• 한국연소학회지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.16-23
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• 2016

In this study, skeletal mechanisms are produced by directed relation graph with specified threshold value and sensitivity analysis based on species database from the directed relation graph. Skeletal mechanism is optimized through the elimination of unimportant reaction steps by computational singular perturbation importance index. Reduction is performed for the detailed mechanism of methyl butanoate consisting of 264 species and 1219 elementary reactions. Validation shows acceptable agreement for auto-ignition delays in wide parametric ranges of pressure, temperature and equivalence ratio. Methyl butanoate has been proposed as a simple biodiesel surrogate although the alkyl chain consists of four carbon atoms. The resulting surrogate mechanism for n-heptane and MB consists of 76 species and 226 reaction steps including those for NOx.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제32권10호
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• pp.729-753
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• 2008

Oxy-fuel combustion is a reliable way for the reduction of pollutants, the higher combustion efficiency and the separation of carbon dioxide. The review of recent research trends and the prospects of oxy-fuel combustion were presented. The difference in characteristics among oxy-fuel combustion, conventional air combustion, oxy-fuel combustion with flue gas recirculation (FGR) technique was investigated. Recent experiments of oxy-fuel combustion with/without FGR were surveyed in various ways which are optimized burner design, flame characteristics, the soot emission, the radiation effect, the NOx reduction and the corrosion of combustor. Numerical simulation is more important in oxy-fuel combustion because flame temperature is so high that conventional measurement devices have a restricted application. Equilibrium and non-equilibrium chemical reaction mechanisms for oxy-fuel combustion were investigated. Combustion models suitable for the numerical simulation of non-premixed oxy-fuel flame were surveyed.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.365-373
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• 2010

제트 혼합 반응기(JSR) 내의 NOx와 같은 배출물질을 예측하기 위해서 화학반응기 모델을 개발했다. 본 연구에서는 JSR에 대한 화학반응기 모델로서 two-PSR 모델이 채택되었다. CHEMKIN 코드와 4가지 NO 생성 메커니즘을 포함한 GRI 3.0 메탄-공기 연소 메커니즘을 이용해서 JSR내의 희박 예혼합 메탄-공기 연소의 NO 생성예측을 실시하였다. 모델의 검증을 위해서 계산된 결과를 Rutar의 실험 데이터와 비교하였다. NO 생성의 중요 파라미터와 4 가지 NO 경로의 기여도를 조사하였다. 화염 영역에서는 prompt 메커니즘이 주된 경로이고, 화염후영역에서는 Zeldovich 메커니즘이 주된 경로이다. 희박 예혼합 조건에서는 N2O 메카니즘이가 화염 및 화염후 영역 모두에서 중요한 경로이다.

• Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.139-153
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• 2010

Nitrosative stress is defined as pathophysiological conditions that are related to covalent modifications of proteins by nitration/nitrosylation by forms of nitrogen oxide ($NO_x$), leading to DNA damage, ultimately, cell death. This type of stress condition appears to be associated with a number of disease states, including diabetes, inflammation and neurodegenerative diseases. Since these pathological conditions are frequently chronic in nature and, thus, require long-term treatment, changes in pharmacokinetics are likely to affect the therapy. Transporters are membrane proteins that facilitate the movement of substrates, including drugs, across plasma membranes of epithelial / endothelial cells. Since it is now increasingly evident that transporters are pharmacokinetically significant, functional alteration of transporters by this stress condition may have therapeutic relevance. In this review, experimental techniques that are used to study both in vivo and in vitro nitrosative stress are summarized and discussed, along with available literature information on the functional implication of transporters under conditions of nitrosative stress conditions. In the literature, both functional induction and impa irment were apparently present for both drug transporter families [i.e., ATP-binding cassette (ABC) and solute carrier families (SLC)]. Furthermore, a change in the function of a certain transporter appears to have temporal dependency by impairment in the early phase of nitrosative stress and induction thereafter, suggesting that the role of nitrosative stress is complex in terms of functional implications of the transporters. Although the underlying mechanisms for these alterations are not fully understood, protein nitration/nitrosylation appears to be involved in the functional impairment whereas transcript factor(s) activated by nitrosative stress may play a role, at least in part, in functional induction. Interestingly, functional induction under conditions of nitrosative stress has not been observed for SLC transporters while such impairment has been documented for both ABC and SLC transporters. Further investigations appear to be necessary to fully delineate the underlying reasons for these differences on the impact and importance of nitrosative stress conditions.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.229-236
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• 2016

