• 환경생물
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.221-227
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• 2005

The effects of light and $CO_2$ on the electrophysiological characteristics of guard cells in the intact leaf and isolated epidermis have been investigated. Fast hyperpolarization of guard cell apoplastic PD in the intact leaf was recorded reaching up to around 7 mV and 20 mV in response to light and $CO_2$. Whenever the experiments were attempted with isolated epidermis, there was no response to light and $CO_2$. In order to determine the influence of the mesophyll cells, the apoplastic PD of guard cells in isolated epidermis was measured in the presence of the mesophyll supernatant or the control medium. The apoplastic PD in isolated epidermis was hyperpolarized to -7mV, changing from -22mV to -29mV at 40 min. But, when isolated epidermis was incubated with the supernatant from mesophyll cells incubated in the light, the apoplastic PD in isolated epidermis was hyperpolarized to -19 mV, changing from -22 mV to -40.5 mV. $CO_2$ also caused a change of 0.1 to 0.3 pH unit in the intact leaf. However, this change was absent in isolated epidermis. A vibrating probe was used to detect the change in electrical currents at the surface of excised intact leaves and isolated epidermis. The reading of excised intact leaves in the dark was $0.5\muA\;cm^{-2},$ remaining steady until illuminated. Light increased the current on the surface of excised leaves to about $0.8\muA\;cm^{-2},$. However, light had no effect in the current on the surface of isolated epidermis. Apoplastic pH changes across the stomatal complex in response to light and dark were measured both in the intact leaves and isolated epidermis over the same time period using pH micro-electrodes. The guard cell wall of intact leaf was acidified to 2.5 pH unit, falling from pH 7.5 to pH 5.0 in the first 10 min. in the light. At the same time the guard cell wall pH of isolated epidermis fell from pH 7.5 to pH 7.0 at 10 min. The guard cell wall pH of isolated epidermis incubated in the mesophyll supernatant fell from pH 7.6 to pH 6.7 at 10 min. Likewise, It could be imagined that an electrical signal, chemicals and hormones propagated from the mesophyll in response to light and $CO_2$ could control a fast stomatal response.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2002

심방세동은 가장 많이 나타나는 부정맥으로. 뇌졸중 등 심각한 합병증을 초래하는 질환이다 심방세동이 발작성으로 발생하는 경우 단시간내 불규칙적으로 발생하기 때문에 그 진단이 어렵다 본 연구에서는 발작성 심방세동 환자의 조기진단을 위하여 심실세동 등의 진단에 이용되는 신호평균 심전도를 이용한 분석방법을 사용하였다 심방세동의 징후가 있는 환자는 초기에 심방에서 심근의 전기전도가 지연된다는 이론을 근거로 심전도 P파의 길이를 진단의 기준으로 하였다. p파 길이를 정확히 측정하기 위하여 다양한 종류의 필터와 차단주파수에 대하여 분석하였으며. p파의 시작과 끝점을 판단하는 여러 방법을 시도하였다. 분석 방법의 신뢰성을 높이기 위하여 자동으로 P파 길이를 측정하는 알고리즘을 구현하였다. 구현된 알고리즘의 검증을 위해서 발작성 심방세동 이외의 병력이 없는 환자 38명과 정상인 32명을 대상으로 임상 데이터를 수집하였다. 분석 결과 30 Hz 차주파수를 가지는 LMS 필터를 사용하고. 절대치 8.75 $\mu N$를 기준으로 P파의 시작과 끝점을 측정하여 P파 길이를 계산할 때가 가장 높은 발작성 심방세동의 예측도를 가졌다. 또한 발작성 심방세동의 진단을 위한 가장 적합한 판별 값을 구하기 위하여 수신 동작 특성 곡선을 이용한 결과. 의사결정의 판별 값을 112 ms로 하는 경우 진단의 민감도 88 %. 특이도 64.4 %의 결과를 얻을 수 있었다

• 수면정신생리
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.119-133
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• 1998

