• 대한한방내과학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.510-518
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• 2007

Objectives : The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of Jaeumyangyung-tang(滋陰養榮場(JY), JA-0.65g/kg;JB-1.3g/kg) on hyperglycemic mice induced with streptozotocin(STZ). Methods : The experiment operated for 6 weeks. The rats were divided into 3 groups : diabetic group(control group), diabetic group treated with JA(0.65g/kg) for 6 weeks, and diabetic group treated with Jb(1.3g/kg) for 6 weeks. Results : In the STZ-induced diabetic group, blood glucose levels significantly increased as well as the loss of body weight. The levels of serum glucose decreased significantly (p<0.05 or p<0.01) in the JA and JB groups compared with the control. According to a tolerance test, intraperitoneal glucose was ameliorated in the JA and JB groups. The blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and creatinine levels slightly decreased. Histologic analyses of the pancreases revealed that the ${\beta}-cells$ on Langerhans' islets were destroyed by STZ, but the ${\beta}-cell$ mass was larger in the JY than in the control mice. Conclusions : These results indicate that JY can exert beneficial effects on diabetes. preservation of in vivo ${\beta}-cell$ function and regeneration of ${\beta}-cell$ dysfunction by STZ.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제46권3호
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• pp.420-430
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• 2016

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to test a hypothetical model of chemotherapy-related cognitive impairment (CRCI) and depression in people with gastrointestinal cancer. Methods: A purposive sample of 198 patients undergoing chemotherapy was recruited from November 2014 to July 2015. The instruments were Everyday Cognition (ECog), Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS), Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Fatigue (FACIT-F), and M. D. Anderson Symptom Inventory-Gastrointestinal Cancer Module. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, correlation, and path analysis. Results: CRCI was directly affected by cancer symptoms (${\beta}=.19$, p=.004) and fatigue (${\beta}=.56$, p<.001)($R^2=47.2%$). Depression was directly affected by fatigue (${\beta}=.48$, p<.001) and CRCI (${\beta}=.27$, p<.001). However, The impact of cancer symptoms on depression was confirmed through the mediating effect of CRCI. Conclusion: Results indicate that in patients with gastrointestinal cancer undergoing chemotherapy along with the direct physiologic effects (fatigue, symptoms) of cancer treatment may have altered cognitive function leading to depression.

• 천문학논총
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.457-459
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• 2015

Observations show that the accretion flows in low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (LLAGNs) probably have a two-component structure with an inner hot, optically thin, advection dominated accretion flow (ADAF) and an outer truncated cool, optically thick accretion disk. As shown by Taam et al. (2012), within the framework of the disk evaporation model, the truncation radius as a function of mass accretion rate is strongly affected by including the magnetic field. We define the parameter ${\beta}$ as $p_m=B^2/8{\pi}=(1-{\beta})p_{tot}$, (where $p_{tot}=p_{gas}+p_m$, $p_{gas}$ is gas pressure and $p_m$ is magnetic pressure) to describe the strength of the magnetic field in accretion flows. It is found that an increase of the magnetic field (decreasing the value of ${\beta}$) results in a smaller truncation radius for the accretion disk. We calculate the emergent spectrum of an inner ADAF + an outer truncated accretion disk around a supermassive black hole by considering the effects of the magnetic field on the truncation radius of the accretion disk. By comparing with observations, we found that a weaker magnetic field (corresponding to a bigger value of ${\beta}$) is required to match the observed correlation between $L_{2-10keV}/L_{Edd}$ and the bolometric correction $k_{2-10keV}$, which is consistent with the physics of the accretion flow with a low mass accretion rate around a black hole.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제40권7호
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• pp.515-522
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• 2017

CD133, a pentaspan transmembrane glycoprotein, is generally used as a cancer stem cell marker in various human malignancies, but its biological function in cancer cells, especially in glioma cells, is largely unknown. Here, we demonstrated that forced expression of CD133 increases the expression of IL-$1{\beta}$ and its downstream chemokines, namely, CCL3, CXCL3 and CXCL5, in U87MG glioma cells. Although there were no apparent changes in cell growth and sphere formation in vitro and tumor growth in vivo, in vitro trans-well studies and in vivo tumor xenograft assays showed that neutrophil recruitment was markedly increased by the ectopic expression of CD133. In addition, the clinical relevance between CD133 expression and IL-$1{\beta}$ gene signature was established in patients with malignant gliomas. Thus, these results imply that glioma cells expressing CD133 are capable of modulating tumor microenvironment through the IL-$1{\beta}$ signaling pathway.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제54권2호
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• pp.136-139
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• 2018

풋마름병 균에 대해 강한 저해활성을 갖는 활성물질 Compound S와 conversion product인 compound S'이 Bacillus subtilis JW-1 배양액에서 일련의 크로마토그래피 방법으로 분리 정제되었고, $^1H$ NMR, $^{13}C$ NMR, $^1H-^1H$ COSY와 HMBC 등의 spectra 분석에 의해 구조가 alanyl-L-${\beta}$-(2,3-epoxycyclohexyl-4-one)alanine와 alanyl-L-${\beta}$-(2,3-dihydroxycyclohexyl-4-one) alanine로 각각 동정되었다. Compound S는 $G^+$, $G^-$ bacteria, yeast와 Candida albicans 등에 대해 광범위한 antimicrobial activity를 나타내며, conversion product의 활성 상실을 통해 intact oxirane ring이 Compound S의 활성에 필수적임이 밝혀졌다.

