• Reproductive and Developmental Biology
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.71-76
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• 2007

Previous studies have shown that BMI-1026 is a potent inhibitor of the cyclin-dependent kinases (cdk). In cell culture, the compound also arrests G2/M strongly and G1/S and S weakly. Two key kinases, cdk1 (p34cdc2 kinase) and mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase (erk1 and 2), perform crucial roles during oocyte maturation and, later, metaphase II (MII) arrest. In mammalian oocytes, both kinases are activated gradually around the time of germinal vesicle breakdown (GVBD) and maintain high activity in eggs arrested at metaphase II. In this study, we examined the effects of BMI-1026 on GVBD and MII arrest in mouse oocytes. BMI-1026 inhibited GVBD of immature oocytes and activated MII-arrested oocytes in a concentration-dependent manner, with more than 90% of oocytes exhibiting GVBD inhibition and MII activation at 100 nM This is approximately 500$\sim$1,000 times more potent than the activity reported for the cdk inhibitors roscovitine (${\sim}50{\mu}M$) and butyrolactone (${\sim}100{\mu}M$). Based on the results of previous in vitro kinase assays, we expected BMI-1026 to inhibit only cdk1 activation in oocytes and eggs, not MAP kinase. However, in our cell-based system, it inhibited the activity of both kinases. We also found that the effect of BMI-1026 is reversible. Our results suggest that BMI-1026 inhibits GVBD and activates MII-arrested oocytes efficiently and reversibly and that it also inhibits both cdk1/histone HI kinase and MAP kinase in mouse oocytes.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.1115-1119
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• 2001

Eight Escherichia coli cells with aerobic growth deflects were isolated by the insertion of ${\lambda}placMu53$, a hybrid bacteriophage of ${\lambda}$ and Mu, which created transcriptional fusion to lacZY. Two of these mutants, CLIO and CLl2, were irradiated with UV to obtain specialized transducing phages. The phages that took out the neighboring chromosomal DNA of the related gene responsible for deflective aerobic growth were identified. The in vivo cloned chromosomal sequence revealed that the mutated gene of CLIO was located at min 34.5 on the Escherichia coli linkage map and 1,599,515 on the physical map. The physical map indicated that there were 7 cistrons in the operon. We named this operon oxg10. The promoter sequence of oxg10 exhibited a possible binding site far SoxS, a transcriptional regulator that activates the transcription of various SoxRS regulon genes. Transferring the oxg10:: ${\lambda}placMu53$ mutation into the wild-type strain, RZ4500, resulted in the inhibition of normal aerobic growth, while the salute mutation in strain MO inhibited aerobic cell growth completely. The full operon sequences of oxg10 were cloned from the Excherichia coli genomic library. The mutated gene of CLl2 was identified to be a sucA gene encoding the ${\alpha}$-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase El component in the TCA cycle.

• 대한수학회논문집
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.687-700
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• 1994

Throughout this paper we will let H denote the complete Heyting algebra ($H, \vee, \wedge, *$) with order reversing involution *. 0 and 1 denote the supermum and the infimum of $\emptyset$, respectively. Given any set X, any element of $H^X$ is called H-fuzzy set (or, simply f.set) in X and will be denoted by small Greek letters, such as $\mu, \nu, \rho, \sigma$. $H^X$ inherits a structure of H with order reversing involution in natural way, by definding $\vee, \wedge, *$ pointwise (sam notations of H are usual). If $f$ is a map from a set X to a set Y and $\mu \in H^Y$, then $f^{-1}(\mu)$ is the f.set in X defined by f^{-1}(\mu)(x) = \mu(f(x))$. Also for $\sigma \in H^X, f(\sigma)$ is the f.set in Y defined by $f(\sigma)(y) = sup{\sigma(x) : f(x) = y}$ ([4]). A preorder R on a set X is reflexive and transitive relation on X, the pair (X,R) is called preordered set. A map $f$ from a preordered set (X, R) to another one (Y,T) is said to be preorder preserving (inverting) if for $x,y \in X, xRy$ implies $f(x)T f(y) (resp. f(y)Tf(x))$. For the terminology and notation, we refer to [10, 11, 13] for category theory and [7] for H-fuzzy semitopogenous spaces.

