• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.25-28
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• 2015

In this study, a basic research on artificial liver was performed for its application to people on the waiting list of liver transplant or patients with hepatic insufficiency. Artificial livers are generally classified into mechanic type, bioartificial type, and hybrid type. An extracorporeal circulation device was examined herein, which is indispensable in the application of an artificial liver, for its effectiveness in supporting the recovery of liver functions. Extracorporeal circulation system is a treatment and life-support system which sends out the patient's blood, removes toxicity by various methods, and then sends the blood back to the interior of the body. This study used an extracorporeal circulation system which enables the Plasma Perfusion by CVVH method, and applied the program of Bioateco corp. Animals with acute hepatic insufficiency were produced to apply the extracorporeal circulation device. As a result, their ammonia, bilirubin, SGOT, SGPT, and bile acid levels rose, confirming the liver function restoration in the experimental animals.

• 한국응용약물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국응용약물학회 1994년도 춘계학술대회 and 제3회 신약개발 연구발표회
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• pp.137-144
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• 1994

Spherical multicellular aggregates of adult rat hepatocytes (spheroid) which have tissue like structure, were formed and immobilized in the pores of polyurethane foam (PUF) which was used as a culture substratum. These hepatocyte/spheroids, about 100 $\mu\textrm{m}$ in diameter, have maintained higher differentiated functions than those of hepatocyte/monolayer for about 3 weeks in serum-free medium. Then, we designed a prototype module of an artificial liver support system using a PUF/spheroid packed-bed, in which hepatocyte/spheroids were immobilized at high density. The urea synthesis activity of the artificial liver was maintained at least 10 days in 100% rat blood plasma. We start examining the performance of hybrid artificial liver in an ex vivo extracorporeal experiment with an acute hepatic failure rat.

• 한국방사선학회논문지
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.735-742
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• 2023

비알콜성 지방간은 심혈관계 질환, 당뇨병, 고혈압 및 신장질환의 발생에 있어 독립적인 위험인자에 해당하며, 최근에는 비알콜성 지방간에 대한 임상적 중요성이 증가하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 비알콜성 지방간 환자의 초음파영상에 대하여 질감분석 방법인 GLCM을 적용하여 특징값을 추출하고자 한다. 추출된 특징값들을 이용한 인공신경망 모델의 적용을 통하여 비알콜성 지방간의 지방침착 정도를 정상 간(normal), 경도 지방간(mild), 중등도 지방간(moderate), 중증 지방간(severe)으로 분류를 하고자 한다. GLCM알고리듬 적용 결과 Autocorrelation, Sum of squares, Sum average, Sum variance 파라미터 값들은 경도 지방간, 중등도 지방간을 거쳐 중증 지방간으로 갈수록 특징값의 평균값이 증가하는 경향성을 나타내었다. 인공신경망 모델의 입력은 비알콜성 지방간질환의 초음파영상에 GLCM 알고리듬을 적용하여 추출한 Autocorrelation, Sum of squares, Sum average, Sum variance의 4개의 파라미터들을 인공신경망 모델의 입력값으로 적용하였다. 비알콜성 지방간질환의 초음파영상에 GLCM 알고리듬을 적용하여 추출한 영상을 인공신경망에 적용하여 분류 정확도를 평가한 결과 92.5%의 높은 정확도를 나타내었다. 이러한 결과를 통하여 비알콜성 지방간 환자의 초음파 영상에 대한 질감 분석 GLCM 연구 시 본 연구의 결과를 기초자료로 제시를 하고자 한다.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제41권7호
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• pp.639-645
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• 2018

Liver transplantation is recommended for patients with liver failure, but liver donors are limited. This necessitates the development of artificial livers, and hepatocytes are necessary to develop such artificial livers. Although induced hepatocyte-like cells are used in artificial livers, the characteristics of mouse induced hepatocyte-like cells (miHeps) reprogrammed with embryonic fibroblasts have not yet been clarified. Therefore, this study investigated the mechanisms underlying the survival, function, and death of miHeps. miHeps showed decreased cell viability, increased cytotoxicity, decreased hepatic function, and albumin and urea secretion at passage 14. Addition of necrostatin-1 (NEC-1) to miHeps inhibited necrosome formation and reactive oxygen species generation and increased cell survival. However, NEC-1 did not affect the hepatic function of miHeps. These results provide a basis for development of artificial livers using hepatocytes.

