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Validation of LC-MS/MS Method for Determination of Rabeprazole in Human Plasma : Application of Pharmacokinetics Study (인체 혈장중 라베프라졸의 정량을 위한 LC-MS/MS 분석법 검증 및 단일 용량 투여에 의한 약물동태 연구)

  • Tak, Sung-Kwon;Seo, Ji-Hyung;Ryu, Ju-Hee;Choi, Sang-Joon;Lee, Myung-Jae;Kang, Jong-Min;Lee, Jin-Sung;Hong, Seung-Jae;Yim, Sung-Vin;Lee, Kyung-Tae
    • Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation
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    • v.39 no.1
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    • pp.73-78
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    • 2009
  • A simple LC-MS/MS method of rabeprazole in human plasma was developed and validated. Rabeprazole and Internal standard (I.S), omeprazole, were extracted from human plasma by liquid liquid extraction, chromatographic separation of rabaprazole in plasma was achieved at $45^{\circ}C$ with a Shiseido UG120 $C_{18}$ column and methanol-10 mM ammonium acetate buffer (pH 9.42 with ammonium water), as mobile phase. Rabeprazole produced a protonated precursor ion [$(M+H)^+$] at m/z 360.10 and corresponding product ion at m/z 242.21. Internal standard produced a protonated precursor ion [$(M+H)^+$] at 346.09 and corresponding product ion at m/z 198.09. This method showed linear response over the concentration range of $1{\sim}500\;ng/mL$ with correalation coefficient greater than 0.99. The lower limit of quantitation (LLOQ) using 0.2 mL plasma was 1 ng/mL, which was sensitive enough for pharmacokinetics studies. The method was specific and validated with a limit of quantitation of 1 ng/mL. The intra-day and inter-day precision and accuracy were acceptable for all samples including the LLOQ. The applicability of the method was demonstrated by analysis of plasma after administration of a single 10 mg dose to 36 healthy subject. From the plasma rabeprazole concentration versus time curves, the mean $AUC_t$ (The area under the plasma concentration-time curve from time 0 to 12 hr ) was $691.36{\pm}321.88\;ng{\cdot}hr/mL$, $C_{max}$ (maximum plasma drug concentration) of $353.21{\pm}131.52\;ng/mL$ reached $3.4{\pm}1.1\;hr$ after adiministration. The mean biological half-life of rabeprazole was $1.37{\pm}0.75\;hr$. Based on the results, this simple method could readily be used in pharmacokinetics studies.

Convergence Study on Impact of Career Barrier on Seeking Stress of Senior Nursing Students : Mediating Effect of Career Maturity (간호학과 졸업예정자의 진로장벽이 취업스트레스에 미치는 영향에 대한 융합 연구 : 진로성숙도를 매개로)

  • Woo, Sang-Jun;Ha, Yoon-Joo;Kim, Eun-A
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.16 no.8
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    • pp.211-219
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of this study was to examine the mediating effects of career maturity on the relation between carrier barriers and senior nursing students's jobs seeking stress. Data analysis was conducted over 208 senior nursing students from three nursing schools in G city and J province. The research methods examined the influence of variables on dependent variable, with difference of carrier maturity. As a result, career barriers had a negative correlation with career maturity but had a positive correlation with jobs seeking stress. Also, career barriers had significant effects on jobs seeking stress(35%, F=109.89, p<.001), mediating effect of career maturity was significant(z=12.24, p<.001). Accordingly, the results indicated that career maturity could buffer the risk of jobs seeking stress of senior nursing student from career barriers. In conclusion, systematic measures are needed to lower career barriers and improve career maturity in order to reduce jobs seeking stress of senior nursing students. It is necessary to develop a strategy to develop career guidance information system that, is specialized in nursing course as well as counselling that utilizes individual ability development, self-esteem management and friend's system.

