• 한국식품위생안전성학회지
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.71-76
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• 2018

노로바이러스는 전 세계적으로 산발적인 발병 관련 비세균성 위장염의 주요 원인 물질이다. 노로바이러스 검출을 위해 역전사 실시간 PCR (RT qPCR)이 그 민감도와 특이성으로 인해 주요 수단으로 빠르게 자리 잡았다. 그러나 RT qPCR 분석을 위해서는 정확한 바이러스 RNA 추출방법이 필수적이다. TRIzol 시약은 생물학적 물질로부터 RNA의 추출에 이용되고 따라서 노로바이러스 RNA 추출에도 널리 사용된다. 이 연구에서는 인체 노로바이러스 유전체 그룹 I (GI) 및 유전자 그룹 II (GII)와 생쥐 노로바이러스(GV) 중에서 GII로부터의 TRIzol 을 이용한 바이러스 RNA의 추출률이 바이러스 시료 용액의 pH에 의존했다는 내용이 다루어졌다. 실시간 PCR의 Ct값으로 비교한 RNA 추출 수율은 산성 영역보다 알칼리성 pH에서 높았다. 이 연구 결과로 부터 TRIzol을 이용하여 GII RNA를 추출하여 노로바이러스를 정량적으로 분석할 때 pH조건이 대단히 중요하다는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.85-97
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• 2003

MRI, CT, MRI, PET, SPECT, fMRI 등과 같은 단층의료영상은 병원에서 환자의 진단 및 치료 임상적 연구에서 폭넓게 사용되고 있다. 동일한 대상에 대하여 서로 다른 정보를 얻거나 비교를 하기 위하여 서로 다른 영상양식으로 촬영하거나 시간적 간격을 두고 단층영상을 획득하는 경우가 많다. 3차원 영상정합은 비교하고자 하는 두 영상을 하나의 3차원 좌표 공간으로 지도화하는 것이며, 크게 마커기반 정합과 특징기반 정합으로 분류된다. 뇌 영상의 3차원 정합은 뇌 수술부위 선정, 뇌 기능 연구, 뇌 지도화 연구 등에서 시각적 분석과 정량적 분석에서 중요한 위치를 차지한다. 본 논문에서는 뇌의 단층영상에 대하여 흔히 사용되고 있는 3차원 정합인 마커기반 정합법과 특징기반 정합법에 대하여 소개하고 이에 대한 비교 고찰을 행하고자 한다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제16권11호
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• pp.4623-4628
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• 2015

Breast cancer still remains as the most frequent cancer with second mortality rate in women worldwide. There are no validated biomarkers for detection of the disease in early stages with effective power in diagnosis and therapeutic approaches. Cancer/testis antigens are recently promising tumor antigens and suitable candidates for targeted therapies and generating cancer vaccines. We conducted the present study to analyze transcript changes of two cancer/testis antigens, OIP5 and TAF7L, in breast tumors and cell lines in comparison with normal breast tissues by quantitative real time RT-PCR for the first time. Significant over-expression of OIP5 was observed in breast tumors and three out of six cell lines including MDA-MB-468, T47D and SKBR3. Not significant expression of TAF7L was evident in breast tumors but significant increase was noted in three out of six cell lines including MDA-MB-231, BT474 and T47D. OIP5 has ssignificant role in chromatin organization and cell cycle control during cell cycle exit and normal chromosome segregation during mitosis and TAF7L is a component of the transcription factor IID, which is involved in transcription initiation of most protein coding genes. TAF7Lis located at X chromosome and belongs to the CT-X gene family of cancer/testis antigens which contains about 50% of CT antigens, including those which have been used in cancer immunotherapy.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제14권11호
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• pp.6625-6629
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• 2013

