• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.283-289
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• 2008

민들레 잎의 열수 추출물의 항산화 활성 증진을 위한 추출조건을 최적화하기 위하여 반응표면분석법을 사용하였다. 중심합성 계획에 따라 추출조건의 독립변수(추출온도, 용매비, 추출시간)와 이에 따라 영향을 받는 종속변수(수율, 총 폴리페놀 함량, 총 플라보노이드 함량, DPPH 라디칼 소거활성, ABTS 라디칼 소거활성, superoxide 라디칼 소거활성)를 설정하였다. 추출물의 수율은 추출시간에 의해 거의 영향을 받지 않는 것으로 나타났으며 시료의 용매비가 증가할수록 감소하였고, $70^{\circ}C$ 이상의 추출온도에서 감소하는 것으로 나타났다. 총 폴리페놀과 총 플라보노이드 함량은 추출온도가 증가함에 따라 크게 증가하였으며, DPPH 라디칼, ABTS 라디칼, superoxide 라디칼 소거활성도 추출온도에 가장 크게 영향을 받아 추출온도가 증가함에 따라 증가하다가 최적온도 이후에 약간 감소하는 것으로 나타났다. 이들 추출물의 특성을 모두 만족시키는 최적 추출조건은 추출 온도 83.77$\pm$1.07$^{\circ}C$, 시료에 대한 용매비 20.85$\pm$0.24 mL/g, 추출시간 1.59$\pm$0.12 hr이었고 이 때 예측된 수율은 38.98%, 총 폴리페놀 함량은 74.28 ${\mu}g$/mg, 총 플라보노이드 함량은 74.00 ${\mu}g$/mg이었으며, DPPH 라디칼, ABTS 라디칼, superoxide 라디칼의 소거활성($IC_{50}$)의 예측 특성값은 각각 0.14 mg/mL, 3.24 mg/mL, 2.49 mg/mL로 나타났다.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.297-305
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• 1998

This study used in vivo intracellular recording in rat hippocampus to evaluate the effect of lidocaine and MK-801 on the membrane properties and the synaptic responses of individual neurons to electrical stimulation of the commissural pathway. Cells in control group typically fired in a tonic discharge mode with an average firing frequency of $2.4{\pm}0.9$ Hz. Neuron in MK-801 treated group (0.2 mg/kg, i.p.) had an average input resistance of $3.28{\pm}5.7\;M{\Omega}$ and a membrane time constant of $7.4{\pm}1.8$ ms. These neurons exhibited $2.4{\pm}0.2$ ms spike durations, which were similar to the average spike duration recorded in the neurons of the control group. Slightly less than half of these neurons were firing spontaneously with an average discharge rate of $2.4{\pm}1.1$ Hz. The average peak amplitude of the AHP following the spikes in these groups was $7.4{\pm}0.6$ mV with respect to the resting membrane potential. Cells in MK-801 and lidocaine treated group (5 mg/kg, i.c.v.) had an average input resistance of $3.45{\pm}6.0\;M{\Omega}$ and an average time constant of $8.0{\pm}1.4$ ms. The cells were firing spontaneously at an average discharge rate of $0.6{\pm}0.4$ Hz. Upon depolarization of the membrane by 0.8 nA for 400 ms, all of the tested cells exhibited accommodation of spike discharge. The most common synaptic response contained an EPSP followed by early-IPSP and late-IPSP. Analysis of the voltage dependence revealed that the early-IPSP and late-IPSP were putative $Cl^--and\;K^+-dependent$, respectively. Systemic injection of the NMDA receptor blocker, MK-801, did not block synaptic responses to the stimulation of the commissural pathway. No significant modifications of EPSP, early-IPSP, or late-IPSP components were detected in the MK-801 and/or lidocaine treated group. These results suggest that MK-801 and lidocaine manifest their CNS effects through firing pattern of hippocampal pyramidal cells and neural network pattern by changing the synaptic efficacy and cellular membrane properties.

