• 대한한의학방제학회지
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.81-98
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• 2023

Objectives : This study aimed to analyze the trends in research and development projects related to herbal medicine and natural products in the field of traditional Korean medicine (TKM) over the past 20 years. Methods : Research projects were identified using "Korean medicine" as the subject heading in the National Science and Technology Information Service. The included projects investigated Korean medicine, natural products, or were related to the TKM industry. Data pre-processing and network analysis were performed using Python and Networkx package, and the network was visualized using the ForceAtlas2 visualization algorithm. Results : 1. Over the study period, 4,020 projects were conducted with a research budget of KRW 835.2 billion. Seven institutions performed over 100 projects each, accounting for 2.4% of all participating institutions, and the top 10 institutions accounted for 58.9% of total projects. 2. Obesity was the most frequently mentioned disease-related keyword. Chronic or age-related diseases such as diabetes, osteoporosis, dementia, parkinson's disease, cancer, inflammation, and asthma were also frequent research topics. Clinical research, safety, and standardization were also frequently mentioned. 3. Centrality analysis found that obesity was the only disease-related keyword identified, alongside TKM-related keywords. Standardization, safety, and clinical trials were identified as central keywords. Conclusions : The study found that research projects in TKM have focused on standardizing and ensuring the safety of herbal medicine, as well as on chronic and age-related diseases. Clinical studies aimed at verifying the effectiveness of herbal medicine were also frequent. These findings can guide future research and development in herbal medicine.

• 대한중풍순환신경학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.41-54
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• 2023

■Objectives This study is to report the effectiveness of Korean medicine on the treatment for multiple system atropy(MSA-C) patient complaining of autonomic dysfunction. ■Methods The patient was treated with Korean medicine(mainly DokhwalJihwang-tang Gami-bang) for 39 days. The evaluations were performed using UMSARS(Unified Multiple System Atrophy Rating Scale), SCOPA-AUT(The Scale for Outcomes in Parkinson's disease-Autonomic), K-OGS(Korean version of the Orthostatic Grading Scale). ■Results After treatment, the UMSARS score decreased from 25 to 18, the SCOPA-AUT score decreased from 21 to 14, K-OGS score decrease from 15 to 8. ■Conclusion This case suggests that Korean medicine treatment may be effective for MSA-C patients with autonomic dysfuction.

• Journal of Interdisciplinary Genomics
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.35-41
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• 2023

Background: Ca²⁺ signaling plays a vital role in neuronal signaling and altered Ca²⁺ homeostasis in Parkinson's disease (PD). Overexpression of αSYN significantly promote the Ca²⁺-Calmodulin (CaM) activity and subsequent nuclear translocation of nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT) transcription factor in dopaminergic neurons of midbrain. However, the exact role of Ca²⁺-CaM and NFAT in PD pathology is yet to be elucidated. Methods: We designed the CaM-NFAT-oligodeoxynucleotide (ODN), a synthetic short DNA containing complementary sequence for NFAT transcription factor and CaM mRNA. Then, the effect of CaM-NFAT-ODN on 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium (MPP⁺)-mediated neurotoxicity was investigated in mimic PD model in vitro. Results: First, the expression of αSYN and CaM was strongly increased in substantia nigra (SN) of PD and the expression of tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) was strongly increased in control SN. Additionally, the expression of apoptosis marker proteins was strongly increased in SN of PD. Transfection of CaM-NFAT-ODN repressed CaM and pNFAT, the target genes of this ODN in rat embryo primary mesencephalic neurons. It also reduced ERK phosphorylation, a downstream target of these genes. These results demonstrated that CaM-NFAT-ODN operated successfully in rat embryo primary mesencephalic neurons. Transfection of CaM-NFAT-ODN repressed TH reduction, αSYN accumulation, and apoptosis by MPP⁺-induced neurotoxicity response through Ca²⁺ signaling and mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPK) signaling. Conclusion: Synthetic CaM-NFAT-ODN has substantial therapeutic feasibility for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.

• Korean Journal of Radiology
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.247-258
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• 2023

