• 한국의학물리학회지:의학물리
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.48-53
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• 2013

몬테카를로 방식은 지금까지 인체 내 흡수선량을 계산하는 가장 정확한 방법으로 알려져 왔고. 이러한 계산 방법을 이용하기 위한 인체 내부의 장기 묘사는 인체 모형 팬텀이 주로 사용되어 왔다. 그러나 최근 Geant4 코드를 사용한 몬테카를로 계산에서는 CT의 DICOM 파일에서 인체의 여러 장기에 대한 자료를 직접 추출하고 시뮬레이션에 필요한 geometry로 변환하여 사용하려는 다양한 노력이 시도되고 있다. 이와 같은 기능은 실제 인체의 해부학적 구조를 그대로 재현하면서 인체 내부의 흡수선량을 정확히 계산 할 수 있도록 한다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 DICOM 파일을 연동한 Geant4을 이용하여 인체 내 흡수선량을 계산하였고, 이를 Gafchromic EBT2 필름을 이용한 측정 선량과 비교함으로써 그 유용성을 확인하고자 하였다. 본 연구에서 시뮬레이션을 이용하여 계산한 선량과 EBT2 필름을 이용한 선속 중심축에서의 측정선량을 비교한 결과 피부표면에서부터 최대선량 깊이까지 선량이 급격하게 변화하는 build up 영역을 제외하고는 오차(difference) 범위가 평균 3.75% 임을 알 수 있었다. 또한 선량의 계산 값을 각 CT slice 별로 출력되도록 하였고, 또 각 slice에서도 복셀 하나하나의 선량 값이 출력되도록 하여 측정하고자 하는 장기별, 기관별 흡수선량을 쉽게 확인 할 수 있도록 하였다. 이처럼 인체 모형 팬텀이 아닌 실제 인체의 image data인 CT DICOM 파일을 이용한 선량계산을 각 slice, voxel 별로 선량 값을 출력하는 방식은 다양한 부위의 정확한 선량계산을 가능하게 하므로 향후 방사선 치료계획 시스템의 선량 계산에 유용할 것이라 생각한다. 또한 현재 사용 중인 여러 에너지 영역에도 적용이 가능하므로 인체 내 방사선의 흡수선량 확인을 위해 유용하게 활용되어질 수 있을 것으로 생각된다.

• Journal of Ginseng Research
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• 제44권3호
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• pp.461-474
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• 2020

Background: Ginseng effectively reduces fatigue in both animal models and clinical trials. However, the mechanism of action is not completely understood, and its molecular targets remain largely unknown. Methods: By screening for proteins that interact with the primary components of ginseng (ginsenosides) in an affinity chromatography assay, we have identified muscle-type creatine kinase (CK-MM) as a potential target in skeletal muscle tissues. Results: Biolayer interferometry analysis showed that ginsenoside metabolites, instead of parent ginsenosides, had direct interaction with recombinant human CK-MM. Subsequently, 20(S)-protopanaxadiol (PPD), which is a ginsenoside metabolite and displayed the strongest interaction with CK-MM in the study, was selected as a representative to confirm direct binding and its biological importance. Biolayer interferometry kinetics analysis and isothermal titration calorimetry assay demonstrated that PPD specifically bound to human CK-MM. Moreover, the mutation of key amino acids predicted by molecular docking decreased the affinity between PPD and CK-MM. The direct binding activated CK-MM activity in vitro and in vivo, which increased the levels of tissue phosphocreatine and strengthened the function of the creatine kinase/phosphocreatine system in skeletal muscle, thus buffering cellular ATP, delaying exercise-induced lactate accumulation, and improving exercise performance in mice. Conclusion: Our results suggest a cellular target and an initiating molecular event by which ginseng reduces fatigue. All these findings indicate PPD as a small molecular activator of CK-MM, which can help in further developing better CK-MM activators based on the dammarane-type triterpenoid structure.

