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Bioequivalence Evaluation of Two Brands of Zolpidem Tartrate 10 mg Tablets(Zanilo and Stilnox) in Healthy Male Volunteers

  • Ryu, Ju-Hee;Lee, Heon-Woo;Lee, Hyun-Su;Kang, Il-Mo;Seo, Ji-Hyung;Kang, Jin-Yang;Lee, Kyung-Tae
    • Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation
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    • v.36 no.5
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    • pp.343-348
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the bioequivalence of two zolpidem tartrate tablets, Stilnox tablet(Sanofi-aventis Korea, reference product) and Zanilo tablet(ChoDang Pharm Co., Ltd., Korea, test product), according to the guidelines of Korea Food and Drug Administration(KFDA). After adding an internal standard(cimetropium), 250 ${\mu}L$ plasma samples were extracted using 1.3 mL of ethyl acetate. Extracted compounds were analyzed by HPLC with triple-quadrupole mass spectrometry. This method for determination of zolpidem is proved accurate and reproducible with the limit of quantitation of 1 ng/mL in human plasma. Twenty-four healthy male Korean volunteers received each medicine at the zolpidem tartrate dose of 10 mg in a $2{\times}2$ crossover study. There was one-week washout period between the doses. Plasma concentrations of zolpidem were monitored for over a period of 8 hr after the administration. $AUC_{0-t}$(the area under the plasma concentration-time curve) was calculated by the linear trapezoidal rule. $C_{max}$(maximum plasma drug concentration) and $T_{max}$(time to reach $C_{max}$) were compiled from the plasma concentration-time data. Analysis of variance was carried out using logarithmically transformed $AUC_{0-t}$ and $C_{max}$. No significant sequence effect was found for all of the bio-availability parameters indicating that the crossover design was properly performed. The 90% confidence intervals for the log transformed data were acceptable range of log 0.8 to log 1.25(e.g., log 0.92-log 1.06 for $AUC_{0-t}$, log 0.96-log 1.13 for $C_{max}$). The major parameters, $AUC_{0-t}$ and $C_{max}$ met the criteria of KFDA for bioequivalence indicating that Zanilo tablet is bioequivalent to Stilnox tablet.

Pharmacokinetic and Bioequivalence Study of Zolpidem Tartate in Healthy Volunteers

  • Park, Jun-Sung;Myung, Ja-Hye;Wang, Hun-Sik;Koo, Ja-Seong;Cho, Won-Kyung;Cha, Kwang-Ho;Park, Hee-Jun;Kim, Min-So;Kim, Jeong-Soo;Hwang, Sung-Joo
    • Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation
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    • v.41 no.3
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    • pp.191-196
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    • 2011
  • In this study simple and sensitive high performance liquid chromatographic method using a commercially available column, was developed and validated for the determination of zolpidem tartrate in human plasma. The developed method with suitable validation was applied to a bioequivalence study of two different kinds of zolpidem tartrate. Two different formulations containing 10 mg of zolpidem tartate (CAS : 99294-93-6) were compared in 24 healthy male volunteers in order to compare the bioavailability and prove the bioequivalence. The study was performed in an open, single dose randomized, 2-sequence, cross-over design in 24 healthy male volunteers with a one-week washout period. Blood samples for pharmacokinetic profiling were drawn at selected times during 12 h. The mean $AUC_{0-12h}$, $C_{max}$, $T_{max}$ and $T_{1/2}$ were $676.6{\pm}223.4$ $ng{\cdot}h{\cdot}mL^{-1}$, $177.4{\pm}34.2$ $ng{\cdot}mL^{-1}$, and $0.8{\pm}0.4$ and $3.5{\pm}2.1$, respectively, for the test formulations, and $640.7{\pm}186.6$ $ng{\cdot}h{\cdot}mL^{-1}$, $193.0{\pm}64.5$ $ng{\cdot}mL^{-1}$, and $0.9{\pm}0.4$ and $2.7{\pm}0.9$, respectively, for the reference formulation. Both primary target parameters $AUC_{0-12h}$ and $C_{max}$ were log-transformed and tested parametrically by analysis of variance (ANOVA). 90% confidence intervals of $AUC_{0-12h}$ and $C_{max}$ were in the range of acceptable limits of bioequivalence (80-125%). Based on these results, the two formulations of zolpidem tartate are considered to be bioequivalent.

Design of Environmentally Sound Manufacturing Process of Fork Lift using LCA and DfE Methodology (LCA와 DfE기법을 이용한 친환경적인 지게차 제조공정의 설계)

  • Park, Kwang-Ho;Hwang, Yong-Woo;Park, Il-Do
    • Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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    • v.27 no.7
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    • pp.677-685
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    • 2005
  • Life Cycle Assessment(LCA) and Design for Environment(DfE) method were applied to design the environmentally sound manufacturing process of f31k lift in this study. Not only external movement of LCA and DfE method in the legal and systemic phase, but also active researches of those in the development phase of case study and application to the industrial field, have been going on. In concretely, the manufacturing processes of the folk lift generating the most environmental impact were examined by applying LCA method, and the environmentally sound manufacturing process was designed by applying, DfE method to the processes. As the results of LCA, environmental impacts for the eco-toxicity and human toxicity of seven major environmental categories were in high value, and so be in the cutting & welding process and painting process among the manufacturing processes. High solid paints, increasing the solid content of the existing solvent paints used in painting process, were developed to reduce the environmental impacts generated in the painting process. By utilizing the high solid paints, about 20% of environmental impacts (as environmental index of LCA) could be reduced.

