• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.49-54
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• 2012

본 연구의 목적은 지진발생 시 발생할 수 있는 초장대교량의 관리기준을 기반으로 하여 비상대응절차를 정의하고, 지진의 레벨(Level)별 비상대응 알고리즘을 개발하여 구조물의 센서와 연동하는 교량재난관리시스템인 BDMS(Bridge Disaster Management System) 개발이다. 지금까지의 초장대교량의 지진에 대한 방재시스템은 메뉴얼(Manual) 중심의 방식이며 패쇄적인 시스템을 활용하였으나 본 연구에서는 IT 기술을 접목하고 인터넷 기반의 개방적 시스템을 활용하여 보다 실용적인 시스템으로 개발하였다. 또한 교량관리자별로 업무를 할당하고 그 절차마다 수행해야할 임무를 AAD(Activity Action Diagram)을 통하여 명확하게 규정하였다. 3D 상황판 기능을 제공하여 지진재난 뿐 아니라 다른 자연재난의 중복 발생 시에도 적절한 초기 대응이 가능하도록 설계하였다. 시나리오를 기반으로 비상대응 주체별로 행동요령을 정의 하고 비상대응절차를 구축하여 이를 시스템화한 BDMS을 개발 활용한다면 기존의 경험적, 매뉴얼 중심의 대처방식에서 신속성, 효율성을 가진 지진 재난 방제시스템을 갖게 될 것이다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제31권8호
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• pp.1109-1114
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• 2021

Chlamydia pneumoniae is a type of pathogenic gram-negative bacteria that causes various respiratory tract infections including asthma. Chlamydia species infect humans and cause respiratory infection by rupturing the lining of the respiratory which includes the throat, lungs and windpipe. Meanwhile, the function of interleukin-4 (IL-4) in Ch. pneumoniae respiratory infection and its association with the development of airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) in adulthood and causing allergic airway disease (AAD) are not understood properly. We therefore investigated the role of IL-4 in respiratory infection and allergy caused by early life Chlamydia infection. In this study, Ch. pneumonia strain was propagated and cultured in HEp-2 cells according to standard protocol and infant C57BL/6 mice around 3-4 weeks old were infected to study the role of IL-4 in respiratory infection and allergy caused by early life Chlamydia infection. We observed that IL-4 is linked with Chlamydia respiratory infection and its absence lowers respiratory infection. IL-4R α2 is also responsible for controlling the IL-4 signaling pathway and averts the progression of infection and inflammation. Furthermore, the IL-4 signaling pathway also influences infection-induced AHR and aids in increasing AAD severity. STAT6 also promotes respiratory infection caused by Ch. pneumoniae and further enhanced its downstream process. Our study concluded that IL-4 is a potential target for preventing infection-induced AHR and severe asthma.

• Plant Resources
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.155-160
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• 2005

A full-length cDNA (PPrx1) encoding peroxidase has been isolated and its nucleotide sequence determined from flower bud in ginseng plant (Panax ginseng). A PPrx1 cDNA is 1192 nucleotides long and has an open reading frame of 1062 bp with a deduced amino acid sequence of 354 residues (pI 7.53). The deduced amino acid sequence of PPrx1 matched to the previously reported peroxidase protein genes. The PPrx1 showed a high similarity with the $64\%$ identity with peroxidase of N. tabacum (AAK52084). In the phylogenetic analysis based on the amino acid residues, the PPrx1 was closer with peroxidase of G. max (AAD37376).

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.39-44
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• 2001

Plastid transformation was attempted with soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] leaves and photoautotrophic and embryogenic cultures by particle bombardment using the transforming vector pZVII that carries the coding sequences for both subunits of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Rubisco and a spectinomycin resistance gene (aadA). Spectinomycin resistant calli were selected from the bombarded leaves but the transgene was not present, indicating that the resistance was due to mutations. The Chlamydomonas rbcL and rbcS genes were shown to be site-specifically integrated into the plastid genome of the embryogenic cells with a very low transformation efficiency. None of the transformed embryogenic lines survived the plant regeneration process so no whole plants were recovered. This result does indicate that it should be possible to insert genes into the plastid genome of the important crop soybean if the overall methods are improved.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.35-42
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• 1996

The labyrinth seal is one of the widely used non-contact type mechanical seal. Current work was emphasized on the investigation of the air jet effect on the labyrinth seal. To improve the sealing capability of conventional labyrinth seal, air jet was injected against through the leakage flow. In this study, both of the numerical analysis by CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) and the experimental measurement were carried out. Both of the turbulence aad the compressible flow model were introduced in CFD analysis. The sealing effect of the leakage clearance and the air jet magnitude were studied in the experiment. The reason of the enhanced sealing was explained as a reduction of effective clearance by jetting air. As a result, the air jet could reduce the effective clearance with a wide range of leakage clearance.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.305-312
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• 2003