• 조형예술학연구
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• 제3권
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• pp.87-144
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• 2001

This study looks into historical genealogy of autonomy in art criticism on modernism and presents the view of the judgment and correction about that. A matter of autonomy in art appeared in the attempt to totally reconsider and upset the theory of 'Mimesis' or 'Representation' which was the basis of traditional aesthetic theory. In the traditional theory of representation, they assumed primary image exists first and then tried to obtain visual similarity to it through art works. However, in the theory of autonomy in modernism, they maintained the reduction to pure form' or medium', regarding what art works represents and how similar to primary image are not the true essence of art. In the early 20th century, C. Bell laid the foundation stone of the theory of Formalism', providing that a matter of autonomy is significant form', which is the combination of lines and colors Aesthetic autonomy theory came to a climax by C. Greenberg, who systemized art criticism on modernism in the middle 20th century. According to his theory, the pursuit of the essence of form resulted in the specificity of medium' and flatness. They thought that the autonomy of art would be achieved by eliminating outward social factors from art works. This theory ended by Minimalism preventing the instructive function of art work and only emphasizing its material property. Since the middle 20th century, the autonomy theory was confronted with the limit and intense attack because it resulted in this fixed canon and materialism, so they began laying emphasis on those extrinsic factors around art works such as human life, society, history, and so on. This study focuses on arguing and complementing the limit of autonomy such as the adhesive and fixed canon, and then defining the more dynamic area of it. For this, first, I introduced the view of T. J. Clark and T. Crow who criticized the aesthetic autonomy theory. They denied the transcendental structure of form, and found form only in the association with substantial life and society. And they insisted the dynamism of form by emphasizing form as a result of negation insisted by avant-garde. Second, I researched the view of A. C, Danto and M. Fried, who complemented the traditional autonomy theory. They made autonomy emerge from the fixation of form like flatness through connecting essentialism with historical view. In conclusion, I insist that autonomic position of art make it possible to connect or mediate between material form and human or social elements. Therefore, autonomy should not be reduced to the axis of form or that of society but make interaction between two heterogeneous axes.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.308-314
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• 2005

상용 복막투석액에 함유된 고농도의 포도당과 포도당 분해산물(glucose degradation products: CDP)이 복막의 비후, 복막 투과성의 증가 및 한외여과 부전과 같은 복막의 구조적, 기능적 변화를 초래하리라 추정되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 CDP성분이 사람 복막중피세포 활성화에 미치는 영향을 검색하였고 또 이때 ROS와 PKC가 관여하는지를 검색하였다. 혈청이 배제된 M199 배양액으로 성장을 동일화시킨 사람 복막중피세포를 GDP인 methylglyoxal(MGO), acetaldehyde, 그리고 3,4-dioxyglucosone-3-ene(3,4-DGE)으로 48시 간 동안 자극하였고, 복막의 투과성에 대한 지표로서 혈관내피성장인자(vascular endothelial growth factor VEGF)를, 섬유화의 지표로서 fibronectin과 heat shock protein 47(hsp47)의 단백을 정량하였다. 활성산소족(reactive oxygen species:ROS)과 protein kinase C(PKC)의 관여여부는 각각 항산화제 N-acetylcystein(NAC)과 PKC 억제제 calphostin C의 억제 효과로 검색하였다. MGO는 대조군과 비교하여 VEGF 분비를 1.9배, fibronectin분비를 1.5배 그리고 hsp47 표현을 1.3배로 유의하게 증가시켰다(p<0.05). MGO에 의한 VEGF 상향 조절은 calphostin C와 NAC에 의하여 유의하게 억제되었다. 사람 복막중피세포에서 VEGF 분비는 acetaldehyde에 의하여 증가하였으나 3,4-DGE에 의하여 억제되었고, fibronectin 분비와 hsp47 표현은 acetaldehyde나 3,4-DGE에 의하여 영향을 받지 않았다. 이상을 종합할 때, ROS생산과 PKC활성화가 상용투석액내 함유된 MGO에 의한 점진적인 복막의 투과성 증가, 세포외기질 축적 그리고 복막 섬유화를 유발하는 주된 신호체계로서 이를 선택적으로 억제함으로써 복막의 기능을 유지할 수 있을 것으로 생각된다.

