• Korean Journal of Acupuncture
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.108-115
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• 2015

Objectives : Acupuncture is frequently used as an alternative therapy for Parkinson's disease(PD) in Korea. Using 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine(MPTP)-induced Parkinson's disease mouse model, the present study investigated a possible role of acupuncture stimulation at GB34 in suppressing dopaminergic neuronal death and regulating the phosphorylation of protein kinase B(Akt) in substantia nigra(SN) and striatum(ST). Methods : Eight-week-old male C57BL/6 mice were administered intraperitoneally with 30 mg/kg of MPTP at 24-h intervals for 5 days. Acupuncture stimulation at GB34 or SI3 was performed once a day for 12 days consecutively from the first MPTP injection. After the last acupuncture stimulation, pole test was performed to assess the effect of the acupuncture stimulations. Dopaminergic neuronal survival in the SN and the ST, dopamine transporter( DAT) and caspase-3 expression in the ST were evaluated by immunohistochemistry. The phosphorylations of Akt in the SN and the ST were measured by Western blotting. Results : MPTP administration caused behavioral impairment and dopaminergic neuronal death in the SN and the ST. It also decreased DAT expression and increased caspase-3 expression in the ST. Acupuncture stimulation at GB34 alleviated these MPTP-induced impairments. Moreover, MPTP suppressed Akt phosphorylation in the SN and the ST, whereas acupuncture stimulation at GB34 alleviated the phosphorylation in the SN. Conclusions : These results indicate that acupuncture stimulation at GB34 can inhibit MPTP-induced dopaminergic neuronal death and alleviate the Akt phosphorylation in the SN, suggesting a possible role for acupuncture in the treatment of PD.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제49권6호
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• pp.758-765
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• 2016

This study investigated the quality, sensory characteristics, and commercialization potential of a rice snack made from dried anchovy Engraulis japonicus. Mild and spicy snacks were produced using a single extruder, with an oil coating or seasoning, respectively. The approximate respective compositions of the mild and spicy snacks were as follows: moisture 5.20% and 4.71%; crude protein 8.71% and 8.59%: crude lipids 21.14% and 28.5%; ash 1.57% and 1.82%; salt 1.5% and 1.5%; water activity 0.18 and 0.19; and pH 6.31 and 6.28. The peroxide values increased for 30 days after preparation and then decreased from 30 to 90 days. The thiobarbituric acid values increased slightly during storage at $27{\pm}2^{\circ}C$. During storage at $27{\pm}2^{\circ}C$, the lightness and yellowness values were lower for the spicy snack than for the mild snack, while the redness value was higher for the spicy snack. The hardness values of both samples decreased slightly during storage at $27{\pm}2^{\circ}C$. The sensory score of the spicy snack was slightly higher than that of the mild snack. The spicy snack had a higher score than the mild snack in the sensory test, which suggested that the spicy snack made from dried anchovy has more commercial potential.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제49권6호
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• pp.743-749
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• 2016

We compared two different processing methods for preparing high quality frozen in-shell baby clam products. In the first method, sand and mud were removed from the clams, then they were vacuum packed in polyethylene film, boiled at $97^{\circ}C$ for 6 min, and snap frozen in a cold air blast freezer (sample 1). The second processing method was similar, except the boiling process was excluded (sample 2). Both frozen products were boiled for 4 min, and then shucked and minced. Various quality metrics, such as the opening rates of shells, chemical composition, pH, volatile basic nitrogen (VBN), salinity, thiobarbituric acid (TBA), amino-N, total amino acids and free amino acids were measured, and sensory evaluation was conducted. The opening rates of shells of sample 1 and sample 2 were 98.3% and 4.67%, respectively. The proximate composition of sample 1 and sample 2 was 75.2% and 78.7% moisture, 19.7% and 16.2% crude protein, 2.45 and 2.2% crude lipid, 2.8% and 2.1% ash, and 2.1% and 1.9% salinity, respectively. The L, a, b and ${\Delta}E$ values were similar: 48.6 and 49.2, 3.9 and 3.9, 15.7 and 15.5, and 50.7 and 50.1 for sample 1 and sample 2, respectively. The sensory evaluation score of sample 1 was higher than that of sample 2. Sample 1 was deemed to be superior to sample 2; therefore, we determined that the boiling process is needed for manufacturing high-quality frozen clam products.

