• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.104-112
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• 2012

The fruit of Terminalia chebula Retzius has been used as a panacea in India and Southeast Asia but its biological activities have not been fully elucidated. Here we report anti-arthritic and analgesic effect of NDI10218, a standardized ethanol extract of Terminalia chebula, on collagen-induced arthritis and acetic acid-induced writhing model, respectively. Arthritis was induced in DBA/1J mice by immunizing bovine type II collagen and mice were treated with NDI10218 daily for 5 weeks after the onset of the disease. NDI10218 reduced the arthritis index and blocked the synovial hyperplasia in a dose-dependent manner. The serum levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines TNF-${\alpha}$, IL-6, and IL-$1{\beta}$ were significantly reduced in mice treated with NDI10218. Production of the inflammatory IL-17, but not immunosuppressive IL-10, was also inhibited in splenocytes isolated from NDI10218-treated arthritis mice. Administration of NDI10218 markedly decreased the number of T cell subpopulations in the regional lymph nodes of the arthritis mice. Finally, NDI10218 reduced the number of abdominal contractions in acetic acid-induced writhing model, suggesting an analgesic effect of this extract. Taken together, these results suggest that NDI10218 can be a new therapeutic candidate for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.

• World Technopolis Review
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.11-22
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• 2015

Globalization, increasing technological advancements and dynamic knowledge diffusion are moving our world closer together at a unique scale and pace. At the same time, our rapidly changing society is confronted with major challenges ranging from demographic to economic ones; challenges that necessitate highly innovative solutions, forcing us to reconsider the way that we actually innovate and create shared value. As such the linear, centralized innovation models of the past need to be replaced with new approaches; approaches that are based upon an open and collaborative, global network perspective where all innovation actors strategically network and collaborate, openly distribute their ideas and co-innovate/co-create in a global context utilizing our society's full innovation potential (Innovation 4.0 - Open Innovation 2.0). These emerging innovation paradigms create "an opportunity for a new entrepreneurial renaissance which can drive a Cambrian like explosion of sustainable wealth creation" (Curley 2013). Thus, in order to materialize this entrepreneurial renaissance, it is critical not only to value but also to actively employ this new innovation paradigms so as to derive community-driven shared value that stems from global innovation networks. This paper argues that there is a gap in existing business incubation model that needs to be filled, in that the innovation and entrepreneurship community cannot afford to ignore the emerging innovation paradigms and rely upon closed incubation models but has to adopt an "open incubation" (Ziouvelou 2013). The open incubation model is based on the principles of open innovation, crowdsourcing and co-creation of shared value and enables individual users and innovation stakeholders to strategically network, find collaborators and partners, co-create ideas and prototypes, share their ideas/prototypes and utilize the wisdom of the crowd to assess the value of these project ideas/prototypes, while at the same time find connections/partners, business and technical information, knowledge on start-up related topics, online tools, online content, open data and open educational material and most importantly access to capital and crowd-funding. By introducing a new incubation phase, namely the "interest phase", open incubation bridges the gap between entrepreneurial need and action and addresses the wantpreneurial needs during the innovation conception phase. In this context one such ecosystem that aligns fully with the open incubation model and theoretical approach, is the VOICE ecosystem. VOICE is an international, community-driven innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem based on open innovation, crowdsourcing and co-creation principles that has no physical location as opposed to traditional business incubators. VOICE aims to tap into the collective intelligence of the crowd and turn their entrepreneurial interest or need into a collaborative project that will result into a prototype and to a successful "crowd-venture".