Objective: To localize the neuroanatomical substrate of rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD) and to investigate the neuroanatomical locational relationship between RBD and α-synucleinopathy neurodegenerative diseases. Materials and Methods: Using a systematic PubMed search, we identified 19 patients with lesions in different brain regions that caused RBD. First, lesion network mapping was applied to confirm whether the lesion locations causing RBD corresponded to a common brain network. Second, the literature-based RBD lesion network map was validated using neuroimaging findings and locations of brain pathologies at post-mortem in patients with idiopathic RBD (iRBD) who were identified by independent systematic literature search using PubMed. Finally, we assessed the locational relationship between the sites of pathological alterations at the preclinical stage in α-synucleinopathy neurodegenerative diseases and the brain network for RBD. Results: The lesion network mapping showed lesions causing RBD to be localized to a common brain network defined by connectivity to the pons (including the locus coeruleus, dorsal raphe nucleus, central superior nucleus, and ventrolateral periaqueductal gray), regardless of the lesion location. The positive regions in the pons were replicated by the neuroimaging findings in an independent group of patients with iRBD and it coincided with the reported pathological alterations at post-mortem in patients with iRBD. Furthermore, all brain pathological sites at preclinical stages (Braak stages 1-2) in Parkinson's disease (PD) and at brainstem Lewy body disease in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) were involved in the brain network identified for RBD. Conclusion: The brain network defined by connectivity to positive pons regions might be the regulatory network loop inducing RBD in humans. In addition, our results suggested that the underlying cause of high phenoconversion rate from iRBD to neurodegenerative α-synucleinopathy might be pathological changes in the preclinical stage of α-synucleinopathy located at the regulatory network loop of RBD.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제23권12호
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• pp.101-106
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• 2023

Chronic illnesses are among the most common serious problems affecting human health. Early diagnosis of chronic diseases can assist to avoid or mitigate their consequences, potentially decreasing mortality rates. Using machine learning algorithms to identify risk factors is an exciting strategy. The issue with existing feature selection approaches is that each method provides a distinct set of properties that affect model correctness, and present methods cannot perform well on huge multidimensional datasets. We would like to introduce a novel model that contains a feature selection approach that selects optimal characteristics from big multidimensional data sets to provide reliable predictions of chronic illnesses without sacrificing data uniqueness.[1] To ensure the success of our proposed model, we employed balanced classes by employing hybrid balanced class sampling methods on the original dataset, as well as methods for data pre-processing and data transformation, to provide credible data for the training model. We ran and assessed our model on datasets with binary and multivalued classifications. We have used multiple datasets (Parkinson, arrythmia, breast cancer, kidney, diabetes). Suitable features are selected by using the Hybrid feature model consists of Lassocv, decision tree, random forest, gradient boosting,Adaboost, stochastic gradient descent and done voting of attributes which are common output from these methods.Accuracy of original dataset before applying framework is recorded and evaluated against reduced data set of attributes accuracy. The results are shown separately to provide comparisons. Based on the result analysis, we can conclude that our proposed model produced the highest accuracy on multi valued class datasets than on binary class attributes.[1]

• 한국응용약물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국응용약물학회 1996년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.19-29
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• 1996

The neurological manifestations of AIDS include dementia, encountered even in the absence of opportunistic superinfection or malignancy. The AIDS Dementia Complex appears to be associated with several neuropathological abnormalities, including astrogliosis and neuronal injury or loss. How can HIV-1 result in neuronal damage if neurons themselves are only rarely, if ever, infected by the vitus\ulcorner In vitro experiments from several different laboratiories have lent support to the existence of HIV- and immune-related toxins. In one recently defined pathway to neuronal injury, HIV-infected macrophages/microglia as well as macrophages activated by HIV-1 envelope protein gp120 appear to secrete excitants/neurotoxins. These substances may include arachidonic acid, platelet-activating factor, free radicals (NO - and O$_2$), glutamate, quinolinate, cysteine, cytokines (TNF-${\alpha}$, IL1-B, IL-6), and as yet unidentified factors emanating from stimulated macrophages and possibly reactive astrocytes. A final common pathway for newonal suscepubility appears to be operative, similar to that observed in stroke, trauma, epilepsy, and several neurodegenerative diseases, including Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. This mechanism involves excessive activation of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor-operated channels, with resultant excessive influx of Ca$\^$2+/ leading to neuronal damage, and thus offers hope for future pharmacological intervention. This chapter reviews two clinically-tolerated NMDA antagonists, memantine and nitroglycerin; (ⅰ) Memantine is an open-channel blocker of the NMDA-associated ion channel and a close congener of the anti-viral and anti-parkinsonian drug amantadine. Memantine blocks the effects of escalating levels of excitotoxins to a greater degree than lower (piysiological) levels of these excitatory amino acids, thus sparing to some extent normal neuronal function. (ⅱ) Niuoglycerin acts at a redox modulatory site of the NMDA receptor/complex to downregulate its activity. The neuroprotective action of nitroglycerin at this site is mediated by n chemical species related to nitric oxide, but in a higher oxidation state, resulting in transfer of an NO group to a critical cysteine on the NMDA receptor. Because of the clinical safety of these drugs, they have the potential for trials in humans. As the structural basis for redox modulation is further elucidated, it may become possible to design even better redox reactive reagents of chinical value. To this end, redox modulatory sites of NMDA receptors have begun to be characterized at a molecular level using site-directed mutagenesis of recombinant subunits (NMDAR1, NMDAR2A-D). Two types of redox modulation can be distinguished. The first type gives rise to a persistent change in the functional activity of the receptor, and we have identified two cysteine residues on the NMDARI subunit (#744 and #798) that are responsible for this action. A second site, presumably also a cysteine(s) because <1 mM N-ethylmaleimide can block its effect in native neurons, underlies the other, more transient redox action. It appears to be at this, as yet unidentified, site on the NMDA receptor that the NO group acts, at least in recombinant receptors.

