• 대한생식의학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.06a
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• pp.27-30
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• 2004

• 대한생식의학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.06a
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• pp.43-49
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• 2004

• 대한생식의학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.02a
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• pp.235-240
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• 2000

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Embryo Transfer Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.105-105
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• 2002

염색체의 구조적 이상으로 인한 습관성 유산과 기형아의 출산을 예방하기 위해 착상전 배아에서 할구를 분석하여 정상적인 핵형을 가진 배아만을 이식하는 착상전 유전자 진단 (preimplantation genetic diagnosis, PGD)의 성공적인 임상 적용이 보고되고 있으며, 그 적용 범위가 확대되고 있다. 그러나 일반적인 간기의 핵상을 이용한 PGD에서는 형광직접보합법 probe의 제약으로 보인자와 정상적인 핵형을 구분할 수 없는 단점이 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 보다 정확한 PGD를 위해 생쥐 배아를 이용하여 분리한 할구에서 중기 염색체상을 획득하기 위해 미세소관 (microtubule) 형성 저해제를 처리하였으며, 이를 통해 확립된 방법을 인간의 PGD에 적용하고자 하였다. 과배란이 유도된 ICR 생쥐에서 4- 또는 8-세포기 배아를 수획하여 colcemid, nocodazole, vinblastine을 각각 0.1, 0.5, 1.0, 5.0$\mu$M을 처리하고, hoechst 33342로 염색하여 핵상을 관찰하여 최적의 농도를 결정하였다. 또한 각 미세소관 형성 저해제를 혼합 처리하여 가장 높은 중기 염색체상을 획득할 수 있는 혼합 처리를 결정하였다. 이렇게 결정된 혼합 처리 방법을 인간의 체외 수정 및 배아 이식술에서 획득된 3PN 배아에 처리하여 중기 염색체를 획득하였다. Colcemid, nocodazole, vinblastine 모두 1 $\mu$M이 최적 농도임을 확인할 수 있었다 (각각 96.3%, 92.0%, 98,4%). 미세소관 형성저해제를 혼합 처리하였을 경우 nocodazole과 vinblastine (각각 1$\mu$M)을 혼합 처리했을 때 중기 염색체 획득률(97.3%)이 가장 높았다. 인간의 3PN 배아에 1$\mu$M의 nocodazole과 vinblastine을 혼합 처리한 후, 113개의 할구를 분석하여 44개(38.9%)의 할구에서 중기 염색체를 확인할 수 있었다. 본 실험 결과를 통해 중기 염색체를 획득하기 위하여 미세소관 형성 저해제를 처리하는 방법은 생쥐의 배아에서는 효과적이지만, 인간의 배아에서는 그 효율이 다소 낮음을 알 수 있었다. 그러나 이 방법을 개선하여 인간의 할구에서 중기 염색체의 획득률을 높이고, 이를 염색체의 구조적 이상에 대한 착상전 유전자 진단에 적용한다면, 보인자와 정상의 핵상을 구분하여 정상의 핵상만을 갖는 배아의 이식을 통하여 더욱 정확한 착상전 유전자 진단을 시행할 수 있으리라 사료된다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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• v.80 no.1
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• pp.97-102
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• 1991

Subcellular location of five isozymes in Populus species was studied by isozyme analysis with plant and mitochondria. Isozymes analyzed were ADH, 6-PGD, MDH, PGI, and Diaptrorase. ADH seems to be cytosolic isozyme encoded with nuclear genes at one locus, while 6-PGD seems to be mitochondrial one. MDH showed three hands in cytosol and four other bands in mitochondria. Three cytosolic hands were showed for PGI. Diaphorase showed one mitochodrial band and two cytosofic bands which seemed to the encoded by nuclear genes at one locus.

• Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.126-134
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• 2011

Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is gradually widely used in prevention of gene diseases and chromosomal abnormalities. Much improvement has been achieved in biopsy technique and molecular diagnosis. Blastocyst biopsy can increase diagnostic accuracy and reduce allele dropout. It is cost-effective and currently plays an important role. Whole genome amplification permits subsequent individual detection of multiple gene loci and screening all 23 pairs of chromosomes. For PGD of chromosomal translocation, fluorescence $in-situ$ hybridization (FISH) is traditionally used, but with technical difficulty. Array comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) can detect translocation and 23 pairs of chromosomes that may replace FISH. Single nucleotide polymorphisms array with haplotyping can further distinguish between normal chromosomes and balanced translocation. PGD may shorten time to conceive and reduce miscarriage for patients with chromosomal translocation. PGD has a potential value for mitochondrial diseases. Preimplantation genetic haplotyping has been applied for unknown mutation sites of single gene disease. Preimplantation genetic screening (PGS) using limited FISH probes in the cleavage-stage embryo did not increase live birth rates for patients with advanced maternal age, unexplained recurrent abortions, and repeated implantation failure. Polar body and blastocyst biopsy may circumvent the problem of mosaicism. PGS using blastocyst biopsy and array CGH is encouraging and merit further studies. Cryopreservation of biopsied blastocysts instead of fresh transfer permits sufficient time for transportation and genetic analysis. Cryopreservation of embryos may avoid ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome and possible suboptimal endometrium.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.430-436
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• 2022