A Recombinant Microbial Biosensor for Cadmium and Lead Detection (카드뮴 및 납 검출을 위한 재조합 미생물 바이오센서)

  • Shin, Hae Ja
    • Journal of Life Science
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    • v.26 no.5
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    • pp.503-508
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    • 2016
  • Biosensors have been used as first-step monitoring tools to detect on-site samples in a simple and cost-effective manner. Numerous recombinant microbial biosensors have been exploited for monitoring on-site toxic chemicals and biological signals. Herein, a recombinant microbial biosensor was constructed for monitoring cadmium. The cadmium responding cadC regulatory gene and it’s promoter from Staphylococcus aureus was amplified through PCR, fused with the lacZ gene, and transformed into Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3) cells. In the presence of cadmium, the biosensor cells express β-galactosidase showing red color development with chlorophenol red β-galactopyranoside (CPRG) as the enzymatic substrate. The biosensor cells showed the best β-galactosidase activity after 3 hr induction with cadmium at pH 5 and a detection range from 0.01 μM to 10 mM cadmium with a linearity from 0.01 to 0.1 μM cadmium (y = 0.98 x + 0.142, R2 = 0.98). Among the heavy metals, cadmium and lead showed good responses, tin and cobalt showed medium responses, and mercury and copper showed no responses. The biosensor cells showed good responses to several waste waters similar to buffer solution, all spiked with cadmium. The biosensor described herein could be applied for on-site cadmium monitoring in a simple and cost-effective manner without sample pretreatments.

Thermal Inactivation Parameters of Peroxidase in Flammulina velutipes and Lyophyllum ulmarium (팽이 및 만가닥버섯에서 추출한 peroxidase의 열 불활성화 특성)

  • Lee, Kyun;Kim, Kong-Hwan;Kim, Hyun-Ku
    • Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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    • v.34 no.6
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    • pp.1067-1072
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    • 2002
  • Peroxidase was used as a standard enzyme to determine optimum blanching conditions of Flammulina velutipes and Lyophyllum ulmarium. Crude peroxidase extracted from raw mushrooms had maximum activity at $10{\sim}15^{\circ}C$ and pH 5.5 (50 mM, potassium phosphate buffer) using substrates of $H_2O_2$ and p-Phenylendiamine. Thermal inactivation of the crude peroxidase followed the first-order kinetics. The activation energy and z value of the crude peroxidase for F. velutipes were 59.58 kcal/mol and $9.0^{\circ}C$, whereas were 43.05 kcal/mol and $12.4^{\circ}C$ for L. ulmarium, respectively. On the basis of thermal kinetics parameters obtained, the optimum blanching conditions for F. velutipes and L. ulmarium were 1 min at $70^{\circ}C$ and 5 min at $80^{\circ}C$, respectively. Activation energies and z values of peroxidases extracted from heat-treated mushrooms were 7.97 and 6.55 kcal/mol, and $59.8^{\circ}C\;and\;74.1^{\circ}C$ for F. velutipes and L. ulmarium, respectively.

Development and Validation of the Determination of Sorafenib in Human Plasma using Tandem Mass Spectrometry Coupled with Liquid Chromatography (고속액체크로마토그래피 텐덤질량분석기법을 이용한 사람 혈장 내 소라페닙 농도분석법의 개발 및 검정)

  • Park, Daejin;Lee, Sunggon;Kim, Woomi
    • Journal of Life Science
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    • v.22 no.11
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    • pp.1456-1462
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    • 2012
  • Sorafenib is a multikinase inhibitor and an oral anticancer drug approved for the treatment of patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma and those with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma. The purpose of this study was to develop an efficient method of the determination of sorafenib in human plasma using tandem mass spectrometry coupled with liquid chromatography (LC/MS/MS) and validate the method by the guidelines of the Korean Food and Drug Administration (KFDA). Plasma samples ($100{\mu}l$) were added with chlorantraniliprole as an internal standard and then mixed with the 0.1% formic acid-containing extraction solution composed of isopropyl alcohol and ethyl acetate (1:4, v/v). After centrifugation, the supernatant was concentrated at $45^{\circ}C$ under negative pressure and centrifugal force. The residue was reconstituted with a mobile phase and injected into the HPLC instrument using a reverse phase Waters XTerra$^{TM}$ C18 column (particle size $3.5{\mu}m$). Liquid chromatography was carried out within the run time of 5 min using a mobile phase composed of buffer (0.1% formic acid and 10 mM ammonium formate), methanol, and acetonitrile (1:6:3, v/v/v). The analytes were monitored by tandem mass spectrometry in the multiple reaction monitoring method programmed to detect sorafenib at 'm/z 465.2 ${\rightarrow}$ 252.5' and chlorantraniliprole at 'm/z 484.4 ${\rightarrow}$ 286.2' with positive electrospray ionization mode ($ES^+$). The result showed the proper linearity ($r^2$ > 0.99) over the range of 2,000-5,000 ng/ml with good accuracy (90.7-103.9%) and precision (less than 10%). The newly developed method using LC/MS/MS was validated by the guideline of KFDA and identified as more sensitive compared to the previous methods.

