• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제53권5호
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• pp.519-529
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• 2002

연구배경 : 급성폐손상의 치료로 시도되는 표면활성물질의 효과는 허탈된 폐포를 재환기시키는 작용 외에 표면 활성물질 자제가 가지고 있는 항염증작용이 중요한 기전으로 생각되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 백서의 급성폐손상 모델을 이용하여 기관 내로 표면활성물질을 투여하였을 때, 기관지폐포세척액의 백혈구수와, 염증매개 사이토카인인 IL-$1{\beta}$ 그리고 IL-6의 농도에 변화가 있는지를 살펴보고, surfactant의 항염증작용이 전사인자인 NF-${\kappa}B$의 활성의 억제를 통하여 이루어지는지 여부를 Electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA) 법으로 확인하였다. 방 법 : 대상동물은 300g 내외의 수컷 백서를 이용하였으며, 대상동물을 각각 6 마리씩 세 군으로 나누었다. 대조군은 기관 내로 생리식염수(3ml/kg)를 30분 간격으로 투여하였다. 나머지 두 군은 기관 내로 내독소(5mg/kg)를 투여하여 급성폐손상을 유발하고, 30 분 후에 표변활성 물질 치료군은 surfactant(30mg/kg)을 그리고 비치료군은 생리식염수(3ml/kg)을 각각 기관 내로 투여하였다. 생리식염수나 내독소를 투여한 24 시간 후에 기관지폐포세척술을 시행하였고, 기관지폐포세척액 내의 백혈구수와 IL-$1{\beta}$ 그리고 IL-6의 농도를 측정하였다. 또한 기관지폐포세척액에서 호중구를 분리하고 핵 단백질을 추출하여 NF-${\kappa}B$의 활성을 EMSA법으로 측정하였다. 결 과 : 대조군, 표면활성물질 치료군, 그리고 비치료군의 기관지폐포세척액의 백혈구 수는 각각 $356{\pm}275{\times}10^3/{\mu}1$, $3,221{\pm}1,914{\times}10^3/{\mu}1$, 그리고 $5,561{\pm}1,757{\times}10^3/{\mu}l$으로 비치료군의 백혈구 수가 가장 높았고, 다음으로 표면활성물질 치료군, 비치료군의 순서였다(p<0.05). 기관지폐포세척액의 IL-$1{\beta}$ 농도는 대조군은 0pg/ml, 표면활성물질 치료군은 $360{\pm}234pg/ml$, 그리고 비치료군은 $2,064{\pm}1,082pg/ml$로 대조군에 비해 표면활성물질 치료군이, 그리고 표면활성물질 치료군에 비해 비치료군의 IL-$1{\beta}$농도가 높았다(p<0.05). 기관지폐포세척액의 IL-6 농도는 대조군, 표면활성물질 치료군, 비치료군에서 각각 $49{\pm}62pg/ml$, $1,754{\pm}1,340pg/ml$, 그리고 $3,621{\pm}567pg/ml$으로 대조군에 비해 표면활성물질 치료군이, 그리고 표면활성물질 치료군에 비해 비치료군의 농도가 높았다(p<0.05). 표면활성물질 치료군과 비치료군 사이에서 호중구의 NF-${\kappa}B$ 활성화에는 차이가 없었다. 결 론 : 이상의 연구로 내독소의 기관 내 투여로 유발한 백서의 급성폐손상에서 기관 내로 투여한 표면활성물질은 기관지폐포세척액의 백혈구수와 염증매개 사이토카인인 IL-$1{\kappa}$ 그리고 IL-6의 농도를 감소시켜 폐포 내의 염증을 감소시켰으며, 표면활성 물질의 항염증작용은 NF-${\kappa}B$의 활성의 억제를 통하여 이루어지지는 않는 것으로 판단된다.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제50권1호
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• pp.52-66
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• 2001