• BMB Reports
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• 제51권9호
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• pp.474-479
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• 2018

Cisplatin is one of the most effective chemotherapeutic drugs used in the treatment of HCC, but many patients will ultimately relapse with cisplatin-resistant disease. Used in combination with cisplatin, resveratrol has synergistic effect of increasing chemosensitivity of cisplatin in various cancer cells. However, the mechanisms of resveratrol enhancing cisplatin-induced toxicity have not been well characterized. Our study showed that resveratrol enhances cisplatin toxicity in human hepatoma cells via an apoptosis-dependent mechanism. Further studies reveal that resveratrol decreases the absorption of glutamine and glutathione content by reducing the expression of glutamine transporter ASCT2. Flow cytometric analyses demonstrate that resveratrol and cisplatin combined treatment leads to a significant increase in ROS production compared to resveratrol or cisplatin treated hepatoma cells alone. Phosphorylated H2AX (${\gamma}H2AX$) foci assay demonstrate that both resveratrol and cisplatin treatment result in a significant increase of ${\gamma}H2AX$ foci in hepatoma cells, and the resveratrol and cisplatin combined treatment results in much more ${\gamma}H2AX$ foci formation than either resveratrol or cisplatin treatment alone. Furthermore, our studies show that over-expression of ASCT2 can attenuate cisplatin-induced ROS production, ${\gamma}H2AX$ foci formation and apoptosis in human hepatoma cells. Collectively, our studies suggest resveratrol may sensitize human hepatoma cells to cisplatin chemotherapy via gluta${\gamma}H2AX$mine metabolism inhibition.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.757-768
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• 2022

In this paper, we proposed a system that visualizes a hologram device in 3D by utilizing the CT image segmentation function based on artificial intelligence deep learning. The input axial CT medical image is converted into Sagittal and Coronal, and the input image and the converted image are divided into 3D volumes using ResUNet, a deep learning model. In addition, the volume is created by segmenting the tumor region in the segmented liver image. Each result is integrated into one 3D volume, displayed in a medical image viewer, and converted into a video. When the converted video is transmitted to the hologram device and output from the device, a 3D image with a sense of space can be checked. As for the performance of the deep learning model, in Axial, the basic input image, DSC showed 95.0% performance in liver region segmentation and 67.5% in liver tumor region segmentation. If the system is applied to a real-world care environment, additional physical contact is not required, making it safer for patients to explain changes before and after surgery more easily. In addition, it will provide medical staff with information on liver and liver tumors necessary for treatment or surgery in a three-dimensional manner, and help patients manage them after surgery by comparing and observing the liver before and after liver resection.

• Korean Journal of Radiology
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.387-401
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• 2020

Radiomics and deep learning have recently gained attention in the imaging assessment of various liver diseases. Recent research has demonstrated the potential utility of radiomics and deep learning in staging liver fibroses, detecting portal hypertension, characterizing focal hepatic lesions, prognosticating malignant hepatic tumors, and segmenting the liver and liver tumors. In this review, we outline the basic technical aspects of radiomics and deep learning and summarize recent investigations of the application of these techniques in liver disease.