• Journal of Gastric Cancer
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.268-278
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• 2021

Purpose: While several prognostic models for the stratification of death risk have been developed for patients with advanced gastric cancer receiving first-line chemotherapy, they have seldom been tested in the Chinese population. This study investigated the performance of these models and identified the optimal tools for Chinese patients. Materials and Methods: Patients diagnosed with metastatic or recurrent gastric adenocarcinoma who received first-line chemotherapy were eligible for inclusion in the validation cohort. Their clinical data and survival outcomes were retrieved and documented. Time-dependent receiver operating characteristic (ROC) and calibration curves were used to evaluate the predictive ability of the models. Kaplan-Meier curves were plotted for patients in different risk groups divided by 7 published stratification tools. Log-rank tests with pairwise comparisons were used to compare survival differences. Results: The analysis included a total of 346 patients with metastatic or recurrent disease. The median overall survival time was 11.9 months. The patients were different into different risk groups according to the prognostic stratification models, which showed variability in distinguishing mortality risk in these patients. The model proposed by Kim et al. showed relative higher predicting abilities compared to the other models, with the highest χ² (25.8) value in log-rank tests across subgroups, and areas under the curve values at 6, 12, and 24 months of 0.65 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.59-0.72), 0.60 (0.54-0.65), and 0.63 (0.56-0.69), respectively. Conclusions: Among existing prognostic tools, the models constructed by Kim et al., which incorporated performance status score, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio, alkaline phosphatase, albumin, and tumor differentiation, were more effective in stratifying Chinese patients with gastric cancer receiving first-line chemotherapy.

• Korean Journal of Radiology
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.213-224
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• 2021

Objective: Clinical outcomes of patients who undergo transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) for single small hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are not consistent, and may differ based on certain imaging findings. This retrospective study was aimed at determining the efficacy of pre-TACE CT or MR imaging findings in predicting survival outcomes in patients with small HCC upon being treated with TACE. Besides, the study proposed to build a risk prediction model for these patients. Materials and Methods: Altogether, 750 patients with functionally good hepatic reserve who received TACE as the first-line treatment for single small HCC between 2004 and 2014 were included in the study. These patients were randomly assigned into training (n = 525) and validation (n = 225) sets. Results: According to the results of a multivariable Cox analysis, three pre-TACE imaging findings (tumor margin, tumor location, enhancement pattern) and two clinical factors (age, serum albumin level) were selected and scored to create predictive models for overall, local tumor progression (LTP)-free, and progression-free survival in the training set. The median overall survival time in the validation set were 137.5 months, 76.1 months, and 44.0 months for low-, intermediate-, and high-risk groups, respectively (p < 0.001). Time-dependent receiver operating characteristic curves of the predictive models for overall, LTP-free, and progression-free survival applied to the validation cohort showed acceptable areas under the curve values (0.734, 0.802, and 0.775 for overall survival; 0.738, 0.789, and 0.791 for LTP-free survival; and 0.671, 0.733, and 0.694 for progression-free survival at 3, 5, and 10 years, respectively). Conclusion: Pre-TACE CT or MR imaging findings could predict survival outcomes in patients with small HCC upon treatment with TACE. Our predictive models including three imaging predictors could be helpful in prognostication, identification, and selection of suitable candidates for TACE in patients with single small HCC.

• 대한한방종양학회지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.81-97
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• 2000