Needs Analysis Case Using Key Competencies of National Competency Standards (국가직무능력표준(NCS) 직업기초능력 기반의 직군별 요구역량 : 국내 대기업 A사를 중심으로)

  • Yoon, Duk-Won;Woo, Hye-Jung;Ghang, Bong-Jun;Kim, Yoon-Ho
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.16 no.12
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    • pp.383-398
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    • 2016
  • The objective of this research is to depict examples of how a company could derive the skillset areas with the highest priority when analyzing the skill set requirements of human resources, based on the skillset requirements that are unique to each work site. For this purpose, a survey was conducted for each of the job categories for new employee in A company. The analysis results showed that in 32 out of the 34 areas, the gaps between the current levels and the expected levels were statistically significant. For employees of company A, the following 7 areas were determined to be the key job competencies with the highest priority: document creation skills, diagram creation skills, thinking skills, problem solving skills, time management skills, technology comprehension ability, and task comprehension skills. The required job competencies with the highest priority were found to be different for each job category. As a result of this research, the priority rankings of skillset requirements for each job category in company A could be determined, along with the implications for HRD/HRM and other companies.

Physiological and Ecological Characteristics of Hemolytic Vibrios and Development of Sanitary Countermeasure of Raw Fisheries Foods 1. Isolation and Identification of Novel Pathogenic Vibrio sp. Producing Hemolysin (용혈독소를 생산하는 기수성 비브리오균의 생리${\cdot}$생태적 특성과 수산식품의 위생 대책 1. 용혈독소를 생산하는 새로운 병원성 Vibrio sp.의 분리와 동정)

  • KIM Young-Man;CHOI Gil-Bae;CHANG Dong-Suck
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.361-366
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    • 1997
  • To determine the physiological, biochemical characteristics and toxicity of hemolysin produced by a novel sucrose positive Vibrio (Vibrio sp. D5) isolated from estuary of Kum river, it was compared with already known sucrose positive Vibrio. Salinity, pH, temperature and conductivity of place where Vibrio sp. D5 was isolated were $4.7\%_{\circ},\;7.6,\;24^{\circ}C$ and $7800{\mu}MHOS$, respectively. Physiological and biochemical characteristics distingiushed Vibrio sp. D5 from other sucrose positive Vibrio: V. alginoipicus, V. cholerae, V. cincinnatiensis, V. fluvialis, V. furnissii and V. metschnikovii. The range of salinity and pH for growth of Vibrio sp. D5 were $0.5\%\~7.5\%$ and $4.5\~9.5$, respectively. Vibrio sp. D5 exhibited typical yellow colony on TCBS agar plate and curved rod type upon transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Vibrio sp. D5 had lethal toxicity against mouse in case of intraperitoneal injection with its culture and showed hemolysin activity on human blood agar and sheep blood agar. Ubrio sp. D5 also demonstrated vascular permeability activity toward rat. From the above results, Vibrio sp. D5 was ascertained to be a novel pathogenic Vibrio.

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Examination of Correlation between the Condition Evaluation Results of Superstructure and the Safety and Load-carrying Capacity of Bridges (노후 교량 유지관리를 위한 상부구조물의 상태평가 결과와 교량의 안전성 및 내하력과의 상관관계 분석)

  • Park, Ju-Hyun;An, Hyojoon;Han, Manseok;Min, Jiyoung;Lee, Jong-Han
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.64-71
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    • 2020
  • In recent years, many infrastructure have been rapidly aging around the world, which grows interest in the maintenance of the infrastructure. Among the social infrastructure, bridge is a very important structure to transport lots of human and various products. The performance evaluation of bridge can be divided into the condition evaluation and safety evaluation, proposed by Korea Infrastructure Safety and Technology Corporation. However, there are no separate criteria for the performance evaluation of three-class bridges. In general, the performance of bridge is dominated by the results of the condition evaluation, which is lower than that of the safety evaluation. Therefore, this study assessed the correlation between the condition evaluation of superstructure and bridge and also between the condition evaluation and the safety and load-carrying capacity of bridge. The results of the study would provide a basic data for the more quantitative and higher relevant performance evaluation of the existing bridges, particularly for three-class bridges.