연구배경 : 폐상피세포가 능동적으로 IL-8을 분비한다는 것은 주지의 사실이다. NF-${\kappa}B$는 IL-8 발현 조절에 있어서 가장 중요한 역할을 담당하는 전사인자이다. Triptolide는 최근 밝혀진 NF-${\kappa}B$ 억제제로서 중국한약제인 뇌공등 (Tripterygium Wilfordii)에서 추출된약제이다. 연자들은 새로운 NF-${\kappa}B$ 억제제인 triptolide가 폐상피세포에서 NF-${\kappa}B$ 의존성 IL-8 유전자의triptolide가 염증성 폐질환에서 새로운 치료제로서의 가능성을 확인하기 위하여 본 연구를 시행하였다. 방법 : 폐상피세포로서 A549 사용하였고 triptolide는 미국의 Pharamagenesis(Palo Alto, CA)사로부터 제공받았다. NF-${\kappa}B$ 활성유도물질로는 IL-$1{\beta}$(R&D)와 PMA(Sigma)를 이용하였다. IL-8 유전자의 발현은 RT-PCR과 ELISA를 이용하여 측정 하였다. NF-${\kappa}B$의존성 IL-8 유전자의 전사활성을 평가하기 위하여는 IL-8 NF-${\kappa}B$ luciferase construct를 안정적으로 유전자주입한 A549 IL-8 NF-${\kappa}B$ luciferase 세포주를 제조해 사용하였고 NF-${\kappa}B$ DNA 결합은 electromobility shift assay(EMSA)를 이용하였다. p65 전사활성을 assay하기 위해서는 Gal4-p65 fusion protein expression system을 유전자주입과 luciferase assay를 통하여 시행하였다. Transcriptional coactivator의 역할을 규명 하가 위하여서는 CBP(CREB-binding protein)와 SRC-1(steroid receptor coactivator-1) 발현 벡터를 유전자 주입하고 luciferase assay를 이용하여 확인하였다. 결과 : Luciferase assay로 triptolide가 PMA와 IL-$1{\beta}$자극에 의한 IL-8 NF-${\kappa}B$ 활성을 의미있게 감소시킴을 확인하였다. IL-8 ELISA와 RT-PCR로 triptolide가 PMA와 IL-$1{\beta}$ 자극에 의해 유도되는 IL-8 발현을 각각 단백질과 mRNA 수준에서 억제함을 관찰하였다. Triptolide가 PMA와 IL-$1{\beta}$에 의한 IL-8 NF-${\kappa}B$의 전사활성을 억제시킨 반면 EMSA와 $I{\kappa}B{\alpha}$ Western blot을 이용한 실험에서는 triptolide가 NF-${\kappa}B$ DNA 결합과 $I{\kappa}B{\alpha}$의 분해에 전혀 영향을 미치지 못함을 확인하였다. 이러한 전사활성 억제와 DNA 결합 간의 불일치의 원인으로서는 DNA 결합 이후에 발생하는 핵내 에서의 transactivation에 triptolide가 영향을 미치리라고 생각되어 p65 transactivation study를 Gal4-p65T A(p65의 transactivation domain) fusion protein 발현 시스템과 luciferase assay를 이용하여 시행한 결과 triptolide가 p65 transactivation을 억제함으로써 NF-${\kappa}B$를 억제함을 확인하였다. 그러나 CBP나 SRC-1과 같은 coactivator의 역할을 규명하기 위한 유전자주입 실험에서 triptolide에 의한 p65 transactivation 억제에 대해 CBP나 SRC-1의 과발현이 별다른 영향을 미치지 못하였다. 결론 : Triptolide는 폐상피세포에서 NF-${\kappa}B$ 의존성 IL-8 유전자의 전사활성을 억제하고 그 기전은 $I{\kappa}B{\alpha}$ 경로가 아닌 핵내에서의 p65 transactivation 억제에 의해 발생하며 이에는 CBP나 SRC-1과 같은 coactivator가 관여하지 않음을 확인하였다.

• 한국지리정보학회지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.43-58
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• 2015

