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Isolation and Characterization of Ultra-Violet and Gamma-radiation Resistant Bacteria from Natural Habitats (자연 생태계로 부터 자외선 및 방사선 내성 박테리아의 분리 및 특성 연구)

  • 이영남;이인정
    • Korean Journal of Microbiology
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.297-303
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    • 1989
  • Attempts to isolate the naturally occurring ultra-violet resistant bacteria from environmental sources were made. The isolates, designated No.29, 100, and 107, among numbers of bacterial isolates revealed a remarkable resistance to UV ray, whose degree of resistance in dose/response kinetics was comparable to that of an endospore-former, Bacillus subtilis. In a range of 100-300 $Jm^{-2}$/min of UV irradiation, the isolates exhibited 500-1000 fold resistance compated with E. coli. The isolated appeared to possiss cell-bound pigment of organge or crimson-red. The isolate 29 is spherical in pairs or tetrads, whereas the isolates 100 and 107 are rod. All are Gram-gositive bacteria and seemed to be non-endospore-bearer. A number of biochemical studies pursued on the isolates suggested that they are quite different to each other. Electron microscopic examination and the physiological characters of the isolate 29 suggested that this UV resistant spherical bacterium might be one species of Deinococcus, probably Deinococus radiophilus. Since there is no documents on UV resistant, Gram-positive, non-sporeformer bacillus so far, the isolates 100 and 107 might be turned out as new kinds of UV resistant bacteria occurring in nature by further investigation.

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A Case of Primary Pulmonary Leiomyosarcoma (우폐하엽의 원발성 평활근육종 1예)

  • Hong, Han-Ki;Baik, Jung-Min;Oh, Young-Bae;Kim, Hee-Yeon;Lee, Chan-Joo;Lee, Sang-Moo;Bak, Man-Sil;Kim, Eun-Kyoung
    • Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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    • v.44 no.2
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    • pp.419-424
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    • 1997
  • Primary Pulmonary leiomyosarcomas are rare tumors. These tumors may arise at any level of the lung in which smooth muscle fibers are found. The highest incidence of sarcoma is during the fourth decade whereas for bronchogenic carcinoma the maximum incidence is during the sixth and seventh decades. Leiomyosarcomas are aggressive and progressive. Treatment is mainly surgical. The chemotherapy is ineffective and the effectiveness of radiotherapy depends on the total dose of irradiation. Prognosis and significant survival rate are related to the size of the lesion. We report one patient with primary pulmonary leiomyosarcoma involving the right lower lung.

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Building a Graphite Calorimetry System for the Dosimetry of Therapeutic X-ray Beams

  • Kim, In Jung;Kim, Byoung Chul;Kim, Joong Hyun;Chung, Jae-Pil;Kim, Hyun Moon;Yi, Chul-Young
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.49 no.4
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    • pp.810-816
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    • 2017
  • A graphite calorimetry system was built and tested under irradiation. The noise level of the temperature measurement system was approximately 0.08 mK (peak to peak). The temperature of the core part rose by approximately 8.6 mK at 800 MU (monitor unit) for 6-MV X-ray beams, and it increased as X-ray energy increased. The temperature rise showed less spread when it was normalized to the accumulated charge, as measured by an external monitoring chamber. The radiation energy absorbed by the core part was determined to have values of $0.798J/{\mu}C$, $0.389J/{\mu}C$, and $0.352J/{\mu}C$ at 6 MV, 10 MV, and 18 MV, respectively. These values were so consistent among repeated runs that their coefficient of variance was less than 0.15%.

Volume Resistivity Characteristics of Low Density Polyethylene film irradiated with Electron Beam (전자선 조사된 저밀도 폴리에틸렌 박막의 체적고유저항 특성)

  • Cho, Don-Chan;Cho, Kyung-Soon;Lee, Soo-Won;Kim, Wang-Kon;Hong, Jin-Wooog
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1996.11a
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    • pp.193-195
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    • 1996
  • Low-density polyethylene(LDPE ; thickness 100[${\mu}m$] as a experimental specimen is irradiated with electron beam by using electron beam accelerator, and as an experimental specimen, the nonirradiated specimen and the specimen irradiated with electron beam is produced according to the classification of dose. From the analysis of DSC, the crystalline melting point of the specimen irradiated with electron beam is lower than that of virgin specimen. It is confirmed thai the volume resistivity is increased from the temperature over $50[^{\circ}C]{\sim}60[^{\circ}C]$ to the crystalline melting point because of the defects of solid structure and the formation of many trap centers by means of electron beam irradiation, but decreased in the temperature over the crystalline melting point because of the melt of crystalline.

