• 한국전문물리치료학회지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.147-155
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• 2022

Background: Although various conventional approaches have been employed to reduce spasticity in neurological rehabilitation, only a few studies have shown scientific evidence for its effectiveness. Thus, we introduced a different concept (Ueda method) of rehabilitation therapy that can complement the limitations of conventional therapy. Objects: This study aimed to investigate the immediate effects of the application of the Ueda method on patients with spasticity after stroke via an electrophysiological study. Methods: We conducted a randomized double-blind pilot study in two rehabilitation hospitals involving 30 stroke patients who were randomly allocated to the Ueda (n = 15) and convention (n = 15) groups. Electromyographic data of six examined muscles in both upper extremities of all patients were recorded. The A-ApA index and activation ratios of upper extremity muscles were evaluated and compared between the groups to confirm post-intervention changes in upper-extremity flexor spasticity and flexion synergies. Repeated-measures analysis of variance was conducted to confirm the therapeutic effect (2 × 2) as a function of group (Ueda vs. convention) and time (pre-/post-intervention) on all outcome measures (p < 0.05). Results: In the Ueda group, the mean A-ApA index values differed significantly before and after the intervention (p = 0.041), indicating a weak evidence level; however, the effect size was medium (d = -0.503). The interaction effects of the A-ApA index between the Ueda and convention groups and between pre-intervention and post-intervention stages were significant (p = 0.012). The effect size was large (n_p² = 0.220). In the Ueda group, the activation ratios of the anterior deltoid fiber significantly decreased after the intervention in all reaching tasks. Conclusion: The Ueda method reduces upper-extremity flexor spasticity and changes its synergy in stroke patients and should be considered a rehabilitation therapy for spastic stroke patients.

• 항공우주산업기술동향
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.133-142
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• 2008

헬기 시장진입 가능성을 수요측면, 산업구조측면, 인프라측면에서 검토하였다. 검토 결과 일부 부족기술의 확보와 금융과 헬기 관련 제도 등을 보완하면 내수를 중심으로 진입이 가능하다는 결론을 도출하였다. 헬기산업의 성장동력화를 위한 추진전략을 제시하고 전략 달성을 위하여 헬기수요의 지속적 창출, 핵심 부품 소재 육성 및 경쟁우위 기술력 확보, 인증 및 운용활성화 인프라 구축, 금융제도 개선 추진, 그리고 헬기 민 군 관 상시 정책조정기능 강화를 5대 추진과제로 제안하였다.

• 한국의류산업학회지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.437-444
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• 2009

According to the activation of the fashion electronic commerce, this research investigated the merits and demerits and improvement plan of the 3D virtual try-on technology using the qualitative research method. This research was performed by interview with 70 evaluation group. The evaluation group of 3D virtual try-on was organized and the fit evaluation process by 3D human body scan and the 3D virtual try-on of the i-Fashion technology center were experienced. This study was performed by interview after the actual and virtual try-on about the casual shirt. The convenience and accuracy of measurement, usability in online shopping, body evaluation, complement of sizing system, and body shape management were discovered as merits. The requirement of high accuracy in sizing and avatar, limits of fabric expression, practical limitation by cost, vexatious of measurement garment, differences between real and virtual fittings, personal information leakage risk, and etc were pointed out as demerits. The mass customization, customized garment connected with medical service, humanized avatar, improved fitting report, entertainment, coordination, wardrobe manager were proposed as improvement plan.

• Preventive Nutrition and Food Science
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.196-202
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• 2013

Citron seed extracts (CSEs) were made using distilled water (CSEW), ethanol (CSEE), and n-hexane (CSEH), to measure the total polyphenol contents, DPPH and ABTS radical scavenging activities, and anti-complementary activity. The total polyphenol content was observed the highest in CSEE (188.71 ${\mu}g/mL$), and occurred in the following order: CSEE>CSEW (141.11 ${\mu}g/mL$)>CSEH (26.19 ${\mu}g/mL$) at 10 mg/mL. CSEE (63.56%) and CSEW (56.61%) showed significantly higher DPPH radical scavenging activities when compared with CSEH (28.57%). ABTS radical scavenging activities of CSEE (45.53%) and CSEW (40.02%) were also observed to be higher, whereas CSEH did not show ABTS radical scavenging activity. Anti-complementary activity of CSEE (26.85%) showed a greater activity than that of CSEW (7.84%) at 1,000 ${\mu}g/mL$. Limonin and nomilin contents had the highest values (1.882% and 2.089%) in CSEE, and with 0.327% and 0.139% in CSEW; however, CSEH showed relatively very low values at 0.061% and 0.026%, respectively. Among the CSEs tested, CSEE as a by-product from citron may provide an important source of dietary antioxidant compounds with rich polyphenol and limonoid contents, and immunopotentiating activity, including the complement activation factor.