• Toxicological Research
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.69-79
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• 1996

Primary culture of cerebellar neuronal cells derived from 8-day old Long-Evans rats was used. Pure granule cells, astrocytes or mixed cells culture systems were prepared. These cells were differentiated and developed synaptic connections. And the astrocytes were identified by immunostaining with glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP). Methamphetamine (MAP), which acts on dopaminergic system and cadmium (Cd), a toxic heavy metal, were applied and biochemical assays and electrophysiological studies were performed. $LC_50$ values estimated by MTT assay of MAP and Cd were 3 mM and 2$\mu M$ respectively. Cells were treated with 1 mM or 2 mM MAP and 1$\mu M$ $CdCl_2$ for 48 hour, and the incubation media were analyzed for the content of released LDH. MAP (2 mM) and Cd significantly increased the LDH release. Cell viability was decreased in both groups and some cytopathological changes like cell swelling or vacuolization were seen. The cerebellar granule cells were used for measuring membrane currents using whole-cell clamp technique. Sodium and potassium currents were not affected by MAP neither Cd, but calcium current was significantly reduced by Cd but not affected by MAP. Therefore, in vitro neurotoxicity test system using neuronaI cells and astrocytes cultures were established and can be used in screening of potential neurotoxic chemicals.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.127-134
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• 2020

In this paper, we propose a map alignment method for maps generated by point-line monocular SLAM. In the proposed method, the information of feature lines as well as feature points extracted from multiple maps are fused into a single map. To this end, the proposed method first searches for similar areas between maps via Bag-of-Words-based image matching. Thereafter, it calculates the similarity transformation between the maps in the corresponding areas to align the maps. Finally, we merge the overlapped information of multiple maps into a single map by removing duplicate information from similar areas. Experimental results show that maps created by different users are combined into a single map, and the accuracy of the fused map is similar with the one generated by a single user. We expect that the proposed method can be utilized for fast imagery map generation.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제38권9호
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• pp.1013-1018
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• 2014

자기연마가공은 연마입자와 자성입자를 혼합한 공구의 유연성을 이용하여, 공작물 표면을 폴리싱하는 특수가공법이다. 기존 연구의 대부분은 가공 정밀도를 향상시키기 위해서 연마입자의 크기를 달리 하는 것에 관한 내용들이다. 그러나 자기연마 가공에서는 연마입자의 크기뿐만 아니라, 자성입자의 크기도 가공에 많은 영향을 미칠 것으로 판단되며 이에 대한 연구가 반드시 필요하다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 크기가 다른 자성입자들을 사용하여 자기연마가공의 효과를 평가하였다. 자성입자는 철분말을 사용하였으며, 직경이 평균 8, 78, $250{\mu}m$의 크기이다. 공작물의 표면거칠기 향상 정도를 비교하여 자성입자의 크기가 자기연마가공의 정밀도에 미치는 효과를 평가하였다. 자성입자의 크기는 표면거칠기의 향상에 많은 영향을 미치며, 직경이 $78{\mu}m$일 때 가장 좋은 표면거칠기의 향상을 나타내었다.

• BMB Reports
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.377-383
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• 2002

Arsenic trioxide ($As_O_3$) was recently demonstrated to be an effective inducer of apoptosis in patients with relapsed acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) as well as patients with APL in whom all-trans-retinoic acid and conventional chemotherapy failed. Chronic myelogenous leukemia cells are highly resistant to chemotherapeutic drugs. To determine if $As_O_3$ might be useful for the treatment of chronic myelogenous leukemia, we examined the ability of $As_O_3$ to induce apoptosis in K562 cells. In vitro cytotoxicity of $As_O_3$ was evaluated in K562 cells by a MTT assay: the $IC_50$ value for $As_O_3$ was determined to be $10\;{\mu}m$. When analyzed by agarose gel electorphoresis, the DNA fragments became evident after incubation of the cells with $20\;{\mu}m$ $As_O_3$ for 24 h. We also found morphological changes and chromatin condensation of the cells undergoing apoptosis. Activation of caspase-3 was observed 6 h after treatment with $20\;{\mu}m$ $As_O_3$ by a Western blot analysis. Next, we examined the MAP kinase-signaling pathway of $As_O_3$-induced apoptosis in K562 cells. $As_O_3$ at $10\;{\mu}m$ strongly induced the activation of p38, inhibited $As_O_3$ induced apoptotic cell death. These results suggest that $As_O_3$ is able to induce the apoptotic activity in K562 cells, and its apoptotic mechanism may be associated with the activation of p38.

