• 한국육종학회지
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• 제43권4호
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• pp.282-287
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• 2011

본 연구는 최근 콩 재배에서 심각한 병으로 대두된 콩 불마름병에 대한 저항성 유전자인 rxp 근접분자표지를 개발하고자 수행하였다. 콩 불마름병은 국내에서 전국적으로 발생하는 심각한 세균병으로 이에 관련하여 세균병 접종을 이용한 저항성 품종과 감수성 품종에 대한 연구가 많이 진행되고 있지만 정확한 유전자의 염기서열이 밝혀져 있지 않고 있다. 본 연구는 콩 불마름병에 저항성 품종 8개체와 감수성 품종 8개체를 이용하여 rxp 유전자 근접분자표지를 확인하기 위하여 수행하였다. 콩 불마름병 저항성 유전자로 알려진 rxp 유전자는 chromosome 17의 Satt486과 Satt372 사이에 있다고 알려져 있으며, 최근 연구결과로 chromosome 17의 7.27-7.30 Mbp 사이에 있다. 연구진은 chromosome 17의 6.6-7.3 Mbp 사이에 random으로 분자표지를 제작하여 저항성과 감수성 품종에서 다형성을 알아보았다. 실험결과로 콩 불마름병관련 근접분자표지 3점을 개발하였고, Rxp17-700 분자표지는 흥미로운 rxp 근접분자표지 임을 확인하였다. 이러한 콩 불마름병 저항성관련 근접분자표지는 앞으로 저항성 품종을 선발하는데 도움이 될 것이다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제27권10호
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• pp.1525-1530
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• 2006

A simple oscillating reaction model subject to additive Gaussian white noise is investigated as the model is located in the dynamic region of oscillations. The model is composed of three ordinary differential equations representing the time evolutions of X, Y, and Z, respectively. Initially, a uniform random noise is separately added to the three equations to study the effect of noise on the oscillatory cycle of X, Y, and Z. For a given value of noise intensity, the amplitude of oscillation increases monotonically with time. Furthermore, the noise is added to any one of the three equations to study the impact of noise on one species on the bifurcation behavior of the other.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제35권6호
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• pp.1647-1653
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• 2014

9,10-Bis(bromomethyl)phenanthrene reacted with fullerenes via a Diels-Alder reaction to give phenanthrene-substituted fullerene mono-adducts (PCMA) and bis-adducts (PCBA) as electron acceptors for organic photovoltaic cells (OPVs). The syntheses of the fullerene derivatives were confirmed by $^1H$ $^{13}C$ NMR spectroscopy and MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. PCMA and PCBA showed better light absorption in the UV-visible region than $PC_{61}BM$. Their electrochemical properties were measured using cyclic voltammetry. Accordingly, the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) energy levels of PCMA and PCBA were -3.66 and -3.57 eV, respectively. Photovoltaic cells were fabricated with a ITO/PEDOT:PSS/poly(3-hexylthiophene)(P3HT):acceptor/LiF/Al configuration, where P3HT and PCBA are the electron donors and acceptors, respectively. The polymer solar cell fabricated using the P3HT:PCBA active layer showed a maximum power conversion efficiency of 0.71%.

• 대한한의학회지
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.66-78
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• 2010

Background: Peripheral nerve injuries are a commonly-encountered clinical problem and often result in a chronic pain and severe functional deficits. Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of acupuncture on the descending pain and the recovery of the locomotor function that follows sciatic crushed nerve injury in rats. Method: In order to assess the effects of acupuncture on the descending pain and functional recovery, we investigated the walking track analysis, brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and its receptor tyrosine receptor kinase B (TrkB) expression in the sciatic nerve, and on the expressions of c-Fos and nitric oxide synthase in the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of the hypothalamus and in the ventrolateral periaqueductal gray (vlPAG) region resulting from sciatic crushed nerve injury in rats. Results: Acupuncture treatment at Huantiao (GB30), Yanglingquan (GB34), and Weizhong (BL40) facilitated functional recovery. C-Fos and nitric oxide synthase expressions in the brain and BDNF and TrkB expressions in the sciatic nerve were decreased by acupuncture treatment. The most potent effects of acupuncture were observed at the GB30 acupoint. Conclusion: It is possible that acupuncture can be used for pain control and functional recovery from sciatic nerve injury.

• Journal of Plant Biology
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.303-307
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• 1990

A genomic clone carrying a proteinase inhibitor I sequence was isolated and characterized. The clone contained a 0.7 kb EcoRI fragment hybridized with tomato inhibitor I cDNA. The nucleotide sequence of the EcoRI fragment revealed presence of a truncated form of a proteinase inhibitor I gene of potato. The truncated gene contained the 5' flanking region and the first exon of a functional proteinase inhibitor I gene. Although the 5' flanking region contained the regulatory sequences TATAAA and CCACT, a deletion of 40 bp occurred between them.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.73-77
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• 2012

This paper reports a combined depth- and model-based face detection and tracking approach. The proposed algorithm consists of four functional modules; i) color-based candidate region extraction, ii) generation of the depth histogram for handling occlusion, iii) rotation-invariant face region detection using ellipse fitting, and iv) face tracking based on motion prediction. This technique solved the occlusion problem under complicated environment by detecting the face candidate region based on the depth-based histogram and skin colors. The angle of rotation was estimated by the ellipse fitting method in the detected candidate regions. The face region was finally determined by inversely rotating the candidate regions by the estimated angle using Haar-like features that were robustly trained robustly by the frontal face.