• Nutrition Research and Practice
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.616-630
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• 2023

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Indole-3-propionic acid (IPA) is a tryptophan-derived microbial metabolite that has been associated with protective effects against inflammatory and metabolic diseases. However, there is a lack of knowledge regarding the effects of IPA under physiological conditions and at the intestinal level. MATERIALS/METHODS: Human intestinal epithelial Caco-2 cells were treated for 2, 24, and/or 72 h with IPA or its precursors - indole, tryptophan, and propionate - at 1, 10, 100, 250, or 500 μM to assess cell viability, integrity, differentiation, and proliferation. RESULTS: IPA induced cell proliferation and this effect was associated with a higher expression of extracellular signal-regulated kinase 2 (ERK2) and a lower expression of c-Jun. Although indole and propionate also induced cell proliferation, this involved ERK2 and c-Jun independent mechanisms. On the other hand, both tryptophan and propionate increased cell integrity and reduced the expression of claudin-1, whereas propionate decreased cell differentiation. CONCLUSIONS: In conclusion, these findings suggested that IPA and its precursors distinctly contribute to the proliferation, differentiation, and barrier function properties of human intestinal epithelial cells. Moreover, the pro-proliferative effect of IPA in intestinal epithelial cells was not explained by its precursors and is rather related to its whole chemical structure. Maintaining IPA at physiological levels, e.g., through IPA-producing commensal bacteria, may be important to preserve the integrity of the intestinal barrier and play an integral role in maintaining metabolic homeostasis.

• 농촌계획
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.15-31
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• 2024

The study primarily aims to examine the characteristics of the transition from natural landscape to modern agricultural landscape on the Daesan plain in Dong-myeon, Changwon-si, in the lower reaches of the Nakdong River. The periods covered in the transition include the late Joseon Dynasty, the early Japanese colonial period, and the late Japanese colonial period. The study concluded the following: It was found that the Daesan Plain used to function as a hydrophilic landscape before it formed into a rural landscape. This is characterized by the various water resources in the Plain, primarily by the Nakdong River, with its back marsh tributaries, the Junam Reservoir and Jucheon. To achieve its recent form, the Daesan Plain was subjected to human trial and error. Through installation of irrigation facilities such as embankments and sluices, the irregularly-shaped wetlands were transformed into large-scale farmlands while the same irrigation facilities underwent constant renovation to permanently stabilize the rural landscape. These processes of transformation were similarly a product of typical colonial expropriation. During the Japanese colonial period, Japanese capitalists initiated the construction of private farms which led to the national land development policy by the Governor-General of Korea. These landscape changes are indicative of resource capitalism depicted by the expansion of agricultural production value by the application of resource capital to undeveloped natural space for economic viability. As a result, the hierarchical structure was magnified resulting to the exacerbation of community and economic structural imbalances which presents an alternative yet related perspective to the evolution of landscapes during the Japanese colonial period. In addition, considering Daesan Plain's vulnerability to changing weather conditions, natural processes have also been a factor to its landscape transformation. Such occurrences endanger the sustainability of the area as when floods inundate cultivated lands and render them unstable, endangering residents, as well as the harvests. In conclusion, the Daesan Plain originally took the form of a hydrophilic landscape and started significantly evolving into a rural landscape since the Japanese colonial period. Human-induced land development and geophysical processes significantly impacted this transformation which also exemplifies the several ways of how undeveloped natural landscapes turn into mechanized and capitalized rural landscapes by colonial resource capitalism and development policies.

• 대한한의학원전학회지
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• 제6권
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• pp.89-130
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• 1993