Objectives: This experimental study was carried out to evaluate the effects of aqueous and methanol extracts of Hedyotis diffusa which has long been used for cancer treatment in oriental medicines on the induction of apoptotic cell death in human lymphoid leukemia cell line, HL-60. Methods: Cells were treated with various concentrations (200 to $0.4{\mu}g$) and periods (6 to 30 hr) of $H_2O$ and methanol extracts of Hedyotis diffusa. Then, cells were tested for viability by MTT assay. Cells wrere treated with $200{\mu}g/ml$ of methanol extract fork various periods. Genomic DNA was isolated, separated, on 1.5% agarose gels, stained with ethidium bromide and visualized under UV light. Cells were treated with $200{\mu}g/ml$ of each extract for 16 hr. Then, cells were treated with Hoechst dye 33342 and observed by fluorescence microscopy. Cells were treated with various doses of each for 12 hr and $100{\mu}g/ml$ of methanol extract for various periods. Lysate from the cells used to measure the activity of Caspase-1 and-3 proteases by using fluorogenic peptide substrates including acetyl-YVAD-AMC and acetyl-DEVD-AMC, respectively. Cells were treated with $200{\mu}g/ml$ of each extract for various periods. Cell lysates were immunoprecipated with anti-JNKl antibodies. The immune complex was reacted with $32^p-ATP$ and c-Jun as a substrate. The phosphotransferase activity of JNKI was measured by using PhosphoImage analyzer (Fuji Co., Japan). Nuclear extracts were isolated and incubated with oligonucleotide probe of $NF-{\kappa}B$. Transcriptional activation of ${\kappa}B$ was measured by using EMSA and visualized by PhosphoImage analyzer (Fuji Co, Japan). Cell lysates were prepared and analyzed by Western blotting with anti-Bc12 antibodies and anti-Bax antibodies. Cells were pretreated with various doses of methanol extract for 2 hr. Then, the extract was removed by centrifugation. Cells were resuspended with RPMI-1640 media containing 0.3% agarose, 10% FBS, overlayred onto bottom layer agarose and incubated at $CO_2$ incubator for 6 days. The number of colony was counted under light microscopy ($\time100$). Results: The death of HL-60 cells was markedly induced by the addition of methanol extract of Hedyotis diffusa in a dose and time-dependent manners. The apoptotic characteristic ladder pattern of DNA strand break was observed in death of HL-60 cells. In addition, it was shown nucleus chromatin condensation and fragmentation under Hoechst staining. Therefore, Hedyotis diffusa extract-induced death of HL-60 cells is mediated by apoptotic signaling processes. The activity of Caspase 3-like proteases remained in a basal level in HL-60 cells treated with aqueous extract of Hedyotis diffusa. However, it was markedly increased in HL-60 cells treated with methanol extract of Hedyotis diffusa. In addition, the phosphotransferase activity of JNKl was increased in HL-60 cells treated with methanol extract of Hedyotis diffusa. Furthermore, the activation of transcriptional activator, $NF-{\kappa}B$ was markedly induced by methanol extract of Hedyotis diffusa. Anti-apoptotic Bc12 was cleaved into 23Kda fragment by treatment of methanol extract of Hedyotis diffusa. However, expression of proapoptotic Bax protein was increased by treatment of methanol extract of Hedyotis diffusa in a time-dependent manner. Furthermore, methanol extract markedly inhibited the colony forming efficiency of HL-60 cells in semisolid agar culture. Conclusions: Above results suggest that methanol extract of Hedyotis diffusa induces the apoptotic death of human leukemic HL-60 cells via activations of Caspase-3 proteases, JNKI, transcriptional activator $NF-{\kappa}B$, In addition, our results also suggest that methanol extract of Hedyotis diffusa reduces the malignant potential of HL-60 cells via down regulation of colony forming effciency through cleavage of Bc12 as well as induction of Bax.

• 한국균학회소식:학술대회논문집
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• 한국균학회 2015년도 춘계학술대회 및 임시총회
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• pp.15-15
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• 2015