Breast cancer accounts for one third of new cancer cases among women. The need for biomarkers for early detection is the stimulus to researchers to evaluate altered expression of genes in tumours. Cancer-testis (CT) genes are a group with limited expression in normal tissues except testis but up-regulation in a wide variety of cancers. We here evaluated expression of two CT genes named FBXO39 and TDRD4 in 32 invasive ductal carcinoma samples, 10 fibroadenomas and 6 normal breast tissue samples, in addition to two breast cancer cell lines, MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231, by the means of quantitative real time RT-PCR. FBXO39 showed significant up-regulation in invasive ductal carcinoma samples in comparison with normal samples. It also was expressed in both cell lines and after RHOXF1 gene knock down it was down-regulated in MCF-7 but up-regulated in the MDA-MB-231 cell line. TDRD4 was not expressed in the MCF-7 cell line and any of the tissue samples except testis. However, it was expressed in MDA-MB-231 and was up-regulated after RHOXF1 gene knock down. Our results show that FBXO39 but not TDRD4 can be used for cancer detection and if proved to be immunogenic, might be a putative candidate for breast cancer immunotherapy.

• 대한두개안면성형외과학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.53-57
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• 2015

Background: Surgical outcomes after orbital wall decompression have focused on the degree of exophthalmos and intraocular pressure. The aim of this research was to evaluate intraorbital volume using computed tomography (CT) images following two-wall decompression using a combined subcilliary and endoscopic approaches. Methods: A retrospective review was performed for all patients who had undergone the two-wall decompression method. The pre/postoperative CT images were used to evaluate changes in intraocular volume. Intraocular pressure was evaluated using applanation tonometry. Surgical details are discussed within the body of text. Results: Two-wall decompression thru the medial wall and floor was associated with an average intraorbital volume change of $7.3cm^3$, with maximal accommodation up to $13cm^3$. Changes in intraocular pressures were not statistically significant. Conclusion: Two-wall decompression was effective in accommodation of up to $13cm^3$ of soft tissue herniation. There was no statistically significant association between changes in volume to pressure.

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제54권4호
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• pp.280-288
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• 2013

Objective : Perfusion computed tomography (PCT) has the ability to measure quantitative value and produce maps of mean transit time (MTT), cerebral blood flow (CBF), and cerebral blood volume (CBV). We assessed cerebral hemodynamics by using these parameters and acetazolamide (ACZ) challenge for pre- and post-procedural evaluation in patients with unilateral cerebrovascular stenotic disease. Methods : Thirty patients underwent pre-procedural PCT with ACZ challenge, and 24 patients (80%) was conducted follow up PCT after angioplasty with same protocol. The mean MTT, CBF, and CBV were measured and compared in both middle cerebral arterial (MCA) territories before and after ACZ challenge. Hemispheric ratio and percent change after ACZ challenge were calculated before and after angioplasty. Results : The mean stenosis rate was 76.6%. Significant increases in MTT (32.6%, p=0.000) and significant decreases in CBF (-14.2%, p=0.000) were found in stenotic side MCA territories. After ACZ challenge, there were significant changes in MTT (37.4%, p=0.000), CBF (-13.1%, p=0.000), and CBV (-10.5%, p=0.001) in pre-procedural perfusion study. However, no significant increases were found in MTT, or decreases in CBF and CBV in post-procedural study. There were no significant changes after ACZ challenge also. In addition, the degrees of these changes (before and after ACZ challenge) were highly correlated with the stenotic degrees in pre-procedural perfusion study. Conclusion : PCT with ACZ challenge appears to be a useful tool to assess the cerebral perfusion status especially in patients with unilateral symptomatic stenotic disease.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.435-440
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• 2002

잔류응력이 판의 파괴 특성에 미치는 영향의 정량적 평가를 위하여, 균열이 존재하는 CT(Compact Tension) 시편에 가스 토오치 (gas torch)를 이용한 국부 가열을 실시하여 인위적인 잔류응력을 생성시키고, 열탄소성 유한요소해석을 통하여 생성된 잔류응력장을 평가하였으며, 잔류응력이 존재하는 시편과 잔류응력이 존재하지 않는 시편에 대한 파괴인성 실험을 실시하여 이들의 결과를 파괴저항 선도 상에서 비교, 분석함으로써 압축 잔류응력이 파괴 특성에 미치는 영향을 정량화하였다.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.25-32
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• 2016