Huh-joon's medical thoughts shown on his medical book of the Doog-Eui-Bo-Kham can be summerized as follows. 1. The general trend of medical science in Koryo dynasty is that much more interests were concentrated upon the books about curative means rather than upon the books about theoretical knowledge of medical science. With the development of Hyang Yak(鄕樂) (the term referring either various kinds of domestic medical stuffs such as herbs or the curative methods using those stuffs) and the writing of books on Hyang Yak, independent medical science of the nation's own was established in late Koryo dynasty. And the national medical science was continuously further developed until early Choson dynasty. Briskly-expanded mutual exchanges with China in early Choson dynasty provided Choson opportunities to import Chinese medical science and to examine it. Under this circumstances, he wrote the Dong-Eui-Bo-Kham. 2. As we look over the preface and Chip-Rae-Muo(集例文), we can find the characterstic of Doog-Eui-Bo-Kham is that the philosophical theory of Taoism was quoted in explaining the principles of his medical science and that the main idea of Naekyuog is the basis in explaining the way of curing diseases. 3. 83 kinds of medical books were quoted in the Doog-Eui-Bo-Kham. Besides, as many as 200 kinds of books including Tao-tzu's teaching books(道書), history books(史書), almanac(曆書), and Confucius' teaching books(儒家書籍) were quoted in total. Naekyuog and Eue-Hak-Ip-Mun, Dan-Kye-Sim-Bup were the most frequently quoted books among them. 4. Huh-Joon's medical thoughts about health care were like these. 1) The reason why Huh-Joon regarded the idea of health care as of great importance was that he laid much more emphasises on the preventive medicines rather than on the remedial medicines. The direct reason was that he was greatly influenced by profound knowledge of Taoist's study of discipline and who participated in the editing the books from the beginning. 2) Huh-Joon's outlook on human body started from the theory of "Unity of Heaven and Man"(天人合一論), which implied man was a kind of miniature universe. In addition to that, he largely theory of essence(精), vital force(氣), and spirit(神) which were regarded very important as the three most valuable properties in Taoism. However, he took his medical ground on practical and pragmatic idea that he did not discuss fundamental essence(元精), fundamental vital force(元氣), and fundamental spirit(元神) which were given by Heaven from the received only the theory of essence, vital force, and spirit which were acquired after birth and worked mainly on realistic activity of life. 3) Huh-loon accepted Do-In-Bup(導引法) sharply as a method to prevent and cure diseases. 5. Huh-loon's medical thoughts on remedial aspects are as 1) Naekyung was considered so important in Dong-Eui-Bo-Kham that not only each paragraph was begun with the Quotations from Nackyung but also the edited order of the content of the book the same with that of Naekyung. And differently from the former korean medical books he accepted at large and recorded the theories of the four noted physicians of the Geum-Won era(金元四大家) by Dong-Eui-Bo-Kham. 2) For the first time, Huh-Joon introduced the theory of Un-Ki (運氣論) in the Dong-Eui-Bo-Kahm. However, he accepted it as a pathological function of human body but he did not apply physical constitution, physiological function, pathological function, and remedial methods. 3) Huh-loon liked to use Hyang Yak that he recorded korean name of Hyang Yak(鄕名), places of the production(産地), the time of collecting(採取時月), and the way of drying herbs(陰陽乾正法) in the remedial method of a single medicine prescription for diseases at the end of each paragraph. By doing so, he developed, arranged, and revived Hyang Yak. 4) He believed that since the natural features of China were different from those of Korea the reasons of being attacked with its remedial methods couldn't be the same with different from Chinese medical books which primarily focused on paralysis and the injury of the cold has his own structure in his book that he founded independent science of this nation. He consulted enormous documents He discovered and wrote the theory and therefore concrete methods for diseases so that the book hadthe principles of outbreak of diseases(理), methods of cure(法), prescription(方), and a single medicine prescription(藥) and set system of medical science in a good order. By doing so, he and pragmatic development of medical science.

• 한국응용과학기술학회지
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.120-129
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• 2014

나이를 먹으면 피부의 구조와 생리적 기능이 계속적인 감퇴를 일으켜서 노화된다. 외적요인에 의한 노화는 장기간에 걸친 자외선의 노출로 인한 광노화와 바람, 열, 담배 등이 원인으로 내인성 노화를 촉진시키거나 그 자체도 피부노화를 유발한다. 팔미토일 올리고 펩타이드 또는 세라마이드 올리고 펩타이드는 콜라겐 생산을 자극함으로써 피부의 상층부를 재생하며 아세틸 헥사펩타이드는 피하근육과 피부를 유연하게 하여 주름을 완화하는 성분으로 보톡스 대체 항주름 성분으로 대표적인 고기능성 뷰티성분이다. 대조군과 아세틸 헥사펩타이드 함유 7%, 14%, 20% 성분을 실험 군 A, B, C로 나눠서 주름의 변화, 모공의 변화, 수분량 변화, 과각질의 변화를 분석하였다. 아세틸 헥사펩타이드 함유 성분 분석 결과 통계적으로 주름과 모공, 수분에는 대조군에 비해 영향을 준 것으로 보이며, 과각질의 제거에서는 대조군과 실험군의 값에서 비슷한 결과를 얻을 수 있어 피시험자의 자가 평가의 만족도에서 주름과 모공, 수분에는 대조군에 비해 영향을 준 것으로 보이며, 과각질의 제거에서는 대조군과 실험군의 값에서 비슷한 결과를 얻었다.