급격한 경제 성장과 인구 증가는 온실가스 배출량을 급증시키고 있으며 이는 기후변화를 가속화시키고 있다. IPCC(Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) 보고서는 온실가스가 2000년부터 2030년까지 최대 90%까지 증가할 것이라고 보고하고 있다. 이에 전 세계에서는 기후변화에 대한 피해를 줄이기 위해 기후변화 적응과 완화 대책 수립이 중요시되고 있으며, 우리나라에는 기후변화 대응 정책으로'저탄소 녹색성장(Low Carbon Green Growth)'을 시행하였다. 지자체에서는 친환경적이며 지속가능한 발전을 위한 도시계획을 조성하기 위해 다양한 연구를 수행해왔다. 특히, 기후변화에 가장 크게 영향을 줄 수 있는 토지이용변화에 대한 연구가 활발하게 수행되어지고 있는 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 제주도를 대상으로 경제적, 지리적 특성을 기반한 토지이용 균형 모델을 적용하여 주거 토지이용변화와 인구 밀도를 예측하였다. 먼저, 주거부분의 토지이용변화를 보기 위해, 3가지 유형의 시나리오를 구축하였다. 시나리오는 현재와 동일한 환경을 갖는 Dispersion 시나리오, 기후변화 적응 대책을 반영한 Adaptation 시나리오, 기후변화 적응과 완화 대책을 동시에 반영한 Combined 시나리오이다. 그 결과, 전반적으로 Dispersion 시나리오에서 Combined 시나리오로 갈수록 주거면적과 인구밀도가 줄어들었다. 이후 주거면적과 인구밀도 결과를 통해 시나리오별 주거용 에너지 소비량과 예상 인명 피해액을 산정하였다. 그 결과, 전반적으로 Dispersion 시나리오에서 Combined 시나리오로 갈수록 에너지 소비량과 예상 인명 피해액은 줄어들었다. 본 연구에서 제시한 토지이용균형모델을 적용하여 시나리오별 주거부분 토지이용과 인구 밀도 변화 파악은 향후 기후변화 안정성을 확보하고 완화할 수 있는 환경적 도시계획을 수립하는데 도움을 줄 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 대한간호
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.66-77
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• 1994

The purpose of this study was to develop a new nursing unit which can meet changing health care needs, enhance patients' satisfaction and nurses' job satisfaction, and finally guarantee quality nursing care with present manpower. For this, one medical unit was selected as a unit for quality care. And one medical unit which is similar in staffing and patients' characteristics was selected as a control unit. To assess present problems and identify the remedies to the problems a hospital-wide survey and a workshop were performed. According to the survey results, educational programs and improvement of the facilities and equipment supply system, managereal support for interdepartmental cooperation and intensification of bed-side nursing care were adopted as main principles for operating model unit, This model unit was operated for 3 months from Sep. 1, 1992 to Nov. 30, 1992. To evaluate the effectiveness of the model unit, derect/indirect nursing care hours, patients' satisfaction to nursing care, nurses' job satisfaction, and quality care index were measured. Direct/indirect nursing care hours were compared with that of the control unit, and patients' and nurses' satisfaction and quality care index were measured before and after operating model unit and compared with each other. The results of the study were as follows; 1. In the model unit mean direct nursing care hours per cach shift was 146.88 minutes and indirect nursing care hours was 354.72 minutes. The ratio of the direct nursing care hour to indirect nursing hour was 29.6 ; 70.4 and that of the control unit was 26.9 : 73.1. Direct nursing care hour in model unit was longer than that of the control unit. But, the difference was not significant. In subcategories of direct nursing care, the time spent in mobility and exercise, conservation of body temperature, hygiene, and communication and health education were longer than that of the con" trol unit. 2. Indirect nursing care hour in model unit was shorter than that of the control unit. But, the difference was not significant. In subcategories of indirect nursing care, the time spent in drug management and ward arrangement was shorter than that of the control unit. 3. Patients' satisfaction to nursing care was increased significantly after operating the model unit (T=-3.48, P=-0.002) and satisfaction to subcategories of physical comfort measure, psychological cate, and unit management components were significantly higher than before. 4. In the model unit, nurses' total job satisfaction was increased significantly after operating the model unit(Z=2.1004, P=.0357) and satisfaction to subcategory of satisfaction to administration was significantly higher than before (Z=-2.0732, P=.0382). 5. After operating the model unit, quality care index was increased from 89 to 93. With this results, it can be summarized that all the measures tried for quality care, such as educational programs, managereal support for interdepartmental cooperation, and improvement of the equipment and facility provision resulted in partial increase in direct nursing care hours, nurses satisfaction to their job and patients' satisfaction to nursing care. In can be postulated that managereal support and motivation without proper staff supplementation is not enough for increasing direct nursing care hours. And for the enhancement of the level in clinical nursing, and staff supplement must be considered sincerely and the measures for reducing indirect nursing care hours, such as computerization of nursing care activities, improvement of facilities and equipment and facilities supply system, must be instituted in addition.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.211-223
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• 1987

