopoietic fraction. From Fr. III, two major compounds were isolated and identified as ginsenoside $Rh_1$ and $Rg_2$ by $^{13}C-NMR$ and degradation method.

• Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Korea
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.219-227
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• 2017

Manganese (Mn) nodules in the Arctic Sea have been founded in the Kara Sea and Barents Sea, but mineral and chemical compositions have been rarely investigated. In this study, mineralogical and geochemical characteristics of Mn nodules obtained during the Arctic Expedition ARA07C in northern East Siberian Sea were identified, and then genesis of Mn nodules were estimated by using these characteristics. Main manganese oxide minerals constituting the manganese nodule were buserite, birnessite, and vernadite. The Mn nodules generally represent radiated and massive texture, and the layered texture was developed restrictively. The radiated texture, main feature of the manganese nodule in the East Siberian Sea, is mainly composed of cuspate-globular microstructure. Compared with the Mn nodules in Pacific and Indian Oceans, Mn nodules of the East Siberian Sea are abundant in Mn, but Fe is too scarce. There was no difference in the chemical composition and microstructures between outer and inner part of nodule. Therefore, nodules are most likely to have only one genesis during their growth, and all of nodules indicate the diagenetic in $Mn-Fe-(Cu+Ni+Co){\times}10$ ternary diagram. It is considered that the manganese nodules in the East Siberian Sea are characterized by high Mn contents because manganese contents in the Arctic Ocean were mainly resulted from river or coastal erosion and most of them are trapped in the Arctic Ocean.

• Biomedical Science Letters
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.57-63
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• 2006

Deazaadenosine analogs such as 3-deazaadenosine (DZA), 3-deazaaristeromycin (DZAri) and ara-3-deazaadenine (DZAra-A) were developed as inhibitors of S-adenosylhomocysteine (Ado-Hcy) hydrolase (EC 3.3.1.1). These analogs were reported to induce apoptosis in human and murine leukemic cells. But, the mechanism involved in this apoptosis was not clarified yet. In the present study, we analyze the apoptosis induced by deazaadenosine analogs in human cervival cancer cell line, HeLa and the effect of Bcl-2 on this apoptosis. Whereas neither DZAri nor DZAra-A showed inhibitory effect on HeLa cell growth, DZA induced apoptosis in HeLa cells accompanied by cytochrome c release and activation of various caspases such as caspase-2,-8,-9 and -3. In HeLa-bcl-2 cell line, a stable transfectant of HeLa cell to overexpress Bcl-2, cytochrome c release, activation of all these caspases and the resulted apoptosis by DZA were completely prevented. By in vitro assay of cytochrome c release, in addition, DZA induced cytochrome c release from purified mitochondria of HeLa-pcDNA3 cells, but not HeLa-bcl-2 cells, even in the absence of cytosolic fraction. Therefore, it can be suggested that DZA might damage directly mitochondria leading to activate intrinsic pathway of caspase and thus induce apoptosis. DZA-induced apoptosis in HeLa cells may be in a bcl-2-inhibitable manner and irrelative of Ado-Hcy hydrolase.

• IMMUNE NETWORK
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.35-45
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• 2010

Background: Expression of recombinant antibodies and their derivatives fused with other functional molecules such as alkaline phosphatase in Escherichia coli is important in the development of molecular diagnostic reagents for biomedical research. Methods: We investigated the possibility of applying a well-known Fos-Jun zipper to dimerize $V_H$ and $V_L$ fragments originated from the Fab clone (SP 112) that recognizes pyruvate dehydrogenase complex-E2 (PDC-E2), and demonstrated that the functional zipFv-112 and its alkaline phosphatase fusion molecules (zipFv-AP) can be produced in the cytoplasm of Origami(DE3) trxB gor mutant E. coli strain. Results: The zipFv-AP fusion molecules exhibited higher antigen-binding signals than the zipFv up to a 10-fold under the same experimental conditions. However, conformation of the zipFv-AP seemed to be influenced by the location of an AP domain at the C-terminus of $V_H$ or $V_L$ domain [zipFv-112(H-AP) or zipFv-112(L-AP)], and inclusion of an AraC DNA binding domain at the C-terminus of VH of the zipFv-112(L-AP), termed zipFv-112(H-AD/L-AP), was also beneficial. Cytoplasmic co-expression of disulfide-binding isomerase C (DsbC) helped proper folding of the zipFv-112(H-AD/L-AP) but not significantly. Conclusion: We believe that our zipFv constructs may serve as an excellent antibody format bi-functional antibody fragments that can be produced stably in the cytoplasm of E. coli.

• Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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• v.48 no.4
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• pp.771-786
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• 2021

This study was performed to investigate the contents of fat-soluble nutrients (tocopherols, retinol, carotenoids, fatty acids, and cholesterol) and phospholipids (PLs) in seven types (imported SPA, SPS, SFS, and SSI; and domestic MLM, MPM, and NIX) of commercial infant formulas (IFs). The contents of tocopherol and retinol activity equivalent (RAE) in the seven IFs were 1.42 - 3.86 mg α-TE·100 kcal^-1 and 64.90 - 144.95 ㎍ RAE·100 kcal^-1, respectively. The imported IFs contained high contents of lutein + zeaxanthin (29.68 - 32.49 ㎍·100 g^-1) and lycopene (71.80 - 93.28 ㎍·100 g^-1), while the domestic IFs did not contain lycopene. The contents of linoleic acid (C18:2) and α-linolenic acid (C18:3) in the seven IFs were also within the recommended ranges (C18:2, 300 - 1,400 mg·100 kcal^-1 and C18:3, over 50 mg·100 kcal^-1) of Ministry of Food and Drug Safety. The ratio of arachidonic acid (ARA, C20:4)/docosahexaenoic acid (DHA, C22:6) was 2.42 - 2.74 in the imported IFs and 0.96 - 1.08 in the domestic IFs. However, the DHA content of the domestic IFs (0.37 - 0.65 g·100 g^-1 fat%) was much higher than that of the imported IFs (0.16 - 0.18%). Total PL contents were 108.02 - 135.93 mg·100 kcal^-1 for the domestic IFs and 6.05 - 66.70 mg·100 kcal^-1 for the imported IFs. The main PLs of the domestic IFs were phosphatidyl choline (48.5 - 71.1% of total PLs), phosphatidyl ethanolamine (12.8 - 23.1%), phosphatidyl serine (7.0 - 11.6%), and sphingomyelin (4.3 - 21.5%).