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Antifungal Activities Against Plasmodiophora brassicae Causing Club Root

  • Kim, Bum-Joon;Choi, Gyung-Ja;Cho, Kwang-Yun;Yang, Hee-Jung;Shin, Choon-Shik;Lee, Chul-Hoon;Lim, Yoong-Ho
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.12 no.6
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    • pp.1022-1025
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    • 2002
  • Club root is one of the major diseases that occur in crucifers. It is caused by Plasmodiophora brassicae. In order to discover microbial biopesticides against P. brassicae, forty-eight Streptomyces isolated from soil were screened. Among these, three strains showed excellent pesticidal activities. We report results on in vivo screening with fermentation broths of these strains and identification of the strain taxa.

Big Data Management System for Biomedical Images to Improve Short-term and Long-term Storage

  • Qamar, Shamweel;Kim, Eun Sung;Park, Peom
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Systems Engineering
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.66-71
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    • 2019
  • In digital pathology, an electronic system in the biomedical domain storage of the files is a big constrain and because all the analysis and annotation takes place at every user-end manually, it becomes even harder to manage the data that is being shared inside an enterprise. Therefore, we need such a storage system which is not only big enough to store all the data but also manage it and making communication of that data much easier without losing its true from. A virtual server setup is one of those techniques which can solve this issue. We set a main server which is the main storage for all the virtual machines(that are being used at user-end) and that main server is controlled through a hypervisor so that if we want to make changes in storage overall or the main server in itself, it could be reached remotely from anywhere by just using the server's IP address. The server in our case includes XML-RPC based API which are transmitted between computers using HTTP protocol. JAVA API connects to HTTP/HTTPS protocol through JAVA Runtime Environment and exists on top of other SDK web services for the productivity boost of the running application. To manage the server easily, we use Tkinter library to develop the GUI and pmw magawidgets library which is also utilized through Tkinter. For managing, monitoring and performing operations on virtual machines, we use Python binding to XML-RPC based API. After all these settings, we approach to make the system user friendly by making GUI of the main server. Using that GUI, user can perform administrative functions like restart, suspend or resume a virtual machine. They can also logon to the slave host of the pool in case of emergency and if needed, they can also filter virtual machine by the host. Network monitoring can be performed on multiple virtual machines at same time in order to detect any loss of network connectivity.

Photodynamically induced endothelial cell injury and neutrophil-like HL-60 adhesion

  • Takahashi, Miho;Nagao, Tomokazu;Matsuzaki, Kazuki;Nishimura, Toshihiko;Minamitani, Haruyuki
    • Journal of Photoscience
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.518-520
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    • 2002
  • Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a treatment modality based on photochemical reaction and the resultant cytotoxic reactive oxygen species. The platelet thrombus formation leading to stasis observed in vivo during PDT is called vascular shut down (VSD) effect. To investigate the mechanism of the VSD effect, we observed Human Umblical Vein Endothelial Cell (HUVEC) injury induced by photochemical reaction. We observed cell retraction and blebbing after PDT. It seems that the injury was not fetal and only morphological change. Then, the cytoplasm was stained by Calcein-AM and subendothelial area was evaluated from fluorescence microscopy. The rate of subendothelial area after PDT increased significantly. Second, we investigated interaction between neutrophils and HUVEC. Human promyelocytic leukemia cells (HL-60) were differentiated into neutrophil by incubation with all-trans retinoic acid. Calcein-AM labeled neutrophil adhesion to HUVEC was evaluated from fluorescence microscopy. PDT-induced neutrophil adhesion to HUVEC depended more on the exposure of subendothlial area than on neutrophil activation. This result suggests that there is a certain interaction between neutrophil and HUVEC during PDT.