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The development of a thermal neutron dosimetry using a semiconductor (반도체형 열중성자 선량 측정센서 개발)

  • Lee, Nam-Ho;Kim, Yang-Mo
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2003.11c
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    • pp.789-792
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    • 2003
  • pMOSFET having 10 ${\mu}um$ thickness Gd layer has been tested to be used as a slow neutron sensor. The total thermal neutron cross section for the Gd is 47,000 barns and the cross section value drops rapidly with increasing neutron energy. When slow neutrons are incident to the Gd layer, the conversion electrons are emitted by the neutron absorption process. The conversion electrons generate electron-hole pairs in the $SiO_2$ layer of the pMOSFET. The holes are easily trapped in Oxide and act as positive charge centers in the $SiO_2$ layer. Due to the induced positive charges, the threshold turn-on voltage of the pMOSFET is changed. We have found that the voltage change is proportional to the accumulated slow neutron dose, therefore the pMOSFET having a Gd nuclear reaction layer can be used for a slow neutron dosimeter. The Gd-pMOSFET were tested at HANARO neutron beam port and $^{60}CO$ irradiation facility to investigate slow neutron response and gamma response respectively. Also the pMOSFET without Gd layer were tested at same conditions to compare the characteristics to the Gd-pMOSFET. From the result, we have concluded that the Gd-pMOSFET is very sensitive to the slow neutron and can be used as a slow neutron dosimeter. It can also be used in a mixed radiation field by subtracting the voltage change value of a pMOSFET without Gd from the value of the Gd-pMOSFET.

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Development of health functional food and functional cosmetics from natural products

  • Choung, Se-Young
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Applied Pharmacology
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.93-114
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    • 2007
  • Vaccinium uliginosum L. (VU) is a flowering plant in the genus Vaccinium has berry fruit. This study was performed to investigate the effect of water extract of Vaccinium uliginosum L. and fractions on inhibition of melanogenesis and wrinkle formation. One hundred grams of the Vaccinium uliginosum L. was extracted with 2,000 mL of water ($90^{\circ}C$, 16h, 2 times). The water extracts were lyophilized and stored at $4^{\circ}C$ until used. Vaccinium uliginosum L. extracts showed scavenger activities on DPPH radical, superoxide anion radical, hydroxyl radical, hydrogen peroxide and singlet oxygen radical, dose dependently. And VU extract and fractions reduced melanin contents on B16F10 melanoma and inhibited the expression of melanogenesis-related proteins, tyrosinase, tyrosinase-related protein (TRP-1) and dapachrometa utomerase (Dct, TRP-2). Moreover VU extract and fractions stimulated procollagen production and inhibited MMP-1 production in human fibroblast. And it decreased degree of wrinkle formation in hairless mouse skin that induced by DVB irradiation for 9 weeks. From the above results, it is possible that Vaccinium uliginosum L. may be developed to be the health functional food and functional cosmetics that have anti-melanogenesis and anti-wrinkle effect.

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Photodynamic Therapy-Mediated Temporal Expression of Thymidine Kinase Genes Ligated to the Human Heat Shock Promotor: Preliminary in vitro Model Study of Enhanced Phototoxicity by PDT-Induced Gene Therapy

