• 정신신체의학
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.191-198
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• 2021

연구목적 화상 환자의 방어 기제에 따른 외상 후 스트레스 증상의 정도를 알아보고자 이 연구를 수행하였다. 방 법 화상을 진단받은 환자 40명을 대상으로 사회 인구학적 특성, 화상 관련 특성, 한국판 사건충격척도 개정판(Impact of Event Scale-Revised, IES-R), 한국판 역학조사 우울증 척도(Center for epidemiologic studies depression scale, CES-D), 이화방어기제(Ewha Defense Mechanisms Test, EDMT)를 측정한 후 다중회귀분석을 실시하였다. 결 과 자아 확대적 방식으로 구성된 EDMT의 요인 2의 점수가 IES-R 점수와 통계학적으로 유의한 상관관계가 있었으며(β=-0.318, p=0.018), EDMT의 요인 2중에서는 통제(β=-0.299, p<0.05), 이타주의(β=-0.276, p<0.05)가 IES-R점수와 통계학적으로 유의한 상관관계가 있었다. 결 론 이 연구에서 화상 환자의 외상 후 스트레스장애는 통제, 이타주의 방어 기제와 상관성이 있었으며 화상 환자의 치료에 있어 방어 기제를 평가하는 것은 추후 외상 후 스트레스 장애의 심각도 판단에 도움을 줄 것으로 생각된다.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.101-109
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• 2010

Protein phosphorylation is one of the major mechanisms for controlling many cellular processes in all living organisms. Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascades are known to transducer extracellular stimuli to several cellular processes, including cell division, differentiation as well as responses to various stresses. In plants, several studies have revealed that MAPK cascade pathways play an important role in responses against biotic and abiotic stresses, including wounding, pathogen infection, temperature, drought, salinity and plant hormones. It is also known that MAPK cascades-mediated signaling is an essential process in the resistance step to pathogens by regulating the activity of transcription factors. Here, the insights into the functions of MAPK cascade pathways in plant defense response signaling from Arabidopsis, tobacco and rice are described.

• Toxicological Research
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.77-81
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• 2014

In contrast to animals, plants do not have a circulatory system as well as mobile immune cells that allow them to protect themselves against pathogens. Instead, plants exclusively depend on the innate immune system to defend against pathogens. As typically observed in the animal innate immunity, plant immune responses are composed of pathogen detection, defense signaling which includes transcriptional reprogramming, and secretion of antimicrobial compounds. Although knowledge on recognition and subsequent signaling of pathogen-derived molecules called elicitors is now expanding, the mechanisms of how these immune molecules are excreted are yet poorly understood. Therefore, current understandings of how plants secrete defense products especially via exocytosis will be discussed in this review.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.7-12
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• 2004

An important recent advance in the field of plant-microbe interactions has been the cloning of genes that confer resistance to specific viruses, bacteria, fungi or insects. Disease resistance (R) genes encode proteins with predicted structural motifs consistent with them having roles in signal recognition and transduction. Plant disease resistance is the result of an innate host defense mechanism, which relies on the ability of plant to recognize pathogen invasion and efficiently mount defense responses. In tomato, resistance to the pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato is mediated by the specific recognition between the tomato serine/threonine kinase Pto and bacterial protein AvrPto or AvrPtoB. This recognition event initiates signaling events that lead to defense responses including an oxidative burst, the hypersensitive response (HR), and expression of pathogenesis- related genes.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.288-298
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• 2023

Host defense peptides are expressed in various immune cells, including phagocytic cells and epithelial cells. These peptides selectively alter innate immune pathways in response to infections by pathogens, such as bacteria, fungi, and viruses, and modify the subsequent adaptive immune environment. Consequently, they play a wide range of roles in both innate and adaptive immune responses. These peptides are of increasing importance due to their broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity and their functions as mediators linking innate and adaptive immune responses. This review focuses on the pleiotropic biological functions and related mechanisms of action of human host defense peptides and discusses their potential clinical applications.

• 대한약학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한약학회 2002년도 Proceedings of the Convention of the Pharmaceutical Society of Korea Vol.2
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• pp.193-193
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• 2002

Methylmercury causes severe central nervous system disorders. Despite the efforts of many researchers, the mechanisms involved in methylmercury toxicity and the defense against this toxicity remain unknown. We focused on the fact that drug resistance is sometimes involved in elevation of the concentration of the intracellular target of the drug. (omitted)

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.144-151
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• 2012

The molecular mechanisms by which a variety of naturally-occurring dietary compounds exert chemopreventive effects have been a subject of intense scientific investigations. Induction of phase II detoxification and anti-oxidant enzymes through activation of Nrf2/ARE-dependent gene is recognized as one of the major cellular defense mechanisms against oxidative or xenobiotic stresses and currently represents a critical chemopreventive mechanism of action. In the present review, the functional significance of Keap1/Nrf2 protein module in regulating ARE-dependent phase II detoxification and anti-oxidant gene expression is discussed. The biochemical mechanisms underlying the phosphorylation and expression of Keap1/Nrf2 proteins that are controlled by the intracellular signaling kinases and ubiquitin-mediated E3 ligase system as well as control of nucleocytoplasmic translocation of Nrf2 by its innate nuclear export signal (NES) are described.

