• 한국환경농학회지
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.435-441
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• 2009

In the present study, we analyzed the defensin protein deduced from Korean radish (Raphanus sativus L.) seeds.To express the genes in E. coli, we constructed a recombinant expression vector with a defensin gene, named rKRs-AFP gene isolated from Korean radish seeds. Over expressed rKRs-AFP proteins was separated by SDS-PAGE to determine the purity, and protein concentration was determined by the Bradford method. Antifungal activity was assessed by disk assay method against the tested fungi. As a result, when 500 mL of cell culture were disrupted by sonicator, 32.5 mg total proteins were obtained. The purified protein showed a single band on SDS-PAGE with estimated molecular weight about 6 KDa, consistent with the molecular mass calculated from the deduced amino acid sequence. The purified rKRs-AFP protein showed remarkable antifungal activities against several fungi including Aspergillus niger, Botrytis cinerea causing the gray mold disease, and Candida albicans. In field tests using the purified rKRs-AFP protein, the protein showed the reducing activity of disease spot and the mitigating effect of spreading of disease like agrichemicals. The immuno-assay of rKRs-AFP protein showed that the purified protein entirely accumulated at B. cinerea cytoplasm through the hyphal septa shown by fluorescence imaging. There was no fluorescence inside the cell, when the hypha was incubated without the protein. These all results indicate that the recombinant rKRs-AFP proteins can be utilized as a potential antifungal drug to control harmful plant fungal pathogens.

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제5권10호
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• pp.2704-2712
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 진단에 중요한 정보를 가진 영역에 대해서 무손실 부호화하고 나머지 영역에 대해서는 손실 부호화를 하여 비트를 효율적으로 할당하는 MRI 영상 압축 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법에서는 척추 디스크 질환 인식을 위해 촬영된 MRI 영상을 대상으로, 질환의 특성을 이용하여 중요한 객체가 포함된 부분을 인식한다. 인식된 부분은 의사의 디스크 질환 유, 무의 판단에 중요한 부분이므로 무손실 부호화하고 나머지 부분은 손실 부호화하여 전송한다. 또한 손실 부호화하는 영역에 대해서 웨이브릿 변환 영역에서의 프랙탈 압축 방법을 적용하여 블록화 현상이 제거된 선명한 화질을 유지한다.

• 한국임상수의학회지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.284-287
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• 2001

Three dogs referred to Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital, Seoul National University were diagnosed as intervertebral disc disease. Physical examination, neurologic examination, survey radiograph, and myelography were performed in patients. Case 1 showed narrowing intervertebral space and calcified intervertebral disc material in survey radiograph. Case 2 showed increased opacity in the intervertebral opacity in survey radiograph. All of 3 cases showed extradural pattern during myelography. In survey radiography, radiographic signs consistent with intervertebral disc herniations include narrowing of the disc space and the dorsal intervertebral articular process joint space, small intervertebral foramen, increase opacity in the intervertebral foramen and extruded, mineralized disc material within the vertebral canal. Myelography is useful for evaluating the spinal cord and the cauda equina. Indication for myelography includes confirming a spinal lesion seen or suspected on survey radiograph, defining the extent of a survey lesion, finding a lesion not observed on survey radiograph, and distinguishing between surgical and nonsurgical lesion. In presentcases, two of three cases show radiographic signs of IVDD with survey radiograph and all of three case show extradural pattern during myelography. It is observed that intervertebral disc disease is one of the most important indication for radiographic examination and myelography of the vertebral column of small animals.

• 식물병연구
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.166-171
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• 2022

Commercial products with antibiotics like streptomycin as active ingredients have been used to control soft rot disease caused by Pectobacterium species for a long time. In this study, antibiotic resistance of twenty-seven Korean strains of Pectobacterium species including P. carotovorum, P. odoriferum, P. brasiliense, and P. parmenteri, which were previously shown to be susceptible to the bacteriophage phiPccP-1 was surveyed using a disk diffusion assay. While all strains were highly susceptible to ampicillin, kanamycin, chloramphenicol, tetracycline, and rifampicin, some strains showed weak susceptibility to 300 ㎍/ml of streptomycin. Furthermore, some of them are partially or completely resistant to commercial pesticides-Buramycinand streptomycin at the concentration of 250 ㎍/ml that is recommended by the manufacturer for streptomycin-based pesticides. These results indicate the presence of streptomycin-resistant Pectobacterium strains in South Korea, and the development of antibiotic alternatives to control soft rot is needed.

• 식물병연구
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.45-49
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• 2002

딸기탄저병의 발병특성은 정식 직후 격발하다가 시간이 지날수록 발병율이 감소하였으며, 11월 이후에는 발병이 감소하였다. 정식 직후에는 주로 런너로 침입하였으나 엽병 제거 후는 제거한 상처부위로 주로 침입을 하였다. 식물체의 부위별로는 런너에서 가장 강한 병원력을 보였으며 접종방법별로는 생장점 부위로 관주를 할 경우 가장 발병율이 높았다. 딸기탄저병에 의해 고사된 포기를 제거한 자리에 건전한 포기를 심었을 경우 옮겨 심은 포기에서는 발병이 되지 않았다.

• Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.141-148
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• 1995

본 교실에서는 측두하악관절주위의 동통, 관절 잡음동의 증상을 주소로 내원한 환자들에 있어서 역동적 자기공명영상의 촬영을 시행하여 관절원판의 전방변위와 형태적 이상 및 주위 구조물들과의 관계를 분석한 결과 근육성 동통기능장애와의 감별뿐만 아니라 환자의 중상에 따른 관절 내부 장애의 정도를 파악할 수 있었으며 악기능시의 구조적 이상, 장애의 원인 등을 판독하여 치료의 방침을 세우는데 있어 매우 유용한 정보를 얻을 수 있었기에 보고 하는 바이다.