Attentional processes facilitate cognitive and behavioral performance in several ways. Attention serves to reduce the amount of information to receive. Attention enables humans to direct themselves to appropriate aspects of external environmental events and internal operations. Attention facilitates the selection of salient information and the allocation of cognitive processing appropriate to that information. Attention is not a unitary process that can be localized to a single neuroanatomical region. Before the cortical registration of sensory information, activation of important subcortical structures occurs, which is called as an orienting response. Once sensory information reaches the sensory cortex, a large number of perceptual processes occur, which provide various levels of perceptual resolution of the critical features of the stimuli. After this preattentional processing, information is integrated within higher cortical(heteromodal) systems in inferior parietal and temporal lobes. At this stage, the processing characteristics can be modified, and the biases of the system have a direct impact on attentional selection. Information flow has been traced through sensory analysis to a processing stage that enables the new information to be focused and modified in relation to preexisting biases. The limbic and paralimbic system play significant roles in modulating attentional response. It is labeled with affective salience and is integrated according to ongoing pressures from the motivational drive system of the hypothalamus. The salience of information greatly influences the allocation of attention. The frontal lobe operate response selection system with a reciprocal interaction with both the attention system of the parietal lobe and the limbic system. In this attentional process, the search with the spatial field is organized and a sequence of attentional responses is generated. Affective, motivational and appectitive impulses from limbic system and hypothalamus trigger response intention, preparation, planning, initiation and control of frontal lobe on this process. The reticular system, which produces ascending activation, catalyzes the overall system and increases attentional capacity. Also additional energetic pressures are created by the hypothalamus. As psychophysiological measurement, skin conductance, pupil diameter, muscle tension, heart rate, alpha wave of EEG can be used. Event related potentials also provide physiological evidence of attention during information process. NI component appears to be an electrophysiological index of selective attention. P3 response is developed during the attention related to stimulus discrimination, evaluation and response.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.305-314
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• 2005

Investigation of chemically synthesized inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate [$Ins(1,4,5)P_3$] analogs has led to the isolation of a novel binding protein with a molecular size of 130 kDa, characterized as a molecule with similar domain organization to phospholipase C-${\delta}1$ (PLC-${\delta}1$) but lacking the enzymatic activity. An isoform of the molecule was subsequently identified, and these molecules have been named PRIP (PLC-related, but catalytically inactive protein), with the two isoforms named PRIP-1 and -2. Regarding its ability to bind $Ins(1,4,5)P_3$ via the pleckstrin homology domain, the involvement of PRIP-1 in $Ins(1,4,5)P_3$-mediated $Ca^{2+}$ signaling was examined using COS-1 cells overexpressing PRIP-1 and cultured neurons prepared from PRIP-1 knock-out mice. Yeast two hybrid screening of a brain cDNA library using a unique N-terminus as bait identified GABARAP ($GABA_A$ receptor associated protein) and PP1 (protein phosphatase 1), which led us to examine the possible involvement of PRIP in $GABA_A$ receptor signaling. For this purpose PRIP knock-out mice were analyzed for $GABA_A$ receptor function in relation to the action of benzodiazepines from the electrophysiological and behavioral aspects. During the course of these experiments we found that PRIP also binds to the b-subunit of $GABA_A$ receptors and PP2A (protein phosphtase 2A). Here, we summarize how PRIP is involved in $Ins(1,4,5)P_3$-mediated $Ca^{2+}$ signaling and $GABA_A$ receptor signaling based on the characteristics of binding molecules.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.7-15
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• 2004

