• 한국환경생태학회지
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.469-477
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• 2018

금강초롱꽃(Hanabusaya asiatica)은 한반도 중동부에서만 제한적으로 분포하는 고유종으로, 분포범위가 좁고 개체수가 적어 서식지를 세계자연보전연맹(IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature) 중요 생물다양성 보호지역(key biodiversity areas: KBAs)으로 지정하여 보호할 필요가 있다. 본 연구에서는 maximum entropy(MaxEnt) 모형을 통해 남북한 접경지역 내 금강초롱꽃 자생가능지를 추정하고 이를 바탕으로 KBAs 후보지를 설정하였다. 기계학습(machine learning) 알고리즘의 하나인 MaxEnt 모형은 생물종의 출현지점만 기록한 데이터(presence-only data)로도 생물종 분포를 편향되지 않게 예측할 수 있는 생물종 분포 모형으로, 본 연구의 연구대상지처럼 현장 조사가 어려운 경우 유용한 방법이다. 본 연구에서는 현장 조사를 통해 수집한 38개 금강초롱꽃 출현 위치와 기후, 지형, 식생 등을 측정한 11개 환경변수를 이용하여 MaxEnt 모형을 학습하여 남북한 접경지역의 모든 지점에 대해 금강초롱꽃 출현확률을 추정하였다. MaxEnt 모형 분석 결과, 금강초롱꽃 출현확률이 0.5를 넘어 금강초롱꽃 분포가능지로 분류된 지역은 $778km^2$이었고, 추정된 서식가능지와 기지정된 보호지역 경계를 고려하여 설정한 최종 KBA 후보지는 $1,321km^2$이었다. 또한 11개 환경변수 중 표고와 연평균 강수량, 생장기 평균 강수량, 최한월 평균 기온이 금강초롱꽃 출현확률에 영향을 미쳐, 금강초롱꽃은 고도가 높은 서늘한 지역을 선호하는 것으로 분석되었다. 이와 같은 금강초롱꽃의 분포지 선호도 분석 결과는 KBA 후보지 설정 뿐 아니라 남북한 통일이나 기후변화와 같은 시나리오에 대비한 금강초롱꽃 보존 계획 수립의 기초자료로 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 대한임상검사과학회지
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• 제52권3호
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• pp.165-171
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• 2020

본 연구의 목적은 대한민국 20세 이상(50.32±16.14세)의 당뇨질환이 없는 성인에서 만성신장질환과 인슐린저항성(homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance, HOMA-IR) 및 베타세포기능(homeostasis model assessment of beta cell function, HOMA-B)의 관련성에 대하여 조사하였다. 본 연구는 2015년도 국민건강영양조사 자료를 이용하여 당뇨질환이 없는 20세 이상의 대한민국 성인 4,380명을 대상으로 하였다. 본 연구결과에서 중요한 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 만성신장질환과 HOMA-IR와 관련하여, 관련변수를 보정한 후의 결과에서(Model 4), 그룹 1 (G1; estimated glomerular filtrationrate [eGFR], ≥90 mL/min/1.73 ㎡), 그룹 2 (G2; eGFR, 60~89 mL/min/1.73 ㎡), 그룹 3a (G3a; eGFR, 30~59 mL/min/1.73 ㎡), ≥그룹 3b (≥G3b; eGFR, <30 mL/min/1.73 ㎡)의 HOMA-IR 평균값(M±SE, 95% confidence interval [CI])은 각각 1.78±0.03 (1.73~1.83), 1.87±0.03 (1.81~1.93), 2.16±0.13 (1.91~2.42) 및 2.59±0.24 (2.12~3.06)으로 만성신장질환이 진행됨에 따라 HOMA-IR은 증가하였다(P<0.001). 둘째, 만성신장질환과 HOMA-B와 관련하여, 관련변수를 보정한 후의 결과에서(Model 4), G1, G2, G3a 및 ≥G3b의 HOMA-B 평균값(M±SE, 95% CI)은 각각 87.46±1.21 (85.08~89.84), 89.11±1.38(86.40~91.81), 104.82±5.91 (93.23~116.42) 및 123.97±10.87 (102.66~145.29)으로 만성신장질환이 진행됨에 따라 HOMA-B도 증가하였다(P<0.001). 대한민국 당뇨질환이 없는 성인에서 만성신장질환이 진행됨에 따라 인슐린 저항성이 증가하였고, 베타세포기능 또한 증가하였다.