• Journal of Ginseng Research
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• 제41권4호
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• pp.578-588
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• 2017

Background: Elevated testicular temperature disrupts spermatogenesis and causes infertility. In the present study, the protective effect of enzymatically biotransformed Panax ginseng Meyer by pectinase (GINST) against chronic intermittent heat stress-induced testicular damage in rats was investigated. Methods: Male Sprague-Dawley rats (4 wk old, 60-70 g) were divided into four groups: normal control (NC), heat-stress control (HC), heat-stress plus GINST-100 mg/kg (HG100), and heat-stress plus GINST-200 mg/kg (HG200) treatment groups. Each dose of GINST (100 mg/kg and 200 mg/kg) was mixed separately with a regular pellet diet and was administered orally for 24 wk. For inducing heat stress, rats in the NC group were maintained at $25^{\circ}C$, whereas rats in the HC, HG100, and HG200 groups were exposed to $32{\pm}1^{\circ}C$ for 2 h daily for 6 mo. At week 25, the testes and serum from each animal were analyzed for various parameters. Results: Significant (p < 0.01) changes in the sperm kinematic values and blood chemistry panels were observed in the HC group. Furthermore, spermatogenesis-related molecules, sex hormone receptors, and selected antioxidant enzyme expression levels were also altered in the HC group compared to those in the NC group. GINST (HS100 and HS200) administration significantly (p < 0.05) restored these changes when compared with the HC group. For most of the parameters tested, the HG200 group exhibited potent effects compared with those exhibited by the HG100 group. Conclusion: GINST may be categorized as an important medicinal herb and a potential therapeutic for the treatment of male subfertility or infertility caused by hyperthermia.

• Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.129-138
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• 2002

Objective: This study was to compare the characteristics between parthenogenetic mES (P-mES) cells and in vitro fertilization mES cells. Materials and Methods: Mouse oocytes were recovered from superovulated 4 wks hybrid F1 (C57BL/6xCBA/N) female mice. For parthenogenetic activation, oocytes were treated with 7% ethanol for 5 min and $5{\mu}g$/ml cytochalasin-B for 4 h. For IVF, oocytes were inseminated with epididymal sperm of hybrid F1 male mice ($1{times}10^6/ml$). IVF and parthenogenetic embryos were cultured in M16 medium for 4 days. Cell number count of blastocysts in those two groups was taken by differential labelling using propidium iodide (red) and bisbenzimide (blue). To establish ES cells, b1astocysts in IVF and parthenogenetic groups were treated by immunosurgery and recovered inner cell mass (ICM) cells were cultured in LIF added ES culture medium. To identify ES cells, the surface markers alkaline phosphatase, SSEA-1, 3,4 and Oct4 staining were examined in rep1ated ICM colonies. Chromosome numbers in P-mES and mES were checked. Also, in vitro differentiation potential of P-mES and mES was examined. Results: Although the cleavage rate (${\geq}$2-cell) was not different between IVF (76.3%) and parthenogenetic group (67.0%), in vitro development rate was significantly low in parthenogenetic group (24.0%) than IVF group (68.4%) (p<0.05). Cell number count of ICM and total cell in parthenogenetic b1astocysts ($9.6{\pm}3.1,\;35.1{\pm}5.2$) were signficantly lower than those of IVF blastocysts ($19.5{\pm}4.7,\;63.2{\pm}13.0$) (p<0.05). Through the serial treatment procedure such as immunosurgery, plating of ICM and colony formation, two ICM colonies in IVF group (mES, 10.0%) and three ICM colonies (P-mES, 42.9%) in parthenogenetic group were able to culture for extended duration (25 and 20 passages, respectively). Using surface markers, alkaline phosphatase, SSEA-l and Oct4 in P-mES and mES colony were positively stained. The number of chromosome was normal in ES colony from two groups. Also, in vitro neural and cardiac cell differentiation derived from mES or P-mES cells was confirmed. Conclusion: This study suggested that P-mES cells can be successfully established and that those cell lines have similar characteristics to mES cells.