Resveratrol (RSV) may provide numerous protective effects against chronic inflammatory diseases. Due to local hypoxia and hypertonicity, the renal medulla is subject to extreme oxidative stress, and aldehyde products formed during lipid peroxidation, such as 4-hydroxy-2-hexenal (HHE), might be responsible for tubular injury. This study aimed at investigating the effects of RSV on renal and its signaling mechanisms. While HHE treatment resulted in decreased expression of Sirt1, AQP2, and nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2), mouse cortical collecting duct cells (M1) cells treated with HHE exhibited increased activation of p38 MAPK, extracellular signal regulated kinase (ERK), c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK), and increased expression of NOX4, $p47^{phox}$, Kelch ECH associating protein 1 (Keap1) and COX2. HHE treatment also induced $NF-{\kappa}B$ activation by promoting $I{\kappa}B-{\alpha}$ degradation. Meanwhile, the observed increases in nuclear $NF-{\kappa}B$, NOX4, $p47^{phox}$, and COX2 expression were attenuated by treatment with Bay 117082, N-acetyl-l-cysteine (NAC), or RSV. Our findings indicate that RSV inhibits the expression of inflammatory proteins and the production of reactive oxygen species in M1 cells by inhibiting $NF-{\kappa}B$ activation.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제33권7호
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• pp.486-494
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• 2009

One-dimensional modeling of $CH_4$/air premixed flame was conducted to validate the heat loss model and investigate NOx formation characteristics in the postflame region. The predicted temperature and NO concentration were compared to experimental data and previous heat loss model results using a constant gradient of temperature (100 K/cm). The following conclusions were drawn. In the heat loss model using steady-state heat transfer equation, the numerical results using the effective heat loss coefficient ($h_{eff}$) of $1.0\;W/m^2K$ were in very good agreement with the experiments in terms of temperature and NO concentration. On the other hand, the calculated values using the constant gradient of temperature (100 K/cm) were lower than that in the experiments. Although the effects of heat loss suppress NO production near the flame region, a significant difference in NO concentration was not found compared to that under adiabatic conditions. In the postflame region, however, there were considerable differences in NO emission index as well as the contribution of NO formation mechanisms. In particular, in the range of ${\phi}\;{\geq}\;0.8$, the prompt NO mechanism plays an important role in the NO reduction under the adiabatic condition. On the other hand, the mechanism contributes to the NO production under the heat loss conditions.

• Journal of Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제65권4호
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• pp.357-365
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• 2022

Flavonoid 골격 중 flavanone과 flavone 골격 화합들의 유용성과 가능성에 대해 여러 연구들이 되어있다. 본 연구의 목적은 폐섬유화에 대한 치료물질로서 효능이 있는 flavanone 및 flavone 골격 유래 화합물들을 탐색하는 것에 있다. Flavanone 및 flavone 골격 유래 화합물들이 폐섬유화 억제 효능이 있는지 탐색하기 위해 폐섬유화 유도 물질인 bleomycin과 TGF-β1으로 자극한 A549 세포에서 flavanone 및 flavone 골격 유래 화합물들에 의해 폐섬유증 마커들을 약화시키는지 여부를 확인하였다. 실험 결과를 종합해보면 7,2',3'-trimethoxyflavanone(ICC no. 3), 7,3'-dimethoxyflavone (ICC no. 5), 2'-hydroxyflavanone (ICC no. 6)은 폐섬유화 유도관련 단백질 마커들의 발현을 감소시킨다는 것을 발견하였다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 결과들을 통해 flavanone과 flavone 골격 화합물 중 3가지가 폐섬유증의 예방과 치료에 대한 가능성이 있음을 제시한다.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.335-344
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• 2024

Diphenyleneiodonium (DPI) has been widely used as an inhibitor of NADPH oxidase (Nox) to discover its function in cardiac myocytes under various stimuli. However, the effects of DPI itself on Ca²⁺ signaling and contraction in cardiac myocytes under control conditions have not been understood. We investigated the effects of DPI on contraction and Ca²⁺ signaling and their underlying mechanisms using video edge detection, confocal imaging, and whole-cell patch clamp technique in isolated rat cardiac myocytes. Application of DPI suppressed cell shortenings in a concentration-dependent manner (IC₅₀ of ≅0.17 µM) with a maximal inhibition of ~70% at ~100 µM. DPI decreased the magnitude of Ca²⁺ transient and sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca²⁺ content by 20%-30% at 3 µM that is usually used to remove the Nox activity, with no effect on fractional release. There was no significant change in the half-decay time of Ca²⁺ transients by DPI. The L-type Ca²⁺ current (I_Ca) was decreased concentration-dependently by DPI (IC₅₀ of ≅40.3 µM) with ≅13.1%-inhibition at 3 µM. The frequency of Ca²⁺ sparks was reduced by 3 µM DPI (by ~25%), which was resistant to a brief removal of external Ca²⁺ and Na⁺. Mitochondrial superoxide level was reduced by DPI at 3-100 µM. Our data suggest that DPI may suppress L-type Ca²⁺ channel and RyR, thereby attenuating Ca²⁺-induced Ca²⁺ release and contractility in cardiac myocytes, and that such DPI effects may be related to mitochondrial metabolic suppression.

