• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2008년도 춘계 학술발표회 제20권1호
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• pp.161-164
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• 2008

구조물은 사용연한 경과에 따른 노후화 및 용도 변경 등에 의한 보수.보강시 널리 행해지는 부착공법 중 탄소섬유, 아라미드섬유, 유리섬유 등을 이용한 섬유보강 폴리머(Fiber-reinforced polymer,FRP) 보강공법은 섬유 자체의 내화학성, 내구성과 우수한 시공성 등의 장점을 지니고 있다. 현재 FRP 부착공법을 이용한 보강설계 및 보강구조물의 내력 계산시, 콘크리트 부재와의 부착력을 완전부착으로 가정하고 있으나 콘크리트 구조물이 내부적 요인 및 외부 환경요인에 의해 열화될 경우 내력저하 및 1차적인 표면부 열화로 인한 FRP 부착면적의 손실발생이 우려된다. 하게 된다. 따라서 노후화에 따라 내력저하를 보이는 철근콘크리트 구조물에 FRP 보강시 열화에 따른 FRP 보강부재와 콘크리트 모재 간의 부착력 손실에 관한 연구가 필요하며, 본 연구에서는 환경적 요인에 의해 열화되는 철근콘크리트 부재의 파괴양상 및 구조성능과 FRP 보강부재와 콘크리트 모재와의 부착성능 저하현상을 분석하기 위하여 동결융해에 따른 CFRP 쉬트의 보강성능을 실험적으로 규명하고자 한다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.791-796
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• 2014

Cryopreservation of epididymal sperm is an effective technique to preserve genetic materials of domestic cats and wild felids when they unexpectedly die. However, this technique inevitably causes detrimental changes of cryopreserved-thawed spermatozoa, for example, by physical damage and excessive oxidative stress. L-carnitine is an antioxidant that has been used to improve sperm motility in humans and domestic animals. This study aimed to investigate the effects of L-carnitine on cat epididymal sperm quality following cryopreservation and thawing. After routine castration, cauda epididymides were collected from 60 cat testes. The epididymal spermatozoa from 3 cauda epididymides were pooled as 1 replicate. Spermatozoa samples (16 replicates) were examined for spermatozoa quality and then randomly divided into 4 groups: 0 mM L-carnitine (control), 12.5 mM, 25 mM and 50 mM L-carnitine. The sperm aliquots were then equilibrated and conventionally frozen. After thawing, sperm motility, plasma membrane integrity, DNA integrity and acrosome integrity were evaluated. The 25 mM L-carnitine significantly improved sperm motility compared with a control group (p<0.05), although this was not significantly different among other concentrations. In conclusion, supplementation of 25 mM L-carnitine in freezing extender improves cauda epididymal spermatozoa motility. The effects of L-carnitine on the levels of oxidative stress during freezing and thawing remains to be examined.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.183-190
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• 2006

화강암의 인공풍화에 미치는 수분의 동결-융해와 대기오염물질의 영향을 파악하기 위해 실험적 연구를 수행하였으며 $TiO_2$ 광촉매를 화강암에 코팅하여 $TiO_2$ 코팅이 화강암의 풍화방지에 어느 정도 효과적인지 살펴보았다. 인공풍화 실험후 화강암 표면의 광물질 조성의 변화를 확인할 수 있었다. 인공풍화시킨 화강암의 밀도는 $2.60g/cm^3$에서 $2.55{\sim}2.56g/cm^3$로 감소하였으며 흡수율과 밀도는 악간 증가하여 동결-융해가 화강암의 풍화에 영향을 미치는 것을 알 수 있었다. $TiO_2$ 광촉매를 화강암에 코팅한 경우 $TiO_2$ 광촉매를 코팅하지 않은 경우보다 동결-융해와 대기오염물질에 의한 화강암의 물리적 특성 변화(수분 흡수율과 압축강도)가 적어 화강암의 풍화방지에 효과적임을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.35-47
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• 2002

