• Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation
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• v.36 no.5
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• pp.315-320
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• 2006

Silymarin showed P-glycoprptein(P-gp) inhibitory activity as much as verapamil, a well-known P-gp inhibitor, by decreasing $IC_{50}$ value of daunomycin(DNM)($16.0{\pm}0.7{\mu}M$), increasing the DNM accumulation($224.9{\pm}3.2%$), and decreasing DNM efflux($58.5{\pm}6.7%$), concurrently. In this study, we clarified the mechanism of action of silymarin for P-gp inhibitory function. First, silymarin may bind to the ATP-binding site and thus, prevent ATP hydrolysis. Second, the P-gp inhibitory activity of silymarin is not related to changing the cellular P-gp level. Third, the cytotoxicity of silymarin was increased in the presence of verapamil, reflecting that silymarin is a competent P-gp substrate against verapamil in the P-gp-overexpressed adriamycin-resistant MCF-7 breast cancer(MCF-7/ADR) cells. Conclusively, silymarin had the P-gp inhibitory activity through the action of competent binding to the P-gp substrate-binding site. Therefore, silymarin can be a good candidate for safe and effective MDR reversing agent in clinical chemotherapy by administering concomitantly with anticancer drugs.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.244-247
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• 2017

In this paper, we implemented a convolution neural network using GP-GPU. After defining the structure, CNN performed inferencing using the GP-GPU with 256 threads, which was the previous study, using the weight obtained from the training. Training used Intel i7-4470 CPU and Matlab. Dataset used Daimler Pedestrian Dataset. The GP-GPU is controlled by the PC using PCIe and operates as an FPGA. We assigned a thread according to the depth and size of each layer. In the case of the pooling layer, we used over warpping pooling to perform additional operations on the horizontal and vertical regions. One inferencing takes about 12 ms.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.32 no.8
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• pp.1262-1269
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• 2003

In this study, enzymes were investigated as an antistaling agent for a Korean rice cake. Thermograms by a DSC demonstrated that the gelatinization-onset temperature of the Korean rice cake was at its lowest temperature of 71.1$^{\circ}C$ with the GP (glucoamylase+pullulanase) treatment, followed by $\beta$-amylase and $\alpha$-amylase. The gelatinization peak temperature of the Korean rice cake with enzyme treatment was relatively lower compared to the control. Furthermore, the Korean rice cake with GP treatment showed the lowest peak temperature. Melting enthalpy of the Korean rice cake increased with the enzyme treatment, with $\beta$-amylase, followed by $\alpha$-amylase and GP. Melting enthalpy of the Korean rice cake with GP treatment was significantly lower compared to the $\beta$- and $\alpha$-amylase treatment. Recrystallinity in the case of GP treatment was also significantly lower than control. The range of Avrami exponent (n) was 0.90 ∼ 1.20 and the time constant of retrogradation (1/k) of the Korean rice cake crystalline decreased in the following order: GP, $\beta$-, $\alpha$ -amylase and control. Textural characteristics of the Korean rice cake with enzyme treatment differed greatly from that of control. The L＊ values of all the Korean rice cakes made without $\beta$-amylase decreased and the a＊ values were significantly different at p<0.05. The GP treatment altered the b＊ value toward blue color, whereas $\beta$-and $\alpha$-amylase changed to the direction to yellow color. In sensory evaluation, the Korean rice cake with enzyme treatment showed higher evaluation compared to control.

• Current Research on Agriculture and Life Sciences
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• v.11
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• pp.1-9
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• 1993

This study was carried out to investigate the wire retention on newsprint process mainly composed of Groundwood Pulp(GP) and Deinked Pulp(DIP) with change of stock mixture ratio according to variation of stock temperature, stock pH, rosin and alum amount. The obtained results were summarized as follows 1. The wire retention was decreased continuously with increasing of stock temperature regardless of stock type. The retention of DIP stock was more rapidly decreased than GP stock. 2. Maximum retention was obtained at pH 5. The retention of GP stock was more rapidly decreased below or over pH 5 in comparison with DIP. 3. Maximum retention was obtained at 2% alum level on GP and GP/DIP=50/50, but 3% alum level in case of DIP. 4. Higher retention efficiency was obtained in case of adding alum after using 1% rosin in comparison with alum only. 5. The retention was mainly affected by fiber flocculation.

