• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제14권10호
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• pp.5651-5655
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• 2013

Objective: Major histocompatibility complex class I chain-related A (MICA) is a stress-inducible glycoprotein that can be shed as a soluble protein. This study was conducted to determine the expression of MICA in renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and examine the clinical relevance of soluble MICA (sMICA) in this disease. Methods: Immunohistochemistry and real-time PCR analyses were performed to assess the expression of MICA in 48 pairs of RCC and adjacent normal renal tissues. Serum levels of sMICA were measured in 48 RCC patients, 12 patients with benign renal tumors, and 20 healthy individuals. The correlations between sMICA levels and clinicopathological parameters were analyzed and the diagnostic performance of sMICA in RCC was evaluated. Results: RCCs exhibited elevated expression of MICA compared to adjacent normal tissues. Serum concentrations of sMICA were significantly greater in RCC patients ($348.5{\pm}32.5pg/ml$) than those with benign disease ($289.3{\pm}30.4pg/ml$) and healthy controls ($168.4{\pm}43.2pg/ml$) and significantly correlated with advanced tumor stage, lymph node metastasis, distant metastasis, vascular invasion, and higher histological grade. Using a cut-off point of 250 pg/ml, sMICA demonstrated a specificity and sensitivity of 63.2% and 75.6%, respectively, in distinguishing between RCC and benign renal tumors. Conclusion: MICA expression is upregulated in RCC and increased serum sMICA levels predict aggressive tumor behavior. However, the applicability of sMICA alone is limited in distinguishing RCC from benign renal tumors.

• 공업화학
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.35-38
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• 2016

본 연구에서는 차열소재로 사용되는 mica의 소수성을 향상시키기 위해 실란커플링제인 octyltriethoxysilane (OTES)으로 개질하였다. 개질한 mica의 FT-IR spectrometer, 젖음성 및 수 접촉각 평가를 한 결과 OTES가 mica 표면에 화학적으로 잘 결합되어 있고, 소수성도 크게 향상된 것으로 평가된다. mica와 OTES/mica를 이용하여 제조한 차열페인트의 반사율은 각각 73.9% (mica) 및 86.4% (OTES/mica)로 OTES/mica의 경우가 12.5% 증가하였다. 차열성능평가 결과는 OTES로 개질한 페인트가 개질 전과 비교하여 약 $7.2^{\circ}C$ 감소되어, 소수성 실란커플링제로 개질된 mica가 페인트의 차열성능을 향상시키는데 효과가 있음을 확인하였다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제16권9호
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• pp.3901-3905
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• 2015

Objective: Our aim was to investigation the roles of MHC class I chain-related gene A(MICA) and natural killer cell group 2D(NKG2D) in human renal cancer cells. Materials and Methods: The expression of membrane MICA (mMICA) on renal cells and NKG2D on NK cells were detected by flow cytometry (FCM); the content of sMICA were detected by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and the distribution of mMICA on renal tumor tissues by immunohistochemistry; the interaction between MICA and NKG2D was observed by antibody closed method. Results: Our results showed that the expression of mMICA in renal cancer tissues was significantly higher than in controls, where the soluble MICA was not expressed. Cytotoxic activity of NK cells was significantly reduced after exposure to NKG2D and MICA antibodies (P<0.05), and serum containing sMICA can obviously lower the function of NKG2D (P<0.05). Conclusions: The interaction of mMICA and NKG2D play important roles in mediation of cytotoxicity of NK cells in RCC. On the other hand, sMICA may mediate tumor immune escape through down- regulated NKG2D expression.