대구 지역의 경우 최근의 지하철 1호선 공사 완공과 함께 2~4호선 공사와 더불어 많은 양의 토사와 암석들을 발생기킬 것으로 생각되지만, 발생되는 암석류는 주로 기계적 강도가 낮고 팽창, 수축에 대한 내성이 작아서 쉽게 분쇄되는 단점을 갖는 퇴적암이 대부분이므로 자원 공학적 측면에서 활용가치에 어려움이 있는 것으로 생각된다. 하지만, 천연자원이 부족한 우리나라의 경우 지반자원을 이용한다는 것은 자원의 활용이라는 측면에서 매우 중요하다. 이에 본 연구에서는 대구지역에 다량으로 매장되어 있는 퇴적암을 파쇄한 후 골재로서의 타당성여부를 도로공사 현장에 많이 사용되어지고 있는 화강암 골재와 비교 검토하였다. 결과적으로 각각의 시료가 원암석의 역학적 특성에서는 양호한 결과를 나타내었으나, 골재의 안정성 시험에서는 블랙셰일이 12.9%, 레드셰일이 37.5%로 KS규준에 미달하였다. 콘크리트 동결-융해 시험결과 세 암석이 큰차이를 보이지 않았으나, 레드셰일이 상대적으로 약하게 나타났다. 아스팔트 동결융해 시험에서는 50cycle에서의 안정도값은 레드셰일이 표층과 기층에서 각각 484~561kg, 336~375kg으로 낮은 결과가 나타났다. 이를 통해 셰일의 골재로서 타당성 여부는 추후에 더 연구되어져야 한다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제13권9호
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• pp.4669-4675
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• 2012

Objective: Nude mice with orthotopic transplantation of human ovarian epithelial cancer were used to investigate screening criteria for paraneoplastic normal ovarian tissue and the security of the freezing and thawing for ovarian tissue transplantation. Methods: Expression of CK-7, CA125, P53, survivin, MMP-2/TIMP-2 in paraneoplastic normal ovarian tissues were detected by RT-PCR as well as immunohistochemistry. The tissues of the groups with all negative indicators of RT-PCR, all negative indicators of immunohistochemistry, negative expression of CK-7, CA125 and survivin, positive expression of CK-7, CA125 and survivin, cancer tissues and normal ovarian tissues of nude mice were used for freezing and thawing transplantation, to analyze overt and occult carcinogenesis rates after transplantation. Results: When all indicators or the main indicators, CK-7, CA125 and survivin, were negative, tumorigenesis did not occur after transplantation. In addition the occult carcinogenesis rate was lower than in the group with positive expression of CK-7, CA125 and survivin (P<0.01). After subcutaneous and orthotopic transplantation of ovarian tissues, rates did not change (P>0.05). There was no statistical significance among rates after transplantation of ovarian tissues which were obtained under different severity conditions (P>0.05). Conclusion: Negative expression of CK-7, CA125 and survivin can be treated as screening criteria for security of ovarian tissues for transplantation. Immunohistochemical methods can be used as the primary detection approach. Both subcutaneous and orthotopic transplantation are safe. The initial severity does not affect the carcinogenesis rate after tissue transplantation. Freezing and thawing ovarian tissue transplantation in nude mice with human epithelial ovarian carcinoma is feasible and safe.

• 한국수정란이식학회지
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.35-40
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• 1989

The effects of cryoprotectants (glycerol, DMSO and ethylene glycol) and the concentrations (0, 0, 25, 0.5and 1.0 M) of sucrose in the diluent on the is vitro survival of mouse morulae froaen rapidly in liquid nitrogenvapour were examined. When the embryos were equilibrated in 1.5 M cryoprotectants +0.25 M sucrose in one-step or in 3.0 M cryoprotectants +0.25 sucrose in two-step and diluted with 0, 0.25, 0.5, or 1.0 M sucrose solution after thawing, high survival rates were obtained in ethylene glycol (48.0% to 88.2 %) or in glycerol (35.0 % to 77.8 %). These results show that 1.5 M ethylene glycol is a highly efficient cryoprotective agent for the rapid freezing of mouse morula embryos and 0.5 M sucrose was optimal concentration in the diluent after thawing.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.1071-1074
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• 2004