Head-down tilt (HDT) at $-6^{\circ}$ has been commonly used as the experimental model in both man and animals to induce the blood shift toward the head or central protion of the body, demonstrating similar physiological effect encountered in the weightlessness in the orbital flight. There are few reports about the physiological response upon the cardiovascular regulatory system or the tolerance to the $(-6^{\circ})$ HDT within a relatively short period less than 1 hour. Therefore, the purpose of this study way to observe the effects of $-6^{\circ}$ HDT on cardiovascular system within 30 minutes and to evaluate early regulatory mechanism for simulated hypogravity. Ten mongrel dogs weighing 8-12 kg were anesthetized with the infusion of 1% ${\alpha}-chloralose$ (100 mg/kg) intravenously, and the postural changes were performed from the supine to the $-6^{\circ}$ head-down Position, then from the head-down to the supine (SUP), and each posture was maintained for 30 minutes. Blood flow $({\dot{Q}})$ through common carotid and femoral arteries were determined by the electromagnetic flowmeter. Mean arterial pressure (MAP), heart rate (HR), respiratory rate , and pH, $P_{O_2}$, $P_{CO_2}$ and hematocrit (Hct) of arterial and venous blood were also measured. The peripheral vascular resistance was calculated by dividing respective MAP values by ${\dot{Q}}$ through both sides of common carotid or femoral arteries. The concentration of plasma epinephrine and norepinephrine was determined by Peuler & Johnson's radioenzymatic method. The results are summarized as follows: In the initial 5 minutes in $-6^{\circ}$ HDT, HR was significantly (p<0.05) increased and MAP slightly decreased. Although ${\dot{Q}}$ and carotid peripheral artery resistance were not significantly changed, ${\dot{Q}}$ through femoral artery was diminished and femoral peripheral artery resistance was elevated. In the SUP, the initial changes of MAP and HR were increased (p<0.05), but those of ${\dot{Q}}$ and peripheral vascular resistance through both common carotid and femoral arteries were not significant. After 10 minutes of each postural change in both HDT and SUP, MAP was maintained almost equal to that of the level of pretilting control. During 60 minutes of both postural changes of HDT and SUP, $P_{O_2}$ and Hct were not changed significantly. However pH tended to increase slowly and $P_{CO_2}$ was gradually decreased. The pH and $P_{CO_2}$ seemed to be related to the increased respiratory rate. Plasma epinephrine concentration was not changed significantly and plasma norepinephrine concentration was slightly decreased in the course of HDT and also at 10 minutes of SUP. However these concentration changes were statistically insignificant. From these results, it may be concluded that the effect of $-6^{\circ}$ HDT for 30 minutes on the cardiovascular system and plasma catecholamine levels of the dog is minimum and it is suggestive that the cardiovascular regulatory mechanism, possibly mediated by so called gravity receptors including baroreceptor and volume receptor, has been properly and adequately operated.

• 항공우주정책ㆍ법학회지
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.99-143
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• 2016

