• Applied Microscopy
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.47-51
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• 2010

The capability of real-time observation in TEM is quite useful to study dynamic phenomena of materials in a certain variable ambience. In performing the experiment, the choice of video recording program is an important factor to obtain high quality of movie streaming. Window Movie Maker (WMM) is generally recommended as a default video recording program if one uses "DV Capture" function in DigitalMicrograph$^{TM}$ (DM) software. However, the image quality does not often satisfy the condition for high-resolution microscopic analysis since the severe information loss in the final result occurs during the conversion process. As a good candidate to overcome this problem, Virtual-Dub is highly recommended since the information loss can be minimized through the streaming process. In this report, we demonstrated how useful VirtualDub works in a high-resolution movie recording. Quantitative comparison of the information quality between the images recorded by each software, WMM and VirtualDub, was carried out based on histogram analysis. As a result, the image recorded by VirtualDub was improved ~13% in brightness and ~122% in contrast compared with the image obtained by WMM at the same imaging condition. Remarkably, the gray gradation (meaning an amount of information) becomes wider up to ~115% than that of the WMM result.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.476-481
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• 2022

유비퀴틴화는 단백질 안정성 조절을 통해 진핵세포 내 광범위한 과정에서 주요한 역할을 한다. 이 과정에서 탈유비퀴틴화 효소인 deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs)은 표적단백질의 유비퀴틴 혹은 ubiquitin-like proteins에 결합하여 표적단백질의 분해를 억제하는 기능을 한다. DUBs의 역할은 주로 암생물학에서 다루어져 왔으며, 이를 통해 다양한 암 치료용 DUBs 억제제가 개발 중인 상황이다. 한편, 최근의 연구는 이러한 DUBs가 비만, 당뇨, 지방간을 포함한 대사질환에서 주요한 역할을 할 수 있을 것이라고 보고했다. 대사질환의 발생 및 진행에 있어 각기 다른 종류의 DUBs는 양적 혹은 음적 조절 작용을 갖음을 제시하였다. DUBs는 세포 내 다양한 전사인자의 단백질 발현 등 조절함으로써 대사질환의 발생 및 진행에 기여할 수 있음 생체 내, 외 및 인간 조직을 활용한 연구에서 입증되었다. UCH, USP7 및 USP19는 지방세포의 분화, 체중 증가, 및 인슐린 저항성에 관련이 있음을 식이 혹은 유전자조작으로 인한 비만 유도 마우스에서 검증하였다. CYLD, USP4 및 USP18의 경우 지방간의 발생과 밀접한 관계를 갖는다고 보고되었으며 이는 경우에 따라 체중 변화를 동반한다. 종합적으로, 본 총설에서는 비만 및 이와 관련한 대사질환에서 DUBs의 역할에 대한 최신 연구 결과 및 동향에 대해 기술하였다. 또한 DUBs에 새로운 역할에 관한 기초지식 및 분자적메커니즘을 제공함으로써 궁극적으로는 DUBs가 대사질환의 새로운 유전자 타겟이 될 수 있음을 시사한다.

• 대한한방부인과학회지
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.110-127
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• 2018

Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of traditional herbal medicine (THM) in the treatment of dysfunctional uterine bleeding (DUB) versus conventional western medicine. Methods: Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) comparing THM vs. conventional western medicine for DUB, were obtained from PubMed, Cochrane Library, Embase, CNKI, RISS, NDSL, KISS and OASIS. The risk of bias was assessed by using Cochrane's risk of bias tool. Results: 16 RCTs with 1,659 patients were identified and reviewed. 10 RCTs reported THM was statistically effective than control group in effective rate. Also recurrent rate was estimated in 6 RCTs and was lower than control group. 7 studies observed adverse events (AEs) and severe AEs were not reported. Conclusions: Despite several limitations, this review suggested that THM was safe and effective in the treatment of DUB. THM may also decrease the recurrence rate. However, this could not be proven conclusively. To ensure evidence-based clinical practice, more sternly designed trials are warranted.