• 전기화학회지
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.173-178
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• 2004

플라즈마 화학 기상 증착법으로 구리 막$(foil,\;35{\mu}m)$표면 위에 $SiH_4$와 Ar혼합가스를 공급하여 실리콘 박막을 증착 한 후 리튬 이온전지의 음극으로 활용하였다. 증착 온도에 따라 비정질 실리콘 박막과 copper silicide박막 형태의 다른 두 종류의 실리콘 박막 구조가 형성되는 것이 관찰되었다. $200^{\circ}C$ 이하의 온도에서는 비정질 실리콘 박막이 증착되었고, $400^{\circ}C$ 이상의 온도에서는 실리콘 라디칼과 확산된 구리 이온의 반응에 의한 그래뉼러 형태의 copper silicide박막이 형성되었다. 비정질 실리콘 박막은 copper silicide박막 보다 높은 용량을 나타냈으나 충·방전 반응에 의한 급격한 용량 손실을 나타냈다. 이것은 비정질 실리콘 박막의 부피 팽창에 의한 것으로 추정된다. 그러나 copper silicide 박막을 음극으로 사용했을 때는 copper silicide를 형성한 실리콘과 구리의 화학결합이 막 구조의 부피변화를 감소 시켜줄 뿐 아니라 낮은 전기 저항을 갖기 때문에 싸이클 특성이 향상되었다.

• 한국식품영양과학회지
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• 제43권12호
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• pp.1801-1807
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• 2014

동결건조에 의한 진주담치의 생리활성의 변화를 살펴보고자 DPPH 라디칼 소거능, ORAC, CAC 등의 항산화 활성과 comet assay를 이용한 DNA 손상 보호능을 측정하였다. 생 진주담치 및 동결건조 진주담치에서 물 추출물을 제외한 에탄올과 메탄올 추출물에서 DPPH 라디칼 소거능을 확인하였고, 메탄올 추출물의 경우 동결건조에 의해 DPPH 라디칼 소거능이 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. 생 진주담치의 ORAC 수치는 물 추출물에서 가장 높게 나타난 반면, 동결건조 진주담치의 경우 메탄올 추출물에서 가장 높게 나타났다. 동결건조 후 ORAC 수치는 물 추출물에서만 유의적으로 감소된 반면 HepG2 세포의 라디칼 소거능(CAC)의 경우 물 추출물에서 유의적으로 증가하여 소거 대상 라디칼에 따라 항산화 활성의 차이가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 생 또는 동결건조 진주담치는 모든 추출물에서 산화적 스트레스에 의한 DNA 손상을 억제하는 보호 효과가 있음이 밝혀졌고 동결건조에 의한 보호 효과는 유의적인 변화가 없는 것으로 나타났다. 결론적으로 진주담치는 물 추출물의 DPPH 라디칼 소거능을 제외하고는 모든 추출물에서 항산화 활성과 더불어 DNA 손상의 보호 효과가 관찰되었고 동결건조 가공처리에 의해서 그 활성이 크게 영향을 받지 않거나 추출물에 따라 오히려 활성이 증가함을 알 수 있었다. 이러한 결과를 바탕으로 우리나라에서 생산되는 진주담치의 식품 첨가물이나 기능성 식품 개발을 위한 생리활성 소재로의 가능성을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2008년도 하계학술대회 논문집 Vol.9
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• pp.169-169
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• 2008