  • Kim, Mo-Sun;Kim, Tae-An;Kim, Jong-Ki
    • Journal of Photoscience
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.41-43
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    • 2002
  • PDT-mediated cyototoxicity basically depends on the penetrated light-dose into the tumor tissue. This limits the efficiency of PDT to the superficial tumor region typically less than 1 cm. The localized photochemical generation of reactive oxygen species, including singlet oxygen is known to increase expression of assortment of early response genes including heat shock protein. In order to increase PDT cytotoxicity in the treatment of solid tumor, it is desirable to combine PDT with other therapeutic effects. In this preliminary study we evaluated enhanced cytotoxicity from the PDT-mediated expression of thymidine kinase in a transfected tumor cell line. Two types of photo sensitizers, a hematoporphyrin derivative(Photogem, Russia) and aluminium sulphonated phthalocyanine(Photosense, Russia) were used to evaluate the overexpression of hsp-70 in PDT-treated cell. Transient increase of hsp-70 was observed at 6-8 hrs later following irradiation in the photosense-treated cell whereas it was not observed in Photogem-treated cell. In the presence of ganciclovia, transfected cell showed a 17% increase in the cytotoxicity compared to the PDT only cell.

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Rationale and Definition of The Criteria of The Efficiency of The Biological Activity of Optical Radiation on Animal Organism.

  • Chervinsky, Leonid S.
    • The Korean Journal of Food & Health Convergence
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.1-5
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    • 2018
  • In today's technological development of human society more and more influence on the lives of biological organisms different electromagnetic radiation. Therefore, the study and analysis of the mechanisms of their effects is an urgent task. The purpose of research - the study of the primary mechanisms of interaction of photons of optical radiation with the structures of biological objects, using the laws of quantum mechanics and biophysics. Photobiological basis of the mechanism of action of EMR optical range is the energy absorption of light quanta (photons) by atoms and molecules of biological structures (law Grotgus-Draper), which resulted in the formation of electronically excited states of these molecules with the transfer of photon energy (internal photoeffect). This is accompanied by electrolytic dissociation and ionization of biological molecules. The degree of manifestation of photobiological effects in the body depends on the intensity of the optical radiation, which is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the source to the irradiated surface. Accordingly, in practice, determine not the intensity and irradiation dose at a certain distance from the source of exposure by the exposure time.

Separation of Water and Oil by Poly(acrylic acid)-coated Stainless Steel Mesh Prepared by Radiation Crosslinking (방사선가교로 제조된 폴리아크릴산 코팅 스테인리스그물망에 의한 유수 분리)

  • Nho, Young-Chang;Shin, Jung-Woong;Park, Jong-Seok;Lim, Youn-Mook;Jeun, Joon-Pyo;Kang, Phil-Hyun
    • Journal of Radiation Industry
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.77-84
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    • 2015
  • The stainless steel mesh coated with poly(acrylic acid) hydrogel was fabricated and applied for the separation of water and oil. The stainless steel mesh was immersed in aqueous poly (acrylic acid) solution, and then irradiated by radiation to introduce poly(acrylic acid) hydrogel on the surface of mesh by crosslinking. It was possible to separate oil and water from mixtures of oil/water effectively using the hydrogel-coated mesh. The effect of irradiation dose, coating thickness, size of mesh on the separation efficiency was examined.

Preparation and Characterization of Poly(vinyl alcohol)/Poly(acrylic acid) Hydrogel by Radiation (방사선을 이용하여 제조한 poly(vinyl alcohol)/poly(acrylic acid) 하이드로젤의 제조 및 특성)

  • Park, Jong-Seok;Kim, Hyun-A;Choi, Jong-Bae;Gwon, Hui-Jeong;Lim, Youn-Mook;Nho, Young-Chang
    • Journal of Radiation Industry
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.377-382
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    • 2011
  • Poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) is an interesting material with good biocompatibility, high elasticity and hydrophilic chacrateristics. In this study, crosslinked hydrogels based on PVA, and poly(acrylic acid) (PAAc) were prepared by gamma-ray irradiation. PVA and PAAc powders were dissolved in deionized water, and then irradiated by a gamma-ray with a radiation dose of 50 kGy to make hydrogels. The hydrogels were then annealed in an oven at $120^{\circ}C$ for 10 min, 30 min and 50 min under nitrogen atmosphere. The properties of a hydrogel such as gel fraction, swelling behavior, thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and adhesive strength as a function of PAAc content and annealing time were investigated. The gel fraction decreases with decreasing PAAc content and increasing annealing time. The thermal behaviors have shown different patterns according to the annealing time. The adhesive strength increases with increasing PAAc content.