• 정보처리학회논문지:컴퓨터 및 통신 시스템
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• 제10권10호
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• pp.285-290
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• 2021

의료분야에서 인공지능 기술을 도입한 질환 진단 및 예측 연구들이 활발하게 진행되고 있다. 의료영상기반의 인공지능 기술 적용에 가장 많이 활용되고 있는 질환 진단 및 예측에 대한 다양한 제품으로 출시되고 있다. 인공지능은 질병에 대한 진단, 양성과 악성으로 구분되는 질환의 구분, 질병의 위험도에 따른 구별이나 판독에 이용하기 위해 질환부위를 분리하는 등에 적용되고 있다. 최근에는 클라우드기술과 연계하여 서비스 제품으로 활용성이 높아지고 있다. 본 논문에서 다루는 질환 중에 간 질환은 통증이 적어 조기진단이 어려워 그 위험도가 매우 높은 질환이다. 이러한 질환 진단에 비침습적인 진단방법으로 의료영상기반으로 인공지능 기술을 도입하였다. 우리는 임상에서 가장 의미 있는 간 경화증 환자의 판독을 돕기 위한 웹 서비스 개발 내용을 기술한다. 그리고 웹서비스 프로세스를 보이고 각 프로세스의 구동 화면과 최종 결과화면을 보인다. 제안한 서비스를 통해 간 경화증을 조기에 진단하고, 빠른 치료를 통해 환자의 회복에 도움을 줄 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• 한국응용약물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국응용약물학회 1994년도 춘계학술대회 and 제3회 신약개발 연구발표회
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• pp.129-130
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• 1994

The science of toxicology is the understanding of the mechanisms by which exogenous agents produce deleterious effects in biological systems. The actions of chemicals such as drugs are ultimately exerted at the cellular and gene levels. Over the past decade. several in vitro alternative methods such as cultured cells for assessing the toxicity of various xenobiotics have been proposed to reduce the use of animals. In this workshop three advanced methods will be presented. These methods are novel important models for toxicologic studies. Dr. Tabuchis group has establishcd two immortalized gastric surface mucosa cell lines from the pminary cultore of gastric fundic mucosal cells of adult transgenic mice harboring a temperature sensitive simian virus 40 large T-anugen gene. As the immortalized cell lines of various tissues possess unique characteristics to maintain their normal functions for several months, these cell lines are extremely useful for not only toxicity testing but also pharmacological screening in new drug development. Professor Funatsu have studied the formation of spherical multicelluar aggregates of adult rat hepatocytes(spheroid) having tissue like structure. The sphcroid shown thre is a prototype module of an artificial liver support system. Thus, the urea synthesis activity of the artificial liver was maintained at least to days in 100％ rat blood plasma. Dr. Takezawa and his coworkers have developed a novel culture system of multicellular spheroids considered 〃organoids〃 by utilizing a thermo-responsive polymer as a substratum of anchorage dependent cells. His final goal is to reconstitute the organoids of various normal organs, e.g., liver, skin etc. and also abnormal deseased organs such as tumor.

• 한국응용곤충학회지
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.99-103
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• 2000

소간냉동건조분말, 누에번데기냉동건조분말, 수벌가루를 각각 첨가하여 만든 인공사료들을 이용하여 칠성풀잠자리붙이(Chrysopa pallens(Rambur))를 사육한 결과 누에냉동건조분말을 1% 수준으로 첨가한 먹이에서만 효율이 증대되었으며, 유충발육기간이 15.6$\pm$0.99일, 고치무게가 $16.4\pm$2.94mg, 성충까지의 생존율이 89.3%로 나타났다. 또한 소간냉동건조분말, 소고기냉동건조분말, 달걀냉동건조분말 그리고 설탕을 각각 4/4/3/4의 비율로 놓고 비타민 C와 Vanderzant의 비타민 B 혼합물을 각각 50mg씩 넣은 먹이로 칠성풀잠자리붙이를 사육한 결과 유충발육기간이 $12.7\pm$1.45일, 고치무게가 $18.1\pm$2.24mg, 성충까지 생존율이 100%fh 나타났으며, 산란 시작후 20일간의 산란수가 $633\pm$70.4개에 달해서, 이 인공사료를 이용한 칠성풀잠자리붙이의 대량사육이 가능한 것으로 나타났다.