• Applied Microscopy
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.193-205
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• 1998

The Urechis unicinctus sperm and spermatogenic cells prepared from the testis are investigated to identify $\alpha-tubulin$ of axoneme microtubules using mouse monoclonal $anti-\alpha-tubulin$ as the first Ab and Gold(10nm) conjugated goat anti-mouse IgG as the Ab marker. The Ag-Ab reaction analyzed excellently the localization of $\alpha-tubulin$ and the gold particles incorporated with the proximal and distal centrioles, manchette microtubules, and flagellum. The gold particles can be also observed in the spermatogenic cells while the cells are still in sperm ball which is composed of a somatic cell and spermatogenic cells. The sperm ball is the functional unit of sperm production in U unicinctus testis. The spermatids are developed from the spermatogenic cells in the sperm ball and released into the testis cavity through a cortical cytoplasmic opening. The spermatid architectures are similar with the mature sperm of the testis cavity in aspects of shape of discoid acrosome, degree of nuclear condensation and ring type of mitochondrion. However, the distal centriole connecting with the flagella can be observed from the mature sperm while the both proximal and distal centrioles reveal only in the spermatids. The proximal centriole is directly connected with nuclear outer membrane during the stage of nuclear condensation and oriented perpendicularly to the distal centriole whose axis coinciding with the longitudinal axis of the spermatozoon. There are indications that the distal centriole is intimately associated with the polymerization of the flagellum. The manchette microtubules appear during spermatid development but the mature sperm have round head and no conspicuous middle piece.

• 폴리머
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.518-521
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• 2005

생분해성 고분자와 수화젤의 약물 전달 시스템과 조직 공학을 포함하는 다양한 생의학적인 응용이 점차 확대되고 있다. 하이드록실 pendant group을 갖고 있는 폴리아미노산의 하나인 PHEA는 뛰어난 생분해성과 우수한 생체적합성을 갖는 고분자로 알려져 있다 PHEA 및 그 유도고분자를 제조하고 이를 다양한 생의학적인 응용에 적용하는 연구가 진행되어 왔다. 본 연구에서는 유기용매에서 가교제인 HMDI를 사용하여 PHEA 수화젤을 제조하였다. PHEA는 아스팔트산의 열 축중합에 의해 합성한 polysuccinimide와 ethanolamine과의 고분자 반응으로부터 제조하였다. 제조한 수화젤에 대한 서로 다른 수용액과 pH용액에서의 팽윤 거동을 조사하였고, SEM을 통한 수화젤의 모폴로지와 가수분해 거동을 관찰하였다.

• 폴리머
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.328-334
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• 2004

단백질 전달체로 이용하기 위한 폴리(에틸렌 글리콜)-폴리(락타이드-co-글리콜라이드) 공중합체는 카비톨 (134 g/mole)과 550, 2000 및 5000g/mole의 각기 다른 분자량을 가진 메톡시 폴리(에틸렌 글리콜)을 개시제로 하여 촉매인 Sn(Oct)$_2$를 사용하여 L-락타이드와 글리콜라이드의 개환중합에 의해 합성되었다. $^1$H-NMR, GPC, 그리고 XRD를 이용하여 합성된 블록 공증합체의 특성을 결정하였다. 이식형 웨이퍼를 준비하기 위하여 동결분쇄기를 이용하여 형광이 결합된 1% 소 혈청 알부민과 고분자를 균일 혼합 후에 3mm${\times}$1mm의 크기로 웨이퍼를 제조하였다. 형광 알부민의 방출 거동과 pH 변화는 pH 7.4의 인산염완충용액을 이용하여 37$^{\circ}C$, 100rpm의 항온조에서 30일 동안 관찰하였다. 알부민의 방출양은 형광분광기를 통하여 FITC의 강도에 의해 결정되었다. 알부민의 방출 거동은 블록 공중합체내에서 MPEG의 분자량이 증가할수록 빠른 초기방출을 보였고, PLGA의 분자량을 조절함으로서 약물의 방출기간을 결정할 수 있었다. 이러한 결과로 생분해성 PLGA에 친수성인 MPEG의 도입을 통해 약물의 방출거동을 조절할 수 있었다.

• 폴리머
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.232-238
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• 2004

약물 전달체로서 메톡시 폴리(에틸렌 글리콜) (MPEG, methoxypolyethylene glycol)과 생분해성 폴리에스테르 계열의 카프로탁톤 ($\varepsilon$-CL, $\varepsilon$-caprolactone)으로 구성된 MPEG-PCL 블록 공중합체를 개환중합을 통해 합성하였다. MPEG-PCL의 결정성과 열적특성은 X선 굴절계와 시사주차열량계를 통하여 분석하였다 모델 단백질로서 알부민 (FITC-BSA, albumin bovine-fluorescein isothiocyanate)과 블록 공중합체를 동결 제분 후, 직접압축 성형방법에 의해 웨이퍼를 제조하였다. 알부민의 방출은 pH 7.4 인산염완충액을 사용하여 37$^{\circ}C$에서 14일 동안 관찰하였다. 알부민의 방출양은 형광분광기를 통하여 FITC의 강도에 의해 결정되었다. 웨이퍼의 형태학적 관찰은 디지털 카메라와 전자주사현미경을 통하여 관찰하였다. 알부민의 방출 속도와 초기 burst는 MPEG-PCL 블록 공중합체의 분절 내에서 폴리(에틸렌 글리롤)의 분자량이 증가할수록 또한 폴리카프로락톤의 분자량이 감소할수록 많은 초기방출과 단축된 방출기간을 보였다.

