• Toxicological Research
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.265-272
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• 1992

Effects of repeated physical exercise on the carbon tetrachloride ($CCl_4$) hepatotoxicity were examined in adult female rats. Rats were introduced into a cylindrical rotating cage and forced to exercise for 1 hr each day, 6days/week, for 5 consecutive weeks at a speed starting from 10m/min, increased by 1m/min per day until the speed reached 27m/min. Significantly less body weight gain was observed in the exercise group suggesting that physical fitness had been induced in these animals. Eighteen hours following termination of the last exercise bout rats were treated with $CCl_4$(2 mmol/kg.ip). The $CCl_4$-induced heptotoxicity was significantly potentiated in the repeated exercise group compared to the resting sedentary animals as determined by changes in serum sorbitol dehydrogenase (SDH), glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase(GOT), glutamic pyruvic transaminase (GPT), and glucose-6-phosphatase(G-6-Pase) activities when measured 24hrs following the $CCl_4$ treatment. Hepatic drug metabolizing activity was determined in order to elucidate the underlying mechanism of potentiating action of the $CCl_4$ hepatotoxicity induced by repeated physical exercise. Repeated exercise increased the hepatic microsomal cytochrome P-450 contents and aminopyrine N-demethylase activity. The results suggest that the potentiation of $CCl_4$ hepatotoxicity by repeated exercise is associated with induction of the mixed function oxidase (MFO) enzyme system mediating the metabolism of $CCl_4$ to its active metabolite(s).

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.617-621
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• 1990

A heart supplies blood of about 15, 000 liters to each human organ in a day. A normal function of heart valves is necessary to accomplish these enormous work of heart. The disease of heart valve develops to a narrowness of a closure, resulting in an abnormal circulation of blood. In an attempt to eliminate the affliction of heart valves, the operative method to replace with artificial heart valves has developed and saved numerous patients over past 30 years. This replacement operation has been performed since early 1960`s in Korea, but all the artificial heart valves used are imported from abroad with very high costs until recent years. New artificial heart valves have been developed in Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology since early 1980`s. The first developed valve was designed with a free-floating pyrolytic carbon disk that is suspended in a titanium cage. The design of the valve was tested in vitro, and in animals in 1987. The results from this study was that the eccentrically placed struts creates a major and minor orifice when the disc opens and stagnation of flow in the area of the minor orifice has led to valve thrombosis. In this work, the design of the valve was changed from a single - leaflet valve to double - leaflet one in order to resolve the problems observed in the first - year tests. Morphological and hemodynamic studies were made for the newly designed valves through the in vitro and in vivo tests. The design and partial materials of the artificial heart valve was improved comparing with first - year`s model. The disc in the valve was modified from single - leaflet to bi - leaflet, and the material of the cage was changed from titanium metal to silicon - alloyed pyrolytic carbon. A test was made for the valve in order to examine its mechanical performance and stability. Morphological and hemodynamic studies were made for the valve that had been implanted in tricuspid position of mongrel dogs. All the test animals were observed just before the deaths. A new artificial heart valve was designed and fabricated in order to resolve the problems observed in the old model. The new valve was verified to have good stability and high resistance to wear through the performance tests. The hemodynamic properties of the valve after implantation were also estimated to be good in animal tests. Therefore, the results suggest that the newly designed valve in this work has a good quality in view of the biocompatibility. However, valve thrombosis on valve leaflets and annulus were found. This morphological findings were in accordance with results of surface polishing status studies, indicating that a technique of fine polishing of the surface is necessary to develop a valve with higher quality and performance.

• Composites Research
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.47-56
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• 2001

공기정압 주축 시스템의 동적 안정성을 향상시키기 위해 섬유강화 복합재료 주축 자성 분말이 함침된 에폭시 복합재료 회전자 및 알루미늄 재질의 공구 연결부로 구성된 주축 시스템을 설계 및 제작하였다. 복합재료 공기정압 주축 시스템의 최적 설계를 위해 구조의 공진 주파수와 변형량 등을 고려하여 복합재료 주축의 적층 각도와 두께를 결정하였다 해석결과 설계된 복합재료 주축 시스템은 기존의 금속 주축 시스템에 비해 36% 더 높은 공진 주파수를 가지는 것을 알 수 있었다. 계산 및 실험 결과를 통해서 섬유강화 복합재료 주축과 자성 분말이 함침된 에폭시 복합재료 회전자로 구성된 복합재료 주축-회전자 시스템은 높은 비 강성으로 인해 기존 주축 시스템의 동적특성을 향상시킬 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제45권5호
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• pp.312-314
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• 2009