• 디자인학연구
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.73-80
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• 2000

본 연구는 제품디자인의 환경 및 관련 정보가 급격하게 변화함에 따라, 이에 대응하기 위하여 디자인 프로세스를 다변화하는 것을 그 목표로 한다. 이를 위하여 먼저, 제품에 대한 일반적인 정보로부터 디자인 정보를 구분하여 정의하고, 이로부터 제품디자인에 반영될 인자를 그 가치와 역할에 근거해 다음과 같이 다섯 가지 디자인 인자로 분류하여 규명하였다. .혁신인자(innovation factor)- 이전에는 존재하지 않았던 요소나 뚜렷한 개선에 관계된 요인 .개방인자(open factor)- 사용유형의 현황과 새로운 가능성의 파악을 통해 현재의 기능에 대한 개선 뿐 아니라 새로운 기능을 유도하는 적극적 요인 .선행인자(anterior factor)- 공유시스템, CIPD, 디자인 전략 등과 관계되어 조건설정에 미리 관여함으로써, 기획 및 초기 요구조건을 지속, 발전시키는 요인 .자명인자(self-evidence factor)- 형태와 기능을 합일시키는 것으로, 제품구조를 통한 기능의 시각화와 관련된 요인 .절대인자(rigid factor)- 인간공학을 기초로 사용자의 효율성, 특히 안전성에 관계된 요인 이와 같은 디자인 인자는 목표고객이나 시장의 특성과 관련되어 제품의 개발 초기 단계부터 제품의 주요 성격을 규정하면서 해석되어진 분류이다. 이 해석 과정에서 중요도가 더 높은 인자를 지배인자로 합성하여 차별화된 결과물을 효과적으로 도출케 하는 인자 구조화 프로세스를 제안하였다. 디자인 인자 구조화 프로세스는 제품의 개념 개발과정에서 제품과 관련된 디자인 지배인자를 목적에 따라 조합하여, 제품에 각각의 특징을 부여하여 제품을 합리적으로 차별화b할 수 있으며, 다양하고 구체적인 소비자의 요구에 능동적으로 대응하는 접근방법으로 활용할 수 있다.

• 한국동물번식학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국동물번식학회 2001년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.54-54
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• 2001

Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) is a member of the glycoprotein hormone family which includes FSH, hCG, TSH. These hormone family is characterized by a heterodimeric structure composed a common $\alpha$-subunit noncovalently linked to a hormone specific $\beta$-subunit. The correct conformation of the heterodimer is also important for efficient secretion, hormone-specific post-translational modifications, receptor binding and signal transduciton. To determine $\alpha$ and $\beta$-subunits can be synthesized as a single polypeptide chain (tethered-hCG) and also display biological activity, the tethered-hCG molecule by fusing the carboxyl terminus of the hCG $\beta$-subunit to the amino terminus of the $\alpha$-subunit was constructed and transfected into chinese hamster ovary (CHO-K1) cells. We also constructed C-terminal deletion mutants (D9l, D89, D88, D87, D86, D84, D83) of single chain hCG to determine the biological function (secretion, LH-activity, receptor binding, cAMP production) of these mutants. Between six and eight stably transfected pools of cells expressing wild type and mutant hCGs were selected for neomycin resistant. The hCGs secreted by the stably transfected cells into serum-free media were collected and quantified by radioimmunoassay, as described in protocol (DPC(hCG IRMA). LH activity was in terms of testosterone production and aromatase activity in primary cultured rat Leydig cells. The tethered-wthCG was efficiently secreted and showed similar LH-like activity to the dimeric hCG. The D83hCG mutant was not detected in this assay. It is suggest that hCG C-terminal part is very important for hCG secretion. Now, we checking the LH-like activity of these mutant hCGs. These data indicate that the constructs of tethered molecule will be useful in the study of mutants that affect subunit association and/or secretion.