• 한국식품영양학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.321-325
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• 2002

아마란스를 충분한 양의 물에 침지한 후 물기를 제거하고 수분함량이 30~50중량%일 때 가열솥에서 이취가 없어지고 고소한 냄새가 나며 색이 더 노랗게 변하면서 입자가 puffing될 때까지 볶아준 다음 비스킷에 첨가하여 관능성과 상품성을 향상시켰다. 가수량에 따른 팽창용적 측정 결과 1.3배에서 1.6배 가수량에서 가장 큰 부피의 팽창이 있었고, 가공 방법에 따른 호화도 측정 결과 취반의 경우는 가수량이 증가함에 따라 호화도가 증가하였고, 볶은 아마란스의 호화도가 64.10%로 쪄서 말린 아마란스의 호화도 57.59%보다 높은 것을 알 수 있었다. 또한 찐 후 말린 아마란스와 생 아마란스는 경도($\times$$10^{5}$dyn/$\textrm{cm}^2$)가 각각 16,197과 13,601로 단단한 것으로 측정되었고 볶은 아마란스가 1,580으로 가장 무른 것으로 측정되었다. 생 아마란스와 볶은 아마란스, 찐 후의 아마란스를 첨가하여 비스킷을 제조한 결과 생 아마란스는 이취와 이질감이 문제가 되었고 찐 후 말린 아마란스는 점성은 제거 할 수있었으나 색이 검게 변화하는 것을 개선할 수 없었으며 볶은 아마란스의 경우 비스킷 첨가시 이취나 이질감이 거의 없었고 흰색으로 변화함에 따라 비스킷의 색을 더욱 밝게 해주는 효과도 있었다. 또한 비스킷에 첨가될 볶은 아바란스의 함랑은 5%일 때 가장 적절한 미감을 보이는 것으로 여겨진다. 볶은 아마란스를 5% 첨가한 비스킷과 볶은 아마란스 자체의 시간에 따른 산패도 변화를 측정하였을 때 볶은 아마란스 자체의 산가와 과산화물가는 어느 정도 높고 서서히 산패가 진행되지만, 이를 5% 함유한 비스켓의 산가와 과산화 물가는 매우 낮게 나타나 실험결과로 미루어 제품의 품질은 약 6개월 정도의 유통기한에서는 매우 안정한 것으로 추정되었다.다.of NAA/Cr ratios of lentiform nucleus between the symptomatic and the nonsymptomatic side, the present $^1$H MRS study shows a significant neuronal laterality in Parkinson's disease with unilateral symptom. In vivo $^1$H MRS may provide a diagnostic marker for neuronal dysfunction in Parkinson's disease with unilateral symptom.작용(作用)시켰으나 구등(?等)의 영향(影響)을 받지 아니 하였고 physostigmine의 작용(作用)은 길항(拮抗하였다. 이상(以上)의 결과(結果)로 보아 $PGE_1$은 동물(動物)의 정관(精管)에 대(對)한 작용(作用)에는 종(種)의 차이(差異)가 있으며 $PGE_1$은 교감신경효능제(交感神經效能劑)에 의(依)한 기니아-픽 정관수축작용(精管收縮作用)에 대(對)하여 supersensitivity를 야기(惹起)시켰으며, 이는 정관평활근(精管平滑筋)에 대(對)한 직접작용(直接作用)이 아닌 다른 작용기전(作用機轉)에 기인(基因)할 것으로 사료(思料)되는 바이다.10.41-12.63으로서 호기적 탈질을 일으킨다고 보고된 T. pantotropha 균주를 사용한 실험결과와 비슷한 값을 나타내었고, $N_2$로의 변환에 의한 질소제거를 N-balance로부터 구해보면, R3 반응조의 경우가 가장 높은 제거율(40.9%)을 보였다. 이상의 결과들을 볼 때, Bncillus 균주는 호기적 탈질을 일으킬 수 있는 가능성이 있고, Bncillus 균주를 이용한 B3 공정은 탈질에

• 대한핵의학회지
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.44-51
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• 1994