• 한국잠사곤충학회지
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• 제54권1_2호
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• pp.1-5
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• 2016

The dpp gene originated from the silkworms is an important gene that is well conserved in the genome of humans, cattle, rodents, poultry and Drosophila. The dpp gene belonging to the TGF-beta (Transforming Growth Factor-beta) superfamily is known to play an important role in several developmental stages. The $TGF-{\beta}$ gene family is a genetically well-conserved and playing an important role gene family in various species such as determining cell proliferation and differentiation, apoptosis and cell fate. In this review, we have confirmed the following studies data. The recent studies on the silkworm dpp gene have confirmed for the first time the biological functions such as promoting osteogenesis activity. In addition, previous data shows that dpp have developmental functions such as morphogenetic materials at the blastophyllum stage, induction of the mesoblast at the late embryonic stage and involved in the proliferation and morphogenesis of imaginal disc in adult development. We found the splice variant of the dpp gene originated from the wildtype silkworm by using comparative genomics. It has provided important data for basic research based on genetics studies of these processes may promote a better understanding of evolution. Silkworm is a medicinal insect and is approved for its safety. It is used as a natural antibiotic for promoting growth as a medical material, a health functional food, and a feed additive. Therefore, it is necessary to present various data to obtain more value of functional insect.

• 한국수학교육학회지시리즈A:수학교육
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.22-26
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• 1978

($\alpha$$_{x}$, $\alpha$X)와 ($\alpha$$_{Y}$ , $\alpha$Y)를 T$_2$ 공간 X와 Y의 Alexandroff base Compactification이라 할 때 $\alpha$fㆍ$\alpha$$_{x}$=$\alpha$$_{Y}$ f를 만족하는 open이고 연속인 함수 $\alpha$f:$\alpha$X$\longrightarrow$$\alpha$Y가 존재하는 연속함수 f:X$\longrightarrow$Y는 유일한 $\alpha$-extension $\alpha$f를 가지며 Category ABC를 T$_2$ 공간과 위와 같은 연속함수 f들의 Category라고 할 때 open이고 연속인 함수와 Compact space들의 Category는 Category ABC의 epireflective subcategory임을 밝혔다.

• 천문학회지
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• 제46권3호
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• pp.125-131
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• 2013

We present the relation between the genus in cosmology and the Betti numbers for excursion sets of three- and two-dimensional smooth Gaussian random fields, and numerically investigate the Betti numbers as a function of threshold level. Betti numbers are topological invariants of figures that can be used to distinguish topological spaces. In the case of the excursion sets of a three-dimensional field there are three possibly non-zero Betti numbers; ${\beta}_0$ is the number of connected regions, ${\beta}_1$ is the number of circular holes (i.e., complement of solid tori), and ${\beta}_2$ is the number of three-dimensional voids (i.e., complement of three-dimensional excursion regions). Their sum with alternating signs is the genus of the surface of excursion regions. It is found that each Betti number has a dominant contribution to the genus in a specific threshold range. ${\beta}_0$ dominates the high-threshold part of the genus curve measuring the abundance of high density regions (clusters). ${\beta}_1$ dominates the genus near the median thresholds which measures the topology of negatively curved iso-density surfaces, and ${\beta}_2$ corresponds to the low-threshold part measuring the void abundance. We average the Betti number curves (the Betti numbers as a function of the threshold level) over many realizations of Gaussian fields and find that both the amplitude and shape of the Betti number curves depend on the slope of the power spectrum n in such a way that their shape becomes broader and their amplitude drops less steeply than the genus as n decreases. This behaviour contrasts with the fact that the shape of the genus curve is fixed for all Gaussian fields regardless of the power spectrum. Even though the Gaussian Betti number curves should be calculated for each given power spectrum, we propose to use the Betti numbers for better specification of the topology of large scale structures in the universe.

• 한국버섯학회지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.38-44
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• 2017

최근 식용과 약용버섯으로 각광을 받고 있는 꽃송이버섯(Sparassis latifolia 혹은 S. crispa)은 베타-글루칸이 풍부하여 다양한 생리활성을 나타낸다고 알려져 있다. 꽃송이버섯에 다량 포함된 베타-글루칸과 더불어 뇌기능을 증진시킬 수 있는 영양성분이 보강된다면 약용버섯의 기능성이 더욱 증대되어 농가소득 증대와 국민 건강증진에 큰 기여를 할 것으로 판단된다. 본 연구에서는 꽃송이버섯 균사체 배양 시 아미노산을 첨가하였을 시 균사 생장이 촉진됨과 함께 GABA 함량이 증대되었고, ${\beta}-glucan$ 함량에는 유의적인 효과가 없는 것을 확인하였다. 균사의 생장에는 glutamic acid와 ornithine 모두 효과가 있었으나, GABA 함량에 대해서는 glutamic acid의 첨가가 훨씬 효과적임을 확인하였다. 이는 꽃송이버섯 균사체의 GABA-shunt에 glutamic acid가 영향을 미친 것으로 사료된다. 생성된 GABA의 소멸과 다른 화합물의 신규 생성에 대해서는 아직 결과를 도출하지 못하였으므로, 이 부분에 대한 추가 연구가 필요하리라 사료된다.

• 호남수학학술지
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.473-482
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• 2012

While investigating the Lauricella's list of 14 complete second-order hypergeometric series in three variables, Srivastava noticed the existence of three additional complete triple hypergeo-metric series of the second order, which were denoted by $H_A$, $H_B$ and $H_C$. Each of these three triple hypergeometric functions $H_A$, $H_B$ and $H_C$ has been investigated extensively in many different ways including, for example, in the problem of finding their integral representations of one kind or the other. Here, in this paper, we aim at presenting further integral representations for the Srivatava's triple hypergeometric function $H_C$.