• Preventive Nutrition and Food Science
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.136-140
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• 2012

Trifoliate orange seed extracts (TSEs) were made using either distilled water (TW), ethanol (TE), or n-hexane (TH), to measure total polyphenol contents, DPPH and ABTS radical scavenging activities, and anti-complementary activity. The results showed that the total polyphenol content showed higher value at TE (235.24 ${\mu}g/mL$, p<0.05) than those of TW (132.65 ${\mu}g/mL$) and TH (165.44 ${\mu}g/mL$) at 10 mg/mL and TE exerted the highest DPPH radical scavenging activity (61.77%, p<0.05), which occurred in the following order: TE TW (56.87%)>TH (39.78%). The results of ABTS radical scavenging activity showed that TW (34.26%) and TE (31.81%) showed similar activities, which were higher than TH (12.74%, p<0.05). Anti-complementary activity of TE (61% at 500 ${\mu}g/mL$) showed a higher activity when compared with the positive control (60% at 1,000 ${\mu}g/mL$) polysaccharide-K (PSK), a known immuno-active polysaccharide from Coriolus versicolor. Consequently, among TSEs, TE is a byproduct from trifoliate orange and could be an important source of dietary polyphenolic antioxidant compounds and immunopotentiating activity, including complement activation.

• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 1997

계피나무의 어린가지인 계지의 열수추출물에서 높은 보체계 활성효과(항보체 활성)를 발견하여 대량으로 열수추출한 추출물(CC-O)에 대하여 메탄올 환류, 에탄올 침전, 투석, 동결건조를 실시하여 메탄올과 에탄올에 비가용성인 고분자 획분(CC-1)에서 증가된 활성을 보였다. 60.3%의 당과 32.8%의 단백질로 구성되어 있는 CC-1 획분에서 보체계 활성화 본체를 파악하기 위하여 pronase처리에 의한 단백질 분해 및 periodate를 이용한 다당부위를 선택적으로 산화시킨 후, 각각의 활성을 조사한 결과 pronase 처리한 CC-1에서는 보체계활성 효과를 그대로 유지한 반면, CC-1의 periodate 산화물은 CC-1에 비하여 활성이 50% 이하로 감소한 사실로부터 보체계 활성화 물질이 다당임을 확인하였다. CC-1을 양이온 계면 활성제인 cetavlon으로 처리 후 CC-2, CC-3, CC-4 및 CC-5의 4획분으로 분리하였으며 수율과 활성이 가장 높은 CC-2분획을 음이온 교환 수지인 DEAE-Toyopearl 650C column에 흡착시켜 비흡착획분(CC-2-1)과 7개의 흡착획분$(CC-2-II{\rightarrow}CC-2-VIII)$으로 분획하였다. 이 중 0.2 M NaCl로 용출된 CC-2-III 획분을 Sephadex G-100 및 Sepharose CL-6B 겔여과 크로마토그래피를 행하여 주요 활성다당체인 CC-2-IIIa-3를 최종적으로 정제하였다. HPLC상에서 거의 순수한 단일 peak로 확인된 CC-2-IIIa-3는 41.1%의 산성당을 함유하는 산성다당체로서 분자량은 240,000으로 확인되었다. CC-2-IIIa-3의 항보체 활성$(ITCH_{50})$은 1 ㎎/ml의 농도에서 대조군의 94%를 나타내었으며 구성당 조성은 arabinose, xylose, glucose, galactose, galacturonic acid 및 glucuronic acid가 5.56 : 3.77 : 1.87 : 1.00: 5.12 : 3.13의 비율로 존재하였다.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.407-418
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• 2000

Background: With open heart surgery(OHS), it has been recognized that many postoperative complications and postperfusion syndrome are associated with the activations of complements and leulocytes. Recently, some investigators also demonstrated that interlukin-6(IL-6) linked highly with postperfusion syndrome. The puropose of this study was to investigate the sequential changes of the IL-6 and to clarify each IL-6 relationship to the complements(C3, C4) and inflammatory response following cardiopulmonary bypass(CPB). Material and Method: To determine serum levels of IL-6, complements, leukocytes, and biochemistric markers of liver and renal function, blood samples were taken from th radial artery in 30 adult patients undergoing OHS with CPB. Result: Serum IL-6 levels incrased significantly at 10 minutes after CPB-on(CPB-10) in comparison with the control levels and reached the peak at CPB-off(p<0.05). Serum complement levels declined rapidly at CPB-10 and remained at the lower levels during CPB(p<0.01). Sequential changes of IL-6 levels had positive correlations with the changes of total leukocytes and neutrophil fractions(p<0.05), but had negative correlations with lymphocyte fractions(p<0.05). Changes of C3 related postively to monocyte fractions(p<0.05). Postoperative levels of total protein and albumin, decreased significantly in comparison with the control levels(p<0.01), while the postoperative levels of AST(aspartate transaminase) and bilirubin increased (p<0.01). At CPB-off, IL-6 levels had negative correlations with total protein and albumin levels(r=-0.60, -0.47 respectively, p<0.05), whereas C3 levels had positive correlations with albumin levels(r=0.40, p<0.05). IL-6 levels, as well as neutrophil fractions, had positive correlations with aortic clamp time(ACT) and total bypass time(TBT) (IL-6; r=0.82, 0.79 respectively, neutrophil fractions; r=0.50, 0.56 respectively, p<0.05), wheres lymphocyte frations and albumin levels had negative correlations whith ACT and TBT(lymphocyte fractions; r=-0.52, -0.58 respectively, albumin; r=-0.58, -0.55 respectively, p<0.05). Conclusion: These data showed that elevated production of serum IL-6 during CPB may play a pivotal role in systemic inflammatory responses and prologed CPB period may be assosiated with more sever postperfusion syndromes.