• 대한공간정보학회지
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.89-98
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• 1994

자동차항법장치에 있어서 정확한 위치표현기능, 최적경로안내, 목적지검색, 지형지물정보 제공기능 등을 수행하기 위해서는 수치도로지도가 가장 기본적 요소이다. 그러나, 미국의 TIGER 화일같이 수치도로지도제작에 쉽게 이용될 수 있는 범국가적인 수치지도가 한국에는 마련되어 있지 않으므로, 새로이 제작을 할 수밖에 없는 현실이다. 본 연구에서는 항법용 수치도로지도를 제작함에 있어서 그 호환성과 경제성을 확보하고, 수치도로지도의 질적안정성을 기하기 위한 필요조건을 제시하였으며, 그 결과로 좌표계와 정확도의 기준을 제시하였고, 데이타베이스 항목과 그 구조를 결정하였다.

• 대한공간정보학회지
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.43-55
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• 1996

본 연구에서는 하이퍼맵의 주요 하부구조의 하나인 동영상을 GIS에 도입하는 과정에서 필요한 동영상지원 수치지도 데이타베이스의 구조에 대한 연구를 진행하였다. 이 데이타베이스는 도로상의 위치와 연결된 동영상의 출력 및 동영상에 표현된 각종 지형지물과 2차원 수치지도내의 지형지물을 연계가 가능하도록 설계하였다. 연구의 평가를 위해 실험용 GIS시스템을 제작하여 2차원 수치지도의 기능, 동영상과 도로선형의 연계 기능, 동영상 및 수치지도상의 지형지물의 상호연계기능 등을 검토한 결과, 본 연구에서 제안된 수치지도 데이타베이스 구조를 바탕으로 수치지도 도로선형과 지형지물 데이타 및 동영상을 기능적으로 통합하여 활용하는 것이 가능함을 알 수 있었다.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제51권2호
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• pp.129-135
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• 2008

Berberine은 전통적인 중의약재로 이용되어지는 isoquinoline alkaloid로 황련, 황백과 같은 식물에서 주로 추출되며, 약리효과로는 항암, 항염, 항균과 같은 다양한 효과를 나타내는 것으로 알려져 있다. 그러나 간암세포에서 berberine의 산화적 스트레스에 의한 세포사멸기전에 대해서는 아직 밝혀진 바 없다. 따라서 본 연구는 사람의 간암세포인 HepG2 세포에서 berberien의 세포사멸기전에 reactive oxygen species(ROS)와 MAP kinase의 연관성을 조사하였다. Berberine은 HepG2 세포에서 처리 시간과 농도에 의존적으로 세포독성효과를 보였으며, $LD_{50}$은 berberine(50 ${\mu}M$) 처리 후 48시간에서 관찰 되었고, 세포고사의 특징인 핵의 응축 및 분절, DNA의 분절이 확인되었다. 또한 berberine에 의해 caspase-3, p53, p38 그리고 Bax의 발현이 현저하게 증가된 반면, anti-apoptotic 신호기전인 Bc1-2의 발현은 감소되었다. 이와 더불어 세포 내 nitric oxide(NO)와 ROS의 생성도 증가되었다. 본 연구 결과 HepG2 세포에서 berberine은 산화적 스트레스인 ROS와 NO의 생성을 유발하고 p38 MAP kinase와 p53의 인산화를 유도하였으며 미토콘드리아에서 Bcl-2의 감소와 bax의 증가, caspase-3의 활성을 경유하여 DNA의 손상을 통한 세포고사가 이루어지는 것을 확인 하였다.