• Current Applied Physics
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• 제18권12호
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• pp.1486-1491
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• 2018

In recent years, mica has been successfully used as a substrate for the growth of flexible epitaxial ferroelectric oxide thin films. Here, we systematically investigated the flexibility of mica in terms of its thickness, repeated bending/unbending, extremely hot/cold conditions, and successive thermal cycling. A $20-{\mu}m-thick$ sheet of mica is flexible even up to the bending radius of 5 mm, and it is durable for 20,000 cycles of up- and down-bending. In addition, the mica shows flexibility at 10 and 773 K, and thermal cycling stability for the temperature variation of ca. 400 K. Compared with the widely used flexible polyimide, mica has a significantly higher Young's modulus (ca. 5.4 GPa) and negligible hysteresis in the force-displacement curve. These results show that mica should be a suitable substrate for piezoelectric energy-harvesting applications of ferroelectric oxide thin films at extremely low and high temperatures.

• 한국소성가공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소성가공학회 2004년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.58-64
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• 2004

The shrinkages of injection molded parts are different in molding operational conditions, resins and additives. The shrinkage of injection molded part for crystalline polymer, PBT (polybutylene terephthalate) has been studied for various operational conditions of injection molding and content of additives. Mica was used as a additive to PBT to examine the part shrinkage according to the mica content. The part shrinkages of mica contained PBT decreased as mica content increases. Higher injection temperature and injection pressure resulted in a lower shrinkage. As mold temperature increases the part shrinkage decreased. The part shrinkage of flow direction was less than that of the perpendicular direction to the flow for both pure and mica contained PBT. However the shrinkage difference between flow and perpendicular to flow directions decreased as mica content increased.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2002년도 International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.1043-1046
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• 2002

A 50% reduction of convergence errors of CRT's is achieved by a technique referred to as 'Magnetically Improved Color Alignment' or MICA for short. The MICA technology comprises a ring of synthetic material (polymer) filled with ferrite particles. MICA is meant for repairing CRT's, which are out of convergence specification. The repairing occurs by writing a magnetic correction profile in the ring.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.1715-1717
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• 2014

The overall incidence and mortality of renal cell carcinoma (RCC), the most common kidney cancer, are steadily increasing for reasons that are not fully explained. Our aim was to explore the expression of membrane MHC class I chain-related gene A (mMICA) in human RCC cell lines and tissue specimens, and to determine expression of soluble MICA (sMICA) in serum of patients with renal cell carcinoma, we used flow cytometry (FCM) and immunohistochemistry as well as an enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The results showed that percentage of mMICA expression was significantly increased in human kidney cancer tissues and RCC cell lines (786-O and Ketr-3) than that in healthy adults and human embryonic kidney 293 (HEK293) cell line individuality (P<0.05). sMICA content in healthy adults was negative, but in renal cancer patients was significantly elevated (P<0.05). Our research showed that high expression of MICA in human kidney cancer, this results show that MICA might serve as potential tumor-associated antigen (TAA) in RCC.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.61-67
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• 2015

$Fe_2O_3$ coated plate mica($Fe_2O_3$/mica) for infrared reflectance red pigment was prepared under hydrothermal treatment. $Fe_2O_3$ was perfectly coated on mica via the difference of surface charge between $Fe_2O_3$ and mica particles at pH 3. $Fe_2O_3$/mica was then calcined at $800^{\circ}C$ to stabilize the coated layer on mica. The infrared(IR) reflectance pigments were characterized by X-ray diffraction, FE-SEM, zeta potential, and a UV-Vis-NIR spectrophotometer. In particular, the CIE color coordinate and IR reflectance properties of $Fe_2O_3$/mica pigments were investigated in relation to the thickness variation of the $Fe_2O_3$ layer coated on mica of various lateral sizes. The isolation-heat red paints containing the pigments were prepared and optimized with a thinner, settling agent, and dispersant. Then, the films were made. The thermal property of isolation-heat on these films was observed through the relationship of the IR reflectance value, which was based on the variation of the $Fe_2O_3$ layer's thickness coated on mica and mica's lateral size as IR reflectance pigment. With an increase in IR reflectance on these films, the thermal property of isolation-heat was effectively enhanced.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.71-82
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• 1995