To keep pace with scaling trends of CMOS technologies, high-k metal oxides are to be introduced. Due to their high permittivity, high-k materials can achieve the required capacitance with stacks of higher physical thickness to reduce the leakage current through the scaled gate oxide, which make it become much more promising materials to instead of $SiO_2$. As further studying on high-k, an understanding of the relation between the etch characteristics of high-k dielectric materials and plasma properties is required for the low damaged removal process to match standard processing procedure. There are some reports on the dry etching of different high-k materials in ICP and ECR plasma with various plasma parameters, such as different gas combinations ($Cl_2$, $Cl_2/BCl_3$, $Cl_2$/Ar, $SF_6$/Ar, and $CH_4/H_2$/Ar etc). Understanding of the complex behavior of particles at surfaces requires detailed knowledge of both macroscopic and microscopic processes that take place; also certain processes depend critically on temperature and gas pressure. The choice of $BCl_3$ as the chemically active gas results from the fact that it is widely used for the etching o the materials covered by the native oxides due to the effective extraction of oxygen in the form of $BCl_xO_y$ compounds. In this study, the surface reactions and the etch rate of $Al_2O_3$ films in $BCl_3/Cl_2$/Ar plasma were investigated in an inductively coupled plasma(ICP) reactor in terms of the gas mixing ratio, RF power, DC bias and chamber pressure. The variations of relative volume densities for the particles were measured with optical emission spectroscopy (OES). The surface imagination was measured by AFM and SEM. The chemical states of film was investigated using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), which confirmed the existence of nonvolatile etch byproducts.

• 한국자원식물학회지
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.435-449
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• 2017

행정구역상 경기도 안성시 서운면와 충청북도 진천군 백곡면에 걸쳐있는 서운산 일대의 관속식물상을 2014년도 4월부터 2015년 10월까지 총 9회에 걸쳐 조사하였다. 증거표본을 바탕으로 작성한 소산 관속식물은 97과 306속 439종 5아종 51변종 6품종의 총 501분류군으로 확인되었다. 이 중 기존의 조사에서는 발견되지 않았으나 본 조사에서 최초로 밝혀진 분류군은 185분류군이었다. 한반도 특산식물은 광릉골무꽃, 금오족도리풀, 병꽃나무 등 8분류군이 조사되었고, 산림청지정 희귀식물은 솔붓꽃, 들떡쑥, 뻐꾹나리 등 5분류군이 관찰되었다. 식물구계학적 특정식물종은 III~V등급에 해당하는 11분류군이 확인되었다. 귀화식물은 총 68분류군으로 조사되었고, 생태계교란종은 단풍잎돼지풀, 미국쑥부쟁이 2분류군이 확인되었다.

• 대한본초학회지
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.7-15
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• 2015

Objectives : Rosa laevigata Michx. has been used for the treatment of renal disease in traditional Korean medicine. In this study, we investigated cytoprotective effect of R. laevigata water extract (RLE) against oxidative stress induced by arachidonic acid (AA) + iron.Methods : To evaluate the protective effects of RLE against AA + iron-induced oxidative stress in HepG2 cell, cell viability and changes on apoptosis-related proteins were assessed by MTT and immunoblot analyses. The effects of RLE on reduced glutathione level, production of reactive oxygen species and mitochondrial membrane potential were also monitored. Furthermore, to verify underlying molecular mechanism, NF-E2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) was examined by immunoblot analysis. Additionally, Nrf2 transactivation and its downstream target genes expression were also determined by reporter gene and realtime RT-PCR analyses.Results : RLE pretreatment (30-300 μg/ml) prevented cells from AA + iron-mediated cell death in a concentration dependent manner. In addition, 100 μg/ml RLE inhibited AA + iron-induced glutathione depletion, reactive oxygen species production and mitochondrial dysfunction. RLE accumulated nuclear Nrf2 and also transactivated Nrf2, which was evidenced by antioxidant response element- and glutathione S-transferase A2-driven luciferase activities and mRNA level of glutamate-cysteine ligase catalytic subunit, NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase 1 and sestrin 2. Moreover, protective effect of RLE against AA + iron was abolished in Nrf2 knockout cells.Conclusions : These results indicate that RLE has the ability to protect hepatocyte against oxidative stress through Nrf2 activation.