• Journal of Ginseng Research
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• 제46권6호
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• pp.759-770
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• 2022

Background: Aerobic cellular respiration provides chemical energy, adenosine triphosphate (ATP), to maintain multiple cellular functions. Sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) can deacetylate peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma coactivator 1 alpha (PGC-1α) to promote mitochondrial biosynthesis. Targeting energy metabolism is a potential strategy for the prevention and treatment of various diseases, such as cardiac and neurological disorders. Ginsenosides, one of the major bioactive constituents of Panax ginseng, have been extensively used due to their diverse beneficial effects on healthy subjects and patients with different diseases. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms of total ginsenosides (GS) on energy metabolism remain unclear. Methods: In this study, oxygen consumption rate, ATP production, mitochondrial biosynthesis, glucose metabolism, and SIRT1-PGC-1α pathways in untreated and GS-treated different cells, fly, and mouse models were investigated. Results: GS pretreatment enhanced mitochondrial respiration capacity and ATP production in aerobic respiration-dominated cardiomyocytes and neurons, and promoted tricarboxylic acid metabolism in cardiomyocytes. Moreover, GS clearly enhanced NAD⁺-dependent SIRT1 activation to increase mitochondrial biosynthesis in cardiomyocytes and neurons, which was completely abrogated by nicotinamide. Importantly, ginsenoside monomers, such as Rg1, Re, Rf, Rb1, Rc, Rh1, Rb2, and Rb3, were found to activate SIRT1 and promote energy metabolism. Conclusion: This study may provide new insights into the extensive application of ginseng for cardiac and neurological protection in healthy subjects and patients.

• 한국응급구조학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.7-24
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• 2020

Purpose: Emergency medical service (EMS) personnel are at high risk of spreading infection. In this study, we used the PRECEDE model to identify the knowledge, status, and barriers to infection control among Korean paramedics to provide basic infection control data. Methods: A total of 164 respondents were analyzed for the study. A questionnaire was administered and collected through an online self-response platform. Descriptive analysis, t-test, ANOVA, multiple regression, and logistic regression analyses were performed to determine infection control practices and associated factors using SAS 9.4. To identify the pathways and direct, indirect, total effects based on the PRECEDE model, we used AMOS 26.0. Results: Highly rated self-efficacy (OR 8.82, 95% CI: 3.23-24.09), awareness (OR 6.05, 95% CI: 2.06-17.72), and enabling factors (OR 3.23, 95% CI: 1.18-8.78) led to superior infection control. As a result of the structural model analysis, the highly rated enabling factors and awareness led to superior practice patterns. Conclusion: Practice is related to self-efficacy, awareness, and enabling factors; however, further research is needed to develop strategies for infection control. In particular, institutional arrangements are needed to improve the enabling factors. Improving infection control performance may lead to better infection control and enhanced protection of EMS personnel and patients against infection risks.

• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제39권1호
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• pp.32-42
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• 2013

Objectives: Cryptosporidium, a protozoan parasite, has been recognized as a frequent cause of waterborne disease due to its extremely strong resistance against chlorine disinfection. Although there has as yet been no report of a Cryptosporidium outbreak through drinking water in Korea, it is important to estimate the health risk of Cryptosporidium in water supply systems because of the various infection cases in human and domestic animals and frequent detection reports on their oocysts in water environments. Methods: This study evaluated the annual infection risk of Cryptosporidium in tap water using the quantitative microbial risk assessment technique. Exposure assessment was performed upon the results of a national survey on Cryptosporidium on the water sources of 97 large-scale water purification plants in Korea, water treatment efficacy, and daily unboiled tap water consumption. The estimates of the US Environmental Protection Agency on the mean likelihood of infection from ingesting one oocyst were applied for effect assessment. Results: Using probabilistic methods, mean annual infection risk of Cryptosporidiosis by the intake of tap water was estimated to fall within the range of $2.3{\times}10^{-4}$ to $1.0{\times}10^{-3}$ (median $5.7{\times}10^{-4}$). The risk in using river sources was predicted to be four times higher than with lake sources. With 0.5-log higher removal efficacy, the risk was estimated to be $1.8{\times}10^{-4}$, and could then be lowered by one-third. Conclusions: These estimations can be compared with acceptable risk and then used to determine the adequacy and priority of various drinking water quality strategies such as the establishment of new treatment technology.