Screening for Antioxidant Activity of Edible Plants (식용식물의 항산화효과 검색)

  • 조세연;한용봉;신국현
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.133-137
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    • 2001
  • The antioxidant activitiesof methanol extracts of twenty one vegetables were tested using the method of 1,1-diphenyl-2-picryl hydrazyl (DPPH) reactivity and TBARS substance assay in vitro. The methanol extracts of the leaves from three plants such as Aster scaber, Chrysanthemum coronarium, Petasites japonicus were found to be th most effective on DPPH radical scavenging activity. The next effective ones were the leaves of Capsicum annuum, the peels of Ipomoea batatas and Solanum tuberosum, the stems and leaves of Ipomoea batatas, the levels of Solanum melongena, the fruits of Solanum melongena, the green fruits (seed) of Capsicum ammuum in order, and the others did not show a considerable activity. When tested on lipid peroxidation using a lipid peroxidation generation system mediated by $H_{2}O_{2}/Fe^{2+}$ in rat liver homogenates. the peels of Cucumis melo, the leaves and the fruits of Solanum melongena, of Solanum melongena, The levels of Aster scaber and Chrysanthemum coronarium, the stems and leaves of Ipomoea batatas and the peels of Ipomoea batatas were found to exhibit a good protective activity against lipid peroxidatian in the order of effectiveness.

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A study on the fabrication of Y-branch for optical power distribution and its coupling properties with optical fiber (광분배를 위한 Y-branch 제작과 광파이버와의 결합특성에 관한 연구)

  • 김상덕;박수봉;윤중현;이재규;김종빈
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.21 no.12
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    • pp.3277-3285
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    • 1996
  • In this paper, w designed an opical power distribution device for application to an optical switching and an optical subscriber loop. We fabricated PSG thin film by LPCVD. Based on the measured index of fabricted thin film, rib-type waveguide was transformed to two-dimension by the effective index method and we simulated dispersion property to find asingle-mode condition. We found that the optimum design parameters of rib-type waveguide are:cladding layer of 3.mu.m, core layer of 3.mu.m, buffer layer of 10.mu.m, and core width of 4.mu.m. Each side of the guiding region was etched down to 4.mu.m to shape the core. We used these optimum parameters of the rib-type waveguide with branching angle of 0.5.deg. and simulted the Y-branch waveguide by the BPM simulation. Numerical loss in branching area was claculated to be 0.1581dB and equal to the total loss of the Y-branch. The loss of the fabricated Y-branch waveguide on PSG film ws 1.6dB at .lambda.=1.3.mu.m before annealing but was 1.2dB after annealing at 1000.deg. C for 10 minutes. Consequently, the loss of branching area from 3000.mu.m to 6000.mu.m in the z-direction was 0.8dB, and single-mode propagation was confirmed by measuring the near field pattern. For coupling the fabricated Y-branch waveguide with an optical fiber, we fabricated V-groove which was used as the upholder of optical fiber. An etching angle was 54.deg. and the width and depth of guiding groove was 150.mu.m, 70.mu.m, respectively. The optical fiber is inserted onto V-groove. Both the Y-branch and V-groove were connected through the index matching oil. Coupling loss after connecting Y-branch and the optical fiber on V-groove was 0.34dB and that after injecting index mateching oil was 0.14dB.