• 한국식품영양과학회지
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• 제43권6호
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• pp.859-867
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• 2014

본 연구에서 양파의 맛에 관련된 품질인자를 도출하기 위해 국내 주요 양파 생산지인 전남 무안, 경남 창녕, 경북 안동의 세 지역에서 재배된 5가지 품종(수라볼, 하드볼, 황용볼, 터보 및 카타마루)과 경북 문경의 뉴마르스 품종을 이용하여 품종 및 재배지역에 따른 이화학적, 미생물학적 및 관능적 특성을 평가하였다. 양파의 이화학적 특성에서는 건조중량, pH만이 재배지역에 따라 유의적인 차이를 나타내지 않았으며, 가용성 고형분 함량을 비롯한 색도, 비타민 C, quercetin, 폴리페놀 함량, pyruvic acid은 품종별, 재배지역별 값의 차이를 나타냈다. 관능평가 중 지역별 양파의 맛에 대한 기호도에서는 품종에 따라 유의적인 차이를 나타내지 않았고, 전체적으로 맵고 아린 양파 품종보다는 단맛이 높은 품종에서 기호도가 높게 평가되었다. 양파의 맛을 판정할 수 있는 품질지표를 선정하기 위해 각 품질특성들 간의 상관관계 및 회귀분석을 실시하였다. 그 결과 맛에 대한 상관관계는 $Z_{11}$(아린맛)이 -0.914로 아주 밀접한 관련이 있고, 다중회귀분석 한 결과 신맛과 아린맛의 두 변수가 양파의 맛에 영향을 미친다고 할 수 있다.

• Advances in Traditional Medicine
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.556-563
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• 2008

Peripheral nerve injuries are a commonly encountered clinical problem and often result in a chronic pain and severe functional deficits. The expression of c-Fos is sometimes used as a marker of increased neuronal activity. We have prepared the aqueous extract of amygdalin from Armeniacae semen for pain control. In the present study, we investigated the effects of amygdalin on the recovery rate of the locomotor function and on the expression of c-Fos in the ventrolateral periaqueductal gray (vlPAG) region following sciatic crushed nerve injury in rats. Walking track analysis for the evaluation of functional recovery and immunohistochemistry for the c-Fos expression were used in this study. In the present results, characteristic gait change with dropping of the sciatic function index (SFI) was observed and c-Fos expression in the vlPAG was suppressed following sciatic crushed nerve injury in rats. Amygdalin enhanced SFI value and restored c-Fos expression in the vlPAG to the control value. The present our study indicated that amygdalin activates neurons in the vlPAG, and it facilitates functional recovery following peripheral nerve injury.

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제47권1호
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• pp.17-25
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• 2010

Objective: The focus of this study is brain plasticity associated with semantic aspects of language function in patients with medial temporal lobe epilepsy (mTLE) Methods: Using longitudinal functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), patterns of brain activation were observed in twelve left and seven right unilateral mTLE patients during a word-generation task relative to a pseudo-word reading task before and after anterior temporal section surgery. Results: No differences were observed in precentral activations in patients relative to normal controls (n = 12), and surgery did not alter the phonological-associated activations. The two mTLE patient groups showed left inferior prefrontal activations associated with semantic processing (word-generation>pseudo-word reading), as did control subjects. The amount of semantic-associated activation in the left inferior prefrontal region was negatively correlated with epilepsy duration in both patient groups. Following temporal resection, semantic-specific activations in inferior prefrontal region became more bilateral in left mTLE patients, but more left-lateralized in right mTLE patients. The longer the duration of epilepsy in the patients, the larger the increase in the left inferior prefrontal semantic-associated activation after surgery in both patient groups. Semantic activation of the intact hippocampus, which had been negatively correlated with seizure frequency, normalized after the epileptic side was removed. Conclusion: These results indicate alternation of semantic language network related to recruitment of left inferior prefrontal cortex and functional recovery of the hippocampus contralateral to the epileptogenic side, suggesting an intra- and inter-hemispheric reorganization following surgery.

• Korean Journal of Radiology
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• 제22권12호
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• pp.2052-2061
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• 2021

Objective: The role of preoperative overt hepatic encephalopathy (OHE) in the neurophysiological mechanism of cognitive improvement after liver transplantation (LT) remains elusive. This study aimed to explore changes in sub-regional thalamic functional connectivity (FC) after LT and their relationship with neuropsychological improvement using resting-state functional MRI (rs-fMRI) data in cirrhotic patients with and without a history of OHE. Materials and Methods: A total of 51 cirrhotic patients, divided into the OHE group (n = 21) and no-OHE group (n = 30), and 30 healthy controls were enrolled in this prospective study. Each patient underwent rs-fMRI before and 1 month after LT. Using 16 bilateral thalamic subregions as seeds, we conducted a seed-to-voxel FC analysis to compare the thalamic FC alterations before and after LT between the OHE and no-OHE groups, as well as differences in FC between the two groups of cirrhotic patients and the control group. Correction for multiple comparisons was conducted using the false discovery rate (p < 0.05). Results: We found abnormally increased FC between the thalamic sub-region and prefrontal cortex, as well as an abnormally decreased FC between the bilateral thalamus in both OHE and no-OHE cirrhotic patients before LT, which returned to normal levels after LT. Compared with the no-OHE group, the OHE group exhibited more extensive abnormalities prior to LT, and the increased FC between the right thalamic subregions and right inferior parietal lobe was markedly reduced to normal levels after LT. Conclusion: The renormalization of FC in the cortico-thalamic loop might be a neuro-substrate for the recovery of cognitive function after LT in cirrhotic patients. In addition, hyperconnectivity between thalamic subregions and the inferior parietal lobe might be an important feature of OHE. Changes in FC in the thalamus might be used as potential biomarkers for recovery of cognitive function after LT in cirrhotic patients.