• Natural Product Sciences
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.273-277
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• 2003

Salicornia herbacea is an annual herb growing in salt marshes and on muddy seashores. Salicornia herbacea has been used as a fork medicine as well as a seasoned vegetable. In fork medicine, Salicornia herbacea has been used to treat a variety of diseases such as constipation, obesity, diabetes, asthma, arthritis and cancer. However, the biological mechanisms for these activities have not been characterized, nor the active components. The immunomodulatory activity of Salicornia herbacea components were studied in the present study. The components of Salicornia herbacea were prepared from the whole plant by passage through a fine screen, and then dialyzed against PBS overnight. Immunomodulatory activities of the Salicornia herbacea components were examined on a mouse macrophage cell line, RAW 264.7 cells. The Salicornia herbacea components were shown to stimulate cytokine production, nitric oxide release, and expression of surface molecules in a dose dependent manner. The Salicornia herbacea components also induced further differentiation of slightly adherent RAW 264.7 cell into strongly adherent macrophages. These results indicate that Salicornia herbacea contains immunomodulator(s) that induces activation of macrophages.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.93-97
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• 1991

진동감각의 이상을 검사하는데 음차를 이용한 진동 감지 시간을 측정하는 방법이 임상에서 널리 이용되고 있으나 이 방법은 동일 피검자에 대해서도 검사자에 따라 많은 차이가 있다. 이는 주로 음차에 가해지는 자극이 표준화되어 있지 못하고 경험에 의해 이루어 지고 있기 때문이다. 검사자간의 오차를 제거하기 위해 음차에 일정한 자극을 줄 수 있는 장치 (그림 1)를 전자석의 원리를 이용하여 개발하였다. 본 장비를 이용하여 28명의 건강한 의예과 남학생을 대상으로 그들의 오른손 집게손가락에서 측정된 진동 감지시간은 평균 12.44 초 였고, 9.47 에서 17.25 초 사이에 분포되었다. 그 변이 계수는 16.89% 였다. 30 분 후 재검사 한 결과와 첫 검사 사이의 상관계수는 0.957 이었다 (p<0.01). 본 검사법은 비침입적이며, 비염오적이고 간단하다. 이를 실시함에 있어 숙련이 요하지 않으며, 현상에서 쉽게 이루어질 수 있다. 검사 시간은 1 분 정도 밖에 걸리지 않으며 추적 조사도 가능하다. 또한 본 장비는 휴대에 간편하다. 진동감각의 장애가 말초신경 질환의 초기 징후일 수 있으며, 진동 지각 역치를 측정하는 방법들이 말초신경 질환의 조기발견에 이용되고 있음에 비추어 볼 때, 본 장치에 의해 진동 감지 시간을 측정하는 방법이 직업성 말초신경 질환의 조기발견을 위한 집단검진에 널리 사용될 수 있을 것으로 생각된다.

• 대한암한의학회지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.75-84
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• 2009

Gekko has been used for several diseases including cancer in Oriental medicine and fork herbalogy. Nevertheless, its origin as herbal medicine and its efficacy and mechanism as anti-tumor drug have not yet been thoroughly reported in Korea. This study aimed to investigate anti-tumor effect of Gekko through selected articles from cqvip database in China. In vitro and In vivo, Gekko could obviously inhibit tumor growth, induce tumor cells apoptosis, reduce micro-vessel density in tumor tissue through down regulating VEGF & bFGF protein expression, promote cytotoxicity of lymphocyte. Gekko could improve survival rate, relive clinical symptoms, improve quality of life, and relieve anti-tumor treatment reaction, suggesting that Gekko might be a effective anti-tumor drug.

• 생약학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.146-154
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• 1996

Korean folk medicine 'Jil-Kyung-Ee' has been used to cure female disease, acute gastritis, edema, abdominal pain and pleurisy. The botanical origin of the crude drug has not been confirmed pharmocognostically. To clarify the botanical origin of 'Jil-Kyung-Ee', the morphological and anatomical characteristics of the leaves and roots of Plantago species growing in Korea, i.e. P. asiatica L., P. camtschatica Cham., P. depressa Willd., P. lanceolata L., P. major L. var. japonica (Fr. et Sav.) Miyabe were compared. As a result, it was determined that 'Jil-Kyung-Ee' was the whole plant body of Plantago asiatica and Plantago camtschatica.