• Archives of Plastic Surgery
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• 제43권6호
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• pp.491-497
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• 2016

Background Hypertrophic scarring is a pathological condition that occurs after trauma or surgery. Angiogenesis occurs more often with hypertrophic scarring than with normotrophic scarring. The regulation of angiogenesis is one of the key factors in hypertrophic scar management. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is an essential factor in the angiogenetic response. This study investigated whether decreasing the level of VEGF is effective for treating hypertrophic scarring. Methods Ten 8-week-old female New Zealand white rabbits were included. Four defects were created on each ear by using a 6-mm punch. Bevacizumab (Avastin, Roche Pharma, Basel, Switzerland) was administered in one ear and normal saline was administered in the other ear. Treatment was administered starting on day 2, every 2 days, until day 14. The levels of VEGF were measured using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay on day 10 and histologic results were analyzed on day 40. Results Bevacizumab induced-defects showed less hypertrophic scarring when compared with the control group as measured by the scar elevation index (SEI) and loose collagen arrangement. The SEI in the experimental group was $1.89{\pm}0.13$, compared to $1.99{\pm}0.13$ in the control group (n=30, P=0.005). Additionally, the VEGF level was lower ($38.72{\pm}11.03pg$ vs. $82.50{\pm}21.64pg$, n=10, P=0.001) and fewer vessels existed ($8.58{\pm}0.76$ vs. $7.2{\pm}1.20$, n=10, P=0.007). Conclusions Preventing excessive angiogenesis is effective for preventing scar formation, especially with hypertrophic scarring. Although it is not an approach that is sufficient alone for the management of scarring, it may be one of several important strategies for scar treatment.

• 대한의생명과학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.209-220
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• 2014

Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a key factor involved in the induction of angiogenesis and has become an attractive target for anti-angiogenesis therapies. The purpose of this study was to elucidate the anti-angiogenic activity of Rubus coreanus Miquel water extract (RCME). Rubus coreanus Miquel has long been employed as a traditional medicine, and recent studies have demonstrated that it has measureable biological activities. Thus, we investigated for the first time the effect of RCME on angiogenesis and its underlying signaling pathways. The effects of RCME were tested on in vitro models of angiogenesis, namely, proliferation, migration, invasion and tube formation of human umbilical vein endothelial cells as well as an ex vivo model of vessel sprouting from the rat aorta in response to VEGF. We observed that VEGF-induced angiogenesis was strongly suppressed by RCME treatment compared to that of the control group. Moreover, we found that RCME inhibited VEGF-induced activation of matrix metalloproteinases and phosphorylation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase and p38, and also effectively inhibited phosphorylation of VEGF receptor 2. These results indicated that RCME inhibits angiogenesis by suppressing phosphorylation of the VEGF receptor and may be useful for the treatment of angiogenesis-dependent diseases such as cancer and diabetic retinopathy.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제17권8호통권88호
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• pp.1100-1103
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• 2007

합성항산화제 3종과 17종의 식물 추출물을 이용하여 양성자 빔을 1,000, 5,000, 10,000 Gray 수준으로 처리하여 에너지양에 따른 항산화 활성에 미치는 영향을 탐색 하고자 DPPH radical 소거능 과 ABTS cation radical 소거능의 활성에 대하여 조사하였다. 이중 6종류의 시료는 양성자 빔을 조사한 결과 활성이 감소하였으며, 2종류의 시료는 활성변화가 없었으며, 12종류의 시료는 활성이 증가하였다. DPPH radical 소거 효과는 1,000 Gray 에서 마황은 60%, 괄루인은 5,000 Gray 에서 77.8%로 활성이 증가하는 경향을 나타내었다. ABTS cation radical 소거효과에서 토천궁은 1,000 Gray의 양성자 빔을 조사한 결과 38.5% 활성이 감소하였으며, 합성 항산화제는 활성변화가 거의 없으나, 뼝쑥 추출물은 5,000 Gray에서 $IC_{50}$값이 2.4 ${\mu}g/ml$로 BHT의 $IC_{50}$값 2.3 ${\mu}g/ml$과 유사하였다.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.7-12
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• 2010