Propriety analysis of Depth-Map production methods For Depth-Map based on 20 to 3D Conversion - the Last Bladesman (2D to 3D Conversion에서 Depth-Map 기반 제작 사례연구 - '명장 관우' 제작 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Hyo In;Kim, Hyung Woo
    • Smart Media Journal
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.52-62
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    • 2014
  • Prevalence of common three-dimensional display progresses, increasing the demand for three-dimensional content. Starting from the year 2010 to meet increasing 2D to 3D conversion is insufficient to meet demand content was presented as an alternative. But, Convert 2D to 3D stereo effect only emphasizes content production as a three-dimensional visual fatigue and the degradation of the Quality problems are pointed out. In this study, opened in 2011 'Scenes Guan', the 13 selected Scene is made of the three-dimensional transform the content and the Quality of the transformation applied to the Depth-Map is a visual representation of three-dimensional fatigue and, the adequacy of whether the expert has group interviews and surveys were conducted. Many of the changes are applied to the motion picture of the three-dimensional configurations of Depth-Map conversion technology used in many ways before and after the analysis of the relationship of cascade configurations to create a depth map to the stage. Experiments, presented in this study is a three-dimensional configuration of Depth-Map transformation can lower the production of a three-dimensional visual fatigue and improve the results obtained for a reasonable place was more than half of the experiment accepted the expert group to show a positive reaction were. The results of this study with a rapid movement to convert 2D images into 3D images of applying Depth-map configuration cascade manner to reduce the visual fatigue, to increase the efficiency, and has a three-dimensional perception is the result derived.

Comparison Study of Immunomodulatory Activity of Polysaccharide and Ethanol Extracted from Sargassum fulvellum (참모자반 조다당 추출물과 에탄올 추출물의 대식세포 및 비장세포 활성 비교)

  • Byun, Eui-Hong
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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    • v.44 no.11
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    • pp.1621-1628
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    • 2015
  • The immune system plays an important role in maintaining and protecting human health. In the present study, comparison of immuno-modulatory activities between polysaccharides (SFP) and ethanol (SFE) extracts separated from Sargassum fulvellum in macrophages and murine splenocytes were investigated. Immuno-modulatory activities of macrophages were estimated based on cell proliferation, nitric oxide (NO), inducible NO synthase (iNOS), and cytokine production in RAW 264.7 macrophage cells, and lipopolysaccharide was used as a positive control. SFP and SFE treatment did not affect cytotoxicity in RAW 264.7 macrophage cells, and SFP treatment significantly increased NO and cytokine production ($TNF-{\alpha}$, IL-6, and $IL-1{\beta}$), whereas SFE did not contribute to the increase in NO and cytokine production. In the case of splenocytes, SFP treatment increased splenocyte proliferation and also highly increased production of Th-1 type cytokines (IL-2 and $IFN-{\gamma}$) than those of SFE. Through this study, we confirmed that immuno-modulatory activities of Sargassum fulvellum may be due to polysaccharide extracts and this can be a potential nutraceutical.

Antioxidant activity and anti-inflammatory effects of ethanol extract from Allium schoenoprasum (향부추 에탄올 추출물의 항산화 활성 및 항염증 효과)

  • Lim, Sang-ran;Lee, Ji-An
    • Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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    • v.10 no.7
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    • pp.232-239
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    • 2020
  • This study evaluated the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activity of ethanol extracts using three parts of the chives plant: the bulb, the leaf, and the flower. As a result of DPPH and ABTS radical scavenging ability, the scavenging activity of the flower extract was higher than that of the bulb and leaf. In addition, as a result of FRAP analysis, antioxidant activity increased in all extracts depending on the extract concentration. The total polyphenol content was high in the following order: flower (11.29±0.37 mgGAE/g) > leaf (6.61±0.14 mgGAE/g) > bulb (5.7±0.67 mgGAE/g) extract. The cytotoxicity of the three extracts against rat macrophage RAW264.7 cells and HaCaT cells, both of which are human cutaneous keratinocyte cell lines, was minimal. NO by LPS was generated as a result of examining the anti-inflammatory activity of each extract through the NO colorimetric analysis method and ELISA. TNF-α secretion was decreased to a significant level in the flower ethanol extract. Therefore, these results indicate that there is a high possibility that the ethanol extract of chives, a natural plant resource, can be used as a cosmetic raw material.

A Study on Person Re-Identification System using Enhanced RNN (확장된 RNN을 활용한 사람재인식 시스템에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Seok-Gyu;Xu, Wenjie
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.15-23
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    • 2017
  • The person Re-identification is the most challenging part of computer vision due to the significant changes in human pose and background clutter with occlusions. The picture from non-overlapping cameras enhance the difficulty to distinguish some person from the other. To reach a better performance match, most methods use feature selection and distance metrics separately to get discriminative representations and proper distance to describe the similarity between person and kind of ignoring some significant features. This situation has encouraged us to consider a novel method to deal with this problem. In this paper, we proposed an enhanced recurrent neural network with three-tier hierarchical network for person re-identification. Specifically, the proposed recurrent neural network (RNN) model contain an iterative expectation maximum (EM) algorithm and three-tier Hierarchical network to jointly learn both the discriminative features and metrics distance. The iterative EM algorithm can fully use of the feature extraction ability of convolutional neural network (CNN) which is in series before the RNN. By unsupervised learning, the EM framework can change the labels of the patches and train larger datasets. Through the three-tier hierarchical network, the convolutional neural network, recurrent network and pooling layer can jointly be a feature extractor to better train the network. The experimental result shows that comparing with other researchers' approaches in this field, this method also can get a competitive accuracy. The influence of different component of this method will be analyzed and evaluated in the future research.