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Poor Correlation Between the New Statistical and the Old Empirical Algorithms for DNA Microarray Analysis

  • Kim, Ju Han;Kuo, Winston P.;Kong, Sek-Won;Ohno-Machado, Lucila;Kohane, Isaac S.
    • Genomics & Informatics
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.87-93
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    • 2003
  • DNA microarray is currently the most prominent tool for investigating large-scale gene expression data. Different algorithms for measuring gene expression levels from scanned images of microarray experiments may significantly impact the following steps of functional genomic analyses. $Affymetrix^{(R)}$ recently introduced high-density microarrays and new statistical algorithms in Microarray Suit (MAS) version 5.0$^{(R)}$. Very high correlations (0.92 - 0.97) between the new algorithms and the old algorithms (MAS 4.0) across several species and conditions were reported. We found that the column-wise array correlations had a tendency to be much higher than the row-wise gene correlations, which may be much more meaningful in the following higher-order data analyses including clustering and pattern analyses. In this paper, not only the detailed comparison of the two sets of algorithms is illustrated, but the impact of the introducing new algorithms on the further clustering analysis of microarray data and of possible pitfalls in mixing the old and the new algorithms were also described.

Rank-Based Nonlinear Normalization of Oligonucleotide Arrays

  • Park, Peter J.;Kohane, Isaac S.;Kim, Ju Han
    • Genomics & Informatics
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.94-100
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    • 2003
  • Motivation: Many have observed a nonlinear relationship between the signal intensity and the transcript abundance in microarray data. The first step in analyzing the data is to normalize it properly, and this should include a correction for the nonlinearity. The commonly used linear normalization schemes do not address this problem. Results: Nonlinearity is present in both cDNA and oligonucleotide arrays, but we concentrate on the latter in this paper. Across a set of chips, we identify those genes whose within-chip ranks are relatively constant compared to other genes of similar intensity. For each gene, we compute the sum of the squares of the differences in its within-chip ranks between every pair of chips as our statistic and we select a small fraction of the genes with the minimal changes in ranks at each intensity level. These genes are most likely to be non-differentially expressed and are subsequently used in the normalization procedure. This method is a generalization of the rank-invariant normalization (Li and Wong, 2001), using all available chips rather than two at a time to gather more information, while using the chip that is least likely to be affected by nonlinear effects as the reference chip. The assumption in our method is that there are at least a small number of non­differentially expressed genes across the intensity range. The normalized expression values can be substantially different from the unnormalized values and may result in altered down-stream analysis.

Heart Rate Variability of Patients with Major Depressive Disorder under Cognitive and Emotional Stimulus (인지 과제 및 긍정적 정서 유발에 대한 주요 우울장애 환자의 심장 박동 변이(Heart Rate Variability, 이하 HRV) 양상)

  • Lee, Chang-Soo;Kim, De-Sok;Jeong, Myeong-Gi;Kim, Won;Woo, Jong-Min
    • Anxiety and mood
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.26-31
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    • 2007
  • Object : This study was designed to assess the change of heart rate variability (HRV) during stimulation test among the patients with major depressive disorder. Methods : 15 patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and 15 normal controls were enrolled in this study. We sequentially measured HRV at baseline, during cognitive stimuli and emotional stimuli. Results : There are significant differences between the two groups in HRV index, TINN on baseline state and under cognitive stimulus. Conclusion : Stimulation protocol using HRV can be useful in estimating autonomic nervous function.

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Construction of Retrieval-Based Medical Database

  • Shin Yong-Won;Koo Bong-Oh;Park Byung-Rae
    • Biomedical Science Letters
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.485-493
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    • 2004
  • In the current field of Medical Informatics, the information increases, and changes fast, so we can access the various data types which are ranged from text to image type. A small number of technician digitizes these data to establish database, but it is needed a lot of money and time. Therefore digitization by many end-users confronting data and establishment of searching database is needed to manage increasing information effectively. New data and information are taken fast to provide the quality of care, diagnosis which is the basic work in the medicine. And also It is needed the medical database for purpose of private study and novice education, which is tool to make various data become knowledge. However, current medical database is used and developed only for the purpose of hospital work management. In this study, using text input, file import and object images are digitized to establish database by people who are worked at the medicine field but can not expertise to program. Data are hierarchically constructed and then knowledge is established using a tree type database establishment method. Consequently, we can get data fast and exactly through search, apply it to study as subject-oriented classification, apply it to diagnosis as time-depended reflection of data, and apply it to education and precaution through function of publishing questions and reusability of data.

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