• 대한한의학방제학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.457-469
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• 2017

Obesity is one of the most serious health problem because it induced numerous metabolic syndrome and increases the incidence of various disease, including diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, atherosclerosis, and cancer. In 3T3-L1 adipocytes, increases in reactive oxygens species (ROS) occur with lipid accumulation. NADPH oxidase, producing superoxide anion, may contribute to the development of obesity-associated insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. In this study, we elucidated the effect of Chaenomeles sinensis koehne extract (CSE) against the development of obesity and the inhibition mechanisms in 3T3-L1 preadiocytes. CSE decreased triglyceride content and inhibited the expression of adipogenic transcription factors including peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor $(PPAR){\gamma}$, CCAT/enhancer binding protein $(C/EBP){\alpha}$ and sterol regulatory element-binding protein (SREBP-1). In addition, CSE highly increased antioxidant activity in a dose-dependent manner. CSE remarkably reduced intracellular ROS increase and NAD(P)H oxidase activity, NOX1, NOX4, Rac1 protein expression, and phosphorylation of p47phox and p67phox We also studied the effect of CSE on weight gain induced by high-fat diet. The oral treatment of CSE (500 mg/kg, body weight) in diet-induced obese (DIO) mice showed decrease in triglyceride and adipocyte size. Therefore, these results indicate that the effect of CSE on anti-obese effects, adipocyte differentiation and reducing triglyceride contents as well as adipocyte size in obese mice, may be associated with inhibition of NAD(P)H oxidase-induced ROS production and adipose transcription factors. These results showed the potential to inhibit the obesity by CSE treatment through controlling the activation of NAD(P)H oxidase in vitro and in vivo obese model.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.102-107
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• 1998

L-Arginine이 산화질소 생성의 전구물질로서 공헌하는 것 이외에 다른 기전에 의하여도 혈관이완을 일으키는가 구명하기 위하여 적출 흰쥐 흉부대동맥 표본에서 L-arginine에 의한 장력, 조직 산화질소 및 cGMP 함량 변동 등을 조사하여 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 1. Phenylephrine(3.5$\times$10－6 mol/L) 수축 대동맥 표본은 L-arginine(10－9~10－3 mol/L)에 의해 용량의존 이완되었다. NG-Nitro-L-arginine methyl ester(L-NAME, 10－5 mol/L) 전처치에 의해 저농도 L-arginine(10－9~10－6 mol/L)에 혈관이완 효과는 소실되었으나 고농도 L-arginine(10－4~10－3 mol/L)의 이완효과는 도리어 증강되었다. 내피층 파괴 혈관 표본은 L-arginine에 대해 이완반응을 보이지 않았다. 2. L-NAME(10－5 mol/L) 존재하에 일어나는 L-arginine 이완효과는 indomethacin 전처치에 의해 영향받지 않으나, ouabain 전처치에 의해 유의하게 감약되었다. 또한 L-arginine 이완효과는 methylene blue에 의해 부분적으로 길항되었다. KCl(3.5$\times$10－2 mol/L) 수축 대동맥 표본은 L-arginine(10－9~10－3 mol/L)에 의해 L-NAME (10－5 mol/L) 처치와 무관하게 이완반응을 보이지 않았다. 3. L-NAME는 혈관조직 산화질소 함량을 감소시키며 이 감소효과는 L-arginine(10－4 mol/L)에 의해 영향받지 않았다. 또한 L-NAME는 혈관조직 cGMP 함량을 감소시키나 이 감소효과는 L-arginine에 의해 영향받지 않았다. 이상의 실험성적은 L-arginine이 내피세포의 산화질소 및 cGMP 생성과 무관한 기전을 통해서도 내피의존 혈관이완효과를 나타냄을 시사하였다.