• Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.81-87
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• 2005

We have prepared karaya gum patches containing ketoprofen and investigated the effect of short-time current pretreatment of skin on the permeability. Hairless mouse skin was treated with current before the patch was mounted on the skin. The effect of current density and current duration on the flux of ketoprofen was studied. The possibility of additive effect with penetration enhancer (PGML) was also investigated. Iontophoretic pretreatment of skin increased the passive flux up to 3 folds at 0.4 $mA/cm^2$ current density, when the matrix contained no PGML. As the duration of current-pretreatment and current density increased, flux increased. PGML increased the average passive flux markedly, about 6 to 12 folds, depending on the concentration in the patch. Current pretreatment further increased the flux from this PGML containing patch, exhibiting additive effect. These results indicate that short-duration current pretreatment of skin can be an useful method for the enhancement of ketoprofen permeability through skin.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.117-126
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• 2000

Solubilization pretreatments were conducted to enhance the anaerobic digestion of the waste activated sludge. Four pretreatment techniques including heating, sonication freezing and thawing, and enzyme addition were employed to solubilize the waste activated sludge under various conditions. Thermal pretreatment by heating showed the highest efficiency compared with other methods, and freezing and thawing was confirmed as a feasible alternative of solubilization as well as the pretreatment of dewatering. There is a clear correlation between the solubilization efficiency of the waste activated sludge and the gas production. Batch digestion results showed the cumulative gas production as much as four times after thermal pretreatment as compared with that by the control sludge without pretreatment. As a result, hydrolysis or solubilization pretreatment might play a significant role in the high rate digestion of the waste activated sludge.

• Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.189-195
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• 1987

The effects of cimetidine or ranitidine pretreatment on the intestinal absorption, plasma and urine level of caffeine, gastric acidity of mouse, and sleeping time by hexobarbital sodium were investigated pharmacokinetically. Cimetidine and ranitidine pretreatments were found to increase both the rate and extent of absorption of caffeine in rats. Cimetidine pretreatment increased blood level of caffeine and decreased urine level, while ranitidine pretreatment had no effect on urine level of caffeine. Ranitidine pretreatment inhibited gastric secretion due to caffeine more than cimetidine pretreatment. Cimetidine pretreatment increased the action of caffeine and showed shorter sleeping time by hexobarbital sodium, comparing with ranitidine pretreatment.

• 약학회지
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.362-366
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• 1985

These paper was attempted to investigate the mechanism of increased blood level of sulfisomidine by cimetidine pretreatment pharmacokinetically. Especially, effect of cimetidine pretreatment on both renal clearance and biliary clearance of sulfisomidine was studied in rabbits. The results are as follows. The blood level of sulfisomidine administered intravenously in dose of 25mg/kg was elevated significantly by cimetidine pretreatment. Relative bioavailability and biological half-life were increased significantly by cimetidine pretreatment. Overall elimination rate constant ($betha$) and distribution rate constant ($K_{13}$) of sulfisomidine were decreased significantly by cimetidine pretreatment. The renal and biliary clearance of sulfisomidine were decreased significantly compared with those of control rabbits by cimetidine pretreatment. The results may be also related to the inhibition of sulfisomidine metabolism enzyme activity or reduction of blood flow in the liver.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.379-383
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• 2013

For the production of ethanol from freshwater cyanobacteria, a new pretreatment method using supercritical fluid was introduced. In this study, it was found that the supercritical fluid could penetrate inside the cell wall and help to liberate starch from cyanobacterial cells which resulted in the increase of the efficiency of ethanol production. For Microcystis aeruginosa, supercritical fluid pretreatment increased the amount of ethanol produced from cyanobacteria from 1.53 g/L to 2.66 g/L. For Anabaena variabilis, the amount of ethanol was increased from 1.25 g/L to 2.28 g/L. With use of supercritical fluid pretreatment, the efficiency of the process to obtain higher ethanol yields from freshwater cyanobacteria was improved upto 80%. The optimum temperature and pressure conditions for supercritical fluid pretreatment were determined as the temperature of $40^{\circ}C$ and the pressure of 120 atm. This study demonstrates the feasibility of using supercritical fluid pretreatment for ethanol production using freshwater cyanobacteria.

• 한국염색가공학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.39-42
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• 2003

Automatic concentration control system for pretreatment of dyeing was set up with adaptive control system supported by Fuzzy logic for the high speed successive pretreatment of fabric. Concentration of pretreatment bath was determined by the conductivity due to the ionized NaOH. Usability of this system was also evaluated with 30wt% of NaOH (conductivity of 0.25 S/cm) as an initial concentration. Conductivity fluctuated between 0.31 and 0.17 S/cm. This range accorded with the 21-35wt% of NaOH concentration.