General aviation and air transport are two wings of the civil aviation industry. Chinese air transport is developing rapidly, and has become the world second air transport system only second to US since 2005. However, Chinese civil aviation is far behind the world average level, and cannot meet requirements of economic construction and social development. The transition and structural adjustment of Chinese economy provide the general aviation with a unprecedented broad market. The prospect of general aviation is promising and anticipated. The development of general aviation industry needs the legislative supports, and the current legislative conditions of Chinese general aviation are undoubtedly far behind the realistic requirements. Accelerating the legislation in Chinese general aviation industry requires scientific legislation concept. First, Legislation must promote development of general aviation industry. The general aviation will serves as a Chinese emerging industry that boosts domestic demand, promotes employment and expedite domestic economic development. We should, based on both the concept of promoting the industrial development of general aviation and national industrial planning, enact and rectify relative laws and regulations. And we should also straighten out the relationship between aviation security and industrial development and promote the revolution of low-altitude airspace management in an all-round way, in order to improve the utilization rate of airspace resources, classify and establish airspace, simplify examination and approval procedure and intensify operation management. In addition, what we should do is to expedite the infrastructure layout construction, guide the differentiated but coordinated development of general aviation industries in various areas, establish a united supervision mechanism of general aviation, redistrict the responsibilities of Chinese Air Control Agency and set up legislation, law enforcement and judicial systems with clarified institutions, clear positioning and classified responsibilities, so as to usher in a new era of the legislative management of Chinese general aviation industry. Second, shift the focus from regulations to both regulations and services. Considering the particularity of the general aviation, we should use American practices for reference and take into account both regulation and service functions when enacting general aviation laws. For example, we should reduce administrative licensing and market supervision, and adopt "criteria" and "approval" management systems for non-commercial and commercial aviation. Furthermore, pay attention to social benefits. Complete social rescuing mechanism through legislation. It should be clarified in legislation that general aviation operators should take the responsibilities of, and ensure to realize social benefits of environmental protection and ecological balance .Finally, rise in line with international standards. Modify Chinese regulations which is inconsistent with international ones to remove barriers to international cooperation. Specify basic legislative principles. One is the principle of coordination. Realize coordination between the civil aviation and general aviation, between military aviation and civil aviation, and among departments. Two is the principle of pertinence. The general aviation has its own rules and specialties, needing to be standardized using specialized laws and regulations. Three is the principle of efficiency. To realize time and space values of general aviation, we should complete rules in aerospace openness, general aviation airport construction, general aviation operations, and regulation enforcement. Four is the principle of security. Balance the maximum use of resources of Chinese airspace and the according potential threats to Chinese national interests and social security, and establish a complete insurance system which functions as security defense and indemnificatory measure. Establish a unified legal system. Currently, the system of Chinese general aviation laws consists of national legislation, administrative laws and regulations and civil aviation regulations (CAR). Some problems exist in three components of the system, including too general content, unclear guarantee measures, incomplete implementation details, and lacking corresponding pertinence and flexibility required by general aviation regulations, stringency of operation management and standards, and uniformity of standards. A law and regulation system, centered on laws and consisting of administrative laws regulations, industrial regulations, implementation details, industrial policies and local laws and regulations, should be established. It is suggested to modify the Civil Aviation Law to make general aviation laws complete, enact the Regulations of General Aviation Development, and accelerate the establishment, modification and abolition of Chinese general aviation laws to intensify the coordination and uniformity of regulations.

• 한국산업보건학회지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.71-81
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• 2005

The purposes of this study was to collect, analyze, and describe the MF exposure levels from subways in Korea and to measure and evaluate the MF levels generated from electric appliances used at general homes. The target subway lines were Seoul Metropolitan Line 1 to Line 8, Bundang Line, Incheon Line, Daegu Line, Gwangju Line, and Busan Line 1 and Line 2. We measured at each station in those subway lines and, all the train types (pantograph-equipped, motor-equipped, and common), and platform types(facing and isolating) were investigated by the distance(80, 200, 400 cm) from the train on 19 targeted subway lines using 3 magnetic field measuring devices (EMDEXII, Enertech Co.) during the survey from January till October, 2004. On the other hand, the levels of the 60Hz magnetic fields generated from 14 items of home electric appliances such as electric blankets, hair dryers, electric razors, etc. were measured at 10 general homes using 5 EMDEXII meters with a sampling interval of 1.5 second by the distance(surface, 30, 50, 100, 300cm ) from the target electric appliances. The survey results in the whole subway lines examined in this study were as follows; Seoul Metropolitan Line 4 using AC(alternating current) power source showed the highest mean value of $2.85{\mu}T$, followed by Seoul Metropolitan Line 1 running between Seoul and Incheon using AC($2.78{\mu}T$), Seoul Metropolitan Line 1 between Seoul and Uijongbu using AC($2.73{\mu}T$), Bundang Line using AC($1.79{\mu}T$), Seoul Metropolitan Line 1 connected from Yongsan using AC($1.67{\mu}T$), Seoul Metropolitan Line 1 between Seoul and Suwon using AC($0.79{\mu}T$), and so on. In general, the intensity of the magnetic field in the subway systems in Korea was significantly higher when using AC($2.14{\pm}0.91{\mu}T$) than when using DC($0.29{\pm}0.44{\mu}T$) power source. Among the home electric appliances examined, microwave ovens showed the highest mean value of $7.69{\mu}T$, followed by hair dryers($6.47{\mu}T$), vacuum cleaners($5.27{\mu}T$), televisions ($2.26{\mu}T$), electric blankets($1.38{\mu}T$), personal computers ($0.81{\mu}T$), and so on. Two items of electric appliances showed the excess value of $0.2{\mu}T$ at the distance of 30cm in the MF exposure level; electric razors $1.58{\pm}2.13{\mu}T$ and vacuum cleaners $0.48{\pm}0.44{\mu}T$. As a whole, this study showed a tendency that the shift of the MF levels according to the increase of distance from the electric appliances was lower than those of the results surveyed in UK and USA. As a result, this study is expected to suggest meaningful data for the future study in exposure assessment of magnetic fields and for the establishment of guidelines for subways and electric appliances in Korea. More detailed and large scaled exposure assessment studies should be performed continuously to get the various and useful information on health risk assessment of MFs in Korea.