• 한국생물물리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물물리학회 2001년도 학술 발표회 진행표 및 논문초록
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• pp.22-22
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• 2001

At the eukaryotic replication fork, discontinuous synthesis of lagging strand DNA gives rise to Okazaki fragments carrying ribonucleotides derived from the primer RNA at their 5' ends. Efficient removal of these ribonucleotides is vital for maintaining genome integrity. In this report we show that the endonucleases Dna2 and Fen1 act sequentially to facilitate the complete removal of the primer RNA.(omitted)

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.769-773
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• 2001

Moyamoya disease is defined as the development of collateral pathways, associated with bilateral chronic progressive stenosis of the carotid fork. Persistent trigeminal artery is the vessel most frequently observed to persist into adult life among persistent carotid-basilar and carotid-vertebral anastomotic vessels. The authors present a man who had a sudden, severe headache and brain CT showed subarachnoid hemorrhage in left interpeduncular and prepontine cistern. Four-vessel angiogram revealed moyamoya disease associated with aneurysm arising from the junction of persistent trigeminal artery aneurysm and basilar artery. As a treatment, coil embolization was tried but it was failed because of anatomical difficulty of aneurysm. The aneurysm was successfully treated with clipping surgery 10 days later. To our knowledge, this is the first case being reported.

• Applied Microscopy
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.17-25
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• 1995

This paper aims to probe the cell differentiation and gene activity in early Oogenesis from Dendrolimus spectabilis Butler by transmission electron microscope. The 8 cystocytes are formed by mitosis of the Oogonia, and differentiated to the 1 Oocyte and 7 nurse cells. The oocyte and nurse cells are connected by ring canals, through which the cytoplasmic organelles such as mitochondria, free ribosomes, and electron dense granular materials are passed from nurse cells to o cyte. Many replication fork in the cystocyte nuclei and 2 transcriptional units of $2.7{\mu}m\;and\;0.36{\mu}m\;or\;0.5{\mu}m$ in the nurse cells are observed by the chromatin spreading technique. It is possible that transcriptional units are passed from nurse cells to Oocyte.

• BMB Reports
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• 제34권5호
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• pp.452-456
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• 2001

Surface plasmon resonance has been used for a biospecific interaction analysis between two macromolecules in real time. Determination of an antibody that is capable of specifically interacting with the native form of antigen is very useful for many biological and medical applications. Twenty monoclonal antibodies against the $\alpha$ subunit of E. coli DNA polymerase III were screened for specifically recognizing the native form of protein using surface plasmon resonance. Only four monoclonal antibodies among them specifically recognized the native $\alpha$ protein, although all of the antibodies were able to specifically interact with the denatured $\alpha$ subunit. These antibodies failed to interfere with the interaction between the $\tau$ and $\alpha$ subunits that were required for dimerization of the two polymerases at the DNA replication fork. This real-time analysis using surface plasmon resonance provides an easy method to screen antibodies that are capable of binding to the native form of the antigen molecule and determine the biological interaction between the two molecules.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.236-240
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• 1985

A case of Strongyloides stercoralis infection was experienced in a 73-year old Korean female patient, was hospitalized with relapse of cholecystitis. The patient developed cough and dyspnea 17 days after the admission. On the 27th hospitalized day, diarrhoea, nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain started. A number of parasitic larvae were incubated at $25^{\circ}C$ for 2 days. Typical fork tailed filariform larvae of S. stercoralis (Bavay, 1876) Stiles and Hassall, 1902, were identified after cultivation. There was no improvement of diarrhoea after the medication with mebendasole. After the administration of thiabendazole, however, diarrhoea was stopped. On the 6th day of medication, S. stercoralis larvae was no more detected, and thereafter no larva was observed by repeated stool examinations upto 2 months after chemotherapy. The patient had the history of administration of steroid for articular rheumatism. Therfore this ,case seems to be a hyperinfection of S. stercoralis due to an autoinfection and to be the first report on the hyperinfected strongyloidiasis in Korea. Related literature was briefly reviewed.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2011년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.934-937
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• 2011

약용식물로부터 충치예방물질을 개발하기 위하여 우리나라에서 전통적으로 널리 사용되어 왔던 10종류의 약용식물로부터 에탄올 추출물을 분리하였다. 이를 대상으로 충치 원인균인 Streptococcus sobrinus에 대한 항균활성을 나타내는 약용식물을 조사하였다. 관중의 에탄올 추출물이 S. sobrinus에 대해 항균활성을 나타냈다. 이 결과를 근거로 하여 관중의 추출물은 S. sobrinus에 대한 충치 예방물질로서 가능성이 있음을 나타낸다.