Nitric oxide (NO) system has been implicated in a wide range of physiological functions in the nervous system. However, the role of NO in regulating the neural activity in the gustatory zone of nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS) has not been established. The present study was aimed to investigate the role of NO in the gustatory NTS neurons. Sprague-Dawley rats, weighing about 50 g, were used. Whole cell patch recording and immunohistochemistry were done to determine the electrophysiological characteristics of the rostral gustatory nucleus of the tractus solitaries and distribution of NO synthases (NOS). Neuronal NOS (nNOS) immunoreactivity was strongly detected along the solitary tract extending from rostral to caudal medulla. Resting membrane potentials of NTS neurons were $-49.2{\pm}2\;mV$ and action potential amplitudes were $68.5{\pm}2\;mV$ with a mean duration measured at half amplitude of $1.7{\pm}0.3\;ms$. Input resistance, determined from the response to a 150 ms, -100 pA hyperpolarizing current pulse, was $385{\pm}15\;M{\Omega}$, Superfusion of SNAP or SNP, NO donors, produced either hyperpolarization (68%), depolarization (5%), or no effect (27%). The hyperpolarization was mostly accompanied by a decrease in input resistance. The hyperpolarization caused by SNAP or SNP increased the time to initiate the first action potential, and decreased the number of action potentials elicited by current injection. SNP or SNAP also markedly decreased the number of firing neural discharges of the spontaneous NTS neural activity under zero current. Superfusion of L-NAME, a NOS inhibitor, slightly depolarized the membrane potential and increased the firing rate of NTS neurons induced by current injection. ODQ, a soluble guanylate cyclase inhibitor, ameliorated the SNAP-induced changes in membrane potential, input resistance and firing rates. 8-Br-cGMP, a non-degradable cell-permeable cGMP, hyperpolarized the membrane potential and decreased the number of action potentials. It is suggested that NO in the gustatory NTS has an inhibitory role on the neural activity of NTS through activating soluble guanylate cyclase.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.503-516
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• 2020

KCNQ family constitutes slowly-activating potassium channels among voltage-gated potassium channel superfamily. Recent studies suggested that KCNQ4 and 5 channels are abundantly expressed in smooth muscle cells, especially in lower urinary tract including corpus cavernosum and that both channels can exert membrane stabilizing effect in the tissues. In this article, we examined the electrophysiological characteristics of overexpressed KCNQ4, 5 channels in HEK293 cells with recently developed KCNQ-specific agonist. With submicromolar EC₅₀, the drug not only increased the open probability of KCNQ4 channel but also increased slope conductance of the channel. The overall effect of the drug in whole-cell configuration was to increase maximal whole-cell conductance, to prolongate the activation process, and left-shift of the activation curve. The agonistic action of the drug, however, was highly attenuated by the co-expression of one of the β ancillary subunits of KCNQ family, KCNE4. Strong in vitro interactions between KCNQ4, 5 and KCNE4 were found through Foster Resonance Energy Transfer and co-immunoprecipitation. Although the expression levels of both KCNQ4 and KCNE4 are high in mesenteric arterial smooth muscle cells, we found that 1 μM of the agonist was sufficient to almost completely relax phenylephrine-induced contraction of the muscle strip. Significant expression of KCNQ4 and KCNE4 in corpus cavernosum together with high tonic contractility of the tissue grants highly promising relaxational effect of the KCNQ-specific agonist in the tissue.

• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• 제49권11호
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• pp.1158-1166
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• 2006