• 천문학회지
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• 제29권spc1호
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• pp.63-64
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• 1996

The nature of distant faint blue field galaxies remains a mystery, despite the fact that much attention has been devoted to this subject in the last decade. Galaxy counts, particularly those in the optical and near ultraviolet bandpasses, have been demonstrated to be well in excess of those expected in the 'no-evolution' scenario. This has usually been taken to imply that galaxies were brighter in the past, presumably due to a higher rate of star formation. More recently, redshift surveys of galaxies as faint as B$\~$24 have shown that the mean redshift of faint blue galaxies is lower than that predicted by standard evolutionary models (de-signed to fit the galaxy counts). The galaxy number count data and redshift data suggest that evolutionary effects are most prominent at the faint end of the galaxy luminosity function. While these data constrain the form of evolution of the overall luminosity function, they do not constrain evolution in individual galaxies. We are carrying out a series of observations as part of a long-term program aimed at a better understanding of the nature and amount of luminosity evolution in individual galaxies. Our study uses the luminosity-linewidth relation (Tully-Fisher relation) for disk galaxies as a tool to study luminosity evolution. Several studies of a related nature are being carried out by other groups. A specific experiment to test a 'no-evolution' hypothesis is presented here. We have used the AUTOFIB multifibre spectro-graph on the 4-metre Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) and the Rutgers Fabry-Perot imager on the Cerro Tolalo lnteramerican Observatory (CTIO) 4-metre tele-scope to measure the internal kinematics of a representative sample of faint blue field galaxies in the red-shift range z = 0.15-0.4. The emission line profiles of [OII] and [OIII] in a typical sample galaxy are significantly broader than the instrumental resolution (100-120 km $s^{-l}$), and it is possible to make a reliable de-termination of the linewidth. Detailed and realistic simulations based on the properties of nearby, low-luminosity spirals are used to convert the measured linewidth into an estimate of the characteristic rotation speed, making statistical corrections for the effects of inclination, non-uniform distribution of ionized gas, rotation curve shape, finite fibre aperture, etc.. The (corrected) mean characteristic rotation speed for our distant galaxy sample is compared to the mean rotation speed of local galaxies of comparable blue luminosity and colour. The typical galaxy in our distant sample has a B-band luminosity of about 0.25 L$\ast$ and a colour that corresponds to the Sb-Sd/Im range of Hub-ble types. Details of the AUTOFIB fibre spectroscopic study are described by Rix et al. (1996). Follow-up deep near infrared imaging with the 10-metre Keck tele-scope+ NIRC combination and high angular resolution imaging with the Hubble Space Telescope's WFPC2 are being used to determine the structural and orientation parameters of galaxies on an individual basis. This information is being combined with the spatially resolved CTIO Fabry-Perot data to study the internal kinematics of distant galaxies (Ing et al. 1996). The two main questions addressed by these (preliminary studies) are: 1. Do galaxies of a given luminosity and colour have the same characteristic rotation speed in the distant and local Universe? The distant galaxies in our AUTOFIB sample have a mean characteristic rotation speed of $\~$70 km $s^{-l}$ after correction for measurement bias (Fig. 1); this is inconsistent with the characteristic rotation speed of local galaxies of comparable photometric proper-ties (105 km $s^{-l}$) at the > $99\%$ significance level (Fig. 2). A straightforward explanation for this discrepancy is that faint blue galaxies were about 1-1.5 mag brighter (in the B band) at z $\~$ 0.25 than their present-day counterparts. 2. What is the nature of the internal kinematics of faint field galaxies? The linewidths of these faint galaxies appear to be dominated by the global disk rotation. The larger galaxies in our sample are about 2"-.5" in diameter so one can get direct insight into the nature of their internal velocity field from the $\~$ I" seeing CTIO Fabry-Perot data. A montage of Fabry-Perot data is shown in Fig. 3. The linewidths are too large (by. $5\sigma$) to be caused by turbulence in giant HII regions.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.178-186
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• 2014

