• 전자공학회논문지SC
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• 제39권6호
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• pp.49-58
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 망막의 전기생리학적 기전을 바탕으로 실제 망막과 유사한 기능 및 응답 특성을 갖는 망막 모델을 제안하였다. 시세포에서 양극세포까지는 기존에 연구된 여러 망막 모델들을 종합하여 모델링하였고, 3 NDP 기전을 이용하여 움직임 정보를 검출한다고 알려져 있는 아마크린세포와 양극세포 터미널에 관한 새로운 모델을 제안하였다. 이 모델의 평가를 위하여, 공간상의 동적 자극과 정지 자극에 대한 응답 특성을 비교 분석을 하였을 뿐만 아니라 자극의 움직임 속도에 따른 특성에 대한 분석도 수행하여 제안한 망막 모델을 검증하였다. 본 연구결과는 움직임 정보를 검출하기 위한 비전 시스템에 대한 인간 시각 시스템의 적용 및 생체에 이식할 수 있는 인공 망막의 개발을 위한 기초 연구에 이용될 수 있을 것이다.

• Research in Vestibular Science
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.142-151
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• 2018

Objectives: Excitability o medial vestibular nucleus (MVN) in the brainstem can be affected by changes in the arterial blood pressure. Several animal studies have demonstrated that acute hypotension results in the alteration of multiunit activities and expression of cFos protein in the MVN. In the field of extracellular electrophysiological recording, tetrode technology and spike sorting algorithms can easily identify single unit activity from multiunit activities in the brain. However, detailed properties of electrophysiological changes in single unit of the MVN during acute hypotension have been unknown. Methods: Therefore, we applied tetrode techniques and electrophysiological characterization methods to know the effect of acute hypotension on single unit activities of the MVN of rats. Results: Two or 3 types of unit could be classified according to the morphology of spikes and firing properties of neurons. Acute hypotension elicited 4 types of changes in spontaneous firing of single unit in the MVN. Most of these neurons showed excitatory responses for about within 1 minute after the induction of acute hypotension and then returned to the baseline activity 10 minutes after the injection of sodium nitroprusside. There was also gradual increase in spontaneous firing in some units. In contrast small proportion of units showed rapid reduction of firing rate just after acute hypotension. Conclusions: Therefore, application of tetrode technology and spike sorting algorithms is another method for the monitoring of electrical activity of vestibular nuclear during acute hypotension.

• Annals of Clinical Neurophysiology
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.91-98
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• 1999

Background : The pathogenesis of acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (AIDP), Guillain Barre syndrome (GBS) is not clear, but it has been known that the immune mechanisms play an important role. Authors performed this study to establish an animal model of experimental allergic neuritis (EAN) by immunizing the myelin components of peripheral nerves and to understand the electrophysiological and histopathological features as well as the ${CD_5}^+$ B-lymphocyte changes in peripheral bloods in the EAN models. Methods : Lewis rats weighing 150-200 gm were injected subcutaneously in soles two times with total myelin, P0, P1, or P2 proteins purified from the bovine cauda eguina. The EAN induction was assessed by evaluating clinical manifestations. The electrophysiological and histopathological features were studied as routine methods. The ${CD_5}^+$ Blymphocytes were double stained using monoclonal FITC conjugated anti-rat CD45RA and R-PE conjugated anti-rat ${CD_5}^+$ antibodies and calculated using a fluorescence activated cell sorter (FACS). Results : The EAN animal models were established. In two out of five, in one out of two, in none out of three, and in none out of one Lewis rats injected with purified total myelin, P0, P1, P2 proteins respectively, They showed slow spontaneous motor activity and weak resistance against pulling back by tails. The typical electrophysiological and histologic findings in total protein and P0 induced EAN animal models were the decreased conduction velocity, the decreased compound muscle action potential (CMAP) amplitude and the dispersion phenomenon. The perivascular infiltrates of lymphocytes with focal demyelinating process were found in light microscopy. The ${CD_5}^+$ B-lymphocyte expression in three EANs were 2.38%, 3.50% 2.50%, which were not significantly increased, compared with those in normal controls. Conclusion : The EAN animal models were successfully established by injecting the total myelin and P0 myelin and they showed electrophysiological and histological features typical of demyelinating process. However they did not show an increased expression of ${CD_5}^+$ B-lymphocyte in peripheral bloods which could be indirect evidence of humoral autoimmunity.

