• 한국약용작물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국약용작물학회 2011년도 추계학술발표회
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• pp.326-327
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• 2011

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제61권1호
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• pp.60-71
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• 2023

Cockroaches can cause allergic sensitization in humans via contact with their feces or frass. Antibiotics can affect concentration of major allergen and total bacteria production in German cockroaches (Blattella germanica). This study examined the ability of antibiotic-treated German cockroaches to induce allergic airway inflammation and the effect of antibiotics on their lipopolysaccharide and Bla g1, 2, and 5 expression levels. Specifically, we measured the ability of German cockroach extract (with or without prior antibiotic exposure) to induce allergic inflammation in human bronchial epithelial cells and a mouse model of asthma. Bacterial 16S rRNA and lipopolysaccharide levels were lower in ampicillin-treated cockroaches than in the control group. The Bla g1, Bla g2, and Bla g5 expression in ampicillin-treated cockroaches decreased at both the protein and RNA levels. In human bronchial epithelial cell lines BEAS-2B exposed to the ampicillin-treated extract, expression levels of interleukin-6 and interleukin-8 were lower than that in the control group. The total cell count and eosinophil count in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid was also lower in mice exposed to the ampicillin-treated extract than in those exposed to normal cockroach extract. Mouse lung histopathology showed reduced immune cell infiltration and mucus production in the ampicillin group. Our results showed that ampicillin treatment reduced the symbiont bacterial population and major allergen levels in German cockroaches, leading to reduced airway inflammation in mice. These results can facilitate the preparation of protein extracts for immunotherapy or diagnostics applications.

• 한국자원식물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국자원식물학회 2007년도 추계학술발표회
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• pp.340.2-340.2
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• 2007

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• 한국자원식물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국자원식물학회 2010년도 정기총회 및 춘계학술발표회
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• pp.16-16
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• 2010

Ginseng(Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer) is reported to have many pharmaceutical activities. The minor ginsenosides(Rd, Rg3, Rh2 and compound K) display pharmaceutical properties superior to those of the major ginsenosides. These minor ginsenosides, which contribute a very small percentage, are produced by hydrolysis of the sugar moieties of the major ginsenosides. The pH of red ginseng extracts fermented with S. cerevisiae and S. carlsbergensis decreased rapidly during 3 days of fermentation, with no further significant change thereafter. After 20 days of fermentation, a relatively small difference remained in the acidity of extracts fermented with S. cerevisiae (0.54%) and S. carlsbergensis (0.58%). Reducing sugar in the S. cerevisiae and S. carlsbergensis extracts decreased from 25.86 to 4.54 mg/ml and 4.32 mg/ml glucose equivalents, respectively; and ethanol contents increased from 1.5% at day 0 to 16.0 and 15.0%, respectively, at 20 days. Ginsenosides Rb1, Rb2, Rc, Re, Rf, and Rg1 decreased during the fermentation with S. cerevisiae, but Rd and Rg3 increased by 12 days. Ginsenosides Rb1, Rb2, Rc, Re and Rg1 decreased gradually in the extract with S. carlsbergensis, but Rd and Rg3 were increased at 6 days and 9 days.

• 생약학회지
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.175-181
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• 2011

Oxidative stress or accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) leads neuronal cellular death and dysfunction, and it contributes to neuronal degenerative disease such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and stroke. Glutamate is one of the major excitatory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system (CNS). Glutamate contributes to fast synaptic transmission, neuronal plasticity, outgrowth and survival, behavior, learning and memory. In spite of these physiological functions, high concentration of glutamate causes neuronal cell damage, acute insults and chronic neuronal neurodegenerative diseases. Heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) enzyme plays an important role of cellular antioxidant system against oxidant injury. NNMBS020, the water-insoluble fraction of the 70% EtOH extract of root barks of Dictamnus dasycarpus, showed dominant neuroprotective effects on glutamate-induced neurotoxicity in mouse hippocampal HT22 cells by induced the expression of HO-1 and increased HO activity. In mouse hippocampal HT22 cells, NNMBS020 makes the nuclear accumulation of Nrf2 and stimulates extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) pathway. The ERK MAPK pathway inhibitor significantly reduced NNMBS020-induced HO-1 expression, whereas the JNK and p38 inhibitors did not. In conclusion, the water-insoluble fraction of the 70% EtOH extract of root barks of D. dasycarpus (NNMBS020) significantly protect glutamate-induced oxidative damage by induction of HO-1 via Nrf2 and ERK pathway in mouse hippocampal HT22 cells.

• 한국자원식물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국자원식물학회 2010년도 정기총회 및 추계학술발표회
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• pp.15-15
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• 2010

