• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제13권8호
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• pp.3681-3685
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• 2012

Background: In breast cancer, estrogen receptors have been demonstrated to interact with transcription factors to regulate target gene expression. However, high-throughput identification of the transcription regulation relationship between transcription factors and their target genes in response to estradiol is still in its infancy. Purpose: Thus, the objective of our study was to interpret the transcription regulation network of MCF7 breast cancer cells exposed to estradiol. Methods: In this work, GSE11352 microarray data were used to identify differentially expressed genes (DEGs). Results: Our results showed that the MYB (v-myb myeloblastosis viral oncogene homolog [avian]), PGR (progesterone receptor), and MYC (v-myc myelocytomatosis viral oncogene homolog [avian]) were hub nodes in our transcriptome network, which may interact with ER and, in turn, regulate target gene expression. MYB can up-regulate MCM3 (minichromosome maintenance 3) and MCM7 expression; PGR can suppress BCL2 (B-cell lymphoma 2) expression; MYC can inhibit TGFB2 (transforming growth factor, beta 2) expression. These genes are associated with breast cancer progression via cell cycling and the $TGF{\beta}$ signaling pathway. Conclusion: Analysis of transcriptional regulation may provide a better understanding of molecular mechanisms and clues to potential therapeutic targets in the treatment of breast cancer.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2012년도 제42회 동계 정기 학술대회 초록집
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• pp.422-422
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• 2012

In2O3 계열의 산화물 전도성 투명 전극은 최근 디스플레이, 태양전지 등 전자산업에서 중요한 소재로 전 세계적으로 많이 연구되고 있다. 또한 3.6 eV의 wide bandgap을 가짐으로서 센서 등의 반도체 소자로의 응용가능성이 매우 큰 것으로 알려져 있다. 기존의 연구는 In2O3에 SnO2, Al2O3, Ga2O3 등을 혼합하여 화합물 형태의 투명전극 소재를 개발하고, 전도성 및 투과율 등을 개선시키는데 초점이 맞춰져왔다. 최근에 들어서 나노스케일 물질의 제조 기술 개발로 낮은 차원의 In2O3 나노구조는 센서나 발광다이오드와 같은 전자기기의 제작을 위해서 연구 되었는데, 본 논문에서는 Carbon을 doping하여 p-형 반도체로의 응용 가능성을 고찰하였다. 본 논문에서는 In2O3:C 박막을 radio-frequency magnetron sputtering 방법으로 sapphire(0001) 기판위에 증착하였다. 통상적으로 ceramic target에 carbon을 혼합하여 sintering하여 제작한 ceramic target 대신, In2O3 powder와 CNT를 혼합하여 powder형태의 sputter target을 사용하였다. 박막의 증착 초기에는 매우 평평한 층구조로 성장하였고, 박막의 두께가 증가함에 따라 섬조직이 생성되기 시작하여 표면거칠기가 매우 크게 증가하였다. 박막의 두께가 500 nm 이상이 되면 나노 피라미드가 생성되는데, 이는 In2O3의 결정구조에 기인한 것으로 판단된다.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제42권9호
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• pp.628-636
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• 2019

Altered genetic features in cancer cells lead to a high rate of aerobic glycolysis and metabolic reprogramming that is essential for increased cancer cell viability and rapid proliferation. Pyruvate kinase muscle (PKM) is a rate-limiting enzyme in the final step of glycolysis. Herein, we report that PKM is a potential therapeutic target in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) cells. We found that PKM1 or PKM2 is highly expressed in TNBC tissues or cells. Knockdown of PKM significantly suppressed cell proliferation and migration, and strongly reduced S phase and induced G2 phase cell cycle arrest by reducing phosphorylation of the CDC2 protein in TNBC cells. Additionally, knockdown of PKM significantly suppressed $NF-{\kappa}B$ (nuclear factor kappa-light-chain-enhancer of activated B cells) activity by reducing the phosphorylation of p65 at serine 536, and also decreased the expression of $NF-{\kappa}B$ target genes. Taken together, PKM is a potential target that may have therapeutic implications for TNBC cells.

• BMB Reports
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• 제54권5호
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• pp.272-277
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• 2021

RalBP1 associated EPS domain containing 1 (REPS1) is conserved from Drosophila to humans and implicated in the endocytic system. However, an exact role of REPS1 remains largely unknown. Here, we demonstrated that mitogen activated protein kinase kinase (MEK)-p90 ribosomal S6 Kinase (RSK) signaling pathway directly phosphorylated REPS1 at Ser709 upon stimulation by epidermal growth factor (EGF) and amino acid. While REPS2 is known to be involved in the endocytosis of EGF receptor (EGFR), REPS1 knockout (KO) cells did not show any defect in the endocytosis of EGFR. However, in the REPS1 KO cells and the KO cells reconstituted with a non-phosphorylatable REPS1 (REPS1 S709A), the recycling of transferrin receptor (TfR) was attenuated compared to the cells reconstituted with wild type REPS1. Collectively, we suggested that the phosphorylation of REPS1 at S709 by RSK may have a role of the trafficking of TfR.