• The Journal of Korean Society of Virology
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.303-316
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• 1998

An attenuated classical swine fever virus (CSFV), Suri strain, is a variant derived from a vaccine virus, LOM strain. This study was performed to elucidate the molecular biologcal properties of CSFV Suri strain, and to obtain the basic data for molecular epidemiological approaches for the disease. The truncated form of gp55 gene without the C-terminal transmembrane domain, in size of 1,023bp, was amplified by RT-PCR and sequenced by dye terminator cyclic sequencing method, and inserted into BamHI site of pAcGP67B baculovirus vector, establishing a cloned pAcHEG plasmid. By the nucleotide sequences determined, 341 amino acid sequences were predicted. As compared the nucleotide and amino acid sequences of gp55 of Suri with the various CSFV, Suri strain showed the high homology over 99.1% with ALD and LOM strains, but comparably the lower homology with Alfort and Brescia. In comparison of amino acid sequence in variable domain of gp55 protein, the similar tendency of homology was observed. In hydrophobicity analysis, all of four CSFV strains revealed the analogous patterns of hydrophobicity. The numbers and locations of N-glycosylation site and cysteine residues in gp55 were analyzed, those of Suri strain being coincident with ALD and LOM strains. The results suggest that gp55 in Suri strain has the high similarity to those in ALD and LOM strains in terms of the nucleotide and amino acid sequences and the functional properties of gp55 protein.

• Journal of Haehwa Medicine
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.131-145
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• 2007

To evaluate the effects of GP on contact dermatitis, we examined the composition of immune cells from drain lymph node in DNCB-induced contact dermatitis murine model NC/Nga mice. And the amount of pathologic cytokines of spleen and antioxidant activity were investigated. The results were summarized as followers; 1. GP did not show cytotoxic effect on mLFC in vitro. 2. GP did not have hepatotoxicity in vivo in the level of ALT, AST. 3. GP decreased the production of DPPH and in a dose-dependent. 4. GP significantly decreased total cell number of DLN in DNCB-induced NC/Nga mice compared to the untreated control group. 5. GP significantly decreased the number of CD3+, CD19+, CD4+, CD8+, CD3+/CD69+ and CD4+/CD45+ in DLN of DNCB-induced NC/Nga mice compared to the untreated control group. 6. GP significantly reduced the level of IL-4 and IFN-$\gamma$ in splenocytes of DNCB-induced NC/Nga mice compared to the untreated control group. Taken together above results, GP have therapeutic effects on contact dermatitis by regulating T cell activation. This study warranted further investigations of molecular mechanisms of GP on contact dermatitis.

• Atmosphere
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.231-235
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• 2013

We parallelized WRF major physics routines for Nvidia GP-GPUs with CUDA Fortran. GP-GPUs are originally designed for graphic processing, but show high performance with low electricity for calculating numerical models. In the CUDA environment, a data domain is allocated into thread blocks and threads in each thread block are computing in parallel. We parallelized the WRF program to use of thread blocks efficiently. We validated the GP-GPU program with the original CPU program, and the WRF model using GP-GPUs shows efficient speedup.

• Journal of Integrative Natural Science
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.138-142
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• 2013

The HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein gp120 plays a vital role in the entry of the virus into the host cells. The crucial role of the glycoprotein suggests gp120 as potential drug target for the future antiviral therapies. Identification of the binding mode of small drug like compounds has been an important goal in drug design. In the current study we attempt to propose binding mode of indole derivatives in the binding pocket of gp120. These derivatives are reported to inhibit HIV-1 by acting as attachment inhibitors that bind to gp120 and prevent the gp120-CD4 interaction and thus inhibit the infectivity of HIV-1. To elucidate the molecular basis of the small molecules interactions to inhibit the glycoprotein function we employed the molecular docking simulation approach. This study provides insights to elucidate the binding pattern of indole-based gp120 inhibitors and may help in the rational design of novel HIV-1 inhibitors with improved potency.

• The Journal of Natural Sciences
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.27-32
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• 1998

To find the interacting protein with the cytoplasmic domain of HIV-1 gp41, the yeast two hybrid system was used for the expression cloning. Among the $1.4 \times 10^6 colonies, 20 colonies were selected as the final candidate for the interacting protein gene. The nucleotide sequencing revealed three kinds of protein, acidic ribosomal protein P0, beta tubulin, alpha catenin. These proteins interacted with the gp41 specifically in yeast system.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.76-81
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• 2010

The need for dedicated hardware continue to decrease as the mobile CPU's performance increases. But, there is a limit to a mobile CPU's performance. GP-GPU(General-Purpose computing on Graphics Processing Units) can improve performance without adding other dedicated hardware. This paper presents the implementation of Inverse Quantization, Inverse DCT and Color Space Conversion module in H.264/AVC decoder using GP-GPU for a mobile environments. The proposed architecture improves approximately 40% of performance when it use all the features.