Ginseng contained many different kinds of saponin which was the most valuable for people, but its yield cannot satisfy the demand using traditional extract methods. Enzyme transformation is a conformable and highly performed method which was fit for today. A ${\beta}$-glucosidase producing bacterium ($DCY51^T$) was isolated from Korean fermented-vegetable food kimchi. The 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis revealed that the strain $DCY51^T$ belongs to the genus Lactobacillus. The highest sequence similarity was found with Lactobacillus paracollinoides LMG $22473^T$ and Lactobacillus collinoides LMG $9194^T$ with levels of 16S rDNA similarity of 97.4% and 97.3%, respectively. Based on the above results the strain $DCY51^T$ placed in the genus Lactobacillus and proposed a new species, Lactobacillus kimchicus sp. nov. $DCY51^T$ (= KCTC $12976^T$ = JCM $15530^T$). It was culture solution reacted with Red Ginseng extract and $Rb_1$, respectively. The medium of bacteria was the liquid of MRS, the temperatures of growing and reacting between bacteria liquid and saponin were samely $37^{\circ}C$, there spective reacting time were 12 hours and 48 hours. Thus we got different saponins, and TLC and HPLC analysis showed that: enzyme respectively reacted with $Rb_1$ and Red Ginseng extract got the transformed saponin, respectively. The polarity position in TLC was a little higher than Rd; and the polarity position was the same as that of Compound K's, the saponin obtained from HPLC and other experimental results was not Compound K. The constitution of its saponin was hoped to be further confirmed.

• Journal of Ginseng Research
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.238-243
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 시중에 유통되고 있는 백삼 농축액(white ginseng extract, WG), 발효인삼 농축액(fermented ginseng extract, FG), 홍삼 농축액(red ginseng extract, RG)에 대해 고형분, 점성도, 회분, 조지방, 조단백, 탄수화물, 나트륨, 열량 등을 분석하였다. 백삼 농축액, 발효인삼 농축액, 홍삼 농축액의 고형분 조사결과, 발효인삼 농축액, 백삼 농축액, 홍삼 농축액 순으로 발효인삼 농축액이 가장 높았으나, 점성도는 홍삼 농축액에서 가장 높게 나타났다. 백삼 농축액, 발효인삼 농축액, 홍삼 농축액 모두 온도를 높일수록 점성도는 떨어지는 경향을 보였으며 $40^{\circ}C$ 이상 가열 시에는 점성도의 차이가 크게 나타나지 않았다. 회분과 조단백질의 함량은 발효인삼농축액이 가장 높았으며, 조지방은 홍삼농축액에서 가장 높게 나타났다. 탄수화물 함량은 세 농축액에서 큰 차이 없이 유사한 결과를 보였으며, 나트륨 함량은 백삼농축액이 가장 높았다. 그러나 열량에 있어서는 백삼 농축액, 발효인삼 농축액, 홍삼 농축액에서 큰 차이가 없는 것으로 조사되었다. 현재 활발히 연구 중인 백삼 농축액, 발효인삼 농축액, 홍삼 농축액 각각의 이화학적 특성을 분석하여 앞으로의 연구 및 신제품 개발에 이용할 수 있는 결과를 얻을 수 있었다. 이를 토대로 항산화, 면역활성, 혈관이완작용에 미치는 영향을 규명하고 인삼농축액, 발효인삼농축액, 홍삼농축액의 효능 차이를 비교 평가하는 실험이 이루어져야 할 것이다.

• 한국유전체학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국유전체학회 2005년도 The 14th Korea Genome Conference
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• pp.74-74
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• 2005

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.557-570
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• 2019

In this study, a novel hierarchical approach is investigated to extract coronary vessel from X-ray angiogram. First, we propose to combine Decimation-free Directional Filter Bank (DDFB) and Homographic Filtering (HF) in order to enhance X-ray coronary angiographic image for segmentation purposes. Because the blood vessel ensures that blood flows in only one direction on vessel branch, the DDFB filter is suitable to be used to enhance the vessels at different orientations and radius. In the combination with HF filter, our method can simultaneously normalize the brightness across the image and increases contrast. Next, a coarse-to-fine strategy for iterative segmentation based on Otsu algorithm is applied to extract the main coronary vessels in different sizes. Furthermore, we also propose a new approach to segment very small vessels. Specifically, based on information of the main extracted vessels, we introduce a new method to extract junctions on the vascular tree and level of nodes on the tree. Then, the window based segmentation is applied to locate and extract the small vessels. Experimental results on our coronary X-ray angiography dataset demonstrate that the proposed approach can outperform standard method and attain the accuracy of 71.34%.

• 한국약용작물학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.74-78
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• 2008

감초의 에틸아세테이트 분획 중 flavonoid 지표물질인 liquiritin이 들어있는 분획 (GUE6)에 살구 및 복숭아 종자로부터 얻은 조효소액 (PDE, PAE, PPE)을 법제 처리하였다. 각 조효소액에서 ${\beta}-glucosidase$ 활성도는 아몬드 (P. dulcis) 259.6 U/g 살구 (P. persica), 복숭아 (P. persica) 조효소액의 ${\beta}-glucosidase$ 활성도가 가장 높게 관찰되었다. PDE, PAE, PPE를 이용한 발효 법제 후 liquiritigenin의 함량 비교 결과, 효소중의 ${\beta}-glucosidase$에 의해 liquiritin이 대사되어 항산화, 향군, 세포 독성 억제, 항치매, 항피부암 등 많은 약리효능을 가진 활성 물질인 liquiritigenin이 생산됨이 확인되었으며, 세효수 모두 liquiritin에 1.2배의 효소 처리 시 가장 대사가 활발한 것으로 나타나 변환을 위한 최적 농도로 결정되었다 세효소 중 특히 PPE 처리 시 liquiritin이 모두 liquiritigenin으로 변환됨으로써 liquiritin의 변환에 복숭아 종자 유래 효소가 가장 효율적인 것으로 밝혀졌다.