• Title/Summary/Keyword: Bio-Function

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The Dynamical Models of the Life Action on the Assimilation and Dissimilation in the Ecosystem (생태계에 있어서 동화.이화작용에 관한 동력학적 모델)

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    • Asian Journal of Turfgrass Science
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.331-339
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    • 1996
  • The mass action on the assimilation and dissimilation of a living system from bio-molecules to bio-spheres has been demonstrated by the theoretical models as the bio- and trophic-functions From the viewpoint of this bio-mechanics, the general principle on the pre-equilibrium of the bio-molecular system is found. Key words: Mass action, Living system, Bio-molecule, Bio-sphere, Bio- and trophic function.

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USING THE SPEECH AID FOR TREATMENT OF VELOPHARYNGEAL INCOMPETENCY IN INCOMPLETE CLEFT PALATE - A CASE REPORT - (음성 폐쇄상을 이용한 구개열 환자의 언어치료의 증례 보고 - 장착 후 제거까지의 경과 -)

  • Leem, Dae-Ho;Yoon, Bo-Keun;Baik, Jin-A;Shin, Hyo-Keun
    • Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
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    • v.28 no.5
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    • pp.483-488
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    • 2006
  • Velopharyngeal function refers to the combined activity of the soft palate and pharynx in closing and opening the velopharyngeal port to the required degree. In normal speech, various muscles of palate & pharynx function as sphincter and occlude the oropharynx from the nasopharynx during the production of oral consonant sounds. Inadequate velopharyngeal function caused by neurologic disorder - cerebral apoplexy, regressive diseases - disseminated sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, congenital deformity - cleft palate, cerebral palsy and etc. may result in abnormal speech characterized by hypernasality, nasal emission and decreased intelligibility of speech due to weak consonant production. In our study, we constructed speech aids prosthesis - Speech bulb in the incomplete cleft palate VPI patient with hypernasality and assessed velopharyngeal function with nasometer which can evaluate the speech characteristics objectively.

Inferring Relative Activity between Pathway and Downstream Genes to Classify Melanoma Cancer Progression

  • Jung, In-Kyung;Lee, Jung-Sul;Choi, Chul-Hee;Kim, Dong-Sup
    • Interdisciplinary Bio Central
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.5.1-5.5
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    • 2011
  • Introduction: Many signal transduction pathways mediate cell's behavior by regulating expression level of involved genes. Abnormal behavior indicates loss of regulatory potential of pathways, and this can be attributed to loss of expression regulation of downstream genes. Therefore, function of pathways should be assessed by activity of a pathway itself and relative activity between a pathway and downstream genes, simultaneously. Results and Discussion: In this study, we suggested a new method to assess pathway's function by introducing concept of 'responsiveness'. The responsiveness was defined as a relative activity between a pathway itself and its downstream genes. The expression level of a downstream gene as a function of an upstream pathway activation characterizes disease status. In this aspect, by using the responsiveness we predicted potential progress in cancer development. We applied our method to predict primary and metastatic status of melanoma cancer. The result shows that the responsiveness-based approach achieves better performance than using gene or pathway information alone. The mean of ROC scores in the responsiveness-based approach was 0.90 for GSE7553 data set, increased more than 40% compared to a gene-based method. Moreover, identifying the abnormal regulatory patterns between pathway and its downstream genes provided more biologically interpretable information compared to gene or pathway based approaches.

Policy-Based Emergency Bio Data Transmission Architecture for Smart Healthcare Service (스마트 헬스케어 서비스를 위한 정책기반 응급 생체 데이터 전송 구조)

  • Chun, Seung-Man;Nah, Jae-Wook;Lee, Ki-Chun;Park, Jong-Tae
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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    • v.48 no.10
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    • pp.43-52
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    • 2011
  • In this paper, we propose the architecture of the policy-based emergency bio data transmission for the smart healthcare service. the medical staff can quickly and accurately monitor the emergency bio data of the remote patient through the proposed architecture. The proposed system consists of three parts: IEEE 11073-based agents and managers performing the aggregation function and transmission function of the bio data; the emergency management server performing the converting function between IEEE 11073 and HL7 and auto-diagnosis function of the policy-based; HL7 medical system based on HL7. Finally, by implementing the proposed system, we shows that the aggregation of the bio data and management of the emergency bio data in the smart healthcare service are possible.

A Novel Bioassay System for Screening of Compounds Affecting Anthocyanin Biosynthesis Pathway in White Corn Leaf Segment (백화옥수수 잎절편을 이용한 안토시아닌 생합성 조절제 탐색용 신규 검정법 확립)

  • Kim, Jin-Seog;Lee, Byung-Hoi;Lee, Jung-Ae;Oh, Kwang-Hoon;Cho, Kwang-Yun
    • Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.207-214
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    • 2003
  • This study was carried out to establish a novel bioassay system for screening of compounds affecting aromatic amino acid or anthocyanin biosynthesis through investigating a degree of sucrose-induced anthocyanin formation such as size of plant material, buffer conditions, light intensity and irradiated duration, incubation temp., etc were determined and standard procedure (suitable experimental condition) was set up as follows. The second leaf blade of white corn seeding induced by fluridone treatment were segmented into a size of 5${\times}$5 min. The segments were floated on the solution of 1% sucrose in 1.0mM MES buffer (pH6.0∼6.5) and incubated at 26$^{\circ}C$ for 2days under the continuous light condition(70∼100$\mu$mol m$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ ). Anthocyanin in the purpled tissues was extracted with methanol containing 1% HCl and the optical density of the clear supematants was determined at 528mm. Influences of some chemicals were tested using this system. Glyphosate, 5-enolpyruvylshikimate 3-phosphate synthase inhibitor, showed most sensitive response with I$_{50}$ value at 3.3$\mu$M. Dicyclohexylcarbodiimide(DCCD) and parachloromercuribenzenesulfonic acid(PCMBS) had a relatively strong ingibition with I50 value at 7.1$\mu$M and 10.2$\mu$M, respectively. These results show that sucrose-induced anthocyanin formation in white com leaf segment provide a very simple and rapid system for searching new compounds affecting aromatic amino acid or anteocyanin biosynthesis by screening at less than 10$\mu$M.