• 제목/요약/키워드: Space biology

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Radiation Biology in Space; DNA Damage and Biological Effects of Space Radiation

  • Ohnishi, Takeo;Takahashi, Akihisa;Ohnishi, Ken
    • Journal of Photoscience
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    • 제9권3호
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    • pp.37-40
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    • 2002
  • Astronauts are constantly exposed to space radiation at a low-dose rate during long-tenn stays in space. Therefore, it is important to determine correctly the biological effects of space radiation on human health. Space radiations contain various kinds of different energy particles, especially high linear energy transfer (LET) particles. Therefore, we have to study the relative biological effectiveness (RBE) of space radiation under microgravity environment which may change RBE from a stress for cells. Furthermore, the research about space radiation might give us useful information about birth and evolution of life on the earth. We also can realize the importance of preventing the ozone layer from depletion by use of exposure equipment to sunlight at International Space Station (ISS).

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From Cell Biology to Biotechnology in Space

  • Cogoli, Augusto
    • Animal cells and systems
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    • 제4권3호
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    • pp.195-200
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    • 2000
  • In this article I discuss the main results of our research in space biology from the simple early investigations with human Iymphocytes in the early eighties until the projects in tissue engineering of the next decade on the international space station ISS. The discovery that T Iymphocyte activation is nearly totally depressed in vitro in 0g conditions showed that mammalian single cells are sensitive to the gravitational environment. Such finding had important implications in basic research, medicine and biotechnology. Low gravity can be used as a tool to investigate complicated and still obscure biological process from a new perspective not available to earth-bound laboratories. Low gravity may also favor certain bioprocesses involving the growth of tissues and thus lead to commercial and medical applications. However, shortage of crew time and of other resources, lack of sophisticated instrumentation, safety constraints pose serious limits to biological endeavors in space laboratories.

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Future Opportunities for life Science Programs in Space

  • Hiroki Yokota;Sun, Hui-Bin;George M. Malacinski
    • Animal cells and systems
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    • 제4권3호
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    • pp.239-243
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    • 2000
  • Most space-related life science programs are expensive and time-consuming, requiring international cooperation and resources with trans-disciplinary expertise. A comprehensive future program in "life sciences in space" needs, therefore, well-defined research goals and strategies as well as a sound ground-based program. The first half of this review will describe four key aspects such as the environment in space, previous accomplishments in space (primarily focusing on amphibian embryogenesis), available resources, and recent advances in bioinformatics and biotechnology, whose clear understanding is imperative for defining future directions. The second half of this review will focus on a broad range of interdisciplinary research opportunities currently supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Institute of Health (NIH), and National Science Foundation (NSF). By listing numerous research topics such as alterations in a diffusion-limited metabolic process, bone loss and skeletal) muscle weakness of astronauts, behavioral and cognitive ability in space, life in extreme environment, etc., we will attempt to suggest future opportunities.

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생물학과 건축의 통섭적 지평에 기초한 비오닉 공간디자인의 조건 및 원리 (The conditions and principles of the 'Bionik' space design on the basis of the consilient horizon of biology and architecture)

  • 이란표
    • 한국실내디자인학회논문집
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    • 제20권5호
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    • pp.68-77
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    • 2011
  • In this research it is concentrated first of all on the attempts to reconstruct the historical context of the idea for the space design based on the natural construction and to re-appropriate il critically to the present context. Sequentially in the areas of philosophy, biology, neuroscience, and architecture it has been variously discussed on the problems about the synthesis of biology and techniques. In the context of the consilience of biology and technique Werner Nachtigall, who has intended to shed light on the morphological principles in the natural construction, founded the 'Bionik', which is different from the bionics or the biomechanics that are oriented to the imitation of natural forms. The space design that is on the basis of the Bionik treats organisms as a functional whole. Therefore the Bionik space design follows two kinds of principle such as the principle of analogy and the principle of optimization. After all the understanding of the consilience of nature and technique for Nachtigall and Bionik designers tends toward the explication of the complex process in which the human perceptions, the environment, and the phenomenal techniques are united together, and this complex process is associated with the space design based on the Bionik.

구강 악안면 영역의 근막간극 감염증에 관한 임상 통계학적 연구 (A CLINICOSTATISTICAL STUDY OF FASCIAL SPACE INFECTIONS OF THE ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL REGION)

  • 안신영;김수관;김학균;박철민
    • Journal of the Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
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    • 제33권2호
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    • pp.162-168
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    • 2007
  • Oral and maxillofacial infection is the oldest and most common disease in human history. The infection ranges from the low-grade infection that only requires minimal treatment to the high-grade and life-threatening fascial space infection. In this study, the data on oral and maxillofacial infections were analyzed to aid in the diagnosis and treatment, and to predict the prognosis. This report was based on data from 831 patients with oral and maxillofacial infection (394 males and 437 females) who were hospitalized in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial surgery of Chosun University Dental Hospital from January 1998 to May 2005. The ratio of males to females was 0.9:1. By age, patients between 60 and 70 years old were the greatest in number (17.1%), while only 5.9% of the patients were between 10 and 20 years old. The most common cause of infection was odontogenic origin (84.4%), followed by post-extraction infection (6.2%), unknown (5.9%), and trauma (3.5%). The most common fascial space involved was the buccal space (39.4%), followed by the canine (20.6%), submandibular (15.9%), pterygomandibular (9.5%), submental (7.6%) and sublingual (2.8%) space. The number of the involved fascial space was one (75.2%), two (19.8%), or more than three (5.0%). In terms of the treatment duration, the hospitalization period of 6 to 10 days was the greatest in number (49.9%). All patients had uneventful recovery without major complication. There are statistically significant correlations between age and treatment period, and the involved space and treatment period, but no correlations between the variables of sex and treatment.