• 한국토양비료학회지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.280-288
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• 1988

강원도(江原道) 지역(地域)의 답토양(畓土壤)이 널리 분포(分布)되어 있는 석회암지대(石灰岩地帶), 하성충적충지대(河成沖積層地帶), 현무암지대(玄武岩地帶) 토양(土壤)을 대상(對象)으로 하여 석회요구량(石灰要求量) 결정방법(決定方法)간의 차이(差異)를 실험적(實驗的)으로 비교(比較), 검토(檢討)하였던 바 그 결과(結果)를 요약(要約)하면 다음과 같다. 1. 석회요구량(石灰要求量)을 결정(決定)하는 7가지 방법(方法)($CaCO_3$ incubation method, $BaCl_2$-TEA method, SMP-single buffer method, Double buffer method, Adams and Evans method, SMP-double buffer method, O. R. D. method)을 비교(比較)한 결과(結果) 방법(方法)간에 큰 차이(差異)가 있었다. 2. $CaCO_3$ incubation method를 기준(基準)으로 할 때 석회요구량(石灰要求量)은 $BaCl_2-TEA$ method가 가장 높았고, O.R.D. method 가 가장 적었으며, SMP-double buffer method가 강원도(江原道) 토양(土壤)에 비교적(比較的) 적합(適合)할 것으로 평가(評價)되었다. 3. 치환성(置換性) Al 함량(含量)의 100% 당량(當量)에 해당(該當)하는 $CaCO_3$를 가(加)하고 incubation한 경우 약(約) 70%의 중화율(中和率)을 나타냈다. 4. 활성(活性) Al 함량(含量)의 100% 당량(當量)에 해당(該當)하는 $CaCO_3$를 가(加)하고 incubation한 경우에는 약(約) 30%의 중화율(中和率)을 나타냈다. 5. 치환성(置換性) Al 및 활성(活性) Al 함량(含量)을 기준(基準)으로 한 석회요구량(石灰要求量)은 $CaCO_3$ incubation method에 비(比)해 적은 값을 나타냈다.

• 분석과학
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.401-406
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• 2013

유정란의 부화과정 동안 소모되는 산소와 배출되는 이산화탄소의 양을 기체질량분석기를 사용하여 측정하였다. 20 일에 걸친 유정란과 무정란의 인공부화 과정 동안 기체 시료를 채취하기 위해 밀폐된 구조의 시료 챔버를 제작하였다. 2~4 일 간격으로 시료 챔버 안에 유정란을 1 시간 동안 방치한 후, 실린지를 이용해 밀폐된 시료 챔버로부터 2 mL의 기체 시료를 채취한 후 기체질량분석기를 사용하여 분석하였다. 인공부화를 시작한 후 약 10 일 후부터 닭 배아의 산소 소모량과 이산화탄소 배출량이 급격히 증가하였다. 20 일 후에는 시간당 23 mL의 산소를 소모하고 16 mL의 이산화탄소를 배출하였다. 전체 부화 기간 동안 산소의 농도는 4.3 mol% 감소하였고 이산화탄소의 농도는 3.1 mole% 증가하여 소모된 산소의 몰수와 배출된 이산화탄소의 몰수가 같지 않았다. 한편, 동일한 기간 동안 질소의 농도는 약 1.3 mol% 증가하였으며 그 증가된 농도는 소모된 산소와 배출된 이산화탄소의 농도변화량의 차이와 비슷한 값을 보였다. 따라서 질소의 몰분율 증가는 소모된 산소와 배출된 이산화탄소 간의 몰분율 차이에 의한 것임을 알 수 있었다. 본 연구에서는 기체의 조성 변화량을 정확히 측정하여 유정란의 부화과정 중 호흡현상을 설명할 수 있었다.

• 대한수의학회지
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• 제39권6호
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• pp.1049-1056
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• 1999

Anatomical and histological changes were studied in the dorsal, ventral, third and splenic lobes of the pancreas of the chicken embryos (8 days of incubation, 10 days of incubation to hatching). From 13 days of incubation, all four pancreatic lobes, namely, dorsal, ventral, third and splenic lobes were observed. Histologically, the pancreas of 10-14 days of incubation were consisted of mesenchymal tissue, exocrine acini and pancreatic islets. But mesenchymal tissues were disappeared from 15 days of incubation. The pancreatic ducts were observed from 14 days of incubation. The dark and light typed pancreatic islets were observed in splenic lobe from 13 days of incubation, in the third lobe from 11 days of incubation, and in the dorsal lobe from 13 days of incubation. But no dark typed islets were observed in the ventral lobes.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.525-533
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• 1996

