• 한국응용약물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국응용약물학회 1996년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.175-175
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• 1996

The spinal dorsal horn is the area where primary afferent fibers terminate and cutaneous sensory information is Processed. A number of putative neurotransmitter substances, including excitatory and inhibitory amino acids and peptides, are present in this region and sites and cellular mechanisms of their actions have been a target of numerous studies. In this study, single neurons were acutely isolated and the properties of whole cell current and responses to excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters were studied by the patch clamp method. Young rats (7-14 days) were anesthetized with diethyl-ether, and the lumbar spinal cord was excised and cut transversely at a thickness of 30$\mu\textrm{m}$ by Vibroslicer. The treatment of spinal slices with low concentration of proteases (pronase and thermolysin 0.75 mg/$m\ell$) and mechanical dissociation yielded isolated neurons with near intact morphology. Multipolar, ellipsoidal and bipolar, and pyramidal cells were shown. By applying step voltage pulses to neurons held at -70 mV, two types of inward currents and one outward currents observed. The fast activating and inactivating inward current was the Na$\^$+/ current because of its fast kinetics and blocking by 0.5${\mu}$M TTX, a specific blocker of Na$\^$+/ channel. The second type of inward currents were sustained. Based on their kinetics and current-voltage relations, it was likely that the second type of inward current was the voltage-dependent Ca$\^$2+/ current. In the presence of TTX, the steady-state currents mainly represented outward K$\^$+/ current which looked like the delayed rectifier K$\^$+/ current. In addition, the membrane currents produced by agonist of excitatory amino acid (EAA) receptor and the endogenous transmitter candidate L-glutamate were recorded in isolated whole-cell voltage clamped neurons as well as responses to inhibitory amino acids (${\gamma}$-amino butyric acid, glycine). Drugs were applied by a method that allows complete exchange of the solution within 1 sec; an infinite number of solutions can be applied to a single cell.

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.87-95
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• 2005

The tomato ripening associated membrane protein (TRAMP) (Fray et al., 1994) is a member of the major intrinsic protein (MIP) family, defined as channels facilitating the passage of water and small solutes through membranes. During normal fruit ripening the TRAMP mRNA levels were increased whereas the expression levels of TRAMP in low ethylene ACO1-sense suppressed lines, Nr and rin fruits, were lower than at the breaker stage of wild type fruit. TRAMP mRNA is inhibited by $LaCl_3$, which is an inhibitor of $Ca^{2+}$-stimulated responses, treatment but drought condition did not affect TRAMP expression. The levels of TRAMP mRNA transcripts were substantially higher in the dark treated seedlings and fruits. These suggest that TRAMP function as a water channel may be doubted because of several reasons; no water content was changed during ripening in wild type, antisense and overexpression lines, TRAMP expression under light condition was lower than dark condition and TRAMP expression was not changed in drought condition. Co-suppression plant, 3588 was one of sense suppression lines, which contain CaMV 35S promoter and sense pNY507 cDNA, produced small antisense RNA, approximately 21-25 nucleotides in length, mediated post-transcriptional gene silencing. Therefore, TRAMP expression was inhibited by small antisense and multiple copies might induce gene silencing without any production of double strand RNA. Total seven selected volatile productions, isobutylthiazole, 6-methyl-5-hepten-2-one, hexanal, hexenal methylbutanal, hexenol, and methylbutanol, were highly reduced in sense line whereas total volatile production was increased in TRAMP antisense line. These results suggested TRAMP might change volatile related compounds.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.379-386
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• 1998

본 연구에서는 천연 항균물질의 개발 이용을 위해 황기 종자로부터 인체에 무해한 천연 항균 단백질을 ion exchange chromatography 및 gel filteration을 이용하여, 순수 분리하고 특성을 조사하였다. 황기종자로부터 추출한 천연 항균 단백질은 Aspergillus ocraceus, Penicillium expensum, P. digitatum, Botrytis cineria의 포자 발아 및 효모인 Candida albicans의 생육을 현저하게 저해하였으며 ammonium sulfate 포화도가 0.4일 때 단백질의 침전량이 122.6 $\mu\textrm{g}$/$m\ell$로 가장 많았고 항균력도 15.2 mm로 가장 높게 나타났다. 강력한 cation exchange chromatography인 Mono-S를 이용하여 FPLC에서 단백질을 분획하였을때 첫번째 peak에서 분획된 단백질군이 항균력을 보였으며 Superose 12HR gel filteration column을 이용하여 2차 분획 하였을 때 분자량이 19 kDa되는 단일 단백질만을 순수분리 할 수 있었다. 전기 영동한 polyacrylamide gel위에 곰팡이 포자를 중층하는 bio autography로 19 kDa 단백질 band의 항균력을 직접 확인하였으며 분리된 항균 단백질의 아미노 말단의 아미 노산 22잔기를 sequencing하고 thaumatin 및 zeamatin 유사 단백질들과 상동성을 측정한 결과 50%내외의 homology를 나타내었다. 분리된 항균 단백질은 곰팡이 균사가 성장하는 선단부위에 가장 먼저 침투하여 channel을 형성함으로 osmolysis를 일으켜 곰팡이의 생육을 억제하는 것으로 추측할 수 있었다.