• 마이크로전자및패키징학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.57-63
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• 2015

내산화 특성을 가지는 저가격 도전성 필러 소재로의 적용을 위해 Ag 코팅 Cu 플레이크의 제조를 수행하면서 Cu 플레이크 표면의 산화층 제거를 위한 암모니아수 기반 전처리 용액의 적용법에 따른 영향을 분석해 보았다. 1회 전처리법 적용 시 전처리 시간이 2분을 초과하면서 플레이크 표면에서 홀 형태의 결함들이 생성되었으며, 유지시간에 비례하면서 그 개수와 크기가 점차 증가하였다. 또한 2분간의 전처리 후 Ag 도금 용액을 투입한 결과 도금 반응 중에 결함 발생이 다시 진행되어 플레이크 입자의 손상을 막을 수 없었다. 이에 비해 2분간의 1차 전처리 후 전처리 용액을 제거하고 저농도의 전처리 용액을 투입하여 2차 전처리를 실시하면서 Ag 도금 용액을 투입한 공정법에서는 상기 결함의 발생 빈도를 크게 줄일 수 있었다. 그 결과 1회 전처리법으로 제조된 15 wt% Ag 코팅 Cu 시료의 경우 약 $166^{\circ}C$의 온도부터 산화가 시작되었지만, 2회 전처리법으로 제조된 시료는 약 $224^{\circ}C$에서 산화가 시작되어 월등히 향상된 내산화 특성을 나타내었다.

• Toxicological Research
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• 제13권1_2호
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• pp.103-110
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• 1997

This study was performed to investigate the effects of cadmium chloride on the acute and chronic toxicity on rats. Several toxic effects of cadmium has been shown following short-term and longterm pretreatment with cadmium and zinc. Four groups of rats (A, B, C, D), each consisting of 16 rats, were studied and each group was divided into four subgroups (1, 2, 3, 4), 4 rats for each subgroup. Rats were subcutaneously pretreated with $CdCl_2$ (0.5 mg/kg, A & C), and $ZnCl_2$ (13.0 mg/kg, B & D) during time periods of 1 weeks (group A & B) and 6 weeks (group C & D). At the end of the period, rats were challenged with $CdCl_2$ (3.0, 6.0 and 9.0 mg/kg, i.p.). After giving the challenge dose, cadmium and metallothionein(MT) concentrations were determined. The concentrations of cadmium were higher in the liver than the kidney irrelevantly to cadmium and zinc pretreatment and increased dose-dependently to the challenge dosage. The metallothioneins showed higher concentrations in the liver than the kidney following cadmium pretreatment and were higher in the long-term pretreatment groups than the short-term pretreatment groups in the liver and the kidney of rats. These data suggest that metallothioneins are induced preferentially in the liver by pretreatment of cadmium and then, formed in the form of Cd-MT, may play an important role in the nephrotoxicity.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제40권2호
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• pp.78-90
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• 2012

Soybean hull is an attractive feedstock for glucose production. To increase the glucose conversion in acid hydrolysis, a pretreatment method combined steam explosion with alkali pretreatment for soybean hull was studied. For first step pretreatment, steam explosion conditions (log Ro 2.45) were optimized to obtain maximum solid recovery and cellulose content. In the second step pretreatment, the conditions for potassium hydroxide pretreatment of steam exploded soybean hull were optimized by using RSM (response surface methodology). The optimum conditions for minimum lignin content were determined to be 0.6% potassium hydroxide concentration, $70^{\circ}C$ reaction temperature and 198 min reaction time. The predicted lignin content was 2.2% at the optimum conditions. Experimental verification of the optimum conditions gave the lignin content in similar value with the estimated value of the model. Finally, glucose conversion of pretreated soybean hull using acid hydrolysis resulted in $97.1{\pm}0.4%$. This research of two-step pretreatment was a promising method for increasing the glucose conversion in the cellulose-to-glucose process.

• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.205-212
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• 2011

Reverse osmosis (RO) technology has developed over the past 40 years to control a 44% market share in the world desalting production capacity and an 80% share in the total number of desalination plants installed worldwide. The application of conventional and low-pressure membrane pretreatment processes to seawater RO (SWRO) desalination has undergone accelerated development over the past decade. Reliable pretreatment techniques are required for the successful operation of SWRO processes, since a major issue is membrane fouling associated with particulate matter/colloids, organic/inorganic compounds, and biological growth. While conventional pretreatment processes such as coagulation and granular media filtration have been widely used for SWRO, there has been an increased tendency toward the use of ultrafiltration/microfiltration (UF/MF) instead of conventional treatment techniques. The literature shows that both the conventional and the UF/MF membrane pretreatment processes have different advantages and disadvantages. This review suggests that, depending on the feed water quality conditions, the suitable integration of multiple pretreatment processes may be considered valid since this would utilize the benefits of each separate pretreatment.