연구배경 : 정상적인 자극전도계를 통한 좌심실과 우심실의 전기적 활성은 거의 동시에 일어나지만 심실내에 자극전도 장애가 있는 경우 비정상적인 수축이 있게 된다. 이러한 변화는 자극전달의 속도가 빠르고 복잡하여 정량화 할 수 없었다. 이에 심실내 전도장애가 있는 환자를 대상으로 방사성동위원소 심장풀스캔(radionuclide gated blood pool scan, GBPS)을 이용한 위상분석(phase image analysis)을 통하여 비정상적인 수축정도를 정량화하고자 하였다. 방법 : 심실내 전도장애 환자 및 조기수축증후군환자에서 방사능동위원소 심장풀스캔을 이용하여 심전도상 전도장애를 보인 환자를 대상으로 좌심실 구혈률, 위상각, 위상각의 표준편차, 전체반값폭, 위상각의 범위를 측정하였으며 비정상적으로 수축하는 과정을 위상영상분석을 통하여 심실의 비정상적으로 수축하는 과정을 비교 분석하였다. 결과 : 좌각블록환자에서는 위상각의 포준편차, 전체 반값폭, 위상각의 범위는 정상대조군에 비하여 유의한 차이를 보였으나 우각블록환자에서는 대조군과 차이가 없었다. WPW 증후군환자에서는 위상각의 표준편차와 위상각의 범위는 유의하게 증가하였고 전체반값폭은 정상대조군에 비하여 차이가 없었다. 정상심전도를 보인 환자에서는 위상각의 지연없이 좌심실과 우심실을 거의 동시에 심장수축을 유발하는 것을 관찰한 반면 좌각블록을 가진 환자에서는 RV에 비하여 늦은 LV의 phase을 보였고, 우각블록을 가진 환자에서는 LV에 비하여 늦은 RV phase을 보였다. 또한 WPW 증후군환자의 77%에서 Kent bundle의 위치를 영상분석으로 추정할 수 있었다. 결론 : 이상의 결과로 GBPS의 위상영상분석은 심전도장애 및 조기수축증후군 환자에서 위상영상을 통하여 심장의 활성화 과정을 알아볼 수 있었으며 위상영상히스토그램을 통하여 이를 정량화하여 심실내 전기적 활성의 비동시성 여부를 추적관찰 할 수 있는 비관혈적검사임을 확인하였다.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.237-247
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• 2021

신경염증(neuroinflammation)은 여러 신경 질환의 원인 인자로 확인되고있다. 중추 신경계에 발현되는 단백질 복합체인 NLRP3 인플라마좀은 미생물, 응집되고 잘못 접힌 단백질, ATP와 같은 광범위한 외인성 및 내인성 자극에 의해 감지되고 캐스페이즈-1(capase-1)을 활성화할 수 있다. 활성을 띠는 캐스페이즈-1은 IL-1b와 IL-18과 같은 염증성 사이토카인(pro-inflammatory cytokine)을 활성화시키고 급속한 세포사멸(파이롭토시스, pyroptosis)를 야기한다. IL-1b와 IL-18, 그리고 파이롭토시스를 통해 분비된 DAMPs은 다양한 신호 전달 경로를 통해 신경염증 반응을 유도하여 신경 손상을 유발한다. 따라서 NLRP3 인플라마좀은 신경염증으로 인한 여러 가지 신경질환 발병에 중요한 역할을 할 것으로 여겨진다. 본 리뷰 에서는 NLRP3 인플라마좀의 구조와 활성화에 대해 간략히 알아 보고 다양한 형태의 신경 질환에서 NLRP3 인플라마좀의 역할에 대해 논의하고자 한다.

• Journal of Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제66권
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• pp.250-257
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• 2023

Glutamate는 포유류의 중추신경계에 분포하는 흥분성 신경전달물질로, 기억, 인지, 그리고 학습 등에 있어서 중요한 역할을 한다. 하지만 고농도의 Glutamate는 신경세포에 독성을 유발하여 신경세포사멸을 유도함으로써 알츠하이머병, 파킨슨병, 뇌졸중 등의 신경퇴행성질환을 일으키는 것으로 알려져 있다. 본 연구에서 아열대 천연물의 항산화 활성과 신경보호 효과를 분석하였다. 11종의 아열대 추출물 중에서 Salacca wallichiana 추출물 (SE)의 라디칼 소거활성이 뛰어난 것으로 나타났다. 그리고 SE의 신경보호 효과를 조사한 결과 glutamate로 유도되는 cell death로부터 신경세포를 보호하였다. 또한 glutamate로 유도되는 apoptosis로부터 HT22 세포를 보호하는 효과는 Annexin V와 PI로 염색한 후 flow cytometry를 통해 분석되었다. 추가적으로 H₂DCFDA 염색을 이용하여 SE가 glutamate로 유도되는 세포 내 활성 산소 종 (ROS)을 억제한다는 것을 확인했다. SE의 신경보호 효과는 oxidative stress로 유발되는 Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling pathway를 억제함으로써 신경세포를 보호하는 것으로 나타났다. 결과적으로 SE가 신경퇴행성질환을 예방하기 위한 치료제 개발에 기여할 수 있음을 나타낸다.