The effect of preadaptation at low temperature on cryoprotection was studied for Lactobacillus paraplantarum C7, a bacteriocin producer isolated from kimchi. L paraplantarum C7 cells in their log growth phase were incubated at $15^\circ{C}$, $10^\circ{C}$, or $5^\circ{C}$ for 2, 4, and 6 h, respectively, before being frozen at $-70^\circ{C}$. After 24 h of freezing, viable cells were counted after brief thawing. The freezing-thawing cycles were repeated three more times. Cells preadapted at $10^\circ{C}$ or $5^\circ{C}$ before freezing survived better than control cells, but preadaptation at $15^\circ{C}$ did not confer cryoprotection. Chloramphenicol addition did not destroy the cryoprotection, indicating that protein synthesis was not required for the development of cryoprotection. SDS-PAGE showed induction of a 6.5-kDa protein, a major cold-shock protein, in preadapted cells.

• Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.203-209
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• 2011

Objective: This study was performed to compare the efficiency of slow freezing and vitrification based on survival, development to blastocysts, and cell numbers of blastocysts. Changes in embryonic gene expression in fresh and frozen-thawed embryos were also examined. Methods: Eight-cell stage embryos were collected from superovulated female BDF1 mice. The collected embryos were randomly divided into three groups. One group was maintained as fresh controls (n=42), one was frozen by slow freezing (n=43), and one was cooled by vitrification (n=43). After thawing or cooling, survival rates, development to blastocyst, and cell numbers and inner cell mass (ICM) cell numbers of blastocysts were compared with those of the control group. The expressions of eight genes ($Rbm3$, $Birc5$, $Sod1$, $Sod2$, $Cirbp$, $Caspase3$, $Trp53$, $Hsp70.1$) were examined by real time-quantitative polymerase chain reaction in the fresh and frozen-thawed embryos. Results: There were no significant differences in the slow freezing and vitrification groups' survival rate after thawing (88.4% vs. 88.4%), development to blastocyst (100% vs. 97.4%), cell numbers ($107.0{\pm}21.0$ vs. $115.0{\pm}19.7$), or ICM cell numbers of blastocysts ($11.3{\pm}5.2$ vs. $11.1{\pm}3.7$). Cell numbers of blastocysts were significantly ($p$ <0.05) lower in the frozen-thawed embryos than the fresh embryos. There were no significant differences in the slow freezing and the vitrification groups' expressions of the eight genes. The expressions of $CirbP$ and $Hsp70.1$ were higher in the frozen-thawed embryos than in the fresh embryos but there were no significant differences. Conclusion: These results suggest that there were no significant differences between embryos that underwent slow freezing and vitrification.

• 한국가축번식학회지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.173-177
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• 1991

In vitro survival of the mouse morulae frozen by vitrification method(Kasai et al., 1990) was investigated in the present study. The embryos were plunged into LN2 directly after exposure to the vitrification solutions(EFS, GFS and DFS). The results were obtained as follows. The viability of morulae after freezing and thawing was high in EFS(96.7∼100.0%) and GFS vitrification solution(93.3∼96.7%), and the lowest in DFS vitrification solution(0.00∼0.03%).

• 지질공학
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.165-178
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• 2015

Physical and chemical weathering degrades rock, affecting its structural properties and thus the stability of stone buildings or other structures. Confocal laser scan microscopy (CLSM) is used here to observe temporal changes in the surface roughness of rock samples under simulated accelerated weathering. Samples were pressurized to 50, 55, or 70 MPa using a pressure frame, and subjected to freeze/thaw cycling controlled by a thermostat. The temperature was cycled from -20℃ to 40℃ and back. After each 20 cycles, CLSM was used to assess the change in surface roughness, and roughness factors were calculated to quantify the progression of the surface condition over time. Variations in cross-section line-roughness parameters and surface-roughness parameters were analyzed for specific parts of the sample surfaces at 5× and 50× magnification. The result reveals that the highest and lowest values of the roughness factors are changed according to elapsed time. Freezing/thawing at high pressure caused larger changes in the roughness factor than at low pressure.