A study is presented of the adsorption capacity of a number of different activated carbons for hydrogen at 100 bar aad 298 K. The hydrogen adsorption isotherm was measured by isothermal gravimetric analysis, using a microbalance. The effect of activated carbon's porosity on hydrogen adsorption capacity is surveyed. It is concluded that hydrogen adsorption capacity of activated carbon is lineally increased according to the increase of specific surface area and total pore volume, It seems that microporosity is more contributive than mesoporosity. Most of the adsorbed quantity is due to physical adsorption and chemisorption is negligible, In this work, 0.79 wt.% of hydrogen adsorption capacity is reached.

• 생약학회지
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.150-154
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• 2008

Butein is a one of polyphenolic compound widely available in numerous plants. It has broad biological activities including antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities, which contributed to its protective effects against cancer. Evidences that butein influence proliferation of tumor cells make it important to determine how butein affects cell death of various cancers. In this study, we show that butein, a phenolic compound, induces apoptosis in human T lymphoma jurkat cells. We found that treatment of cells with butein increased apoptosis in a dose- and time- dependent manner as determined by staining cells with Annexin V and 7AAD. There was no significant apoptotic cell death when normal lymphocytes and monocytes from healthy donor were treated with butein. We also found caspase-3 activity was increased during butein-induced apoptosis. The buteininduced apoptotic cell death was blocked by the treatment of cells with caspase-3 inhibitor. These results indicate that butein has the potential to provide an effective strategy against cancer with the advantage of being widely avalible.

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.75-84
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• 2006

Heteroplasmic rice plastid transformant was generated using suspension cells as bombardment materials. PCR analyses confirmed incorporation of aadA and cp4-epsps genes into the rice plastid genome by homologous recombination events via the flanking sequences of the trnI and trnA. Transplastomic calli were actively proliferated when cultured on AAM2 medium supplemented with various concentrations (500-3000 mg/L) of streptomycin in dark condition, and transplastomic suspension cells showed resistance to nonselective herbicide, glyphosate. Through 'agarose pie selection' method, heteroplastomic calli, containing considerably high level of transplastome and expressing the CP4 EPSPS protein, were obtained. They were further regenerated to green shoots with healthy roots.

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.42-48
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• 2011

고등식물의 엽록체 유전공학은 핵 형질전환과 비교해 볼때 여러 가지 독특한 장점을 가진다. 높은 transgene 발현율, 상동 재조합에 의한 site-specific transgene의 삽입으로 인해 유전자의 position effect가 없으며, 단일 형질전환으로 동시에 여러 유전자의 도입이 가능하고 모계 유전으로 인해 화분 방출 위험을 감소시킬 수 있다. 담배 specific한 pCtVG (trnI-Prrn-aadA-mgfp-TpsbA-trnA) 벡터를 이용하여 안정적인 감자 엽록체 형질전환 시스템을 개발하였다. 감자 엽록체 게놈으로 외래유전자의 삽입과 homoplasmic level은 PCR과 Southern blot 분석으로 확인하였다. Northern과 immunoblot 분석 및 GFP fluorescence imaging을 통하여 엽록체 형질전환체의 잎에서 GFP 유전자가 강하게 발현, 축적됨을 알 수 있었다. 본 연구에서 확립된 감자 엽록체 형질전환 시스템을 이용하여 유용 유전자를 도입함으로써 농업적 형질을 개선하거나 고부가가치 단백질을 대량 생산하는 감자를 보다 효율적으로 개발할 수 있을 것이다.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.164-170
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• 1996

From January 1986 to June 1993, 12 patients Aad required reoperation: 9 had undergone mitral and 3 aortic valve replacement. Five were male and 7 female, and ages ranged from 29 to 61 years. Replacement of the prosthetic heart valve was performed at a mean interval of 98 $\pm$ 1 months after the Hrst operation. In aortic valve replacement patients the mean interval was 115 $\pm$ 2 months and in mitral valve replacement patients 98 $\pm$ 4 months. Primary tissue failure was the most frequent reason of replacement (10 patients) followed by valve thrombosis (1 patient) and prophylactic replacement (1 patient) in order. The most pronounced pathology of the failed prosthetic heart valves seen in the primary tissue failure group was calcification, perforation, shrinkage and tearing of the cusps. There was one early operative death (8.3%) due to intractable low cardiac output and acute renal failure. Eleven early survivors had successful operative results and there was no late death.