Space supervision을 이용한 치성 정중선 변위의 교정 (CORRECTION OF DENTAL MIDLINE DEVIATION BY MEANS OF SPACE SUPERVISION)

  • 김수연;최영철;박재홍;최성철;김광철
    • 대한소아치과학회지
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    • 제34권4호
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    • pp.700-708
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    • 2007
  • 상하악 중절치 간의 정중선 변위는 골격성 변위, 치성 변위 및 골격성과 치성의 복합적 변위 등으로 구분된다. 그 중치성 정중선 변위는 치열의 발육시기에 따라 다양한 방법으로 치료 방법을 선택할 수 있다. 특히 혼합치열의 초기에는 치열 내에 존재하는 공간의 조건, 인접 영구치의 맹출 시기 또는 맹출 방향에 따라 영구 절치들의 위치가 자발적으로 변화, 개선될 수 있다. 따라서 이러한 치아의 생리적 이동을 이용하여 특별한 교정장치의 이용 없이 치열 내에서 치아의 배열을 개선시킬 수 있다. 본 증례보고에서는 특히 유견치의 발거 시기 및 좌우 유치의 발거 순서 등을 이용하여 치성 정중선 불일치를 개선시킨 증례들을 보고하고자 한다.

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솔나방(Dendrolimus spectabilis) 난소의 미세구조 II. 난황막 및 난각형성과정 (Ultrastructural Studies on the Oogenesis of the Pine moth, Dendrolimus spectabilis (Lasiocampidae) II. Vitelline Membrane and Chorion Formation)

  • 김지현;김정상;김우갑
    • Applied Microscopy
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    • 제24권4호
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    • pp.52-60
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    • 1994
  • The developing ovarian oocyte of Dendrolimus spectabilis has been studied by using electron microscopical techniques. After yolk formation the vitelline membrane was laid down in the intercellular space between the follicle cell and the oocyte. But before the vitelline membrane formation the granules with high electron density that the vitelline membrane precusor are observed in the follicle cell. At the late vitellogenesis stage these granules were transported into the intercellular space between the follicle cells and the oocyte. These granules fuse to each other and larger bodies which eventually produce the vitelline membrane. The vitelline membrane was distinguished into the light inner and dark outer membrane. Next the chorion was laid down. It was apparent that the chorion was laid down in the intercellular space immediately adjacent to the vitelline membrane, and that it was formed by the follicle cells only.

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소규모 공간의 생태학에 근거한 시스템 특성 연구 (Study on the Systematical Features of Small Space Design in Ecology)

  • 천병우
    • 한국실내디자인학회논문집
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    • 제21권5호
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    • pp.77-84
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    • 2012
  • Single formative language created by the standardization of industrial society carries a cell constructive aspect. Such space structural form made gigantic buildings, which has a symbolism as an independent object. Such space shows a morphological symbolism by public preference but it did not establish essential meaning of a shape or concentrated relation. In this regard, this paper tries to show organic similarity of structural formality of small commercial space (patterned space), which was made by the continuity of concentrated patterns not an object of dualistic unit features. Therefore, this study analyzed the cultural, commercial and public space based upon systematical concept and features. Systematical space formality that makes multilateral relation between human, environment and a thing is a concentrated view point by relational features not by the cluster displayed by hierarchical features. Systematical space of small patterned space emphasized its appropriateness of expansion and creating diversified spaces unlike gigantic symbolic buildings.

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Thioredoxin in the Periplasmic Space of Escherichia coli as a Physiological Electron Donor to Periplasmic Thiol Peroxidase, p20

  • Cha, Mee-Kyung;Kim, Il-Han
    • BMB Reports
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    • 제32권2호
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    • pp.168-172
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    • 1999
  • We previously reported that a novel thiol peroxidase (p20) from Escherichia coli is a distinct periplasmic peroxidase that detoxifies hydroperoxides together with glutathione or thioredoxin. Until now, there was no experimental evidence for the presence of thioredoxin (Trx) in the periplasmic space. In an attempt to confirm the physiological function of p20 as a thiol peroxidase supported by Trx in the periplasmic space, we have purified a Trx activity from the periplasmic space of Escherichia coli and identified the Trx as the same protein as the cytoplasmic Trx. The presence of Trx in the periplasmic space of Escherichia coli suggests that p20 is a unique extracellular Trx-linked thiol peroxidase.

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생물다양성 학습을 위한 생물다양성 DB 활용에 관한 연구 (A Study on Using of Biodiversity Database for Learning of Biodiversity)

  • 안부영;조희형;박재홍
    • 한국콘텐츠학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국콘텐츠학회 2005년도 추계 종합학술대회 논문집
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    • pp.428-432
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    • 2005
  • 본 논문에서는 국내에 산재한 생물다양성정보를 학습에 활용하기 위하여 KISTI에서 구축한 생물다양성 DB 현황과 e-Learning의 기술요소 등을 조사하였으며, 기존에 구축된 생물다양성정보 DB를 활용하여 일반인과 학생들을 위한 생물다양성 학습 콘텐트를 기획하고 설계하였다. 본 설계를 바탕으로 생물다양성 콘텐트를 개발한다면, 국토가 좁고, 네트워크 인프라가 잘 갖추어져 있는 우리나라의 실정에 맞는 사이버공간상의 학습의 장으로서 일반인과 학생들에게 양질의 생물다양성 학습 콘텐트를 제공할 수 있으리라 기대한다.

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