• Childhood Kidney Diseases
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.204-210
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• 2003

막증식성 사구체 신염은 Berger와 Galle에 의해 처음 기술되어졌고, 전자 현미경상 고밀도로 보이는 물질들이 치밀층에 침착된 것을 특징으로 하므로, dense deposit disease라고 명명하기도 한다. 비록 원인과 병리기전에 대해서는 잘 알려져 있지 않지만, 보체의 대체경로를 활성화시켜 저보체혈증이 일어나는 임상양상으로 미루어 볼 때 이와 연관된 병의 발생기전이 보고되어 있다. 이 질환은 다른 신염에 비해 말기 신부전으로 진행하는 비율이 높아 그 중요성이 있으나 정립된 치료법이 없어 다양한 노력이 시도 중이며 그 효과에 대해서는 아직까지 논란이 있다. 저자들은 내원 3년 전부터 나타난 지속적 반복적 육안적 혈뇨와 단백뇨, 지속적인 보체 감소증이 있었으나 상실성 빈맥증(paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia) 때문에 신조직 검사를 지연시켜오던 환아에서 2년 정도의 digoxin 복용 후 실시한 7세 여아의 조직검사에서 제 2형 막증식성 사구 체신염으로 진단된 증례를 경험하였기에 문헌 고찰과 함께 보고하는 바이다.

• Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.303-310
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• 2002

Cell therapy applied to wound healing or tissue regeneration presents a revolutionary realm to which principles of gene engineering and delivery may be applied. One promising application is the transplantation of cells into the wounded tissue to help the tissue repair. However, when cells are transplanted from in vitro to in vivo, immune rejection occurs due to the immune response triggered by the activation of T-cell, and the transplanted cells are destroyed by the attack of activated T-cell and lose their function. Immune suppressant such as FK506 is commonly used to suppress immune rejection during transplantation. However, such kind of immune suppressants not only suppresses immune rejection in the periphery of transplanted cells but also suppresses whole immune response system against pathogenic infection. In order to solve this problem, we developed a method to protect the desired cells from immune rejection without impairing whole immune system during cell transplantation. Previously, we reported the success of constructing glomerular epithelial cells for removal of immune complex, in which complement receptor of type 1 (CR1) was over-expressed on the membrane of renal glomerular epithelial cells and could bind immune complex of DNA/anti-DNA-antibody to remove immune complex through phagocy-tosis [1]. Attempting to apply the CR1-expressing cells to cell therapy and evade immune rejection during cell transplantation, we constructed three plasmids containing genes encoding a soluble fusion protein of cytolytic T lymphocyte associated antigen-4 (CTLA4Ig) and an enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP). The plasmids were transfected to the above-mentioned glomerular epithelial cells to express both genes simultaneously. Using the clone cells for cell transplantation showed that mice with autoimmune disease prolonged their life significantly as compared with the control mice, and two injections of the cells at the beginning of two weeks resulted in remarkable survivability, whereas it requires half a year and 50 administrations of proteins purified from the same amount of cells to achieve the same effect.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제42권1호
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• pp.26-33
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• 2009

This experiment was conducted to examine the utilization of added dietary selenium (Se) as an immune stimulant in juvenile olive flounder, Paralichthys olivaceus. Fish averaging $4.0{\pm}0.1\;g$ ($mean{\pm}SD$) were fed one of seven semi-purified diets containing 0.56, 1.07, 2.86, 4.56, 43.15, 90.71, or 161.74 mg of Se/kg ($Se_{0.56}$, $Se_{1.07}$, $Se_{2.86}$, $Se_{4.56}$, $Se_{43.2}$, $Se_{90.7}$ and $Se_{161.7}$, respectively) for 12 weeks, respectively. At the end of the feeding trial, the fish fed diets containing more than 43.2 mg of Se/kg showed above 90% mortality. There were no significant differences in weight gain, feed efficiency, specific growth rate, protein efficiency ratio, or hematological characteristics among the fish fed the $Se_{0.56}$, $Se_{l.07}$, $Se_{2.86}$, and $Se_{4.56}$ diets. Se concentrations of the gill, kidney, muscle and liver tissues occurred in dose-dependent manners. Alternative complement pathway activation and the chemiluminescene responses of the fish fed the $Se_{1.07}$ diet were significantly higher than those of the fish fed the other diets (P<0.05). These results indicate that the optimum dietary supplementation level of Selenium as selenoyeast could be 1.07 mg of Se/kg based on the non-specific immune responses of juvenile oilve flounder, Paralichthys olivaceus.