목 적 : 늘어지는 증상을 주소로 신생아 및 소아 중환자실에 입원한 영아들의 임상적, 신경학적, 전기생리학적 소견 및 유전적 진단 결과를 통한 분석을 통해 늘어지는 영아 증후군의 진단적 분류 및 진단 방법에 대한 고찰을 하고자 하였다. 방 법 : 1993년도부터 2005년까지 13년간 서울대학교 병원 어린이병원 신생아 중환자실 및 소아 중환자실에 늘어지는 증상을 주된 주소로 입원한 영아들을 대상으로 하였다. 후향적 의무기록조사를 통해 임상 소견 및 검사 소견들을 조사하였고 최종 진단명을 분류하였다. 결 과 : 늘어지는 증상을 주소로 내원한 영아들은 21명이었다. 최종 진단명은 중추성 기원이 7명(33.3%), 말초성 기원이 11명(52.4%), 나머지 3명은(14.3%) 두 그룹 중 어느 그룹으로도 분류되지 못하였다. 중추성 기원은 저산소-허혈성 뇌증이 3명으로 가장 많았고, 그 외에 Prader-Willi 증후군 2명, 염색체 이상 1명, 일과성 저긴장증 1명이 있었다. 말초성 기원은 myotubular 근병증이 4명으로 가장 많았고, SMA 1형이 3명, 선천성 근긴장성 이영양증 2명, 선천성 근이영양증 1명, 그 외 분류되지 않은 운동신경질환 1명이 있었다. 가족력이 있었던 경우는 말초성 그룹에서만 3명이 있었고, 신경학적 검진 상 근력은 중추성 그룹에서 평균 Grade 3 이상이었고 건반사도 활발하게 나타난 경우가 많아 다른 그룹의 환자들과 차이를 보였다. 검사상의 소견은 근전도 검사에서 말초성 그룹이 66%의 민감도를 보였고 근생검은 말초성 그룹에서 진단적이었다. 중추성 그룹에서 뇌 영상 검사가 진단적이었고 진단율이 높지는 않았지만 Prader-Willi FISH 나 염색체 검사를 통해 진단이 되었던 경우가 있었다. 그외의 분자 유전학적 검사로 확진 가능한 말초성 그룹의 환자들이 있었다. 입원 기간 및 기관 삽관 기간은 말초성 그룹에서 현저하게 길었고, 추적 관찰 시 사망 및 심한 발달 지체의 비율도 말초성 그룹에서 높게 나타났다. 결 론 : 본 연구의 늘어지는 영아들의 임상상을 바탕으로 진단적 분류를 시행하고 각 진단 분류에 유용한 검사를 순서대로 진행시킨다면 효과적인 진단이 이루어질 수 있을 것이다.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제47권4호
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• pp.390-395
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• 2004

토마토 뿌리에 존재하는 이온채널의 특성을 조사하기 위하여, 마이크로솜을 분리하고 전기생리용 분석장치가 연결된 인공지질 이중막에 유입하였다. 그 결과 다섯 종류의 이온채널을 확인하였고, 이들 중 450 pS의 전기전도도를 갖는 비선택성 양이온채널을 가장 자주 관측하였다. 이 채널은 세 가지의 subconductance 상태를 보였으며, 이들의 전기전도도는 450, 257, 105 pS으로 측정되었다. 모든 subconductance 상태는 막전위 변화에 따른 전류변화가 직선적으로 나타났다. 채널의 활성은 양의 막전위에서 열림과 닫힘이 반복되는 전이상태를 보였지만, 음의 막전위에서는 평균 열림시간과 함께 열림확률도 증가하였다. 막전위 -40mV에서 측정한 채널의 열림확률은 0.83이었다. 이온선택성을 측정하기 위하여 지질막의 한쪽에만 50mM의 $K^+$ 또는 $Na^+$을 가하여 비대칭 이온조건을 만들었을 때, 두 경우 모두에서 전류역전전위는 동일하게 약 -l0mV 이동하였다. 이것은 450 pS채널이 $K^+$과 $Na^+$을 구별없이 통과시킴을 나타낸다. 중금속 이온들 중, $100\;{\mu}M$ 농도의 $La^{3+}$과 $Ba^{2+},\;Zn^{2+}$는 채널의 활성을 크게 저해하여 열림확률을 0.2 이하로 감소시켰다. 그러나, $Al^{3+}$과 $Cd^{2+}$은 활성을 약 20% 저해하였다. 흥미롭게도, 각각의 중금속 이온은 서로 다른 형태로 채널활성을 저해하였다. $La^{3+}$은 $500\;{\mu}M$ 농도에서 모든 subconductance 상태를 저해하였으나, $Zn^{2+}$는 1 mM의 농도에서도 105 pS의 subconductance 상태는 저해하지 않았다. 또한 $Cd^{2+}$은 음의 막전위에서도 채널의 열림을 long-opening상태에서 전이상태 열림으로 전환시켰다. 이러한 결과는 중금속 이온들이 채널단백질에 각각의 결합부위를 가질 수 있을 가능성을 의미하여, 식물 뿌리의 생리현상에서 450 pS 채널의 기능적 역할 뿐 만아니라 구조적 특징을 탐색할 수 있는 유용한 조절자나 탐색자로 이용될수 있음을 시사한다.