• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제14권7호
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• pp.4403-4408
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• 2013

Background: Chronic inflammation is considered as an important factor in the pathogenesis of lung cancer. The presence of inflammatory cells and higher levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines in the tumor microenvironment and their surrounding tissues is gaining much importance in research. Materials and Methods: One hundred ninety NSCLC cases and 200 age, smoking and sex matched controls were evaluated for association of IL-8 -251 (rs4073) and IL-8 -845 (rs2227532) in our population. Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) was used followed by direct sequencing for the detection of SNPs. Results: The IL-8 -845 polymorphism was not found in our population. No significant association was observed between the IL-8 -251 AT genotypes and IL-8 -25 AA genotypes and NSCLC (p=0.05) in our population. The IL-8 -251 A allele was also non-significant (p=0.05) in NSCLC patients. Conclusions: In conclusion, this report reveals lack of association between IL-8 - 251 A/T polymorphism and NSCLC in our Kashmir Valley population.

• 한국환경농학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국환경농학회 2009년도 정기총회 및 국제심포지엄
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• pp.228-239
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• 2009

The observations on climate change show a clear increase in the temperature of the Earth's surface and the oceans, a reduction in the land snow cover, and melting of the sea ice and glaciers. The effects of climate change are likely to include more variable weather, heat waves, increased mean temperature, rains, flooding and droughts. The threat of climate change and global warming on human and animal health is now recognized as a global issue. This presentation is described an overview of the latest scientific knowledge on the impact of climate change on zoonotic diseases. Climate strongly affects agriculture and livestock production and influences animal diseases, vectors and pathogens, and their habitat. Global warming are likely to change the temporal and geographical distribution of infectious diseases, including those that are vector-borne such as West Nile fever, Rift Valley fever, Japanese encephalitis, bluetongue, malaria and visceral leishmaniasis, and other diarrheal diseases. The distribution and prevalence of vector-borne diseases may be the most significant effect of climate change. The impact of climate change on the emergence and re-emergence of animal diseases has been confirmed by a majority of countries. Emerging zoonotic diseases are increasingly recognized as a global and regional issue with potential serious human health and economic impacts and their current upward trends are likely to continue. Coordinated international responses are therefore essential across veterinary and human health sectors, regions and countries to control and prevent emerging zoonoses. A new early warning and alert systems is developing and introducing for enhancing surveillance and response to zoonotic diseases. And international networks that include public health, research, medical and veterinary laboratories working with zoonotic pathogens should be established and strengthened. Facing this challenging future, the long-term strategies for zoonotic diseases that may be affected by climate change is need for better prevention and control measures in susceptible livestock, wildlife and vectors in Korea. In conclusion, strengthening global, regional and national early warning systems is extremely important, as are coordinated research programmes and subsequent prevention and control measures, and need for the global surveillance network essential for early detection of zoonotic diseases.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:정보통신
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.339-350
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• 2010

각각의 AS 레벨에서 정확한 연결구조를 얻기 위해 들이는 노력에도 불구하고 이들 AS 레벨 인터넷 토폴로지를 이용한 응용 연구들이 매우 드물다. 본 논문에서는 UCLA IRL 연구실이 제공하는 데이터를 이용해 AS 노드의 하위 스트림 AS 분포의 power-laws 특정과 인터넷 라우팅 패스 구조에 가장 중요한 역할을 하는 AS 링크 분포를 살펴 보았다. 또한, 한국과 미국 사이트를 중심으로 (발신지-목적지) 라우팅 흡수 분포를 조사하고 이들 분포와 BGP 밸리-프리 라우팅 정책 특정을 이용하여 분산서비스거부(DDoS) 공격 시 예상되는 인터넷 트래픽 임의성(randomness)을 근거로 DDoS 공격 징후를 인터넷 AS 레벨에서 발견하는 방법을 제시하였다.

• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• 제53권6호
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• pp.563-569
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• 2020

Purpose: The vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) in mature animals have implicated to play a major role in the progression of cardiovascular diseases such as atherosclerosis. This study aimed at optimizing the protocol in culturing primary VSMCs (pVSMCs) from rat thoracic aorta and investigating the effect of cellular zinc (Zn) deficiency on cell proliferation of the isolated pVSMCs. Methods: The thoracic aorta from 7-month-old Sprague Dawley rats was isolated, minced and digested by the enzymatic process of collagenase I and elastase, and then inoculated with the culture Dulbecco Modified Eagle Medium (DMEM) at 37℃ in an incubator. The primary cell culture morphology was observed using phase-contrast microscopy and cellular Zn was depleted using Chelex-100 resin (extracellular zinc depletion only) or 3 µM N,N,N',N'-tetrakis(2-pyridinylmethyl)-1,2-ethanediamine (TPEN) (extracellular and intracellular zinc depletion). Western blot analysis was used for the detection of SM22α and calponin as smooth muscle cell marker proteins and von Willebrand factor as endothelial cell marker protein to detect the culture purity. Cell proliferation by Zn depletion (1 day) was measured by MTT assay. Results: A primary culture protocol for pVSMCs from rat thoracic aorta was developed and optimized. Isolated cultures exhibited hill and valley morphology as the major characteristics of pVSMCs and expressed the smooth muscle cell protein markers, SM22α and calponin, while the endothelial marker von Willebrand factor was hardly detected. Zn deprivation for 1 day culture decreased rat primary vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation and this pattern was more prominent under severe Zn depletion (3 µM TPEN), while less prominent under mild Zn depletion (Chelexing). Conclusion: Our results suggest that cellular Zn deprivation decreased pVSMC proliferation and this may be involved in phenotypic modulation of pVSMC in the aorta.

• Journal of Veterinary Science
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.48.1-48.13
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• 2023

Background: Senecavirus A (SVA), a member of the family Picornaviridae, is newly discovered, which causes vesicular lesions, lameness in swine, and even death in neonatal piglets. SVA has rapidly spread worldwide in recent years, especially in Asia. Objectives: We conducted a global meta-analysis and systematic review to determine the status of SVA infection in pigs. Methods: Through PubMed, VIP Chinese Journals Database, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, and Wanfang Data search data from 2014 to July 26, 2020, a total of 34 articles were included in this analysis based on our inclusion criteria. We estimated the pooled prevalence of SVA in pigs by the random effects model. A risk of bias assessment of the studies and subgroup analysis to explain heterogeneity was undertaken. Results: We estimated the SVA prevalence to be 15.90% (1,564/9,839; 95% confidence interval [CI], 44.75-65.89) globally. The prevalence decreased to 11.06% (945/8,542; 95% CI, 28.25-50.64) after 2016. The highest SVA prevalence with the VP1-based RT-PCR and immunohistochemistry assay was 58.52% (594/1,015; 95% CI, 59.90-83.96) and 85.54% (71/83; 95% CI, 76.68-100.00), respectively. Besides, the SVA prevalence in piglet herds was the highest at 71.69% (119/166; 95% CI, 68.61-98.43) (p < 0.05). Moreover, our analysis confirmed that the subgroups, including country, sampling year, sampling position, detected gene, detection method, season, age, and climate, could be the heterogeneous factors associated with SVA prevalence. Conclusions: The results indicated that SVA widely exists in various countries currently. Therefore, more prevention and control policies should be proposed to enhance the management of pig farms and improve breeding conditions and the environment to reduce the spread of SVA.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.409-418
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• 2021

컨포멀 코팅은 PCB(Printed Circuit Board)를 보호하는 기술로 PCB의 고장을 최소화한다. 코팅의 결함은 PCB의 고장과 연결되기 때문에 성공적인 컨포멀 코팅 조건을 만족하기 위해서 코팅면에 기포가 발생했는지 검사한다. 본 논문에서는 영상 신호 처리를 적용하여 고위험군의 문제성 기포를 검출하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 알고리즘은 문제성 기포의 후보를 구하는 단계와 후보를 검증하는 단계로 구성된다. 기포는 가시광 영상에서 나타나지 않지만, UV(Ultra Violet) 광원에서는 육안으로 구별이 가능하다. 특히, 문제성 기포의 중심은 밝기가 어둡고 테두리는 높은 밝기를 가진다. 이러한 밝기 특성을 논문에서는 협곡과 산맥 특징이라 부르고 두 가지 특징이 동시에 나타나는 영역을 문제성 기포의 후보라 하였다. 그러나 후보 중에는 기포가 아닌 후보가 존재할 수 있기 때문에 후보를 검증하는 단계가 필요하다. 후보 검증 단계에서는 합성곱 신경망 모델을 이용하였고, ResNet이 다른 모델과 비교하였을 때 성능이 가장 우수하였다. 본 논문에서 제시한 알고리즘은 정확률(Precision) 0.805, 재현율(Recall) 0.763, F1-점수(F1-score) 0.767의 성능을 보였고, 이러한 결과는 기포 검사 자동화에 대한 충분한 가능성을 보여준다.