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Action mechanism of estrogen potentials of Ginko biloba extracts and its major components in human breast cancer cell

  • Kim, Yun-Hee;Oh, Seung-Min;Lee, Hee-Sung;Chung, Kyu-Hyuck
    • Proceedings of the PSK Conference
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    • 2003.04a
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    • pp.166.2-167
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    • 2003
  • The important biological activities of estrogen were reproduction and physiological processes in a number of tissues, including liver, bone, brain, blood vessels, adipose tissue and so on. The regulation of estrogen level is important a prevention of estrogen-related disease. Ginkgo biloba extracts (GSE) are extracted from leaves of the Ginkgo biloba tree. GSE contains 24% phytoestrogen, which are kaempferol, quercetin, and isorhamnetin. (omitted)

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Detecting Object of Interest from a Noisy Image Using Human Visual Attention

  • Cheoi Kyung-Joo
    • International Journal of Contents
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.5-8
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    • 2006
  • This paper describes a new mechanism of detecting object of interest from a noisy image, without using any a-priori knowledge about the target. It employs a parallel set of filters inspired upon biological findings of mammalian vision. In our proposed system, several basic features are extracted directly from original input visual stimuli, and these features are integrated based on their local competitive relations and statistical information. Through integration process, unnecessary features for detecting the target are spontaneously decreased, while useful features are enhanced. Experiments have been performed on a set of computer generated and real images corrupted with noise.

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외국의 코호트 연구 현황

  • Jo Seong-Il
    • 대한예방의학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.04a
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    • pp.30-37
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    • 2003
  • o Cohort study became the major approach to study of chronic diseases such as CVD and cancer o Cohort can be population-based or volunteer-based o Types of be population-be categorized by source population and selection mechanism o More and more cohort studies involve biological specimens, such as blood, urine, toenail, cheek cells, etc. o Multi-center and multi-national collaboration is an effective way to increase sample size. o Current statistical method typically use time-to-event analysis by Cox proportional hazard model.

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Cochlear Model Analysis for Active Element (능동적 요소를 고려한 코클리어 모델 해석)

  • 최두일;윤태성
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.111-116
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    • 1987
  • In this study, basilar membrane motions and neural tuning responses are analysed with I-dimensional equations for cochlear fluid mechanics and an active cochlear model. The results are as follows. (1) The differences between basilar membrane motions in an active cochlear model and in an passive cochlear model are explained. (2) The basilar membrane motion curves and the neur'at tuning curves which are in accordance with physiological measurements ave obtained. (3) It is proved that the active mechanism makes cochlear highly frequency sensitive.

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Small RNAs: Classification, Biogenesis, and Function

  • Kim, V. Narry
    • Molecules and Cells
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.1-15
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    • 2005
  • Eukaryotes produce various types of small RNAs of 19-28 nt in length. With rapidly increasing numbers of small RNAs listed in recent years, we have come to realize how widespread their functions are and how diverse the biogenesis pathways have evolved. At the same time, we are beginning to grasp the common features and rules governing the key steps in small RNA pathways. In this review, I will summarize the current classification, biogenesis, action mechanism and function of these fascinating molecules.

A Study on Speech Recognition using Vocal Tract Area function and Vector Quantization (성도 면적 함수와 벡터 양자화를 이용한 음성 인식에 관한 연구)

  • Song, Jei-Hyuck;Kim, Dong-Jun;Park, Sang-Hui
    • Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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    • v.1993 no.11
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    • pp.171-174
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    • 1993
  • We propose the vocal tract area function as the feature vector of speech recognition. Vocal tract area function is directly related to speech production. The vocal tract area function is not only showing mechanism of speech production but also can be used as an effective feature vector in speech, recognition in this study.

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ZR-75-1 HUMAN BREAST CANCER CELLS TO STUDY THE MECHANISM OF ACTION OF PAHs

  • Min, Kyung-Nan;Kim, Ja-young;Sheen, Yhun-Yhong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Toxicology Conference
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    • 2002.11b
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    • pp.151-151
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    • 2002
  • Recent industrial society has human widely exposed to PAHs that are comming from the incomplete combustion of organic material as widerspread environmetal contaminants. Biological activities of PAHs are not known although PAHs are considered as carcinogens.(omitted)

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Generation of Hybrid Polyketides through Combinatorial Biosynthesis of Polyketide Synthase (PKS) and Modification of Post-PKS Tailoring Steps

  • Yoon, Yeo-Joon
    • Proceedings of the PSK Conference
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.75-78
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    • 2003
  • Polyketides are a class of structurally diverse natural products which possess a wide range of biological activities. These compounds are used throughout medicine and agriculture as antimicrobials, immunosuppressants, antiparasitics, and anticancer agents. While structurally diverse, polyketides are assembled by a common mechanism of decarboxylative condensations of simple malonate derivatives by polyketide synthases (PKSs) in a manner very similar to fatty acid biosynthesis (Fig 1). (omitted)

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Protein-ligand interaction investigated by HSQC titration study

  • Lee, Joon-Hwa
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetic Resonance Society
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.125-131
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    • 2018
  • Chemical shift perturbation (CSP) is a simple NMR technique for studying binding of a protein to various ligands. CSP is the only technique that can directly provide both a value for the dissociation constant and a binding site from the same set of measurements. To accurately analyze the CSP data, the exact binding mode such as multiple binding, should be carefully considered. In this review, we analyzed systematically the CSP data with multiple modes. This analysis might provide insight into the mechanism on how proteins selectively recognize their target ligands to achieve the biological function.

Role of G Protein-Coupled Estrogen Receptor in Cancer Progression

  • Jung, Joohee
    • Toxicological Research
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    • v.35 no.3
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    • pp.209-214
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    • 2019
  • Cancer is the leading cause of mortality worldwide. In cancer progression, sex hormones and their receptors are thought to be major factors. Many studies have reported the effects of estrogen and estrogen receptors (ERs) in cancer development and progression. Among them, G protein-coupled estrogen receptor (GPER), a G protein-coupled receptor, has been identified as an estrogen membrane receptor unrelated to nuclear ER. The mechanism of GPER, including its biological action, function, and role, has been studied in various cancer types. In this review, we discuss the relation between GPER and estrogen or estrogen agonists/antagonists and cancer progression.