• 대한세포병리학회지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2002

The significance of endometrial cells on cervicovaginal smears is underestimated. The aim of this study is to evaluate the detection rate of endometrial cells on cervicovaginal smears. The materials consisted of two groups. Group I was 701 cervicovaginal smears from patients with no gynecological problems. Group II was 208 cervicovaginal smears from patients with abnormal uterine bleeding followed by endometrial curettage; 31 cases of endometrial adenocarclnoma(CA), 19 cases of endometrial hyperplasia(HP), 83 cases of dysfunctional uterine bleeding(DUB), and 75 cases of normal endometrium. Cervicovaginal smears were reviewed according to the criteria of The Bethesda System. Endometrial cells were identified in 15 of 701 cases(2.1%) in group I and 64 of 208 cases(30.8%) in group II. Among group II, detection rate of endometrial cells was the highest in CA (51.6%) compared to HP(26.3%), DUB(41.0%), and normal endometrium(12.0%) (p<0.05). Cytologic atypia of endometrial cells was not found In group I, but was more frequently identified in CA(87.5%) than in HP(10.5%) or DUB(14.7%) (p<0.05). Exfollatlon of endometrial cells might be related to abnormal endometrial lesion, and reporting of endometrial cells in the cervicovaginal smear may increase a chance to detect endometrial lesions especially in patients with abnormal uterine bleeding.

• BMB Reports
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• 제52권3호
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• pp.181-189
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• 2019

Cancer remains a life-threatening disease and accounts for the major mortality rates worldwide. The practice of using biomarkers for early detection, staging, and customized therapy may increase cancer patients' survival. Deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs) are a family of proteases that remove ubiquitin tags from proteins of interest undergoing proteasomal degradation. DUBs play several functional roles other than deubiquitination. One of the important roles of DUBs is regulation of tumor progression. Several reports have suggested that the DUB family members were highly-elevated in various cancer cells and tissues in different stages of cancer. These findings suggest that the DUBs could be used as drug targets in cancer therapeutics. In this review, we recapitulate the role of the DUB family members, including ubiquitin-specific protease, otubain protease, and important candidates from other family members. Our aim was to better understand the connection between DUB expression profiles and cancers to allow researchers to design inhibitors or gene therapies to improve diagnosis and prognosis of cancers.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제24권10호
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• pp.520-525
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• 2014

Effects of Cu and B on effective grain size and low-temperature toughness of thermo-mechanically processed high-strength bainitic steels were investigated in this study. The microstructure of the steel specimens was analyzed using optical, scanning, and transmission electron microscopy; their effective grain size was also characterized by electron back-scattered diffraction. To evaluate the strength and low-temperature toughness, tensile and Charpy impact tests were carried out. The specimens were composed of various low-temperature transformation products such as granular bainite (GB), degenerated upper bainite (DUB), lower bainite (LB), and lath marteniste (LM), dependent on the addition of Cu and B. The addition of Cu slightly increased the yield and tensile strength, but substantially deteriorated the low-temperature toughness because of the higher volume fraction of DUB with a large effective grain size. The specimen containing both Cu and B had the highest strength, but showed worse low-temperature toughness of higher ductile-brittle transition temperature (DBTT) and lower absorbed energy because it mostly consisted of LB and LM. In the B-added specimen, on the other hand, it was possible to obtain the best combination of high strength and good low-temperature toughness by decreasing the overall effective grain size via the appropriate formation of different low-temperature transformation products containing GB, DUB, and LB/LM.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제30권5호
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• pp.483-490
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• 2020