Aspergillus fumigatus is a major cause of invasive aspergillosis (IA), a significant health issue worldwide with high mortality rates up to 95%. Our lab is interested in how A. fumigatus adapts to low oxygen conditions 'hypoxia', which is one of the important host microenvironments. A. fumigatus SrbA is a basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcriptional regulator and belongs to sterol regulatory element binding protein (SREBP) family members. Loss of SrbA completely blocks growth in hypoxia and results in avirulence in murine models of IA suggesting an essential role of SrbA in hypoxia adaptation and virulence in A. fumigatus. We conducted chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing (ChIP-seq) with A. fumigatus wild type using a SrbA specific antibody, and 97 genes were revealed as SrbA direct targets. One of the 'SrbA regulons' (AFUB_099590) was a putative bHLH transcriptional regulator whose sequence contained a characteristic tyrosine substitution in the basic portion of the bHLH domain of SREBPs. Therefore, we designated AFUB_099590 SrbB. Further characterization of SrbB demonstrated that SrbB is important for radial growth, biomass production, and biosynthesis of heme intermediates in hypoxia and virulence in A. fumigatus. A series of quantitative real time PCR showed that transcription of several SrbA regulons is coordinately regulated by two SREBPs, SrbA and SrbB in hypoxia. This suggests that SrbA and SrbB have both dependent and independent functions in regulation of genes responsible for hypoxia adaptation in A. fumigatus. Together, our data provide new insights into complicated roles of SREBPs in adaptation of host environments and virulence in pathogenic fungi.

• 한국공간정보시스템학회 논문지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.87-96
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• 2009

u-GIS 환경에서의 모바일 단말기를 위한 지리 정보 서비스 시스템은 기존의 GIS, LBS 기반의 모바일 단말 특성을 고려한 사용자 중심의 서비스 시스템이다. 모바일 단말의 다양한 기종과 통신사에 따른 지리 정보 서비스 시스템의 다양한 버전 개발과 GIS 전문가 중심의 서비스 시스템 개발에서 단말기와 통신사에 종속되지 않는 일반 사용자 중심의 지리 정보 서비스 시스템으로 요구 사항이 변경되고 있다. 이러한 요구 사항을 충족시키기 위하여 본 논문은 다양한 모바일 단말에 모두 적용 가능한 표준적인 실행 파일을 생성할 수 있는 플렉스 기반의 지리 정보 서비스 시스템을 설계하며, 사용자 중심의 지리 정보 서비스 시스템에서 가장 우선적으로 제공해야 하는 위치 정보와 연계한 사진 컨텐츠 관리 기법을 제안한다. 제안시스템은 지도 표출에 관련된 기능, 위치 관리 기능, 컨텐츠 관리 기능, 매시업 관리 기능, 데이터 관리 기능을 제공하며, 결과물을 모바일 단말기에서 표출하기 위해 swf 파일을 생성하는 기능을 제공한다. 제안된 시스템은 구현을 통해 각각 다른 모바일 단말기에서 동일한 결과를 표출함을 증명하였다. 생성된 실행 파일은 다른 사양을 가진 모바일 단말기에서 확대 배율과 디스플레이 화면에 따른 동일한 이미지 지도를 사용자에게 전달하여 언제 어디서나 누구에게도 동일한 결과를 보여주는 장점을 가진다.

• 대한한방내과학회지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.259-266
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• 2000

Objectives : The effects of aqueous extracts of Cortex ulmi pumilae (a traditional medicine for cancer treatment in oriental medicine) on the induction of apoptotic cell death were investigated in human liver origm hepatoma cell lines, HepG2. Methods : The death of HepG2 cells was markedly induced by the addition of extracts of Cortex ulmi pumilae in a dose-dependent manner. The apoptotic characteristic ladder pattern of DNA strand break was not observed in cell death of HepG2. In addition, it was not shown nucleus chromatin condensation and fragmentation under hoechst staining. However, by the using annexin V staining assay, externalizations of phosphatidylserine in HepG2 cell which were treated with Cortex ulmi pumilae extracts were detected in the early time (at 9 hr after extract treatment). Furthermore, LDH release was not detected in this early stage. Therefore, Cortex ulmi pumilae extracts-induced cell death of HepG2 cells is mediated by apoptotic death signal processes. Result : The activity of caspase 3-like proteases remained in a basal level in HepG2 cells which treated with the extract of Cordyceps sinensis. However, it was markedly increased in HepG2 cells which treated with two extracts of Cortex ulmi pumilae (C.U.P.-C, C.U.P.-K) which were differently extracted (respectively, 2.3 and 3.3 fold). On a while, the phosphotransferase activities of JNK1 was markedly induced in HepG2 cells which were treated with two extracts of Cortex ulmi pumilae. On the contrary, the activation of transcriptional activator, activating protein1(AP-1) and NF-kB were severely decreased by these two extracts of Cortex ulmi pumilae (C.U.P.-C, C.U.P.-K). In addition, antioxidants (GSH and NAC) and intracellular $Ca2^+$ level regulator (Bapta/AM and Thapsigargin) did not affect Cortex ulmi pumilae extracts-induced apoptotic death of HepG2 cells. Conclusions : In conclusion, our results suggest that two extracts of Cortex ulmi pumilae (C.U.P.-C, C.U.P.-K) induces the apoptotic death of human liver origin hepatoma HepG2 cells via activation of caspase 3-like proteases as well as JNK1, and inhibition of transcriptional activators, AP-1 and $NK-{\kappa}B$.