• 한국정보기술응용학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보기술응용학회 2002년도 추계공동학술대회 정보환경 변화에 따른 신정보기술 패러다임
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• pp.407-411
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• 2002

삼치 시퀀스(temary sequence)는 -1, 0, 1의 3 가지 값으로만 구성되어 있는 디지털 코드이다. 따라서 디지털 하드웨어로 구현이 편리하다는 장점이 있다. 본 시퀀스는 환형 자기상관함수(circular/periodic autocorrelation function)가 이상적으로 나타나는 특징을 가지고 있다. 하지만 본 시퀀스를 이용해 송신기와 수신기사이의 통신 채널 특성을 긴 시간 구간에 걸쳐서 파악하고자 상호상관법을 사용하기 위해서는 환형이 아니라 선형적인 자기상관함수(linear/aperiodic autocorrelation function) 특성이 요구된다. 따라서 본 고에서는 삼치 시퀀스의 비이상적인 선형 자기상관함수를 개선시키기 위해 주파수 영역에서 역필터링과 쓰레쉬홀딩 연산을 결합한 방법과 특이치분해(SVD)방법을 제안하며 잡음이 있는 상황에서 그 성능을 평가하고자 한다. 제안한 방법은 시뮬레이션 결과 역필터링 방법은 신호대잡음비가 30dB인 경우 최대 부엽 레벨이 l1dB 감소했고 SVD 방법도 유사한 결과를 보였으나 잡음에 좀 더 약하며 특이치값의 세밀한 조정이 필요하였다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.156-161
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• 2011

We fabricated a schottky barrier metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor(SB-MOSFET) by applying indium-tin-oxide(ITO) to the source/drain on a highly resistive GaN layer grown on a silicon substrate. The MOSFET, with 10 ${\mu}M$ gate length and 100 ${\mu}M$ gate width, exhibits a threshold gate voltage of 2.7 V, and has a sub-threshold slope of 240 mV/dec taken from the $I_{DS}-V_{GS}$ characteristics at a low drain voltage of 0.05 V. The maximum drain current is 18 mA/mm and the maximum transconductance is 6 mS/mm at $V_{DS}$=3 V. We observed that the spectral photo-response characterization exhibits that the cutoff wavelength was 365 nm, and the UV/visible rejection ratio was about 130 at $V_{DS}$ = 5 V. The MOSFET-type UV detector using ITO, has a high UV photo-responsivity and so is highly applicable to the UV image sensors.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2014년도 제46회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.304.1-304.1
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• 2014

Flat-panel displays have been growing as an essential everyday product in the current information/communication ages in the unprecedented speed. The forward-coming applications require light-weightness, higher speed, higher resolution, and lower power consumption, along with the relevant cost. Such specifications demand for a new concept-based materials and applications, unlike Si-based technologies, such as amorphous Si and polycrystalline Si thin film transistors. Since the introduction of the first concept on the oxide-based thin film transistors by Hosono et al., amorphous oxide thin film transistors have been gaining academic/industrial interest, owing to the facile synthesis and reproducible processing despite of a couple of shortcomings. The current work places its main emphasis on the binary oxides composed of ZnO and SnO2. RF sputtering was applied to the fabrication of amorphous oxide thin film devices, in the form of bottom-gated structures involving highly-doped Si wafers as gate materials and thermal oxide (SiO2) as gate dielectrics. The physical/chemical features were characterized using atomic force microscopy for surface morphology, spectroscopic ellipsometry for optical parameters, X-ray diffraction for crystallinity, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy for identification of chemical states. The combined characterizations on Zn-Sn-O thin films are discussed in comparison with the device performance based on thin film transistors involving Zn-Sn-O thin films as channel materials, with the aim to optimizing high-performance thin film transistors.

• 생태와환경
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.502-509
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• 2009

In this study a total of 27 stream sites, at 1 km intervals, were monitored for simple physicochemical water characteristics, land coverage patterns, and stream environment characteristics using the Habitat-riparian Indexing System (HIS), in the Yangsan Stream. The HIS has been tested in previous research, resulting in some identification of advantages in the application to the stream ecosystems data. Even though reliable stream environment characterization was possible using HIS, there was no information about the application of this tool to present continuity of environmental changes in stream systems. Also the necessity was raised to compare the results of HIS application with land coverage information in order to provide useful information in management strategy development. The monitoring results of this study showed that changes of environmental degradation were well represented by HIS. Especially, stream environment degradation due to construction was relatively well reflected in the HIS monitoring results, and the main causality of Yangsan Stream degradation was expansion of the urbanized area. In addition, there were significant relationships between the HIS scores and land coverage information. Therefore, it is necessary to prepare appropriate options in controlling or managing the expansion of the industrialized areas in this stream basin in order to improve the stream environment. For this purpose, ensemble utilization of HIS results, water quality, and geographical information, resulting in integration with remote sensing processes can be possible.

