• Macromolecular Research
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.87-93
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• 2006

Copolymers composed of hyaluronic acid (HA) and poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAAm) were prepared to create temperature-sensitive injectable gels for use in controlled drug delivery applications. Semi-telechelic PNIPAAm, with amino groups at the end of each main chain, was synthesized by radical polymerization using 2-aminoethanethiol hydrochloride (AESH) as the chain transfer agent, and was then grafted onto the carboxyl groups of HA using carbodiimide chemistry. The result of the thermo-optical analysis revealed that the phase transition of the PNIPAAm-grafted HA solution occurred at around 30$\∼$33$^{circ}C$. As the graft yield of PNIPAAm onto the HA backbone increased, the HA-g-PNIPAAm copolymer solution exhibited sharper phase transition. The short chain PNIPAAm-grafted HA ($M_{w}$=6,100) showed a narrower temperature range for optical turbidity changes than the long chain PNIPAAm-grafted HA ($M_{w}$=13,100). PNIPAAm-grafted HA exhibited an increase in viscosity above 35$^{circ}C$, thus allowing the gels to maintain their shape for 24 h after in vivo administration. From the in vitro riboflavin release study, the HA-g-PNIPAAm gel showed a more sustained release behavior when the grafting yield of PNIPAAm onto the HA backbone was increased. In addition, BSA released from the PNIPAAm-g-HA gels showed a maximum concentration in the blood 12 h after being injected into the dorsal surface of a rabbit, followed by a sustained release profile after 60 h.

• 폴리머
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.223-228
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• 2012

온도와 pH 민감성을 갖는 그래프트 공중합체[Pluronic-$g$-poly(NIPAAm-$co$-MMA), Polymer A]와 [Pluronic-$g$-poly(NIPAAm-$co$-MAA), Polymer C]는 $t$-butylperoxybenzoate를 이용하여 Pluronic 공중합체의 주사슬에 $N$-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAAm)/$N,N$-diethylaminoethylmethacrylate (DEAEMA)와 $N$-isopropylacrylamide(NIPAAm)/methacrylic acid (MAA)를 각각 합성하였다. 그래프트 공중합체는 $^1H$ NMR과 젤 투과 크로마토그래피를 통해 공중합체의 화학적 구조와 분자량을 측정하였다. 그래프트 공중합체의 수용액 상에서의 특성은 다른 온도와 pH 조건에서 자외 및 가시선 분광 분석법, 접촉각 측정과 동적 광산란으로 측정되었다. 그래프트 공중합체는 수용액상에서 온도와 pH에 따라 민감한 상 변화를 보인다. 이는 DEAEMA 단량체의 아민 그룹과 MAA 단량체의 카복실 그룹은 각각 Polymer A와 Polymer C에서 하한임계용액온도에 큰 영향을 미친다고 제시한다. 그래프트 공중합체는 온도와 pH 변화에 관련된 다양한 약물 전달과 분자 스위치 적용에 사용될 수 있다.

• 한국작물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국작물학회 2000년도 추계 학술대회지
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• pp.28-45
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• 2000

It was unusual crop weather for 1998 and 1999 compared with normal in Korea. The consecutive days of the optimum ripening period for rice plant that had daily mean temperature 21-23C for 40 days after heading, increased with long anomalies in 1998-99. The air temperature during ripening period was much higher than the optimum temperature and lower sunshine hour than normal in the local adaptability tests of newly developed rice lines during those years. In response of rice cultivation to warming and cloudy weather during crop season, the yield shall be decreased. Most scientists agree that the rate of heating is accelerating and temperature change could become increasingly disruptive. Weather patterns should also become more erratic. Agrometeorologists could be analyzed yearly variations of temperature, sunshine hour and rainfall pattern focused on transient agroclimate change for last a decade. Rice agronomists could be established taking advantage of real time agricultural meteorology information system for fertilization, irrigation, pest control and harvest. Also they could be analyzed the characteristics of flowering response of the recommended and newly bred rice cultivars for suitable cropping plan such as cultural patterns and sowing or transplanting date. Rice breeders should be deeply considered introducing the characteristics of basic vegetative type of flowering response like Tonsil rices as prospective rice cultivars corresponding to global warming because of the rices needed higher temperature at ripening stage than Japonica rices, photoperiod sensitive and thermo-sensitive ecotypes

• 한국가금학회지
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• 제47권4호
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• pp.219-227
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• 2020

