• The Korean Journal of Pain
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.107-112
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• 2005

Background: Nerve ligation injury may produce mechanical allodynia, but this can be reversed after an intrathecal administration of adenosine analogues. In many animal and human studies, ATP-sensitive potassium channel blockers have been known to reverse the antinociceptive effect of various drugs. This study was performed to evaluate the mechanical antiallodynic effects of spinal R-PIA (Adenosine A1 receptor agonist) and the reversal of these effects due to pretreatment with glibenclamide (ATP-sensitive potassium channel blocker). Thus, the relationship between the antiallodynic effects of R-PIA and ATP-sensitive potassium channel were investigated in a neuropathic model. Methods: Male Sprague Dawley rats were prepared by tightly ligating the left lumbar 5th and 6th spinal nerves and implantation of a chronic lumbar intrathecal catheter for drug administration. The mechanical allodynia was measured by applying von Frey filaments ipsilateral to the lesioned hind paw. And the thresholds for paw withdrawal assessed. In study 1, either R-PIA (0.5, 1 and $2{\mu}g$) or saline were administered intrathecally for the examination of the antiallodynic effect of R-PIA. In study 2, glibenclamide (2, 5, 10 and 20 nM) was administered intrathecally 5 min prior to an R-PIA injection for investigation of the reversal of the antiallodynic effects of R-PIA. Results: The antiallodynic effect of R-PIA was produced in a dose dependent manner. In study 1, the paw withdrawal threshold was significantly increased with $2{\mu}g$ R-PIA (P < 0.05). In study 2, the paw withdrawal threshold with $2{\mu}g$ R-PIA was significantly decreased almost dose dependently by intrathecal pretreatment of 5, 10 and 20 nM glibenclamide (P < 0.05). Conclusions: These results demonstrated that an intrathecal injection of ATP-sensitive potassium channel blockers prior to an intrathecal injection of adenosine A1 receptors agonist had an antagonistic effect on R-PIA induced antiallodynia. The results suggest that the mechanism of mechanical antiallodynia, as induced by an intrathecal injection of R-PIA, may involve the ATP-sensitive potassium channel at both the spinal and supraspinal level in a rat nerve ligation injury model.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.281-293
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• 1988

가토 신장 근위세뇨관에서 분리한 brush border membrane vesicle(BBMV)과 basolateral membrane vesicle(BBMV)에서 rapid filtration 방법으로 PAH 이동에 대한 pH의 영향을 관찰하였다. BLMV에서 용액내 Na이 없을 때 외부 $pH(pH_0)$를 8.0에서 5.5까지 감소시켰을 때 probenecid-sensitive PAH 이동은 유의하게 증가되었다. 용액내 Na이 있을 때 $pH_0$가 8.0에서 6.0까지 변화하여도 PAH 이동에는 영향이 없었으나 5.5까지 더욱 감소시켰을 때 PAH 이동이 증가하였다. 그러나 vesicle 내 외에 pH gradient없이 $pH_0$를 내부 $pH(pH_1)$와 동일하게 변화시켰을 때 PAH 이동은 영향을 받지 않았다. PH gradient가 없을 때 시험된 pH범위에서 Na은 PAH 이동을 증가시켰다. BBMV에서도 BLMV에서와 유사한 pH 의존성을 보였으나 Na의 존재는 PAH 이동에 영향을 미치지 못하였다. BLMV에서 동력학적 분석 결과 일정한 $pH(pH_1)$에서 $pH(pH_0)$ 감소는 Km에 변화없이 PAH 이동에 대한 Vmax를 유의하게 증가시켰다. 이러한 결과로 BBMV에서 PAH 이동에 대한 pH의 영향은$OH^-/PAH$교환기전에 기인하는 것으로 추측되나 BLMV에서 pH 의존성은 음이온 교환기전만으로 설명될 수 없다. 또한 BLMV에서는 PAH 이동이 Na에 의존하나 BBMV에서는 Na에 의존하지 않음을 가르킨다.

• 한국지역사회생활과학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.81-95
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• 2006