Chemical characteristics of the industrial wastewater sludge, degradation of the sludge in soil and CO2 generation and changes of nitrogen in soil treated with the sludge were investigated. The results obtained were summarized as follows: 1. Degradation rate of the sludge in soil was 26% at natural temperature, and 33% at incubation temperature at 12 weeks after treatment. 2. T-C, T-N and the C/N ratio of sludge in soil was 16.0%, 0.63% and 26, respectively, at natural temperature, and 15.0%, 0, 65% and 23, respectively, at incubation temperature at 12 weeks after treatment. 3, Camulative CO2 generation in soil treated with l%, 3% and 5% of sludge was 284, 440 and 512 mg/100 g, respectively, at natural temperature, and 440, 558 g and 654 mg/100g, respectively, at incubation temperature at 12 weeks after treatment. 4, Changes of :norganic nitrogen in soil treated with l%, 3% and 5% of sludge were 7.8, 12.8 and 16.3 mg/100g, respectively, at incubation temperature at 12 weeks after treatment. Mineralization ratio of organic nitrogen in soil treated with 1%, 3% and 5% of sludge was 10.7%, 13.6% and 15.2%, respectively, at incubation temperature at 12 weeks after treatment. 5. Chanties of pH in soil treated with 1%, 3% and 5% of Industrial wastewater sludge were in the range of 6.7~7, 5 at natural temperature, and 6.1~7.9 at incubation temperature at 12 weeks after treatment.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.619-627
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• 2001

n order to increase the virus safety of a human intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) that was manufactured by a successive process of cold ethanol fractionation, polyethylene glycol precipitation, and pasteurization ($60^{\circ}C$ heat treatment for 10h), a low pH incubation process (pH 3.9 at $25{\circ}C$ for 14 days) was employed as the final step. The efficacy and mechanism of the fraction III cold ethanol fractionation, pasteurization, and low pH treatment steps in the removal and/or inactivation of blood-borne viruses were closely examined. A variety of experimental model viruses for human pathogenic viruses, including the Bovine herpes virus (BHV), Bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV), Murine encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV), and Porcine parvovirus (PPV), were selected for this study. The mechanism of reduction for the enveloped viruses (BHV and BVDV) during fraction III fractionation was both inactivation and partitioning, however, it was partitioning in the case of the nonenveloped viruses (EMCV and PPV). The log reduction factors achieved during fraction III fractionation were ${\geqq}$6.7 for BHV, ${\geqq}4.7$ for BVDV, 4.5 for EMCV, and 4.4 for PPV. Pasteurization was found to be a robust and effective step in inactivating all the viruses tested. The log reduction factors achieved during the pasteurization process were ${\geqq}7.5$ for BHV, ${\geqq}4.8$ for BVDV, 3.0 for EMCV, and 3.3 for PPV. A low pH incubation was very effective in inactivating the enveloped viruses as well as EMCV. The log reduction factors achieved during low pH incubation were ${\geqq}7.4$ for BHV, ${\geqq}3.9$ for BVDV, 5.2 for EMCV, and 2.0 for PPV. These results indicate that the low pH treatment successfully improved the viral safety of the final products.

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제29권9호
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• pp.1161-1170
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• 2000