• 한국진공학회지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.236-243
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• 2009

양성자기반공학기술개발사업단에서는 설치된 금속이온주입기를 이용하여 금속이온의 인출 시험 중에 있으며 120keV의 금속 이온주입이 가능하다. 현재 코발트 이온 주입의 타당성 확인을 위한 특성시험을 수행하고 있다. 이온원에 알루미나 도가니를 설치하여 분말 코발트 염화물을 고온($648^{\circ}C$) 가열에 의한 증기화로 인하여 플라즈마 방전이 되도록 하였다. 아크전압 120V, EHC 출력 250W에서 코발트 이온을 인출하기 위한 플라즈마를 발생하고 유지할 수 있었다. 코발트 이온 빔 전류는 플라즈마 내 아크전류에 의존하였으며 0.18A일 때 최대 빔전류 $100{\mu}A$를 얻을 수 있었다. 질량분리전자석에 의해서 $Co^+$와 $CoCl^+$, $Cl^+$ 이온의 첨두 빔 전류 비율을 확인하였고 전체 이온 대비 $Co^+$ 이온의 비율이 70% 수준을 유지함을 알 수 있었다. $Co^+$ 이온을 알루미늄 시료에 빔전류 $10{\mu}A$, 90분 동안 이온주입 하여 RBS(Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry)분석법으로 $1.74{\times}10^{17}#/cm^2$의 이온량을 확인하였다.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.372-379
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• 2017

소프트웨어 개발과정동안 소프트웨어 신뢰성 요인은 매우 기본적인 사항이다. 소프트웨어 고장파악을 위한 무한고장 비동질적인 포아송 과정을 이용할 때 고장발생률 혹은 위험함수가 일정하거나 증가 또는 감소하는 속성을 가진다. 본 논문에서는 소프트웨어 신뢰 성능에 관한 효율성을 비교하는 자유도에 의존하는 카이제곱 분포를 적용한 신뢰성 모형을 제안하였다. 효율적인 모형을 평가하기 위하여 평균제곱오차(MSE)와 결정계수($R^2$)를 이용하고 최우추정법과 수치 해석적 방법을 사용하여 모수추정 알고리즘이 수행되었다. 제안하는 카이제곱분포의 자유도를 이용한 신뢰성 모형을 위해 실제 고장 간격 데이터를 사용한 고장 성능 분석이 적용되었다. 고장데이터 분석은 카이제곱분포의 자유도에 근거한 강도함수를 기준으로 비교되었다. 데이터 신뢰성을 확인하기 위하여 라플라스 추세검정이 적용되었다. 본 연구에 제안된 카이제곱분포의 자유도는 다양한 고장현상을 표현 할 수 있기 때문에 (결정계수가 90% 이상), 신뢰성 분야에서 활용 할 수 있는 모형으로 활용 할 수 있다. 이 연구 결과를 적용하면 소프트웨어 개발 설계자에게 다양한 자유도를 적용하여 소프트웨어 고장패턴을 예측함으로서 효율적인 모형을 개발하는데 표준 지침으로 적용 할 수 있다.