• Animal cells and systems
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.83-89
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• 2010

Gangliosides are a ubiquitous component of the membranes of mammalian cells that have been suggested to play important roles in various cell functions such as cell-cell interaction, adhesion, cell differentiation, growth control and signaling. However, the role that gangliosides play in the immune rejection response in xenotransplantation is not yet clearly understood. In this study, differential expression patterns of gangliosides in HEK293 (human embryonic kidney cells), PK15 (porcine kidney cells), NIH-kd (NIH-mini pig kidney cells, primary cultured) and the cortex, medulla and calyx of the NIH-mini pig kidney were investigated by high-performance thin-layer chromatography (HPTLC). The results revealed that HEK293, PK15 and NIH-kd contained GM3, GM2 and GD3 as major gangliosides. Moreover, GM3, which are the gangliosides of NIH-kd, were expressed at higher levels than HEK293 and PK15. Especially, GT1b were expressed in HEK293 and NIH-kd but not in PK15. Finally, GM1 and GD1a were expressed in NIH-kd, but not in HEK293 or PK15. These results suggest that differential expression patterns of gangliosides from HEK293, PK15 and NIH-kd are related to the immune rejection response in xenotransplantation.

• 대한약침학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.24-31
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• 2021

Objectives: Accumulation of cellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) leads to oxidative stress. Increased production of ROS, such as superoxide anion, or a deficiency in their clearance by antioxidant defences, mediates cellular pathology. Grewia Spp fruits are a source of bioactive compounds and have notable antioxidant activity. Although the antioxidant capacity of Grewia Spp has been studied, there is very limited evidence that links the antioxidant activities of Grewia bicolor and Grewia flava to the inhibition of free radical formation associated with damage in biological systems. Methods: This study evaluated the protective effects of Grewia bicolor and Grewia flava extracts against free radical-induced oxidative stress and the resulting cytotoxicity effect using HeLa cells. Antioxidant properties determined using 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) and total phenolic content (TPC) assays showed significantly higher (p < 0.05) antioxidant activity in Grewia flava (ethanol extract) than Grewia flava (water extract) and Grewia bicolor (ethanol and water extracts). Results: Using 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5diphenyltetrazolium bromide or MTT assay, cytotoxicity results showed that extracts of Grewia bicolor and Grewia flava were less toxic to HeLa cells at tested concentrations compared to the untreated control. This confirmed the low toxicity of these edible fruits at the tested concentrations in HeLa cells. Furthermore, hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)-induced cell loss was effectively reduced by pre-incubating HeLa cells with Grewia bicolor and Grewia flava extracts, with Grewia flava (ethanol extract) revealing better protection. Conclusion: The effect was speculated to be associated with the higher antioxidant activity of Grewia flava (ethanol extract). Additional studies will warrant confirmation of the mechanism of action of such effects.

• Journal of Electrochemical Science and Technology
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.152-161
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• 2023

Vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs) have been considered one of promising power sources for large scale energy storage systems (ESS) because of their excellent cycle performance and good safety. However, VRFBs still have a few challenging issues, such as poor Coulombic efficiency due to vanadium crossover between catholyte and anolyte, although recent efforts have shown promise in electrochemical performance. Herein, the vanadium complexes with various glyme ligands have been examined as active materials to suppress vanadium crossover between catholyte and anolyte, thus improving the Coulombic efficiency of VRFBs. The conventional Nafion membrane has a channel size of ca. 10 Å, whereas vanadium cation species are small compared to the Nafion membrane channel. For this reason, vanadium cations can permeate through the Nafion membrane, resulting in significant vanadium crossover during cycling, although the Nafion membrane is a kind of ion-selective membrane. In this regard, various glyme additives, such as 1,2-dimethoxyethane (monoglyme), diethylene glycol dimethyl ether (diglyme), and tetraethylene glycol dimethyl ether (tetraglyme) have been examined as complexing agents for vanadium cations to increase the size of vanadium-ligand complexes in electrolytes. Since the size of vanadium-glyme complexes is proportional to the chain length of glymes, the vanadium permeability of the Nafion membrane decreases with increasing the chain length of glymes. As a result, the vanadium complexes with tetraglyme shows the excellent electrochemical performance of VRFBs, such as stable capacity retention (90.4% after 100 cycles) and high Coulombic efficiency (98.2% over 100 cycles).