기후변화는 현대 축산업이 직면한 가장 큰 위협 중의 하나이고, 특히 열 스트레스는 가금의 생산성 저하뿐만 아니라, 가축의 불편함과 고통을 증가시켜 동물의 복지에도 치명적 영향을 미칠 수 있다. 열 스트레스를 완화시키기 위한 다양한 전략들이 요구되는데, 가축의 열 스트레스에 대한 정확한 평가와 생물학적 평가지표의 개발은 기후변화에 대한 적응과 열 저항성 가금의 육종, 지속 가능한 가금 산업과 동물복지를 위해서 매우 중요하다. 스트레스호르몬, hetero- phils lymphocytes의 비율, 텔로미어 마모 정도 등 열 스트레스에 대한 다양한 바이오마커 중에 열충격단백질(HSPs)은 세포내 온도계로 여겨지며, HSPs 중에서도 HSP70은 가장 풍부한 단백질이면서 열 충격에 민감하게 반응하는 바이오 마커로 알려져 있다. HSP는 또한 열 충격으로부터 세포를 보호해주는 샤페론 활성을 지니고 있다. 따라서 HSP70 바이오마커는 가축의 열 스트레스에 대한 체계적 평가방법으로 주목받고 있으며, HSP70의 발현 변화의 이해는 기후변화에 대처하면서 지속가능한 가금 산업을 위해 매우 중요하고 판단된다. 이에 본 논문에서는 닭의 열 스트레스와 관련하여 HSP70을 중심으로 HSP의 작용기전과 역할, 열 스트레스와 HSP, 내열성 가축 선발을 위한 HSP70의 잠재성, 그리고 열 스트레스 바이오마커로서의 HSP70 등에 대한 최근까지의 연구들을 소개한다.

• 한국방사선학회논문지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.15-22
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• 2020

PET(Positron Emission Tomography)장치는 해부학적 정보를 얻기 위한 CT와 MRI의 장치를 PET 장치와 융합시킨 PET/CT나 PET/MRI 장치로 사용된다. 그렇기 때문에 일반 의료장비들과 비교하여 Gantry(촬영부 본체)의 길이가 늘어나고 내부의 공간이 넓어지는 원형(ring)타입의 구조로 제작된다. PET 장치의 구성요소 중 하나인 신틸레이터는 Gantry 안쪽에 위치하는데 온·습도 변화에 민감한 크리스탈 성분으로 되어있기 때문에 커다란 온도 변화로 인해 신틸레이터의 손상을 가져올 수 있다. 신틸레이터는 항온항습기로 PET장치가 설치되어 있는 공간에 온·습도를 유지하지만 이러한 PET 장치의 구조적 원인과 CT 장비에서 발생하는 열로 인한 Gantry 내부의 온·습도의 변화가 예상된다. 항온항습기를 가동하여 온·습도를 유지중인 PET/CT 장치의 Gantry 내부를 6개의 구역으로 나눈 후 각 구역에 Arduino 온·습도 센서인 Adafruit BME 280을 부착하여 출력 값을 분석했다. 각 6개 구역에서 센서를 이용해 측정한 평균 온·습도 값과 항온항습기의 평균 측정값을 비교하면 평균적으로 온도는 2.71℃ 상승, 습도는 21.5% 감소의 차이가 발생하였고, PET Gantry의 온·습도 측정값은 국내에서 지정한 정도 관리 범위에서 벗어나는 결과 값이 나왔다. 연구 결과를 통해 앞으로 지속적인 온·습도의 변화를 가진다면 PET Gantry 안에 장착된 신틸레이터의 노후화가 예상되므로 Gantry구조 내부의 온·습도를 적절히 유지하는 방안을 모색해야 한다.

• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.33-39
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• 2005

Experiments are performed to study the mixed convection flow and heat transfer in an inclined parallel plates with the upper part cooled and the lower part heated uniformly. The Reynolds number ranges from $4.0{\times}10^{-3}\;to\;6.2{\times}10^{-2}$, the angle of inclination, ${\theta}$, from 0 to 45 degree from the horizontal line, and Pr of the high viscosity fluid is 909. In this paper, the PIV(Particle image velocimetry) with TLC(Thermo-sensitive liquid crystal) tracers is used for visualizing and analysis. This method allows simultaneous measurement of velocity and temperature field at a given instant of time. Quantitative data of the temperature and velocity are obtained by applying the color-image processing to a visualized image, and neural network is applied to the color-to-temperature calibration. This paper describes the methods, and presents the quantitative visualization of mixed convection. From this study, it is found that the flow pattern can be classified into three patterns which are affected by Reynolds number and the angle of inclination.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물공학회 2000년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.562-565
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• 2000