S. cerevisias의 치명적인 약점인 xylose 또는 arabinose가 상당부분을 차지하는 hemicellulose 기수분해물인 오탄당 발효의 극히 낮은 효율은 유전자 변형 및 대사적 흐름을 조절하여 세포 내로의 오탄당 섭취 및 활용 증가를 위한 연구가 꾸준히 진행되고 있다. S. cerevisie에서 오탄당은 육탄당보다 1-2 배 낮은 친화력을 가지고 있어, 오탄당 운반은 이를 이용한 바이오에탄올 발효에 있어서 중요한 초기 조절 단계이다. 오탄당 이용가능 S. cereivsiae에서 오탄당 운반기의 발현 관련 소수의 연구가 보고되고는 있으나 아직까지 눈에 띠는 효율 증기눈 보교되지 않았다. 최근 보고된 S. cerevisiae에서 C. intermeda 유래의 glucose/xylose의 확산을 용이하게 하는 운반기와 공동수송기의 이종발현이 처음으로 활성화 되었음이 보고 되었다. 따라서 그러므로 높은 친화력의 xylose 운반기의 발현은 이미 xylose로 부터 바이오에탄올 발효공정은 최적화되어 있지만 여전히 몇 가지 제한 요소들을 가지고 있는 S. cerevisiae 균주들의 xylsoe 발효공정 효율 향상에 큰 기여를 할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 산경연구논집
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• 제9권11호
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• pp.25-38
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• 2018

Purpose - This study aimed to identify the sub-dimensions of fashion social media quality (information quality, social quality, service quality, system quality) and investigate how they affect purchase intention through fashion information use behavior (information acceptance, information diffusion). Research design, data, and methodology - Data collection was carried out twice for systematic verification of the research model. In the first data collection, the reliability and validity of research variables were verified through 238 respondents and questionnaires were revised and supplemented based on their responses. In March 2018, the final survey was conducted from 755 respondents the age of 20 to 49. Using SPSS 23.0, descriptive statistics, exploratory factor analysis, correlation analysis were performed. In order to test hypotheses, structural equational modeling technique was employed using AMOS 23.0. Results - First of all, fashion Social media quality consists of four factors including information quality, social quality, service quality and system quality. Second, fashion Social media information quality, social quality, and system quality were shown to have a positive(+) effect on information acceptance behavior, and social quality, service quality and system quality were shown to have a positive(+) effect on information diffusion behavior. It was also determined that the acceptance and diffusion behaviors of fashion information through fashion Social media had positive(+) influence on purchase intention. Conclusions - This study holds academic significance in its identification of the components of fashion Social media quality and for conducting an empirical analysis on the causal relationship between fashion information acceptance and diffusion behaviors, and purchase intention. The results of this study indicate that fashion involvement is the key factors in determining the quality of Social media, the acceptance of information through Social media, and, by extension, the purchase of fashion products. Practitioners in the fashion industry may use the findings of this study in order to build more effective Social media strategy.