• 대한임상검사과학회지
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• 제51권4호
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• pp.462-467
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• 2019

최근 수십 년 동안 향기 및 악취 흡입에 의한 후각자극이 인간에게 심리적, 생리적 영향을 미친다는 다양한 연구가 보고되고 있다. 본 연구는 후각자극에 의한 사람 대뇌겉질 신경세포의 전기생리학적 반응성을 조사하고자 하였다. 건강한 남성 12명을 대상으로 아카시아와 부탄올에 의한 후각자극이 알파파의 활동도에 미치는 영향을 정량적으로 분석하였다. 아카시아 향취를 흡입하는 경우는 후각자극이 없는 안정상태의 뇌파에 비해 알파파의 활동도가 유의하게 증가(66.7%)하였고, 부탄올 악취에서는 알파파 활동도의 유의한 감소(33.3%~41.7%)가 관찰되었다. 본 연구는 후각자극에 의하여 대뇌겉질 신경세포의 활동도에 변화가 있을 수 있다는 것을 시사한다. 이러한 결과는 후각인지가 신경계의 기능에 자극효과를 나타낼 수 있다는 것을 의미한다. 즉 본 연구에서 후각자극이 뇌파활동과 기분상태에 영향을 미친다는 결론을 도출할 수 있었다. 이러한 관점에서 향후 중추신경계에 대한 전기생리학적 효과의 영향을 이해하고, 설명하기 위한 추가연구가 필요할 것으로 사료된다.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.163-174
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• 1993

Vertebrate retinal neurons, like brain tracts farm complex synaptic relations in the enter and inner plexiform layers which ape equivalent to the central nervous system nuclei. The effects of $\gamma-aminobutyric$ acid(GABA) and glycine on retinal neurons were explored to discern the mechanisms of action of neurotransmitters. Experiments were performed in the superfused retina-eyecup preparation of the channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus, using intracellular electrophysiological techniques. The roles of GABA and glycine as inhibitory neurotransmitters are well established in the vertebrate retina. But, we found that the depolarizing action of GABA and glycine on third-order neurons in the catfish retina. GABA and glycine appeared to act on retinal ueurons based on the observations that (1) effects on photoreceptors were not observed, (2) horizontal cells were either hyperpolarized $({\sim}33%)$ or depolarized $({\sim}67%)$, (3) bipolar cells were all hyperpolarized (4) amacrine and ganglion cells were either hyperpolarized $({\sim}37%)$ or depolarized $({\sim}63%)$, (5) GABA and glycine may be working to suppress presynaptic inhibition. The results suggest that depolarization of third-order neurons by GABA and glycine is due to at least two mechanisms; a direct postsynaptic effect and an indirect effect. Therefore, in the catfish retina, a mechanism of presynaptic inhibition or disinhibition including the direct postsynaptic effect may exist in the third-order neurons.

• 대한수의학회지
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.245-251
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• 1989

In order to manifest the presence of Na-K pump and its property on the unfertilized egg membranes of mouse, membrane potential was recorded under the physiological condition (at $37^{\circ}C$ and 4mM $Ca^{2+}$). After an induction of superovulation, the fresh eggs with zona pellucida were collected from mouse oviduct. Transient hyperpolarization as pump action was recorded after the switch into the high potassium perfusate (15mM $K^+$) from K-free perfusate, and the difference between membrane potential observed just before the perfusion of high potassium solution and the maximal membrane potenlial during the perfusion of high potassium solution was regard as pump activities. The results observed were as follows, 1. Resting mombrane potential was depolarized under the treatment of $10^{-5}M$ ouabain. 2. Pump activities of the unfertilized mouse eggs were $-3.38{\pm}0.61mV$ ($Mean{\pm}SD$, n=6), recorded as transient hyperpolarization due to the electrogenic property. 3. Pump activities were blocked by both treatment of $10^{-5}M$ ouabain and perfusion of Nafree solution, while increased by high $Na^+$ (300mM) perfusion ($-7.45{\pm}0.75mV$, n =2). 4. Hyperpolarization due to pump activity was not altered by $Mn^{2+}$. 5. Above results confirm the presence of ouabain-sensitive Na-K pump, which affected the membrane potential directly, on the unfertilized egg membranes of mouse.

