• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제35권8호
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• pp.2290-2294
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• 2014

For the present study, rhEGF was encapsulated into solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs). The SLNs were prepared by the $W_1/O/W_2$ double emulsification method combined with the high pressure homogenization method and the physical properties such as particle size, zeta-potential and encapsulation efficiency were measured. The overall particle morphology of SLNs was investigated using a transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The percutaneous skin permeation and accumulation property of rhEGF was evaluated using Franz diffusion cell system along with confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM). The mean particle size of rhEGF-loaded SLNs was $104.00{\pm}3.99nm$ and the zeta-potential value was in the range of -$36.99{\pm}0.54mV$, providing a good colloidal stability. The TEM image revealed a spherical shape of SLNs about 100 nm and the encapsulation efficiency was $18.47{\pm}0.22%$. The skin accumulation of rhEGF was enhanced by SLNs. CLSM image analysis provided that the rhEGF rat skin accumulation is facilitated by an entry of SLNs through the pores of skin.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.202-206
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• 2007

The adhesion of Campylobacter jejuni to chicken skin, along with the associated morphological changes under aerobic conditions at 4, 25, and $37^{\circ}C$ and microaerobic ($O_2\;5%,\;CO_2\;10%,\;N_2\;85%$) conditions, were investigated using confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM), flow cytometry, and plate counting. The morphological change of C. jejuni from a spiral shape to a coccoid form or VBNC form (viable but nonculturable form) progressed rapidly under aerobic conditions at 25, 37, and $4^{\circ}C$. As regards adhesion, the C. jejuni cells were mostly located in the crevices and feather follicles of the chicken skin, where the cells in the feather follicles floated freely in the entrapped water, even after the skin was rinsed quite thoroughly. CLSM also revealed the penetration of some spiral-shaped C. jejuni cells into the chicken skin. Even after changing their shape at various temperatures, coccoid-form C. jejuni cells were still found in the crevices and feather follicles of the chicken skin.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.61-67
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• 2011

The confocal laser scanning microscopy and two-photon microscopy was implemented based on a single laser source and an objective lens. We imaged and compared the morphology of identical sites of ex vivo human skin using both microscopes. The back-scattering emission from the sample provided the contrast for the confocal microscopy. The intrinsic autofluorescence and the second harmonic generation were used as the luminescence source for the two-photon microscopy. The wavelength of the Ti:Sapphire laser was tuned at 710 nm, which corresponds to the excitation peak of NADH and FAD in skin tissue. The various cell layers in the epidermis and the papillary dermis were clearly distinguished by both imaging modalities. The two-photon microscopy more clearly visualized the intercellular region and the nucleus of the cell compared to the confocal microscopy. The fibrous structures in the dermis were more clearly resolved by the confocal microscopy. Numerous cells in papillary dermal layer, as deep as $100\;{\mu}m$, were observed in both CLSM and two-photon microscopy. While most previous studies focused on fibrous structure imaging (collagen and elastin fiber) in the dermis, we demonstrated that the combined imaging with the CLSM and two-photon microscopy can be applied for the non-invasive study of the population, distribution and metabolism of papillary dermal cells in skin.

• 대한화장품학회지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.49-56
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• 1995

키토산 마이크로캡슐 및 마이크로비드를 W/O emulsion법에 의해 제조하였으며, SEM을 통해 이들의 morphology를 관찰하였다. 마이크로캡슐은 SEM을 통해 관찰한 결과 약 8$mu extrm{m}$ 정도의 표피층을 가지고 있었으며, 평균 입자의 크기는 약 250$\mu\textrm{m}$ 이였다. 마이크로캡슐의 팽윤부피를 측정한 결과 양성자성 용매가 비양성자성 용매에 비해 상대적으로 높은 팽윤성을 보였다. 또한 메칠바이올렛을 함유시킨 후 그 방출거동을 pH 변화 및 라이소자임 첨가에 따라 관찰한 결과, pH 5.1에서 라이소자임 첨가시 방출속도가 높게 나타났다. 한편 W/O emulsion법에 의해 제조한 마이크로비드의 경우 70$\mu\textrm{m}$정도의 크기를 보였으며 다공성의 표면구조를 나타내었다. 용매 종류별 팽윤성을 측정한 결과 수용액에서 마이크로캡슐에 비해 2배 이상의 팽윤부피를 나타내었다.