• 수면정신생리
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.74-79
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• 2014

목 적 : 교대근무는 상당한 스트레스 상황이며 교대근무에 잘 적응하는 정도와 관련된 요인들을 아는 것은 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 교대근무 간호사들의 회복력과 관련된 수면 및 성격 관련 요인들을 조사해보고자 했다. 방 법 : 일 대학병원에서 3교대 근무를 하고 있는 간호사 95명을 대상으로 자가 설문지 조사를 시행했다. 코너-데이비드슨 회복력 척도, 병원 불안-우울 척도, 아침형-저녁형 질문지와 피츠버그 수면의 질 지수를 포함한 수면 관련 설문, 한국판 방어유형 질문지를 이용했다. 결 과 : 회복력과 유의한 상관을 보인 요소들은 근무자들의 나이, 근무 기간, offday oversleep, HAD-D 및 HAD-A 점수, DSQ의 적응적 방어유형, 자기억제적 방어유형이었다(p < 0.05). 다중회귀분석에서는 나이가 많을 수록(${\beta}=0.34$, p < 0.05), 우울 증상이 적을 수록(${\beta}=-0.25$, p < 0.05), 적응적 방어유형을 많이 사용할 수록(${\beta}=0.45$, p < 0.001), 자기억제적 방어유형을 적게 사용할 수록(${\beta}=-0.19$, p < 0.05) 회복력이 높은 것으로 나타났다. 방어기제들의 경우 체념이 적을 수록(${\beta}=-0.20$, p < 0.05), 승화(${\beta}=0.19$, p < 0.05)와 전능(${\beta}=0.19$, p < 0.05), 유머(${\beta}=0.20$, p < 0.05)를 많이 사용할 수록 회복력이 높은 것으로 나타났다. 결 론 : 본 연구에서는 일 대학병원의 3교대 근무 간호사들의 특정 방어유형 및 방어기제가 회복력과 관계된다는 것을 밝힐 수 있었다. 추후 더 많은 교대근무 간호사들을 대상으로 회복력과 관련된 수면 및 성격 관련 인자들을 밝히는 전향적 연구가 가능할 것이다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.147-156
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• 2015

A typical solid-state drive contains several independent channels that can be operated in parallel. To exploit this channel-level parallelism, a variety of works proposed to split consecutive write sequences into small segments and schedule them to different channels. This scheme exploits the parallelism but breaks the spatial locality of write traffic; thus, it is able to significantly degrade the efficiency of garbage collection. This paper proposes a channel-aware write reordering (CAWR) mechanism to schedule write requests to different channels more intelligently. The novel mechanism encapsulates correlated pages into a cluster beforehand. All pages belonging to a cluster are scheduled to the same channels to exploit spatial locality, while different clusters are scheduled to different channels to exploit the parallelism. As CAWR covers both garbage collection and I/O performance, it outperforms existing schemes significantly. Trace-driven simulation results demonstrate that the CAWR mechanism reduces the average response time by 26% on average and decreases the valid page copies by 10% on average, while achieving a similar hit ratio to that of existing mechanisms.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.110-115
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• 2013

Theobroxide, a novel compound isolated from a fungus Lasiodiplodia theobromae, stimulates potato tuber formation and induces flowering of morning glory by initiating the jasmonic acid synthesis pathway. To elucidate the effect of theobroxide on pathogen resistance in plants, Nicotiana benthamiana plants treated with theobroxide were immediately infiltrated with Pseudomonas syringae pv. tabaci. Exogenous application of theobroxide inhibited development of lesion symptoms, and growth of the bacterial cells was significantly retarded. Semiquantitative RT-PCRs using the primers of 18 defense-related genes were performed to investigate the molecular mechanisms of resistance. Among the genes, the theobroxide treatment increased the expression of patho-genesis-related protein 1a (PR1a), pathogenesis-related protein 1b (PR1b), glutathione S-transferase (GST), allen oxide cyclase (AOC), and lipoxyganase (LOX). All these data strongly indicate that theobroxide treatment inhibits disease development by faster induction of defense responses, which can be possible by the induction of defense-related genes including PR1a, PR1b, and GST triggered by the elevated jasmonic acid.