Differential transcription of the clusterin (CLU) gene yields two CLU isoforms, a nuclear form (nCLU) and a secretory form (sCLU), which play crucial roles in prostate tumorigenesis. Pro-apoptotic nCLU and anti-apoptotic sCLU have opposite effects and are differentially expressed in normal and cancer cells; however, their regulatory mechanisms at the transcriptional level are not yet known. Here, we examined the transcriptional regulation of nCLU in response to hypoxia. We identified three putative hypoxia response elements (HREs) in the human CLU promoter between positions -806 and +51 bp. Using a luciferase reporter, electrophoretic gel mobility shift, and chromatin immunoprecipitation assays, we further showed that hypoxia-inducible factor-$1{\alpha}$ (HIF-$1{\alpha}$) bound directly to these sites and activated transcription. Exposure to the hypoxia-mimetic compound $CoCl_2$, incubation under 1% $O_2$ conditions, or overexpression of HIF-$1{\alpha}$ enhanced nCLU expression and induced apoptosis in human prostate cancer PC3M cells. However, LNCaP prostate cancer cells were resistant to hypoxia-induced cell death. Methylation-specific PCR analysis revealed that the CLU promoter in PC3M cells was not methylated; in contrast, the CLU promoter in LNCap cells was methylated. Co-treatment of LNCaP cells with $CoCl_2$ and a demethylating agent promoted apoptotic cell death through the induction of nCLU. We conclude that nCLU expression is regulated by direct binding of HIF-$1{\alpha}$ to HRE sites and is epigenetically controlled by methylation of its promoter region.

• 의료법학
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.133-162
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• 2019

소득이 늘어나고 의학수준이 높아지면서 전문 의료의 영역이 확대되었고, 의료기술 전반에 대한 국민의 신뢰가 높아지면서 비단 질병을 치료하는 경우 뿐 아니라 생활 속에서의 의료영역은 더욱 넓어지고 있는 추세이나 약물에 대한 남용이나 내성균의 등장으로 인해 여러 가지 문제점 들이 발생하는 것도 사실이다. 언론보도에서 접할 수 있는 병원에서의 감염사례 이외에도, 의료소송을 통하여 분쟁의 대상이 되는 병원감염의 사례는 적지 않은 것이 현실이다. 병원감염에 의한 의료소송에 있어서 병원 자체의 관리나 감독의 소홀을 물어 손해발생의 인과관계를 입증할 수 있다면 피해자의 보호의 수준이 한층 높아질 수 있을 것이다. 병원감염과 관련된 비교법적 고찰을 통해 이러한 문제에 대한 해결점을 찾아보고자 하였다. 특히 병원감염과 관련한 비교법적 검토로서 독일의 입법례는 진료계약을 민법상의 전형계약으로 정해 두고 있어 독일의 민법 규정을 살펴보는 것은 우리 법에게도 시사하는 바가 크다. 또한 프랑스의 특별법 '환자의 권리'를 향상시키고자 노력하였고 이에 따른 판례의 변화도 살펴 볼 수 있다. 마지막으로 미국의 판례상의 과실추정칙의 이론은 원고의 입증의 부담을 줄여주려는 시도로서 배심원제 하에서 적용될 수 있으나 주의의무 위반의 증거제시가 어렵고 침묵의 모의를 통하여 감정단의 증언조차 확보가 어려울 때 참고해 볼 수 있는 이론이 아닌가 생각한다. 본 논문은 병원감염의 의료소송과 관련 될 수 있는 문제들을 비교법적 측면에서 검토하여 증명책임의 완화와 관련하여 우리에게 어떤 시사점이 있는지 찾아보고자 하였다.