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.27-32
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• 2014

The cure properties of self-extinguishing epoxy resin systems with different charge transfer type latent catalysts were investigated, which are composed of YX4000H as a biphenyl epoxy resin, MEH-7800SS as a hardener, and charge transfer type latent catalysts. We designed and used five kinds of charge transfer type latent catalyst and compared to epoxy resin systems with Triphenylphosphine-Benzoquinone(TPP-BQ) as reference system. The cure kinetics of these systems were analyzed by differential scanning calorimetry with an isothermal approach, the kinetic parameters of all systems were reported in generalized kinetic equations with diffusion effects. The epoxy resin systems with Triphenylphosphine-Quinhydrone(TPP-QH), Triphenylphosphine-Benzanthrone(TPP-BT) and Triphenylphosphine-Anthrone(TPP-AT) as a charge transfer type latent catalyst showed a cure conversion rate of equal or higher rate than those with TPP-BQ. These systems with TPP-QH and Triphenylphosphine-Tetracyanoethylene(TPP-TCE) showed a critical cure reaction conversion of equal or higher conversion than those with TPP-BQ. The increases of cure conversion rates could be explained by the decrease of the activation energy of these epoxy resin systems. It can be considered that the increases of critical cure reaction conversion would be dependent on the crystallinity of the biphenyl epoxy resin systems.

• 생태와환경
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• 제35권2호통권98호
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• pp.92-102
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• 2002

본 연구는 담수산 조개 종간의 여과능력과 실험적으로 조성된 인공연못에서 조개의 여과섭식이 수질에 미치는 영향을 평가하기 위해 이루어졌다. 실내 실험과 인공연못에서의 섭식실험 모두에서 조개에 의한 엽록소, 총인, 부유물질과 같은 입자성 물질의 감소가 관찰되었다. 600개체의 조개가 투입된 처리구에서, 엽록소 농도와 순 1차 생산력은 $87.3{\pm}4.5\;{\mu}g/L$와 $106.3{\pm}8.8\;{\mu}gC\;L^{-1}\;hr^{-1}$에서 대조구와 거의 동일한 수준인 $25.0{\pm}0.5\;{\mu}g/L$와 $15.6{\pm}13.3\;{\mu}gC\;L^{-1}\;hr^{-1}$까지 감소하였다(P<0.05, n = 6, ANOVA). 엽록소 농도의 감소와 동시에, 투명도는 0.48m에서 1.2m까지 향상되었고, 부유물질과총인 농도는 각각 $22.0{\pm}1.0\;mg/L$에서 $7.5{\pm}0.5\;mg/L$, $133{\pm}0.8\;{\mu}g/L$에서 $7.5{\pm}0.0\;{\mu}g/L$까지 감소하였다 (P<<0.001,$r^2$>0.71,n = 11).비록 처리구에서 SRP농도의 약간의 감소와 무기질소($NH_3-N$, $NO_2-N$)의 증가가 관찰되었다 하더라도, 대조구의 농도와 비교할 때 유의적인차이는 없었다. 식물플랑크톤에 대한 여과율과 섭식과정 중에 feces와 pseudofeces와 같은 형태로의 영양염 배출율을 고려할 때, Corbicula leana가 가장 효과적인 여과섭식자였다. 이러한 결과들은 Corbicula가 입자성물질을 조절함에 있어 중요한 역할을 수행하며, 조류가 대량 발생하는 호소의 수질관리를 위해 생물학적 수질조절자로서 적용할 수 있음을 제시한다.

• 충청수학회지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.87-95
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• 1997

In general, the positive solution to biological reaction-diffusion equations is not unique. In this paper, we state the sufficient and necessary conditions of the existence of positive solutions, and give and the proof for the uniqueness of positive solutions for a certain elliptic interacting system.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2005년도 학술발표회(1)
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• pp.253-254
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• 2005

• 한국생물환경조절학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물환경조절학회 2004년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.233-234
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• 2004

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.161-174
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• 2000

The total number of deaths and total sojourn times of African honey bees are studied using semi-markov compartment analysis. This generalizes many existing biological models.

• 한국생물물리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물물리학회 1999년도 학술발표회 진행표 및 논문초록
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• pp.19-19
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• 1999

The functions and the medicinal values of peptides are closely related to their structures. Most of the peptides function in the mediation of the membrane. Biological membrane serves important functions in the binding of peptide to a membrane-embedded receptor.(omitted)