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3D Display Method for Moving Viewers (움직이는 관찰자용 3차원 디스플레이 방법)

  • Heo, Gyeong-Mu;Kim, Myeong-Sin
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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    • v.37 no.4
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    • pp.37-45
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    • 2000
  • In this paper we suggest a method of detecting the two eyes position of moving viewer by using images obtained through a color CCD camera, and also a method of rendering view-dependent 3D image which consists of depth estimation, image-based 3D object modeling and stereoscopic display process. Through the experiment of applying the suggested methods, we could find the accurate two-eyes position with the success rate of 97.5% within the processing time of 0.39 second using personal computer, and display the view-dependent 3D image using Fl6 flight model. And through the similarity measurement of stereo image rendered at z-buffer by Open Inventor and captured by stereo camera using robot, we could find that view-dependent 3D picture obtained by our proposed method is optimal to viewer.

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Development and Application of a Model for Restoring a Vegetation Belt to Buffer Pollutant Discharge (수질 오염물질 배출저감을 위한 완충식생 복원 모델 개발)

  • An, Ji Hong;Lim, Chi Hong;Lim, Yun Kyung;Nam, Kyeong Bae;Pi, Jung Hun;Moon, Jeong Sook;Bang, Je Yong;Lee, Chang Seok
    • Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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    • v.32 no.2
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    • pp.205-215
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    • 2016
  • In order to improve water quality in the Paldang Lake, a riparian vegetation belt, treatment wetland, and artificial floating island were designed for introduction in the upland field, the estuary of tributaries, and the section of water facing mountainous land, respectively. We synthesized vegetation information collected from a reference river and found that herbaceous, shrubby, and tree vegetation zones tended to be dominated by Phragmites japonica, Phalaris arundinacea, etc.; Salix gracilistyla, S. integra, etc.; and S. koreensis, S. subfragilis, and Morus alba, respectively. In our plan, the herbaceous vegetation zone, which is established on floodplains with a high frequency of disturbance, will be left in its natural state. A shrubby vegetation zone will be created by imitating the species composition of the reference river in the ecotone between floodplain and embankment. A tree vegetation zone will be created by imitating species composition on the embankment slope. In the treatment wetland, we plan to create emerged and softwood plant zones by imitating the species composition of the Zizania latifolia community, the Typha orientalis community, the P. communis community, the S. integra community, and the S. koreensis community. The floating island will be created by restoring Z. latifolia and T. orientalis for water purification purposes.

RESISTANCE TO DEMINERALIZATION OF ENAMEL OF PRIMARY TEETH ACCORDING TO RESTORATIONS: IN VITRO STUDY USING QLF (유치 수복물에 따른 주변 법랑질의 탈회 저항성: QLF를 이용한 연구)

  • Kwon, Hae-Sook;Hyun, Hong-Keun;Kim, Young-Jae;Kim, Jung-Wook;Jang, Ki-Taeg;Kim, Chong-Chul;Hahn, Se-Hyun;Lee, Sang-Hoon
    • Journal of the korean academy of Pediatric Dentistry
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    • v.37 no.1
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    • pp.44-52
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    • 2010
  • The objective of this in vitro study was to detect and monitor demineralization and remineralization of primary teeth according to restorative materials using quantitative light-induced fluorescence (QLF). A single bur hole was drilled on the each sound forty eight primary anterior teeth, and the specimens were divided into three groups. The cavity was restored with $Filtek^{TM}$ Z250(Group 1), F2000(Group 2), $Ketac^{TM}$ N100(Group 3) following the manufacturer's instructions. The teeth were subjected to the demineralizing buffer for 3 days, and then subjected to a remineralizing buffer for 14 days. The change of mineral loss(${\Delta}Q$) according to the stages was evaluated by QLF and the following results were obtained: 1. When demineralization was done, ${\Delta}Q$ was increased as follows. : Group 1 ($-110.79\;{\pm}\;27.77$) < Group 2 ($-104.84\;{\pm}\;28.95$) < Group 3 ($-90.16\;{\pm}\;21.87$) : Resistance to demineralization was statistically significant in Group 3. 2. There was a statistically significant increase in ${\Delta}Q$ of all groups since 1st day of remineralization 3. The rate of remineralization, ${\Delta}$(${\Delta}Q$)/day, showed significant high value in each group on the 1st day then decreased rapidly. 4. There was no statistically significant difference in the degree of remineralization among restorative materials.