유비퀴틴 시스템은 ubiquitin ligases와 deubiquitinases (DUBs)에 의해 타겟 기질의 ubiquitination 유무에 따라 안정화, 활성화, 국소화 및 상호작용을 변화시키고 암 발병의 관여하는 다양한 생물학적 과정을 조절한다. DUBs는 촉매 domain에 따라 6그룹으로 나뉘어지는데, 그 중에서 OTU 그룹 내 대부분의 DUB는 세포의 연속적 신호반응(cell signaling cascade)을 조절할 수 있다. 특이하게도 OTU 그룹에 속하는 otubain 1 (OTUB1)은 정규적(canonical) 활성과 비정규적(non-canonical) 활성을 모두 가지고 있다. 본 보고에서는 OTUB1의 canonical, non-canonical 활성 조절에 있어서 다양한 신호전달경로 및 OTUB1의 역할에 대해 기술하였다. OTUB1은 이 두 종류의 활성 경로를 통하여, OTUB1은 암 관련 신호 전달 체계에 중요한 FOXM1, ERα, KRAS 및 EMT를 조절하고 암세포 증식 및 전이 능력 향상 및 항암제에 대한 내성을 나타낸다. 또한 임상적으로 전이성 및 종양 분화도가 높은 암 조직에서 OTUB1의 발현이 높으며, 이에 따라 환자의 생존율이 감소하는 등 나쁜 예후를 나타낸다. 따라서, 임상적으로 적용할 수 있는 OTUB1 억제제의 개발이 이루어진다면 OTUB1은 종양 치료에 있어 중요한 진단마커이자 치료적인 타겟이 될 수 있다.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제50권5호
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• pp.386-390
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• 2017

$Birt-Hogg-Dub{\acute{e}}$ syndrome (BHDS) is a rare disease with autosomal dominant inheritance that manifests through skin tumors, pulmonary cystic lesions, and renal tumors. A mutation of FLCN located on chromosome 17p11.2, which encodes a tumor-suppressor protein (folliculin), is responsible for the development of BHDS. We report the case of a patient presenting with spontaneous pneumothorax, in whom a familial genetic study revealed a novel nonsense mutation: $p.(Arg379^*)$ in FLCN.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제23권8호
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• pp.423-429
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• 2013

Recently, steel structures have increasingly been required to have sufficient deformability because they are subjected to progressive or abrupt displacement arising from structure loading itself, earthquake, and ground movement in their service environment. In this study, high-strength low-carbon bainitic steel specimens with enhanced deformability were fabricated by varying thermo-mechanical control process conditions consisting of controlled rolling and accelerated cooling, and then tensile and Charpy V-notch impact tests were conducted to investigate the correlation between microstructure and mechanical properties such as strength, deformability, and low-temperature toughness. Low-temperature transformation phases, i.e. granular bainite (GB), degenerate upper bainite(DUB), lower bainite(LB) and lath martensite(LM), together with fine polygonal ferrite(PF) were well developed, and the microstructural evolution was more critically affected by start and finish cooling temperatures than by finish rolling temperature. The steel specimens start-cooled at higher temperature had the best combination of strength and deformability because of the appropriate mixture of fine PF and low-temperature transformation phases such as GB, DUB, and LB/LM. On the other hand, the steel specimens start-cooled at lower temperature and finish-cooled at higher temperature exhibited a good low-temperature toughness because the interphase boundaries between the low-temperature transformation phases and/or PF act as beneficial barriers to cleavage crack propagation.

• 열처리공학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.75-81
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• 2015

Effects of B and Cu additions on the microstructure and mechanical properties of high-strength bainitic steels were investigated in this study. Six kinds of high-strength bainitic steels with different B and Cu contents were fabricated by thermo-mechanical control process composed of controlled rolling and accelerated cooling. The microstructures of the steels were analyzed using optical and transmission microscopy, and the tensile and impact tests were conducted on them in order to investigate the correlation of microstructure with mechanical properties. Depending on the addition of B and Cu, various low-temperature transformation products such as GB (granular bainite), DUB (degenerated upper bainite), LB (lower bainite), and LM (lath martensite) were formed in the steels. The addition of B and Cu increased the yield and tensile strengths because of improved hardenability and solid solution strengthening, but decreased the ductility and low-temperature toughness. The steels containing both B and Cu had a very high strength above 1.0 GPa, but showed a worse low-temperature toughness of higher DBTT (ductile-to-brittle transition temperature) and lower absorbed energy. On the other hand, the steels having GB and DUB showed a good combination of tensile and impact properties in terms of strength, ductility, yield ratio, absorbed energy, and DBTT.