• 폴리머
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• 제37권6호
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• pp.777-783
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• 2013

본 연구에서는 실리카 나노입자를 dipodal 형태의 bis[3-(trimethoxysilyl)propyl]amine(BTMA) 실란 커플링제로 실리카 표면을 개질한 후, glycidyl methacrylate(GMA)로 표면 처리를 하여 실리카에 결합된 BTMA의 N-H기와 GMA의 epoxide기의 개환 반응에 의하여 실리카 표면에 중합용 methacrylate기를 도입하는 연구를 수행하였다. 반응시간, 반응온도 및 투입하는 GMA의 농도 변화가 BTMA의 N-H기와 GMA의 epoxide기 사이의 반응에 미치는 영향을 Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy(FTIR), elemental analysis(EA) 및 고체상태 $^{13}C$ cross-polarization magic angle spinning(CP/MAS), nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy(NMR)법을 사용하여 분석하였다. BTMA로 개질된 실리카를 GMA로 처리하면 실리카 입자에 결합되어 있는 BTMA의 N-H기와 GMA의 epoxide기가 열리면서 상호 반응이 일어났으며, 실험한 조건에서는 반응시간, 반응온도 및 투입하는 GMA 농도가 증가할수록 실리카 표면에 도입되는 methacrylate기가 증가함을 확인하였다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제50권2호
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• pp.218-222
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• 2018

An oxide-dispersion-strengthened (ODS) layer was formed on Zircaloy-4 tubes by a laser beam scanning process to increase mechanical strength. Laser beam was used to scan the yttrium oxide ($Y_2O_3$)-coated Zircaloy-4 tube to induce the penetration of $Y_2O_3$ particles into Zircaloy-4. Laser surface treatment resulted in the formation of an ODS layer as well as microstructural phase transformation at the surface of the tube. The mechanical strength of Zircaloy-4 increased with the formation of the ODS layer. The ring-tensile strength of Zircaloy-4 increased from 790 to 870 MPa at room temperature, from 500 to 575 MPa at $380^{\circ}C$, and from 385 to 470 MPa at $500^{\circ}C$. Strengthening became more effective as the test temperature increased. It was noted that brittle fracture occurred at room temperature, which was not observed at elevated temperatures. Resistance to dynamic high-temperature bursting improved. The burst temperature increased from 760 to $830^{\circ}C$ at a heating rate of $5^{\circ}C/s$ and internal pressure of 8.3 MPa. The burst opening was also smaller than those in fresh Zircaloy-4 tubes. This method is expected to enhance the safety of Zr fuel cladding tubes owing to the improvement of their mechanical properties.

• 방사선산업학회지
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.181-187
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• 2016

Selective ${\beta}_1$-agonist and antagonists are used for the treatment of cardiac diseases including congestive heart failure, angina pectoris and arrhythmia. Selective ${\beta}_1$-antagonists including nebivolol have high binding affinity on ${\beta}_1$-adrenergic receptor, not ${\beta}_2$-receptor mainly expressed in smooth muscle. Nebivolol is one of most selective ${\beta}_1$-blockers in clinically used ${\beta}_1$-blockers including atenolol and bisoprolol. We tried to develop clinically useful cardiac PET tracers using a selective ${\beta}_1$-blocker. Nebivolol is $C_2$-symmetric and has two chromane moiety with a secondary amino alcohol and aromatic fluorine. We adopted the general synthetic strategy using epoxide ring opening reaction. Unlike formal synthesis of nebivolol, we prepared two chromane building blocks with fluorine and iodine which was transformed to diaryliodonium salt for labelling of $^{18}F$. Two epoxide building blocks were readily prepared from commercially available chromene carboxylic acids (1, 8). Then, the amino alcohol building block (15) was prepared by ammonolysis of epoxide (14) followed by coupling reaction with the other building block, epoxide (7). Diaryliodonium salt, a precursor for $^{18}F$-aromatic substitution, was synthesized in moderate yield which was readily subjected to $^{18}F$-aromatic substitution to give $^{18}F$-labelled nebivolol.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.467-475
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• 2001