• 한국식품영양학회지
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.829-834
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• 2016

Free radicals originate due to the radiolysis of cytoplasmic water with low "Linear Energy Transfer" (LET) radiations. Naringenin (Ng) is a natural antioxidative compound found in citrus fruits. This study revealed that Naringenin (Ng) reduced the radiation damage of critical organs by scavenging oxidative free radicals. In the study, Ng was orally administrated to rats daily for 7 consecutive days, prior to whole body exposure to gamma-rays. The scavenging efficacy was evaluated biochemically by measuring the concentration of cytotoxic byproducts and the activity of enzymes relevant to oxidative free radicals, after extracting the organs from the exposed rat. We observed increased levels of malondialdehyde (MDA) concentration, and decrease in the activities of superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase (CAT) in the exposed control group. However, pretreatment with Ng significantly reduced the MDA concentration, and increased the activities of SOD and CAT, as compared to the control group, due to the free radical scavenging by Ng. The results indicate that Ng administration prior to irradiation could protect critical organs from radiation damage.

• 무역상무연구
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• 제17권
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• pp.129-146
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• 2002

The electronic technology development have occurred in the face of existing legal barriers to legal efficacy of computer information goods, and the liberating promise of electronic transactions cannot fully realized unless there is predictability in the legal rules that govern such transactions. This study analyzes some theoretical fundamentals of the Act. First, it proposes that the Act clarify and set forth uniform legal principles applicable to computer information transactions. Secondly, it suggests that if the individual is risk averse, the acceptance set for electronic transactions will be a convex set, and that the application of the Act will make the acceptance set more expanded by lowering the probability of conflicts and by downsizing the risk averness. Thirdly, it also suggest that through the mothod of contingent commodities analysis, the application of the Act by means of its restricted regulations will give more expected utility than the absence of the Act. Fourthly, it derives some implications that the degree of legitimate restriction will be affected by the objective risk inherent to the electronic transactions, and the individual's subjective risk-averseness. Finally, it concludes that harmonization of restriction and protection of individual's rights in electronic transaction process will be a necessary condition for more efficient body of law from the law-economic perspectives.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.363-371
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• 2019

본 연구는 한국 여성 340명을 대상으로 자외선 차단제 유형, 사용 실태에 따른 사용인식이 제품 사용만족도와 재구매에 미치는 영향을 분석하고자 사용인식을 편리성, 유효성, 사용성, 안전성으로 하위요인을 구성하여 설문조사를 이용한 연구를 하였다. 연구 결과, 실내 활동 빈도가 야외활동 보다 높게 나타났고 피부톤 보정을 위해 단순 및 복합 자외선 차단제를 둘 다 사용하는 경우가 많았으며, 단순 자외선 차단제 중 선크림을, 복합 자외선 차단제 중 에어쿠션을 많이 사용하였다. 제품 사용감, 자외선 차단 지수가 구매의 중요한 요인이었고 제품 사용만족도 및 재구매 의사가 높게 나타났지만 30%가 부작용을 경험하였다. 단순 자외선 차단 제품이 복합 자외선 차단 제품보다 안전성, 유효성, 편리성, 사용성, 만족도, 재구매에 대한 인식정도가 모두 높게 나타났고 제품 사용인식 하위요인 중 편리성, 유효성, 사용성, 안전성 순으로 만족도와 재구매에 유의한 정(+)의 영향을 미쳤다. 결론적으로 자외선 차단을 위한 제품 사용 시 단순 자외선 차단 제품에 대한 인식이 더 높았고, 편리성이 만족도 및 재구매에 큰 영향을 미치는 것이 확인되었다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.865-872
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• 2000

Helocobacter phylori is the major cause of gastritis, peptic ulcer, and a principal risk factor for gastric cancer. As the firs step towards a vaccine against H. pylori infection, Hy.pylori urease was expressed and purified as a recombinant apoenzyme (rUrease) in E. coli. In order to develop an effective immunization protocol using rUrease, the host immune responses were evaluated after the oral immunization of mice with rUrease preparations plus cholera toxin relative to various conditions, such as the physical nature of the antigen, the frequency of the booster immunization, the dose of the antigen, and the route of administration. The protective efficacy was assessed using a quantitative culture following an H. pylori SS1 challenge. It was demonstrated that rUrease, due to its particulated nature, was more superior than the UreB subunit as a vaccine antigen. The oral immunization of rUrease elicited significant systemic and secretory antibody responses, and activated predominantly Th2-type cellular responses. The bacterial colonization was significantly reduced (~100-fold) in those mice immunized with three or four weekly oran doses of rUrease plus cholera toxin (p<0.05), when compared to the non-immunized/challenged controls. The protection correlated well with the elicited secretory IgA level against rUrease, and these secretory antibody responses were highly dependent on the frequency of the booster immunization, yet unaffected by the dose of the antigen (25-200$\mu\textrm{g}$). These results demonstrate the remarkable potential of rUrease as a vaccine antigen, thereby strengthening the possibility of developing an H. pylori vaccine for humans.