Brown-Sequard syndrome may be the result of penetrating injury to the spine, but many other etiologies have been described. This syndrome is most commonly seen with spinal trauma and extramedullary spinal neoplasm. A herniated cervical disc has been rarely reported as a cause of this syndrome. We present a case of a 28-year-old male patient diagnosed as large C3-C4 disc herniation with spinal cord compression. He presented with left hemiparesis and diminished sensation to pain and temperature in the right side below the C4 dermatome. Microdiscectomy and anterior cervical fusion with carbon fiber cage containing a core of granulated coralline hydroxyapatite was performed. After the surgery, rapid improvement of the neurologic deficits was noticed. We present a case of cervical disc herniation producing acute Brown-Sequard syndrome with review of pertinent literature.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2008년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.178-181
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• 2008

다양한 조성을 갖는 $CH_4+CO_2$ 혼합 기체 하이드레이트 샘플의 미세 구조 분석을 위하여 X-ray 회절 방법을 이용하였다. X-ray 회절 분석을 이용할 경우, 하이드레이트로의 전환율과 같은 정성적인 분석뿐 아니라 각 객체별 cage occupancy와 같은 정량적인 분석까지도 가능한 것으로 나타났다. 또한 이렇게 얻어진 X-ray 회절 분석 결과 및 refinement 결과를 $^{13}C$ 고체 NMR 방법과 교차 비교함으로써 측정 결과의 신뢰도를 높이려 하였다. 얻어진 분석 결과는 이후 가스 하이드레이트를 이용한 다양한 연구 분야에서 저장용량 평가 및 객체 점유율과 같은 미세 구조 정보를 얻는 데에 유용하게 사용될 것으로 전망된다.

• Journal of Information Display
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.145-152
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• 2011

Since the discovery of fullerenes as a class of nanostructure compounds, many potential applications have been suggested for their unusual structures and properties. The isolated pentagon rule (IPR) states that all pentagonal carbon rings are isolated in the most stable fullerene. Fullerenes $C_n$ are a class of spherical carbon allotrope group with unique properties. Electron transfer between fullerenes and other molecules is thought to involve the transfer of electrons between the molecules surrounding the fullerene cage. One class of electron transfer molecules is the methanofullerene derivatives ([6,6]-phenyl $C_{61}$-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM), 4-(2-ethylhexyloxy)-[6,6]-phenyl $C_{61}$-butyric acid methyl ester (p-EHO-PCBM), and 4-(2-ethylhexyloxy)-[6,6]-phenyl $C_{61}$-butyric acid (p-EHO-PCBA), 10-12). It has been determined that $C_{60}$ does not obey IPR. Supramolecular complexes 1-9 and 10-12 are shown to possess a previously unreported host.guest interaction for electron transfer processes. The unsaturated, cis-geometry, thiocrown ethers, (1-9) (described as [X-UT-Y], where X and Y indicate the numbers of carbon and sulfur atoms, respectively), are a group of crown ethers that display interesting physiochemical properties in the light of their conformational restriction compared with a corresponding saturated system, as well as the sizes of their cavities. Topological indices have been successfully used to construct mathematical methods that relate structural data to various chemical and physical properties. To establish a good relationship between the structures of 1-9 with 10-12, a new index is introduced, ${\mu}_{cs}$. This index is the ratio of the sum of the number of carbon atoms ($n_c$) and the number of sulfur atoms ($n_s$) to the product of these two numbers for 1-9. In this study, the relationships between this index and oxidation potential ($^{ox}E_1$) of 1-9, as well as the first to third free energies of electron transfer (${\Delta}G_{et(n)}$, for n = 1-3, which is given by the Rehm-Weller equation) between 1-9 and PCBM, p-EHO-PCBM, and p-EHO-PCBA (10-12) as [X-UT-Y]@R(where R is the adduct PCBM, p-EHO-PCBM, and p-EHO-PCBA group) (13-15) supramolecular complexes are presented and investigated.

• 한국가금학회지
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.57-63
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• 2006

본 연구는 신축한 무창 실험 계사의 환기 시스템이 육계의 생산성에 미치는 영향을 조사하고자 하였다. 본 실험은 신축 실험계사에서 무창 육계사의 환기 시스템이 케이지 사육 육계의 성장에 미치는 영향을 구명하고자 계사의 내부 환경을 외부와 완전히 차단하여 각종 질병 요인으로부터 계사의 내부 환경을 보호할 수 있는 무창 계사에서 실시하였다. 환경요인 중에서 제일 중요한 온도, 습도, 공기 속도가 육계의 성장에 미치는 영향에 대하여 조사하고자 2주간 실행하였으며, 실험 결과는 다음과 같다. 1. 암모니아 가스 발생량은 케이지 2단(13.7 ppm), 3단(13.5 ppm)에서는 케이지 1단(14.6 ppm)에 비하여 낮게 측정되었다. 오후에 측정한 결과 오전과 비슷한 경향이었다. 이산화탄소는 오전과 오후 케이지간 큰 차이는 없었지만 신선한 공기가 유입되는 4단 높이에서 낮은 경향이었다. 2. 공기 풍속에 있어서는 무창 계사는 상부 0.57 m/sec, 중앙 0.22 m/sec, 하부 0.04 m/sec로 각각 나타나, 계사내 적정 풍속 유지를 위한 덕트 입기구의 천공으로 인하여 계사내 전체 공간에서 공기의 유속 흐름 분포가 고르게 나타났다. 3. 증체량은 시험 전 기간동안 케이지 1에서 케이지 2, 3, 4단에서 보다 높게 나타났지만 유의적인 차이는 없었다(p>0.05). 섭취량은 시험기간 동안 전 처리구에서 유의적인 차이가 없었다(p>0.05). 사료 효율은 증체량과 마찬가지로 케이지 1에서 다른 케이지에 비해 높았으나 유의성은 나타나지 않았다. 이상의 실험 결과를 종합해 볼 때 조사대상이 된 무창 실험 계사의 온도 및 습도 환경 조절이 우수하게 나타났으며 케이지간 공기의 흐름은 원활하였다.