pH 및 온도에 동시에 민감한 하이드로젤을 maleilated chitosan과 N-isopropylacrylamide를 이용하여 합성하였으며, 합성된 하이드로젤은 NIPAAm의 양에 관계없이 비슷한 pH 민감성을 나타내었으며 부피상 전이온도는 모두 NIPAAm의 LCST의 온도인 $32^{\circ}C$부근에서 나타났다. 반면에 MC의 양을 소량 첨가한 하이드로젤은 그만큼 pH의 민감성이 떨어졌다. lysozyme에 의한 MC의 생분해는 2시간이내에 80%가 분해되었다. 또한 indomethacin을 이용한 약물방출 실험에서는 제조된 하이드젤이 방출제어형 약물전달체로서 좋은 결과를 보인 제형으로 관찰되었다.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제18권9호
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• pp.698-706
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• 2006

Experiment and numerical calculation have been peformed to investigate mixed convection heat transfer between inclined parallel plates. Particle image velocimetry (PIV) with thermo-sensitive liquid crystal (TLC) tracers is used for visualizing and analysis. This method allows simultaneous measurement of velocity and temperature fields at a given instant of time. Quantitative data of the temperature and velocity are obtained by applying the color-image processing to a visualized image, and neural network is applied to the color-to-temperature calibration. The governing equations are discretized using the finite volume method. The results are presented for the Reynolds number ranges from 0.004 to 0.062, the angle of inclination, ${\Theta}$, from 0 to 45 degree and Prandtl number of the high viscosity fluid is 909. The results show velocity, temperature and mean Nusselt numbers distributions. It is found that the periodic flow of mixed convection between inclined parallel plates is shown at $0^{\circ}{\leq}{\Theta}<30^{\circ}$, Re<0.062, and the flow pattern can be classified into three patterns which depend on Reynolds number and the angle of inclination. The minimum Nusselt numbers occur at Re=0.05 regardless of the angle of inclination.

• Macromolecular Research
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.265-270
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• 2009

Noble thermosensitive nanoparticles, based on a PNIPAAm-co-AA core and a chitosan shell structure, were designed and synthesized for the controlled release of the loaded drug. PNIPAAm nanoparticles containing a carboxylic group on their surface were synthesized using emulsion polymerization. The carboxylic groups were conjugated with the amino group of a low molecular weight, water soluble chitosan. The particle size of the synthesized nanoparticles was decreased from 380 to 25 nm as the temperature of the dispersed medium was increased. Chitosan-conjugated nanoparticles with $2{\sim}5$ wt% MBA, a crosslinking monomer, induced a stable aqueous dispersion at a concentration of 1mg/1mL. The chitosan-conjugated nanoparticles showed thermo sensitive behaviors such as LCST and size shrinkage that were affected by the PNIPAAm core and induced some particle aggregation around LCST, which was not shown in the NIPAAm-co-AA nanoparticles. These chitosan-conjugated nanoparticles are also expected to be more biocompatible than the PNIPAAm core itself through the chitosan shell structures.

• 한국응용약물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국응용약물학회 1994년도 춘계학술대회 and 제3회 신약개발 연구발표회
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• pp.129-130
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• 1994

The science of toxicology is the understanding of the mechanisms by which exogenous agents produce deleterious effects in biological systems. The actions of chemicals such as drugs are ultimately exerted at the cellular and gene levels. Over the past decade. several in vitro alternative methods such as cultured cells for assessing the toxicity of various xenobiotics have been proposed to reduce the use of animals. In this workshop three advanced methods will be presented. These methods are novel important models for toxicologic studies. Dr. Tabuchis group has establishcd two immortalized gastric surface mucosa cell lines from the pminary cultore of gastric fundic mucosal cells of adult transgenic mice harboring a temperature sensitive simian virus 40 large T-anugen gene. As the immortalized cell lines of various tissues possess unique characteristics to maintain their normal functions for several months, these cell lines are extremely useful for not only toxicity testing but also pharmacological screening in new drug development. Professor Funatsu have studied the formation of spherical multicelluar aggregates of adult rat hepatocytes(spheroid) having tissue like structure. The sphcroid shown thre is a prototype module of an artificial liver support system. Thus, the urea synthesis activity of the artificial liver was maintained at least to days in 100％ rat blood plasma. Dr. Takezawa and his coworkers have developed a novel culture system of multicellular spheroids considered 〃organoids〃 by utilizing a thermo-responsive polymer as a substratum of anchorage dependent cells. His final goal is to reconstitute the organoids of various normal organs, e.g., liver, skin etc. and also abnormal deseased organs such as tumor.