• Journal of Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제56권4호
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• pp.205-211
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• 2013

Nitrate is a naturally occurring compound in plant and can be converted to nitrite in the nitrogen cycle and vice versa. Therefore, it is easy to find nitrate in plants including vegetables. Especially, it is known that high levels of nitrate found in leafy vegetables. Nitrate itself is relatively non-toxic but its metabolites and reaction products such as nitrite, nitric oxide and N-nitroso compounds, may produce adverse health effects such as methaemoglobinaemia and carcinogenesis. To execute the risk assessment of dietary nitrate and nitrite for the intake of vegetables, it is investigated that the levels of nitrate and nitrite in 23 vegetables (798 samples). The range of concentration were 0-6,719mg/kg for nitrate and 0-1,635mg/kg for nitrite, respectively. The Estimated daily intakes (EDI) were 0.85-1.38 mg/kg body weight/day for nitrate and 0.02-0.03 mg/kg body weight/day for nitrite by ages. We conclude that there are no health concerns for eating various vegetables since the EDI were below the Tolerable Daily Intake (3.7 mg/kg body weight/day for nitrate, 0.06 mg/kg body weight/day for nitrite) level established by WHO.

• Safe Food
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.26-35
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• 2010

• 동의생리병리학회지
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.397-401
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• 2016

The quality control is a fundamental procedure for the standardization of herbal medicine to guarantee the consistency of efficacy and safety. For a long time, the quality analysis of herbal medicine has been largely dependent on the routine sensory evaluation, such as taste, smell, color, and shape. However, with the recent development of analytical instruments, various scientific approaches have been introduced in this field. On the basis of the theory that the biological activities of herbal medicine are mainly contributed by its chemical compositions, several types of chemical markers have been suggested for the quality evaluation. In addition to the analytical methods for the specific marker compound(s), including analytical marker and active marker, recently, chemical fingerprinting, a method comparing the chromatographic pattern of the whole chemical components, has been developed and widely accepted as a reliable approach for the quality control of herbal medicine. Moreover, in order to exactly understand the relationship between complex compounds and their holistic biological activities in herbal medicine, unique strategies, such as "BECCs (bioactive equivalent combinatorial components)" and "PhytomicsQC" have been established. In this article, we give an overview of the several categories of chemical markers and the recent research trends for the quality evaluation of herbal medicine.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제13권8호
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• pp.1050-1053
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• 2000

Biological evaluation of residual malathion after 168 hrs of single dipping exposure of White Leghorn hens to different concentrations (0, 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5%) of pesticides was investigated. Thirty-two male albino rats divided into four groups of eight each were kept on 20% isoproteinous diet prepared from the meat of these malathion dipped hens. After 30 days feeding trial, the rats were killed by decapitation. No significant change was found in erythrocytes. However, the triglyceride concentration in brain tissue was increased significantly (p<0.05) when dose level of pesticide was 1% in dipping solution. Similarly, malathion exposed poultry meat failed in altering any significant change in the pancreatic amylase and lipase activities of rats. This study concludes the virtual absence of toxic accumulation of pesticide in the meat of birds after 168 hrs of exposure in usual concentration range upto 1.5%.

• 약학회지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.121-128
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• 1972

Alcohol extracts of 70 Korean medicinal plants have been tested for their biological activity. Most of the extracts had slight activity only. Some extracts had more pronounced activity. The results are tabulated.

• 약학회지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.177-183
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• 1977

Extracts of seventy-two Korean plants were evaluated for their biological activities such as antitumor activities against sarcoma 180, leukemia SN and Ehrlich ascites carcinoma, cytotoxic activities, antimicrobial activities and behavoral observations, and the results are tabulated.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.64-79
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• 2017

Identifying disease genes from human genome is a critical task in biomedical research. Important biological features to distinguish the disease genes from the non-disease genes have been mainly selected based on traditional feature selection approaches. However, the traditional feature selection approaches unnecessarily consider many unimportant biological features. As a result, although some of the existing classification techniques have been applied to disease gene identification, the prediction performance was not satisfactory. A small set of the most important biological features can enhance the accuracy of disease gene identification, as well as provide potentially useful knowledge for biologists or clinicians, who can further investigate the selected biological features as well as the potential disease genes. In this paper, we propose a new stepwise random forests (SRF) approach for biological feature selection and disease gene identification. The SRF approach consists of two stages. In the first stage, only important biological features are iteratively selected in a forward selection manner based on one-dimensional random forest regression, where the updated residual vector is considered as the current response vector. We can then determine a small set of important biological features. In the second stage, random forests classification with regard to the selected biological features is applied to identify disease genes. Our extensive experiments show that the proposed SRF approach outperforms the existing feature selection and classification techniques in terms of biological feature selection and disease gene identification.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.279-285
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• 2007

Toxicity evaluations using oxygen uptake rate (OUR) on activated sludge process were investigated. On toxicity evaluations of heavy metals, all toxicants in experiments decreased OUR with respect to the concentrations of the toxicants, while high toxicities with cyanide and mercury were observed respectively. On toxicity evaluations of composite heavy metals, composite toxicities had similar results as to the total sum of each toxicants that presents accurate toxicity evaluation using OUR. From these results, it is concluded that activated sludge is effective indicator for toxicity evaluation on wastewater of biological treatment plants.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제57권4호
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• pp.455-460
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• 2013

A novel and simple method for the synthesis of 2-amino-4H-pyran-3,4,5-tricarboxylate derivative and the evaluation of their antibacterial activity against Pseudomonas syringae, Xanthomonas citi and Pectobacterium carotovorum are reported. The structure of the isolated compounds has been determined by means of $^1H/^{13}C$ NMR and FT-IR Spectroscopy. The reaction of alkyl isocyanides with acetylenic esters in the presence of dimethyl acetone-1,3-dicarboxylate in the present of $BF_3.SiO_2$ at ambient temperature. Some of the compound showed significant inhibition to growth of bacteria.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.293-301
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• 2011

치과보철물의 소재는 생물 화학적, 물리적 안정성을 위하여 우수한 생체친화성이 요구된다. 그래서 본 연구에서는 새로운 기술인 레이저 선택용융 가공법으로 제작된 Co-Cr합금(SC시편), Ti합금(ST시편)을 일반적으로 사용되는 주조법으로 제작된 Co-Cr합금(CC시편), Ni-Cr합금(CN시편)과 비교분석하여 기계적 특성과 생물학적 안정성 평가를 실시하였다. 기계적 특성 평가를 위하여 인장시험을 통한 탄성계수를 측정하였다. 그리고 생물학적 안정성 평가를 위하여 유사체액(lactic acid-NaCl solution)을 이용한 용출물질 분석과 용출배지를 이용한 세포독성을 관찰하였다. 그 결과 레이저 선택용융 가공법으로 제작한 Co-Cr 합금이 주조법으로 제작한 Co-Cr합금보다 탄성계수가 높게 나타났다. 그리고 용출물질 분석과 세포독성 평가에서 레이저 선택용융 가공법으로 제작한 Co-Cr합금의 생물학적 안정성이 양호한 것으로 평가되었다. 결과에 의하여 레이저 선택용융 가공법으로 제작한 합금이 치과보철물 제작을 위한 합금으로 적용할 수 있는 것으로 판단된다.