• 한국연소학회지
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.36-44
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• 2002

Carbon molecules with closed-cage structures are called fullerenes $(C_{60},\;C_{70})$, whose applications include super-conductors, sensors, catalysts, optical and electronic device, polymer composites, and biological and medical materials. The synthesis of fullerenes has been recently studied with low-pressure benzene/argon/oxygen flames. The formation of fullerene is known as molecular weight growth processes of PAHs (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon). This study presents results of PAHs and fullerene measurements performed in a low-pressure benzene/argon/oxygen normal co-flow laminar diffusion flame. Through the central tube of the burner, benzene vapors carried by argon are injected. The benzene vapors are made in a temperature-controlled bubbler. The burner is located in a chamber, equipped with a sampling system for direct collection of condensable species from the flame, and exhausted to a vacuum pump. Samples of the condensable are analyzed by HPLC (High Performance Liquid Chromatography) to determine the yields of PAHs and fullerene. Also, we computed mole fraction of fullerene and PAHs in a nearly sooting low pressure premixed, one-dimensional benzene/argon/oxygen flame (equivalence ratio ${\Phi}=2.4$, pressure=5.33kPa). The object of computation was to investigate the formation mechanism of fullerenes and PAHs. The computations were performed with CHEMKIN/PREMIX. As a result of this study, fullerenes were synthesized in a low pressure (20torr) $C_6H_6/Ar/O_2$ flames and the highest concentration of fullerene was detected just above the visible surface of a flame.

• 생태와환경
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• 제55권2호
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• pp.99-110
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• 2022

본 연구에서는 어류 양식장 퇴적 유기물의 기원 및 기여도 평가를 위해 어류(숭어) 가두리 양식장이 이동된 후 수층 및 퇴적물 내 물리/화학적 인자들의 변화와 함께 안정 동위원소 비의 특성을 조사했다. 이를 토대로 과거 양식장 퇴적물 내 축적된 유기물의 거동을 구체적으로 파악함으로써 효과적인 어장환경평가 기법을 검토하였다. 연구정점(OFF 및 control)에서 입자성 및 침강물질은 정점 간 차이보다는 계절적 강수량 변동에 따라 차별적 분포를 보였다. 하지만 퇴적물 내 분석된 δ¹⁵N 결과는 수층 기원 질소원과는 유의한 차이를 보였으며, 과거 외부기원의 유기물 (예: 어류 배설물)의 다량 유입이 주된 요인이라 판단된다. 실제로 과거 어류 가두리 양식활동으로 인해 OFF 정점 내 어류 배설물의 우점적 기여(>50%)를 확인할 수 있었다. 따라서 본 연구정점 내 분해되지 않은 어장 양식기인 유기물의 농도가 높은 수준으로 존재할 것이라 판단되며, 어장 회복력의 체계적인 진단을 위한 중요한 고려요인이라 판단된다.

• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제28권5호
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• pp.835-842
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• 2022

양식장 환경관리를 위하여 여러 나라에서 양식장 환경관리시스템을 구축하고 있으며, 어장환경평가가 그중 하나이다. 2013년에 개정된 국내 어장관리법에는 어류가두리양식장 면허를 연장할 때 어장환경평가를 받도록 명시되어 있다. 어장환경평가는 과학적 분석을 통한 평가를 바탕으로 양식장 환경 개선 조치를 실행하여, 지속 가능한 어업생산 조성, 어장 생산력 증가, 어업인의 소득 증가를 목적으로 한다. 어장환경평가의 평가지표는 저서다모류 군집을 기초로 한 생물지수인 저서동물지수(BHI)와 총유기탄소량(TOC)이며, 두 항목을 점수화하여 단일등급으로 산출하여 평가에 사용한다. 본 연구는 어장환경평가지표인 BHI와 TOC의 선정 과정과 산출된 평가 등급의 생태학적 의미를 설명한다.