• Annals of Clinical Neurophysiology
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.29-32
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• 2008

Although various criteria on the diagnosis of diabetic neuropathy are applied from trial to trial, being tailored in concert with its purpose, the utmost evidences of the diagnosis are subjective symptoms and objective signs of neurologic deficit. The application and interpretation of auxiliary electrophysiological test including nerve conduction study (NCS) should be made on the context of clinical pictures. The evaluation of the functions of small, thinly myelinated or unmyelinated nerve fibers has been increasingly stressed recently with the advent of newer techniques, e.g., measurement of intraepidermal fiber density, quantitative sensory testing, and autonomic function test. And the studies with those techniques have shed light to the nature of the evolution of diabetic neuropathy. The practical application of these techniques to the diagnosis of diabetic neuropathy in the individual patients, however, should be made cautiously due to several shortcomings: limited accessibility, wide overlapping zone between norm and abnormality with resultant unsatisfactory sensitivity and specificity, difficulty in performing subsequent tests, unproven quantitative correlation with clinical deficit, and invasiveness of some technique. NCS, as an extension of clinical examination, is still the most reliable electrophysiological test in evaluating neuropathy and gives the invaluable information about the nature of neuropathy, whereas the newer techniques need more refinement of the procedure and interpretation, and the accumulation of large scaled data of application to be considered as established diagnostic tools of peripheral neuropathy.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.353-362
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• 1996

본 논문에서는 토끼를 대상으로 하여 그 두부에 전자파가 조사(照射)된 경우에 대해 토끼 두부를 3충 구모델로 근사해서 SAR분포를 계산하였다. 계산 결과를 확인하기 위해 주파수 2,450MHz인 마이크로파를 출력세기별로 5그룹으로 설정하여 각각에 대한 노출 전 후의 EEG를 전두부(前頭部)에서 측정하였다. 실험에서 전자파 조사 후에는 뇌전위의 전체평균값은 조금 감소히였고, 특히 $\theta$, $\delta$그리고 $\beta$파의 평균합성비율은 증가하였다. 이 결과는 마이크로파 조사후 전기적 생리활동의 감소와 뇌파의 속파화 경향을 나타낸다. 측정된 뇌전위로써 생체에 대한 전기 생리적 효과를 정량적으로 파악하여 최대허용노출(Maximum Permissible Exm posure)의 객관적인 추정을 하였다.

• Annals of Clinical Neurophysiology
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.147-153
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• 1999

Hippocampal slice models can be a powerful tool to study the mechanism of partial epilepsy. Despite the loss of connection with the rest of the brain, in vitro hippocampal slice preparations allow detailed physiological and pharmacological studies, which would be impossible, in vivo. There are several methods to induce electrographic seizures on hippocampal slice models. Those are electrical pulse train stimulation, 0 $Mg^{2+}$ artificial cerebrational fluid and high concentration of extracelluar $K^+$ on bath. Among them, the electrically triggered seizure may mimic the physiological communication between neuronal populations without any deterioration of normal physiologic and chemical status of the hippocampal slice models. Presumably, such communication from hyperexcitable areas to other neuronal populations is involved in the development of epilepsy. Electrographic seizures in hippocampal slice models occur in the network of neurons that are involved in epileptic seizures in the hippocampus in vivo. Because these models have many advantages and are very valuable to research of epileptogenesis on partial epilepsy, I would like to introduce the electrophysiological methods to induce electrographic seizure or epilepsy on hippocampal slice models briefly in this paper.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.79-85
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• 2021

α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole propionic acid (AMPA) receptors are differentially regulated in the nucleus accumbens (NAcc) of the brain after cocaine exposure. However, these results are supported only by biochemical and electrophysiological methods, but have not been validated with immunohistochemistry. To overcome the restriction of antigen loss on the postsynaptic target molecules that occurs during perfusion-fixation, we adopted an immersion-fixation method that enabled us to immunohistochemically quantify the expression levels of the AMPA receptor GluA1 subunit in the NAcc. Interestingly, compared to saline exposure, cocaine significantly increased the immunofluorescence intensity of GluA1 in two sub-regions, the core and the shell, of the NAcc on withdrawal day 21 following cocaine exposure, which led to locomotor sensitization. Increases in GluA1 intensity were observed in both the extra-post synaptic density (PSD) and PSD areas in the two sub-regions of the NAcc. These results clearly indicate that AMPA receptor plasticity, as exemplified by GluA1, in the NAcc can be visually detected by immunohistochemistry and confocal imaging. These results expand our understanding of the molecular changes occurring in neuronal synapses by adding a new form of analysis to conventional biochemical and electrophysiological methods.