• 한국산업정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국산업정보학회 2002년도 추계공동학술대회
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• pp.407-411
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• 2002

삼치 시퀀스(ternary sequence)는 -1, 0, 1의 3가지 값으로만 구성되어 있는 디지털 코드이다. 따라서 디지털 하드웨어로 구현이 편리하다는 장점이 있다 본 시퀀스는 환형 자기상관함수(circular/periodic autocorrelation function)가 이상적으로 나타나는 특징을 가지고 있다. 하지만 본 시퀀스를 이용해 송신기와 수신기사이의 통신 채널 특성을 긴 시간 구간에 걸쳐서 파악하고자 상호상관 법을 사용하기 위해서는 환형이 아니라 선형적인 자기상관함수(linear/aperiodic autocorrelation function) 특성이 요구된다 따라서 본 고에서는 삼치 시퀀스의 비 이상적인 선형 자기상관함수를 개선시키기 위해 주파수 영역에서 역 필터링과 쓰레쉬홀딩 연산을 결합한 방법과 특이치분해(SVD)방법을 제안하며 잡음이 있는 상황에서 그 성능을 평가하고자 한다. 제안한 방법은 시뮬레이션 결과 역 필터링 방법은 신호대잡음비가 30㏈인 경우 최대 부엽 레벨이 11㏈ 감소했고 SVD 방법도 유사한 결과를 보였으나 잡음에 좀 더 약하며 특이치 값의 세밀한 조정이 필요하였다.

• Animal cells and systems
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.77-80
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• 1997

DOantrolene is a primary specific therapeutic drug for prevention and treatment of malignant hyperthermia symptoms. The mechanisms underlying the therapeutic effects of the drug are not well understood. The present study aimed at the characterization of the effects of azumolene, a water soluble dantrolene analogue, on ryanodine binding to sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) from normal and malign::lnt hyperthermia susceptible (MHS) swine muscles. Characteristics of $[^3H]ryanodine$ binding were clearly different between the two types of SR. Kinetic analysis of eH]ryanodine binding to SR in the presence of $2{\mu}M$ $Ca^{2+}$ showed that association constant $(K_{ryanodine}_7$ is significantly higher in MHS than normal muscle SR $(2.83 vs. 1.32{\times}10^7 M^{-1}$, whereas the maximal ryanodine binding capacity $(B_{max})$ is similar between the two types of SR. Addition of azumolene $(e.g. 400{\mu}M)$ did not significantly alter both $K_{ryanodine}$ and $B_{max}$ of $[^3H]$ryanodine binding in both types of SR, indicating that the azumolene effect was not on the ryanodine binding sites. Addition of caffeine activated $[^3H]$ ryanodine binding in both types of SR, and caffeine sensitivity was significantly higher in MHS muscle SR than normal muscle SR $(K_{caffeine}:3.24 vs. 0.82 {\times} 10^2 M^{-l}). Addition of azumolene $(e.g.400{\mu}M)$ decreased Kcaffeine without significant change in $B_{max}$ in both types of SR suggesting that azumolene competes with caffeine binding site(s). These results suggest that malignant hyperthermia symptoms are caused at least in part by greater sensitivity of the MHS muscle SR to the $Ca^{2+}$ release drug(s), and that azumolene can reverse the symptoms by reducing the drug affinity to $Ca^{2+}$ release channels.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제19권11호
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• pp.1666-1671
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• 2009

배추과에 있어서 SLG (S locus glycoprotein)와 SRK (S locus receptor kinase) 유전자는 자가불화합성의 인식반응에 관여한다. 또한 수화작용에 중요한 aquaporin (MOD) 유전자 역시 자가불화합성 작용에 요구된다. 본 실험은 양배추 자가화 합성(SC) 계통으로부터 SC-SLG, SC-SRK, 및 SC-MOD 유전자들을 동정하고 이들 유전자의 물리적 구조를 분석하였다. 그 결과 이들 유전자들은 기존에 보고된 유전자들과 높은 상동성을 보였고 RT-PCR에 의한 발현 해석에 있어서 정상적인 발현을 나타내었다. 이들 결과들로 부터, 자가화합 양배추 계통은 주두측 자가불화합성 유전자에 이상이 있는 것이 아니라 화분측 자가불화합성 유전자의 이상 그리고/또는 S-locus에 연쇄 되어 있지 않지만 자가불화합성에 관여하는 유전자의 변이에 의해 자가불화합성이 타파되었다고 생각된다.