This study was made to find out how stress affect on nutrition status of the college freshmen who were experiencing physical growth and development as well as drastic emotional change. 400 male and female freshmen in 4 year colleges were surveyed respectively through the health check-up procedure for college entrance in February, In order to find out the stress in each group frustration, deprivation, lack of self efficacy, type A behavior and anxiety response were surveyed through 10 questions with total 40 points by assigning 4 points for each question. Diet Status was expressed by DDS (Dietary Diversity Score by 5 food groups) and DVS(Dietary Variety Score). 24-hrs recall method was used to find out the quantity of daily nutrient of EAR(estimated adquacy ratio) by KDRIs(Korean Dietary Recommended Intakes). Nutrition level was analyzed by Can-Pro for professionals (Korea Nutrition Association). And for the quality intake, percentage was calculated and MAR(Mean Adequacy Ratio) were produced. Highest point was obtained in the stress of anxiety with the total 40 score of 30.20, and the scores were 29.79, 28.67, and 28.39 for deprivation, type A behavior and frustration respectively. There was no difference of blood components in accordance with stress type. Stress type was divided into less sensitive group and highly sensitive one and the relationship with the blood nutrient status was observed. The difference of blood component and blood pressure in sensitive and highly sensitive groups was observed in deprivation and anxiety. The index of blood pressure(p<0.05), hemoglobin(p<0.01), HDL-cholesterol(p<0.05), and Fe(p<0.05) was high in the deprivation of sensitive group. Blood pressure and hemoglobin was high in type A of sensitive group(p<0.05). And the contents of blood triglyceride was high in the anxiety of sensitive group(p<0.001) The result of nutrition intake analysis according to stress type showed that there was low intake for energy, riboflavin, and niacin. When the degree of deprivation was high there was a lack of riboflavin intake and there was no significant difference of nutrition intake in lack of self efficacy, type A behavior and anxiety response. Thus, it is necessary for colleges to educate the students to maintain mental stability through various programs and activities after catching a kind and extent of the stress college students we meeting with like the confusion of value system, open heterosexual relationship, and the employment difficulties linked with political uncertainty and economic recession.

• 한국산림과학회지
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• 제95권3호
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• pp.323-327
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• 2006

국내 주요 경제수종인 소나무의 내성 가계와 민감성 가계간의 오존에 대한 피해반응 및 내성반응을 알아보고자 본 연구를 수행하였다. 내성 가계와 민감성 가계를 각각 5가계씩 선발하여 오존 100 ppb 농도에서 90일간 처리를 하여 근원경 생장, SOD 활성, MDA 함량을 측정하였다. 근원경 생장에서 오존 처리 초기에 내성 가계가 민감성 가계에 비하여 약 3배 높은 생장율을 보였으며, 처리 기간 동안 내성 가계의 생장이 더 우수한 것으로 나타났다. 대조구에 대한 처리구의 SOD 활성비는 민감성 가계의 경우 오존 처리 초기에 증가하고 처리 기간이 길어짐에 따라서 지속적으로 감소한 반면, 내성 가계는 60일까지 증가한 후 감소하였다. 오존 처리구의 MDA 함량은 대조구에 비하여 전체적으로 높게 나타났으며, 민감성 가계가 내성 가계보다 높은 MDA 함량을 나타냈다. 따라서 내성 가계는 민감성 가계에 비하여 항산화 능력이 우수하기 때문에 지질과산화 작용을 억제하는 등 생리적 장애를 극복하는 능력이 높아 생장감소가 적게 나타나는 것으로 판단된다.

• 감성과학
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.415-422
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• 2005

본 연구에서는 행동활성화체계(Behavioral Activation System : BAS)와 행동억제 체계(Behavioral Inhibition System : BIS)의 성향이 청년층과 노인층의 뇌파 특성에 차이를 보이는지를 조사하였다. 실험은 19명의 청년층과 31명의 노인층을 대상으로 하여 이루어졌고, 안정 상태의 양측 전전두엽 뇌파를 측정하였다. 분석은 비선형 지수 중 하나인 1/f스케일링 지수를 사용하였다. 그 결과, BAS 성향에서 1/f스케일 지수가 유의한 차이를 보였다. 즉, 좌측 전전두엽(Fpl)에서는 청년층의 1/f스케일 지수가 노인층의 1/f스케일 지수보다 통계적으로 유의하게 높은 값을 보였고, 우측 전전두엽(Fp2)에서도 청년층이 노인층에 비해 높은 1/f스케일 지수를 나타내는 경향을 보였다. 1/f 스케일 지수가 클수록 복잡도는 감소하고, 반면 확률분포에 관련된 정보의 양은 증가하는 것으로 해석 가능하다. 본 연구를 통해, 주관적 평가 결과로서 행동 활성화체계가 강한 성향을 가진 경우, 노인층은 청년층에 비해 양측 전전두엽의 복잡도가 높은 상태임을 알 수 있다 본 연구의 결과는 BAS성향과 연령 사이의 연관성에 대한 가능성을 시사한다.

• 정보과학회 컴퓨팅의 실제 논문지
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• 제21권11호
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• pp.681-688
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• 2015

k-Nearest Neighbor(k-NN)그래프는 모든 노드에 대한 k-NN 정보를 나타내는 데이터 구조로써, 협업 필터링, 유사도 탐색과 여러 정보검색 및 추천 시스템에서 k-NN그래프를 활용하고 있다. 이러한 장점에도 불구하고 brute-force방법의 k-NN그래프 생성 방법은 $O(n^2)$의 시간복잡도를 갖기 때문에 빅데이터 셋에 대해서는 처리가 곤란하다. 따라서, 고차원, 희소 데이터에 효율적인 Locality Sensitive Hashing 기법을 (key, value)기반의 분산환경인 MapReduce환경에서 사용하여 k-NN그래프를 생성하는 알고리즘이 연구되고 있다. Locality Sensitive Hashing 기법을 사용하여 사용자를 이웃후보 그룹으로 만들고 후보내의 쌍에 대해서만 brute-force하게 유사도를 계산하는 two-stage 방법을 MapReduce환경에서 사용하였다. 특히, 그래프 생성과정 중 유사도 계산하는 부분이 가장 많은 시간이 소요되므로 후보 그룹을 어떻게 만드는 것인지가 중요하다. 기존의 방법은 사이즈가 큰 후보그룹을 방지하는데 한계점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 효율적인 k-NN 그래프 생성을 위하여 사이즈가 큰 후보그룹을 재구성하는 알고리즘을 제시하였다. 실험을 통해 본 논문에서 제안한 알고리즘이 그래프의 정확성, Scan Rate측면에서 좋은 성능을 보임을 확인하였다.

• Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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• 제5권6호
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• pp.395-399
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• 2000

Five different freeze-dried recombinant bioluminescent bacteria were used for the detection of cellular stresses caused by endocrine disrupting chemicals. These strains were DPD2794 (recA::luxCDABE), which is sensitive to DNA damage, DPD2540 (fabA::luxCDABE), sensitive to cellular membrane damage, DPD2511 (katG::luxCDABE), sensitive to oxidative damage, and TV1061 (grpE::luxCDABE), sensitive to protein damage. GC2, which emits bioluminescence constitutively, was also used in this study. The toxicity of several chemicals was measured using GC2. Damage caused by known endocrine disrupting chemicals, such as nonyl phenol, bisphenol A, and styrene, was detected and classified according to toxicity mode, while others, such as phathalate and DDT, were not detected with the bacteria. These results suggest that endocrine disrupting chemicals are toxic in bacteria, and do not act via an estrogenic effect, and that toxicity monitoring and classification of some endocrine disrupting chemicals may be possible in the field using these freeze-dried recombinant bioluminescent bacteria.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.130-142
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• 2006

Lab-on-a-chip technology is attracting great interest because the miniaturization of reaction systems offers practical advantages over classical bench-top chemical systems. Rapid mixing of the fluids flowing through a microchannel is very important for various applications of microfluidic systems. In addition, highly sensitive on-chip detection techniques are essential for the in situ monitoring of chemical reactions because the detection volume in a channel is extremely small. Recently, a confocal surface enhanced Raman spectroscopic (SERS) technique, for the highly sensitive biological analysis in a microfluidic sensor, has been developed in our research group. Here, a highly precise quantitative measurement can be obtained if continuous flow and homogeneous mixing condition between analytes and silver nano-colloids are maintained. Recently, we also reported a new analytical method of DNA hybridization involving a PDMS microfluidic sensor using fluorescence energy transfer (FRET). This method overcomes many of the drawbacks of microarray chips, such as long hybridization times and inconvenient immobilization procedures. In this paper, our recent applications of the confocal Raman/fluorescence microscopic technology to a highly sensitive lab-on-a-chip detection will be reviewed.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.632-639
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• 2014

Mechanical stress and the vacuum level are the two main factors dominating the quality factor of a resonator operated in the vacuum range 1 mTorr to 10 Torr. This means that if the quality factor of a resonator is very insensitive to the mechanical stress in the vacuum range, it is sensitive to mainly the ambient vacuum level. In this paper, a wafer-level packaged MEMS resonator with a highly vacuum-sensitive quality factor is presented. The proposed device is characterized by a package with out-of-plane symmetry and a suspending structure with only a single anchor. Out-of-plane symmetry helps prevent deformation of the packaged device due to thermal mismatch, and a single-clamped structure facilitates constraint-free displacement. As a result, the proposed device is very insensitive to mechanical stress and is sensitive to mainly the ambient vacuum level. The average quality factors of the devices packaged under pressures of 50, 100, and 200 mTorr were 4987, 3415, and 2127, respectively. The results demonstrated the high controllability of the quality factor by vacuum adjustment. The mechanical robustness of the quality factor was confirmed by comparing the quality factors before and after high-temperature storage. Furthermore, through more than 50 days of monitoring, the stability of the quality factor was also certified.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.153-160
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• 2006

A technique for measuring surface temperature field in micro scale is newly proposed, which uses temperature-sensitive fluorescent (TSF) dye coated on the surface and is easily implemented with a fluorescence microscope and a CCD camera. The TSF dye is chosen among mixtures of various chemical compositions including rhodamine B as the fluorescent dye to be most sensitive to temperature change. In order to examine the effectiveness of this temperature measurement technique, numerical analysis and experiment on transient conduction heat transfer for two different substrate materials, i. e., silicon and glass, are performed. In the experiment, to accurately measure the temperature with high resolution temperature calibration curves were obtained with very fine spatial units. The experimental results agree qualitatively well with the numerical data in the silicon and glass substrate cases so that the present temperature measurement method proves to be quite reliable. In addition, it is noteworthy that the glass substrate is more appropriate to be used as thermally-insulating locally-heating heater in micro thermal devices. This fact is identified in the temperature measuring experiment on the locally-heating heaters made on the wafer of silicon and glass substrates. Accordingly, this technique is capable of accurate and non-intrusive high-resolution measurement of temperature field in microscale.