Potato is one of the most important crops worldwide. Its commercial cultivars are highly susceptible to many fungal and bacterial diseases. Among these, bacterial wilt caused by Ralstonia solanacearum causes significant yield loss. In the present study, integrated proteomics and genomics approaches were used in order to identify bacterial wilt resistant genes from Rs resistance potato cultivar CT-206-10. 2-DE and MALDI-TOF/TOF-MS analysis identified eight differentially abundant proteins including glycine-rich RNA binding protein (GRP), tomato stress induced-1 (TSI-1) protein, pathogenesis-related (STH-2) protein and pentatricopeptide repeat containing (PPR) protein in response to Rs infection. Further, semi-quantitative RT-PCR identified up-regulation in transcript levels of all these genes upon Rs infection. Taken together, our results showed the involvement of the identified proteins in the Rs stress tolerance in potato. In the future, it would be interesting to raise the transgenic plants to further validate their involvement in resistance against Rs in potato.

• 대한수의학회지
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• 제58권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2018

Genus Artemisia occurs as a hardy plant and has a wide range of culinary and medicinal features. In this study, we aimed to describe the melanin inhibitory activity of one Artemisia species, i.e., Artemisia capillaris Thunb. Ethanol extracts of fermented Artemisia capillaris (Art.EtOH.FT) and non-fermented Artemisia capillaris (Art.EtOH.CT) were tested for their ability to inhibit tyrosinase activity and melanin pigmentation. Both extracts showed dose-dependent inhibition against ${\alpha}$-melanocyte stimulating hormone-stimulated melanin formation and tyrosinase activity, without cytotoxicity. At $100{\mu}g/mL$, both extracts showed greater inhibition than kojic acid, the positive control. Protein expressions of microphthalmia-associated transcription factor (MITF), tyrosinase (TYR), tyrosinase-related protein 1 (TRP-1), and tyrosinase-related protein 2 (TRP-2) at the transcriptional level were determined by using real-time and semi-quantitative polymerase chain reaction. To complete the mechanistic study, presences of upstream elements of MITF, the phosphorylated-extracellular signal-regulated kinase (p-ERK), and phosphorylated-mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase (p-MEK) were confirmed by using western blot analysis. Expressions of p-TYR, p-TRP-1 and p-TRP-2, downstream factors for p-ERK and p-MITF, were translationally inhibited by both extracts. Art.EtOH.FT induced more potent effects than Art.EtOH.CT, especially signal transduction effects. In summary, Artemisia capillaris extracts appear to act as potent hypopigmentation agents.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.37-48
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• 2016

본 연구는 실제 시공 환경에서 투수성 보도블록의 표면 유출 및 배수 특성을 알아보고자 하였으며, 표층 및 노반을 포함한 시편을 대상으로 불포화 상태에서 도심 내 우수 조건을 고려한 배수 실험을 진행하였다. 일정한 시간 간격을 두고 반복적인 배수 실험 및 공극 막힘 실험이 시행되었으며, 정량적 분석을 위하여 3D X-ray CT 이미지 분석 및 증발 실험을 시행하였다. 실험 결과, 시간 간격 동안 발생한 증발로 인해 공극 내 물이 공간적으로 재분포되어 표면 유출을 야기시키는 것으로 나타났다. 특히, 공기에 노출되어 있는 표층보다 시편 하부에 위치한 노반의 공극 변화가 투수성 보도블록의 배수, 증발 등 전체적인 수리학적 거동을 크게 저하시켰다. 또한 공극 내 침전물은 증발로 인한 변화를 증진 시키며, 이 때 저하된 배수 성능은 쉽게 회복되지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 그리고 선행우수조건에 의하여 배수 성능이 저감되면서 최대 표면 유출 높이가 증가하는 것으로 나타났다.