Platycosides, Platycodi radix (Platycodon grandiflorus root) saponins, are used as food supplements and exert diverse pharmacological activities. Deglycosylation of saponins enhances their biological efficacy, and deglycosylated platycosides are produced mainly through enzymatic hydrolysis. However, the types of available deglycosylated platycosides remain limited because of a lack of hydrolyzing enzymes that can act on specific glycosides in glycosylated platycosides. In this study, a crude enzyme from Aspergillus tubingensis converted platycoside E (PE) and polygalacin D₃ (PGD3) into deglucose-apiose-xylosylated (deGAX)-platycodin D (PD) and deGAX-polygalacin D (PGD), respectively. The products were identified through LC/MS analysis by specifically hydrolyzing all glucose residues at C-3, and apiose and xylose residues at C-28 of platycoside. The hydrolytic activity of the crude enzyme obtained after the cultivation of the fungus using citrus pectin and corn steep solid as carbon and nitrogen sources, respectively, in culture medium was increased compared with those using other carbon and nitrogen sources. The crude enzyme from A. tubingensis was the most effective in producing deGAX platycoside at pH 5.0 and 60℃. The crude enzyme produced 0.32 mg/ml deGAX-PD and 0.34 mg/ml deGAX-PGD from 1 mg/ml PE and 1 mg/ml PGD3 (at pH 5.0 and 60℃) for 12 and 10 h, with productivities of 32.0 and 42.5 mg/l/h and molar yields of 62.1 and 59.6%, respectively. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to produce deGAX platycosides from glycosylated platycosides.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.621-631
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• 2023

Adversarial training improves the robustness of deep neural networks for adversarial examples. However, the previous adversarial training method focuses only on the adversarial loss function, ignoring that even a small perturbation of the input layer causes a significant change in the hidden layer features. Consequently, the accuracy of a defended model is reduced for various untrained situations such as clean samples or other attack techniques. Therefore, an architectural perspective is necessary to improve feature representation power to solve this problem. In this paper, we apply an attention module that generates an attention map of an input image to a general model and performs PGD adversarial training upon the augmented model. In our experiments on the CIFAR-10 dataset, the attention augmented model showed higher accuracy than the general model regardless of the network structure. In particular, the robust accuracy of our approach was consistently higher for various attacks such as PGD, FGSM, and BIM and more powerful adversaries. By visualizing the attention map, we further confirmed that the attention module extracts features of the correct class even for adversarial examples.

• Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.269-278
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• 2002

Objective s: Chromosome aneuploidy is associated with recurrent abortion and congenital anomaly and genetic diseases occur repeatedly in the specific families. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) can prevent aneuploidy or genetic disease by selecting normal embryos before implantation and is an alternative to prenatal diagnosis. The aim of this study is to assess the outcome of PGD cycles by using FISH or PCR, and to determine the clinical usefulness and values in patients with risk of chromosomal aneuploidy or genetic disease. Materials and Methods: From 1995 to Apr. 2001, a total of 108 PGD cycles in 65 patients with poor reproductive outcome were analyzed. The indications of PGD were translocation (n=49), inversion (n=2), aneuploidy screening (n=7), Duchenne muscular dystrophy (n=5) and spinal muscular atrophy (n=2). PGD was applied due to the history of recurrent abortion, previous birth of affected child or risk of aneuploidy related to sex chromosome aneuploidy or old age. Blastomere biopsy was performed in 6$\sim$10 cell stage embryo after IVF with ICSI. In the single blastomere, chromosome aneuploidy was diagnosed by using FISH and PCR was performed for the diagnosis of exon deletion in DMD or SMA. Results: The FISH or PCR amplification was successful in 94.3% of biopsied blastomeres. The rate of transferable balanced emb ryos was 24.0% in the chromosome translocation and inversion, 57.1% for the DMD and SMA, and 28.8% for the aneuploidy screening. Overall hCG positive rate per transfer was 17.8% (18/101) and clinical pregnancy rate was 13.9% (14/101) (11 term pregnancy, 3 abortion, and 4 biochemical pregnancy). The clinical pregnancy rate of translocation and inversion was 12.9% (11/85) and abortion rate was 27.3% (3/11). In the DMD and SMA, the clinical pregnancy rate was 33.3% (3/9) and all delivered at term. The PGD results were confirmed by amniocentesis and were correct. When the embryos developed to compaction or morula, the pregnancy rate was higher (32%) than that of the cases without compaction (7.2%, p<0.01). Conclusions: PGD by using FISH or PCR is useful to get n ormal pregnancy by reducing spontaneous abortion associated with chromosome aneuploidy in the patients with structural chromosome aberration or risk of aneuploidy and can prevent genetic disease prior to implantation.

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.86-91
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• 2009

In our ongoing search for biological components from the Korea endemic plants, the MeOH extract of Ailanthus altissima leaves (Simaroubaceae) showed cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) and 5-lipoxygenase (5-LOX) dual inhibitory activity by assessing their effects on the production of prostaglandin $D_2$ ($PGD_2$) and leukotriene $C_4$ ($LTC_4$) in mouse bone marrow-derived mast cells (BMMCs). In further study, eight compounds, squalene (1), ${\beta}$-sitosterol (2), scopoletin (3), quercetin (4), luteolin (5), astragalin (6), scopolin (7), and daucosterol (8) were isolated, the chemical structures were elucidated on the basis of physicochemical and spectroscopic data and by comparison with those of published literatures. Among the compounds, 2, 4, and 5 strongly inhibited both the COX-2-dependent PGD2 generation with $IC_{50}$ values of 2.6, 7.3 and 2.5 ${\mu}M$, respectively and the generation of $LTC_4$ in the 5-LOX dependent phase with $IC_{50}$ values of 2.0, 5.1 and 1.8 ${\mu}M$, respectively, which suggest that the anti-inflammatory activity of A. altissima might occur in part via the inhibition of both $PGD_2$ and $LTC_4$ generation by 2, 4 and 5.