• 동의생리병리학회지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.779-788
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• 2009

To establish the fundament for EBM of Traditional Korean Medicine, the papers on Samul-tang which was frequently used in medical institutions of Traditional Korean Medicine were analyzed through researching domestic and international literatures. The papers were classified by the registration of domestic or international journals, by the year of publishment, by experimental methods, by laboratory animals used in biological experiment and by the kinds of studies on biological efficacy. Of total 67 papers on Samul-tang, 58 volumes were registered in domestic journals and 9 volumes were in international journals of which 8 volumes were in SCI journals. Since 1978, publishments of papers have continuously increased. The papers on instrumental analyses were 6, biological studies were 58 volumes, clinical studies were 3. Instrumental analyses were preceeded with standard compounds(gallic acid, albiflorin, paeoniflorin, benzoic acid, ferulic acid, 5-HMF). And biological studies showed improvement of cardiovascular function and circulation, antianemia, brain protection, immunoregulation, antistress, radioprotection, antifatigue, antiinflammation and antiallergy, antioxidative effect. Through clinical studies, antifatigue, improvement of insomnia and osteoporosis were reported. Samul-tang could be used to tonify and activate blood. And further study on clinical field need to be conducted in accordance with biological study.

• 식물병연구
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.136-141
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• 2011

본 연구는 세계적으로 참나무류 집단고사를 일으켜 문제가 되고 있는 R. quercivorus 균의 방제를 위한 연구로 최근 나노기술을 활용하여 참나무시들음병(Oak wilt)의 원인균인 R. quercivorus를 방제하고 매개충인 광릉긴나무좀(Platypus koryoensis)의 생태 및 형태연구에 관한 것이다. Nano-silver 용액 WA-AT-WB13R을 이용하여 R. quercivorus 균에 대한 in vitro 실험을 실시하였으며, WAAT-WB13R 용액이 100 ppm에서 균사 및 포자의 생장 억제 효과가 있음을 확인하였다. 각각 10, 30, 50, 100 ppm 처리하여 SEM 관찰 결과, 무처리구에서는 균사의 형태가 정상적임을 확인하였고 30 ppm에서부터 균사의 형태가 조금씩 변형이 일어나다가 100 ppm에서는 균사 및 포자가 비정상적으로 일그러져 있는 것을 확인하였다. 또한 매개충인 P. koryoensis의 충체에 붙어있는 균사와 포자를 SEM을 이용하여 위와 같은 방법으로 처리 관찰 결과, 표면과 균낭의 균사 및 포자의 형태가 100 ppm에 가까울수록 형태적인 변화를 관찰할 수 있었다. 기내에서의 R. quercivorus의 균사 생장억제효과를 바탕으로 수간주사(Trunk injection)를 실시한 결과, 철원과 홍천에서는 시들음 및 약해 증상을 확인할 수 없었다. 또한 춘천은 7월 시들음 증상을 보였으나 그 후 시들음 증상 및 약해를 보이지 않았다. 본 연구를 통하여 nano-silver 용액을 이용한 참나무시들음병의 원인균인 R. quercivorus의 생장억제 효과를 확인하였으며, nano-silver를 이용한 R. quercivorus 방제할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• 한국안광학회지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.27-34
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• 2005

광변색렌즈는 자외선 조사를 받아 무색의 렌즈가 유색의 렌즈로 변하는 렌즈다. 이 렌즈는 백내장의 원인이기도 하는 자외선-B로부터 눈을 보호할 수 있으며 차단율 70~80%를 갖는 선글라스로 이용될 수 있다. 표면코팅기술을 접목하여 광투과율이 70%를 유지하고 색의 변화주기를 5분이내로 하는 청색, 녹색, 갈색, 보라색, 노랑색 등의 여러 색상의 광변색렌즈를 개발하였다. 이 렌즈는 100%의 부착력과, 4~5H의 경도, 탁월한 내약품성, 내마모성 및 내열성을 보였다. 여러 가지 원인으로 눈부심을 호소하는 광시증 환자 65 명을 대상으로 순천향대학병원 안과에서 임상시험을 하였다. 임상시험 한 결과 현저하게 눈부심이 감소하였고 시력보호의 효과가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 특히 LASIK수술환자에서는 야간의 눈부심 방지효과가 좋았다. 광변색렌즈는 자외선-B와 청색광을 차단하여 백내장과 노인성 황반변성 등의 빛과 관련된 눈의 손상을 줄여 시력보호를 할 수 있으며 임상결과로부터 광시증 환자의 치료와 예방을 위한 새로운 기술이 될 수가 있음을 알 수 있었다.