The weathered two-mica granite is widely distributed in Korea and called a kind of ground rock for kaolin. The major minerla compositions are consist of this quartz, feldspar, mica and clay mineral. At present, only a small portion of this granite is used as the material for the low-grade tile industry due to the low S.K. value and the high contents of impurities such as Fe2O3 and FeO. The low S.K. value is caused by feldspars not weathered to clay minerals. The refinement of this thus has been required for the recent shortage of the resources of high-grade one. This paper concerns an optimum hydrothermal treatment condition to refine the low-grade weathered two-mica granite of which impurities are feldspar mineral and Fe2O3. FeO components in using for the main material of ceramic industry. And then, from this result, we tried to fine out the basic formation mechanism of clay mineral from feldspar etc and develope the effectual utilization method of this.

• 암석학회지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.119-134
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• 2003

육십령 복운모화강암은 광물학$.$지화학적으로 과알루미나 성질을 특징적으로 나타낸다. 육십령 화강암체는 1.15∼l.20 범위의 높은 알루미나 포화 지수와 2.20∼2.98wt% 범위의 높은 CIPW norm 강옥 함량을 나타낸다. 색지수는 <16%이고, FeO$^{T}$ +MgO+TiO$_2$,는 평균 1.9 wt%로서 우백질화강암에 해당한다. 육십령 복운모 우백질화강암은 SiO$_2$성분이 증가함에 따라, TiO$_2$, $Al_2$O$_3$, FeO, Fe$_2$O$_3$, MgO, CaO, $K_2$O, P$_2$O$_{5}$ , Rb, Ba, Sr 은 감소하는 경향을 나타내는 반면, Zr과 Th는 증가하는 경향을 나타내는데, 이는 장석, 흑운모, 인회석 저어콘의 분별경정작용에 기인한 것으로 해석된다. 거정질 암맥에는 SiO$_2$and P$_2$O$_{5}$ 는 높게, 그 외의 주원소는 결핍되어 나타난다. Manaslu, Hercynian 복운모 우백질화강암, Lachlan습곡대의 S-형 화강암과 비교해 보면, 육십령 복운모 우백질화강암은 낮은 Rb, 높은 Ba, Sr을 나타낸다. 거정질 암맥의 지화학적 특징은 육십령 복운모화강암을 형성했던 멜트로부터 일부 원소들의 제거 혹은 유동성에 의해 높은 Rb, Nb와, 낮은 Ba, Sr, Zr, Th, Pb 함유를 나타낸다. 육십령 복운모 우백질화강암은 총 휘토류 함량이 95.7∼123.3ppm 범위를 나타내며, 운석에 대해 표준해보면, 저 내지 중정도의 Eu 이상(Eu/Eu＊= 0.7∼0.9)을 가지면서 경희토류원소가 풍부하고 중희토류원소가 결핍된 매우 경사가 져 있는((La/Yb)$_{N}$ = 6.9∼24.8) 변화를 보여준다. 반면에 페그마틱 암맥은 총 휘토류원소의 함량이 7.0ppm으로 운석에 대해 표준화하면, 강한 부의 Eu 이상(Eu/Eu＊= 0.2)을 가진 편평한 양상을 나타낸다. 복운모 우백질화강암을 형성했던 멜트의 성분은 기원암 뿐만 아니라 기원암이 녹은 후의 잔류물질의 양에도 의존한다. 특히 CaO/$Na_2$O의 비와 Rb/Sr-Rb/Ba의 비들은 강한 과알루미나질 화강암에서는 기원암의 성분에, 즉, 기원암의 사장석과 점토 함량 비에 주로 의존한다. 육십령 복운모 우백질화강암은 사장석 성분보다 점토 성분이 풍부한 암석에서 기원한 Manaslu와 Hercynian 복운모 우백질화강암들(예를 들면 Millevaches와 Gueret)보다는 더 높은 CaO/$Na_2$O의 비와 더 낮은 Rb/Sr-Rb/Ba 비를 나타내고 있는데, 이러한 지화학적 특징은 점토 성분보다는 사장석이 풍부한 석영장석질 암석으로부터 기원했던 것으로 사료된다.