• 농촌계획
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.21-38
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• 2019

Korean agricultural industry has weakened as demand for domestic agricultural products has declined due to accelerating market liberalization, aging and shrinking of rural population, and stagnating rural households' incomes. On the other hand, as the forth industrial revolution unfolds in earnest, tremendous changes are expected, and those changes won't be confined to certain industries but would shaken the world we know of entirely. Smart farm, which is one example of the fourth industrial revolution, is increasingly being recognized as a new growth engine for the future as smart farm and the science and technology behind it, not the size of arable land, will determine competitiveness of the agricultural industry and drive agricultural productivity and managerial efficiency. In consideration that John W. Kingdon's Multiple Streams Framework has recently been presented as an important theoretical model in the policy field, this study analyzed problem stream, policy stream, and political stream in the process of forming the smart farm policy, and looked into what role the government played as policy entrepreneur in policy window. The smart farm policy was put on policy agenda by the government and was approved when the government announced the Smart Farm Plan together with relevant ministries at the 5th Economy-Related Ministers' Meeting held in April 2018. This suggests that change of the government is the most critical factor in political stream, and explicitly indicates the importance of politics in formation of an agricultural policy. In addition, actual outcome of the policy and how policy alternatives that will enhance people's understanding will support it seem to be the key to success. It also shows that it is important that policy alternatives be determined based on sufficient discussion amongst stakeholders.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제38권
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• pp.245-264
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• 2015

In this paper, I suggest methodological ways of studying comparative literature regarding ongoing discussions of world and national literature. The role of comparative literature studies has widened in the contemporary era, in which nations have become rapidly entangled and the concept of the world as a unified entity is under question. In this regard, I critically review the traditional principles of the hospitality of cosmopolitanism and the exclusivity of the borders of national literatures. Further, I suggest that scholars adopt the concept by Sigmund Freud of "unfamiliar familiarity" as a methodological motive for studies of comparative literature. Based on this concept, scholars can further develop the unique methods of the discipline of comparative literary studies for teaching and research amidst the ongoing phenomenon of globalization. They can also use these methods to simultaneously contribute to solving the problem of "comparison without a unifying category of the world," as revealed by the results of deconstructional and postcolonial studies. Regarding community-based discussions of literature, I introduce the "bridge and door" metaphor, put forth by Georg Simmel, as a key concept in methodological consideration of translation and in comparative literary studies. In this paper, adopting the metaphor of the bridge and door as an intertextual and social model for comparative studies, I define the new role of comparative literary studies in literary transnationalism, which is particularly necessary when different languages and cultures overlap and become entangled. Regarding the rapidly changing contemporary world community, comparative literary studies, as an experimental discipline, is uniquely capable of examining this kind of community, which forms itself beyond and beneath individual nations.

• Korean Journal of Radiology
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.425-434
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• 2021

Objective: To investigate the potential value of ¹⁸F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET/CT in predicting the survival of patients with primary tracheal malignant tumors. Materials and Methods: An analysis of FDG PET/CT findings in 37 primary tracheal malignant tumor patients with a median follow-up period of 43.2 months (range, 10.8-143.2 months) was performed. Cox proportional hazards regression analyses were used to assess the associations between quantitative ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT parameters, other clinic-pathological factors, and overall survival (OS). A risk prognosis model was established according to the independent prognostic factors identified on multivariate analysis. A survival curve determined by the Kaplan-Meier method was used to assess whether the prognosis prediction model could effectively stratify patients with different risks factors. Results: The median survival time of the 37 patients with tracheal tumors was 38.0 months, with a 95% confidence interval of 10.8 to 65.2 months. The 3-year, 5-year and 10-year survival rate were 54.1%, 43.2%, and 16.2%, respectively. The metabolic tumor volume (MTV), total lesion glycolysis (TLG), maximum standardized uptake value, age, pathological type, extension categories, and lymph node stage were included in multivariate analyses. Multivariate analysis showed MTV (p = 0.011), TLG (p = 0.020), pathological type (p = 0.037), and extension categories (p = 0.038) were independent prognostic factors for OS. Additionally, assessment of the survival curve using the Kaplan-Meier method showed that our prognosis prediction model can effectively stratify patients with different risks factors (p < 0.001). Conclusion: This study shows that ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT can predict the survival of patients with primary tracheal malignant tumors. Patients with an MTV > 5.19, a TLG > 16.94 on PET/CT scans, squamous cell carcinoma, and non-E1 were more likely to have a reduced OS.