• 한국균학회지
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• 제40권4호
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• pp.288-291
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• 2012

한국에서 발병하는 참나무시들음병은 암브로시아 곤충인 Platypus koryoensis.에 의해 전반되는 Raffaelea quercus-mongolicae 균류에 의해 발생한다. 이 병의 전파를 방지하기 위해 참나무시들음병 감염목을 벌채 후 비닐막을 씌워 훈증하고 벌채장소에 3년 이상 방치시키고 있다. 본 연구는 이런 훈증처리된 감염목에 존재하는 균류에 대한 정보를 얻고자 수행하였다. 천안 태조산 지역 두 곳에서 훈증처리된 감염목을 채집하고 진균을 분리하여 99개 균주를 얻었다. 분리 균주를 형태적 특성과 translation elongation factor 1-alpha 유전자와 ITS rDNA region 염기서열에 의거한 분자적 방법으로 동정한 결과 Hypocrea, Trichoderma, Penicillium 속에 속하는 종들이 확인되었다. 이중 Trichoderma 속에 속하는 종이 주요 균류이었다. 조사결과 병원균인 R. quercus-mongolicae와 매개충인 P. koryoensis는 검출되지 않았다. 본 연구결과는 훈증 처리한 참나무시들음병 감염목이 3년 이상 되면 더 이상의 피해를 유발할 위험요소가 없다는 과학적 증거를 제시한다.

• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.119-128
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• 2014

The appearance of retinal blood vessels is an important diagnostic indicator of serious disease, such as hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and stroke. Automatic segmentation of the retinal vasculature is a primary step towards automatic assessment of the retinal blood vessel features. This paper presents an automated method for the enhancement and segmentation of blood vessels in fundus images. To decrease the influence of the optic disk, and emphasize the vessels for each retinal image, a multidirectional morphological top-hat transform with rotating structuring elements is first applied to the background homogenized retinal image. Then, an improved multiscale line detector is presented to produce a vessel response image, and yield the retinal blood vessel tree for each retinal image. Since different line detectors at varying scales have different line responses in the multiscale detector, the line detectors with longer length produce more vessel responses than the ones with shorter length; the improved multiscale detector combines all the responses at different scales by setting different weights for each scale. The methodology is evaluated on two publicly available databases, DRIVE and STARE. Experimental results demonstrate an excellent performance that approximates the average accuracy of a human observer. Moreover, the method is simple, fast, and robust to noise, so it is suitable for being integrated into a computer-assisted diagnostic system for ophthalmic disorders.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.231-243
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• 2020

Rice blast, caused by Magnaporthe oryzae, is one of the most destructive rice diseases worldwide. The aim of this study was to screen bacterial isolates to efficiently prevent the occurrence of rice blast. A total of 232 bacterial isolates were extracted from nonrhizospheric rice soil and were screened for antifungal activity against M. oryzae using a leaf segment assay. Strains S170 and S9 showed significant antagonistic activity against M. oryzae in vitro and in leaf disk assays, and controlled M. oryzae infection under greenhouse conditions. The results showed that strains S170 and S9 could effectively control rice leaf blast and panicle neck blast after five spray treatments in field. This suggested that the bacterial strains S170 and S9 were valuable and promising for the biocontrol of rice disease caused by M. oryzae. Based on 16S rDNA, and gyrA and gyrB gene sequence analyses, S170 and S9 were identified as Bacillus amyloliquefaciens and B. pumilus, respectively. The research also demonstrated that B. amyloliquefaciens S170 and B. pumilus S9 could colonize rice plants to prevent pathogenic infection and evidently suppressed plant disease caused by 11 other plant pathogenic fungi. This is the first study to demonstrate that B. amyloliquefaciens and B. pumilus isolated from nonrhizospheric rice soil are capable of recolonizing internal rice stem tissues.

• International Journal of Clinical Preventive Dentistry
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.216-221
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• 2018

Objective: In this study, we tried to investigate the antimicrobial activity of natural herbaceous plant-derived essential oils against oral disease-causing bacterial strains and establish the scientific evidences to apply them to the dentifrice, mouthwash, and other uses. Methods: We used the disk diffusion method with 23 types of 100% natural essential oils to verify the antimicrobial effect against Streptococcus mutans, Porphyromonas gingivalis, and Lactobacillus rhamnosus. After adhering to the surface of the plate culture medium, $20{\mu}l$ of the essential oil was prepared, and the diameter of the transparent ring was measured after incubation for 24 hours. All the experiments were repeated three times. Results: Among 23 types of oils, 13 were effective against all three strains: myrrh, ginger, basil, carrot seed, tea tree, patchouli, ylang ylang, cypress, lemongrass, cinnamon, peppermint, lavender, and eucalryptus. Seventeen oils were effective against S. mutans, and myrrh, basil, and carrot seed showed high antimicrobial activity. Eighteen oils were effective against P. gingivalis, and tea tree, carrot seed, and cinnamons showed high antimicrobial activity. Sixteen oils were effective against L. rhamnosus, and carrot seed and peppermint cinnamon showed high antimicrobial activity. Conclusion: Consequently, 13 essential oils showed the antimicrobial activity against three bacterial strains, which indicates these essential oils might be used as the effective materials to suppress the growth of oral-disease inducing microorganisms. Moreover, essential oils that have been analyzed activities in this study will be mixed up within the constant range and analyzed their antimicrobial effects to examine the synergistic activity among them.