• 공업화학
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.515-522
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• 1999

상분리 방법으로 비대칭 폴리에테르이미드막을 제조하였고, 수산화나트륨 수용액으로 막의 표면층을 개질 했을 때의 몰폴로지 변화를 반응기간과 반응용액 농도에 대하여 살려보았다. 표면층 몰폴로지는 개질 용액의 농도가 증가함에 따라 치밀한 구조에서 둥근 입자상의 형태로 변화되었고, 개질 시간이 증가될수록 치밀 영역이 증가되었다. 그러나 반응 농도가 아주 높거나 장시간 개질을 하면 비대칭 폴리에테르이미드막의 표면에서 치밀 구조층이 없어지는 결과를 나타냈다. 결과적으로, 표면의 몰폴로지는 개질 용액의 농도와 시간에 따라 크게 좌우됨을 알 수 있었다. 이러한 결과는 폴리에테르이미드가 수산화나트륨에 의해서 폴리아믹산으로 가수분해되면서 나타나는 현상으로 추측되었다.

• 대한임상검사과학회지
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.81-85
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• 2010

The clinical features of 178 patients with tinea corporis from January to December 2008 in Catholic Skin Clinics were evaluated. KOH examination and culture from the patients lesions were performed. And cultured dermatophytes were identified by colony morphology and microscopic findings. The ratio of male to female with the infection was about 1.3:1 and showed more prevalence in male. The unexposed area (84.5%) was more frequently affected than exposed (15.5%) and the most common site was buttock. Coexisting dermatophytoses in patients with tinea corporis were noted in 27 cases and the most commons were tinea pedis. The isolated dermatophytes were composed of Trichophyton rubrum (91.7%), Microsporum canis (2.6%), T. verrucosum (2.6%), T. mentagrophytes (1.7%), and T. tonsurans (1.7%).

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제18권10호
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• pp.1149-1156
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• 2015

This paper proposes the hand contour detector which is robust to noises. Existing methods reduce noises by applying morphology to extracted edges, detect finger tips by using the center of hands, or exploit the intersection of curves from hand area candidates based on J-value segmentation(JSEG). However, these approaches are so vulnerable to noises that are prone to detect non-hand parts. We propose the noise tolerant hand contour detection method in which non-skin area noises are removed by applying skin area detection, contour detection, and a threshold value. By using the implemented system, we observed that the system was successfully able to detect hand contours.

• 대한화장품학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한화장품학회 2003년도 IFSCC Conference Proceeding Book I
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• pp.568-569
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• 2003

Functional cosmetic ingredients such as L-ascorbic acid, retinoic acid, indole-3-acetic acid, salicylic acid, acidic dye(indigo carmine) are intercalatively encapsulated by skin-friendly metal hydroxides and oxides matrices. Such functional organic-inorganic nanohybrids are realized via chemical coprecipitation and surface coating reactions. The hetero-structural nature of these nanohybrids, their particle morphology and textural characterizations are mainly discussed on the basis of powder X-ray diffraction, electron microscopies, and high performance liquid chromatographic analyses. The cosmetic ingredients encapsulated in inorganics show greatly improved storage stability, sustained releasing property as well as higher transdermal transfer efficiency.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1689-1694
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• 2005

Face detection plays an important role in face recognition, video surveillance, and human computer interface. In this paper, we present a face detection system using eye detection with progressive thresholding from a digital camera. The face candidate is detected by using skin color segmentation in the YCbCr color space. The face candidates are verified by detecting the eyes that is located by iterative thresholding and correlation coefficients. Preprocessing includes histogram equalization, log transformation, and gray-scale morphology for the emphasized eyes image. The distance of the eye candidate points generated by the progressive increasing threshold value is employed to extract the facial region. The process of the face detection is repeated by using the increasing threshold value. Experimental results show that more enhanced face detection in real time.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 ITC-CSCC -3
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• pp.1491-1494
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• 2002

The paper introduces a novel system of two hands real-time tracking based on the unrestricted hand skin segmentation by multi color systems. After corer-based segmentation and pre-processing operation, a label set of regions is created to locate the two hands automatically. By the normalization, template matching is used to find out the left or right hand. An improved fast self-adaptive tracking algorithm is applied and Canny filter is used for hand detection.