A triblock copolymer based on $poly(\varepsilon-caprolactone)$ (PCL) as the hydrophobic part and poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) as the hydrophilic portion was synthesized by a ring-opening mechanism of ${\varepsilon}-caprolactone$ with PEG containing a hydroxyl group at bot h ends as an initiator. The synthesized block copolymers of PCL/PEG/PCL (CEC) were confirmed and characterized using various analysis equipment such as 1H NMR, DSC, FT-IR, and WAXD. Core-shell type nanoparticles of CEC triblock copolymers were prepared using a dialysis technique to estimate their potential as a colloidal drug carrier using a hydrophobic drug. From the results of particle size analysis and transmission electron microscopy, the particle size of CEC core-shell type nanoparticles was determined to be about 20-60 nm with a spherical shape. Since CEC block copolymer nanoparticles have a core-shell type micellar structure and small particle size similar to polymeric micelles, CEC block copolymer can self-associate at certain concentrations and the critical association concentration (CAC) was able to be determined by fluorescence probe techniques. The CAC values of the CEC block copolymers were dependent on the PCL block length. In addition, drug loading contents were dependent on the PCL block length: the larger the PCL block length, the higher the drug loading content. Drug release from CEC core-shell type nanoparticles showed an initial burst release for the first 12 hrs followed by pseudo-zero order release kinetics for 2 or 3 days. CEC-2 block copolymer core-shell type nanoparticles were degraded very slowly, suggesting that the drug release kinetics were governed by a diffusion mechanism rather than a degradation mechanism irrelevant to the CEC block copolymer composition.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.285-291
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• 1987

The approximate rates, stoichiometries and products of the reaction of potassium triethylborohydride $(KEt_3BH)$ with selected organic compounds containing representative functional groups under the standard condition $(0^{\circ}C,$ THF) were examined in order to explore the reducing characteristics of this reagent as a selective reducing agent. Primary alcohols, phenols and thiols evolve hydrogen rapidly whereas secondary and tertiary alcohols evolve very slowly. n-Hexylamine is inert to this reagent. Aldehydes and ketones are reduced rapidly and quantitatively to the corresponding alcohols. Reduction of noncamphor gives 3% exo- and 97% endo-norboneol. Anthraquinone is cleanly reduced to 9,10-dihydro-9,10-dihydroxyanthracene stage. Carboxylic acids liberate hydrogen rapidly and quantitatively but further reduction does not occur. Anhydrides utilize 2 equiv of hydride to give an equimolar mixture of acid and alcohol. Acid chlorides, esters and lactones are rapidly and quantitatively reduced to the corresponding alcohols. Epoxides are reduced at moderate rates with Markovnikov ring opening to give the more substituted alcohols. Primary amides liberate 1 equiv of hydrogen rapidly. Further reduction of caproamide is slow whereas benzamide is not reduced. Tertiary amides are reduced slowly. Benzonitrile utilizes 2 equiv of hydride in 3 h to go to the amine stage whereas capronitrile takes only 1 equiv. The reaction of nitro compounds undergo rapidly whereas azobenzene and azoxybenzene are reduced slowly. Cyclohexanone oxime rapidly evolves hydrogen without reduction. Phenyl isocyanate utilizes 1 equiv of hydride to proceed to formanilide stage. Pyridine N-oxide and pyridine is reduced rapidly. Disulfides are rapidly reduced to the thiol stage whereas sulfoxide, sulfonic acid are practically inert to this reagent. Sulfones and cyclohexyl tosylate are slowly reduced. Octyl bromide is reduced rapidly but octyl chloride and cyclohexyl bromide are reduced slowly.

• Journal of Ginseng Research
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• 제46권6호
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• pp.771-779
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• 2022

Background: As a kind of common complication of the surgery of perianal diseases, perianal ulcer is known as a nuisance. This study aims to develop a kind of 20(S)-ginsenoside Rg3 (Rg3)-loaded hydrogel to treat perianal ulcers in a rat model. Methods: The copolymers PLGA₁₆₀₀-PEG₁₀₀₀-PLGA₁₆₀₀ were synthesized by ring-opening polymerization process and Rg3-loaded hydrogel was then developed. The perianal ulcer rat model was established to analyze the treatment efficacy of Rg3-loaded hydrogel for ulceration healing for 15 days. The animals were divided into control group, hydrogel group, free Rg3 group, Rg3-loaded hydrogel group, and Lidocaine Gel® group. The residual wound area rate was calculated and the blood concentrations of interleukin-1 (IL-1), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) were recorded. Hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining, Masson's Trichrome (MT) staining, and tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α), Ki-67, CD31, ERK1/2, and NF-κB immunohistochemical staining were performed. Results: The biodegradable and biocompatible hydrogel carries a homogenous interactive porous structure with 10 ㎛ pore size and five weeks in vivo degradation time. The loaded Rg3 can be released sustainably. The in vitro cytotoxicity study showed that the hydrogel had no effect on survival rate of murine skin fibroblasts L929. The Rg3-loaded hydrogel can facilitate perianal ulcer healing by inhibiting local and systematic inflammatory responses, swelling the proliferation of nuclear cells, collagen deposition, and vascularization, and activating ERK signal pathway. Conclusion: The Rg3-loaded hydrogel shows the best treatment efficacy of perianal ulcer and may be a candidate for perianal ulcer treatment.