Objective : The transverse hippocampal slice is one of the most commonly studied in vitro models of mammalian brain physiology. However, despite its broad usage, there has been no standardization of slice preparation techniques or recording condition. It is well known that variations in recording conditions can result in profound different effects to neuronal responses. Evoked field potentials, recorded extracellularly, were used to investigate the effects of variations in hippocampal slice preparation protocol on hypoxia responses of CA1 neurones. Material & Methods : Before hypoxic injury, hippocampal slices were incubated for 4 hours. During incubation period, the slices were placed in a incubation chamber($21^{\circ}C$) for recovery from preparation injury and then transferred to recording chamber($34^{\circ}C$) for more recovery and baseline electric recording with current stimulation(0.1Hz). Various time periods in incubation chamber and recording chamber were applied to each experimental group(group 1=60min : 180min, group 2=90min : 150min, group 3=180min : 60min, time in incubation chamber : time in recording chamber) before 10 min hypoxia produced by replacing 95% $O_2$+5% $CO_2$ mixed gas to 95% $N_2$+5% $CO_2$ gas. Calcium, Magnesium ions and several drugs effecting on glutamate receptor also were studied. Recoveries from hypoxic injury of hippocampal slices were estimated by percent recovery of population spike(PS). Statistic analysis of study were performed using paired t-test. Results : The percent recovery of PS after 10min hypoxia was considerably enhanced by increasing the period of current stimulation during incubation period before hypoxic injury. Temperature effect on the result of this experiment was also studied(group 4) but the result from this showed no statistic significance. Low magnesium ion concentration of artificial CSF(Mg-free aCSF) during incubation period enhanced the recovery of PS but low calcium (calcium-free) and high magnesium ion concentration(2mM) reduced it after hypoxic injury. L-glutamate($100{\mu}M$) and AP-5($50{\mu}M$) had no effect on the recovery of PS but CNQX($10{\mu}M$) in artificial CSF during incubation period markedly enhanced the recovery of PS. Co-treatment of AP-5($50{\mu}M$), CNQX($10{\mu}M$) and high magnesium concentration(2mM) enhanced recovery of PS in immediate following period of hypoxic injury but the effect of cotreatment after then decayed rapidly and lost statistic significance. Conclusions : Judging from above results, the condition of baseline recording is important in observing the recovery of population spike after hypoxia, and the time and the condition should be controled more strictly to obtain reliable results.

• 한국버섯학회지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.223-227
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• 2015

느타리버섯 '수한 1호'와 '곤지 7호'품종의 균사배양중 후배양 기간과 온도처리가 발이 균일도 및 생육에 미치는 영향을 조사한 결과는 다음과 같다. 배양중 전배양 $20^{\circ}C$, 20일 동안에는 두 품종 모두 11~15일에 $24{\sim}26^{\circ}C$까지 배지 내 온도가 상승되었다가 21일부터 후배양 온도처리와 동일한 수준으로 배지 내 온도가 유지되었다. 또한, 배지내 온도가 가장 높게 상승되는 시점에서 '수한 1호'의 $CO_2$는 6,500 ppm, '곤지 7호'는 5,800 ppm까지 발생되었으며 배양중인 균사생장에는 영향이 거의 없었다. '수한 1호'의 후배양 온도 $26^{\circ}C$에서 10일, 15일간 처리시 측발이율이 대조대비 40%, 비상품화율은 10.5% 감소 되었으며, '곤지 7호'는 후배양 온도 $26^{\circ}C$, 후배양 10일 처리에서만 측발이율은 19%, 비상품화율은 9.5% 감소되었다. 따라서, 느타리버섯 두 품종의 후배양 적합온도는 $26^{\circ}C$, 적합 후배양 처리기간은 '수한 1호'는 10일, 15일, '곤지 7호'는 10일이 발이 균일도가 높았다.

• Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry
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• 제67권
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• pp.276-283
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• 2018

For the first time, polyvinyl chloride (PVC) was used as an easily-handled chlorine source for preparation of isotropic pitch-based carbon fiber (IPCF) incorporating ethylene bottom oil (EO) as a raw material. Pitch precursors were prepared by the chlorination-dehydrochlorination triggered by chlorine radicals originated from PVC; aromatization and poly-condensation reactions occurred by polyene-type radicals from PVC. Radical production and co-carbonization were facilitated by pretreatments of EO through vacuum distillation, bromination, and additional heat treatment. Pitches were prepared by the co-carbonization of pretreated EO and EO containing 20 wt% PVC, and had higher yields and better spinnability than those by simple distillation.