• Oncology Letters
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.2576-2582
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• 2019

Gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD) is an unusual disease occurring in pregnancy that originates from abnormal trophoblastic cells and comprises a group of diseases with different properties of invasion, metastasis and recurrence. The GTD group includes hydatidiform moles and gestational trophoblastic neoplasms (GTNs), with GTNs being divided into invasive moles, choriocarcinoma, placental site trophoblastic tumors and epithelioid trophoblastic tumors. The present review focuses on current effective treatments for GTD, including conventional and novel promising direct enzyme prodrug therapies (DEPTs). Conventional therapies, such as chemotherapy and hysterectomy, are currently used in a clinical setting; however, the use of diverse DEPTs, including antibody-DEPT and gene-DEPT is also being attempted to cure GTNs. In addition, gene delivery tools using genetically engineered neural stem cells (NSCs) are presently being examined for the treatment of GTNs. The tumor-tropism of NSCs by chemoattractant factors is a unique characteristic of these cells and can serve as a vehicle to deliver anticancer agents. Previous studies have demonstrated that injection with NSC-expressing suicide genes into xenograft animal models has a significant inhibitory effect on tumor growth. Stem cells can be genetically engineered to express anticancer genes, which migrate to the metastatic sites and selectively target cancer cells, and are considered to effectively target metastatic GTNs. However, the safety issue of stem cell therapy, such as tumorigenesis, remains a challenge. Novel therapies comprising a combination of conventional and novel promising treatments are anticipated to be definitive treatments for metastasized and/or recurrent patients with GTNs.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제20권7호
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• pp.602-617
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• 2020

자유시장 경제를 근간으로 한 이윤주도 성장전략의 대안으로 논의되고 있는 소득주도성장 전략은 정부 부문의 적극적인 개입이 필요하므로 정부지출의 효용성이 중요한 요인으로 인식되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 지난 수십 년 동안 분배체계에 의한 소득주도성장 정책을 수행해 온 북유럽과 남미 국가, 그리고 한국을 대상으로 정부지출과 소비지출의 경제적 관계를 규명하고, 이 결과를 바탕으로 소득주도성장 경로를 논의하였다. 지출 국민소득에 의한 구조방정식을 설정하고 일반화된 선형모형(GLMs)에 의해 추정한 실증분석 결과에 의하면, 북유럽 국가와 한국의 경우 정책적 효과가 크지는 않지만, 소득주도성장 정책으로 국민소득을 증가시킬 수 있는 것으로 나타났다. 그러나 남미 국가는 소득주도성장 정책의 운용이 불안정할 뿐만 아니라 정책효과도 나타나지 않는 것으로 분석되었다. 또한, 소득주도성장 정책을 수행하는 과정에서 저소비 계층보다는 중간소비 계층을 활용한 경로가 더욱 효율적인 것으로 나타났다. 결과적으로 소득주도성장 정책은 지속 가능한 성장 전략이라기보다는 보완적 기능을 수행하는 정책으로 활용하는 것이 바람직할 것이다.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.27-31
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• 2016

High-tech industries in a state well enough to troubleshoot hacking information introduction a big barrier to delay the growth of the market related to IoT(Internet of Things) as is likely to be on the rise. This early on, security issues introduced in the solution, a comprehensive solution, including the institutional laws/precautions needed. Recent examples of frequent security threats while IoT is the biggest issue of introducing state-of-the-art industry information due to the vulnerable security hacking. This high-tech industries in order to bridge the information responsible for the target attribute, target range, and the protection of security and how to protect the subject, IoT environment (domestic industrial environment) considering the approach is needed. IoTs with health care and a wide variety of services, such as wearable devices emerge. This ensures that RFID/USN-based P2P/P2M/M2M connection is the implementation of the community. In this study, the issue on the high-tech industrial information and the vulnerable security issues of IoT are described.

• Journal of Dairy Science and Biotechnology
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.5-10
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• 2007

Ultrasonication was employed to prepare solid lipid nanoparticles (SLN) for smart probiotic nanoparticles as a nanofood. The model probiotic material, lactocin from Lactobacillus plantarum (CBT-LP2), was incorporated into SLN. The CBT-LP2 loaded SLN (CBT-LP2-SLN) were spherical in the photograph of scanning electron microscope (SEM). The particle size measured by laser diffraction (LD) was found to be $97.3{\pm}8.2nm$. Zeta potential analyzer suggested the zeta potential of LP-SLN was $-29.36{\pm}3.68$ mV in distilled water. The entrapment efficiency (EE%) was determined with the sephadex gel chromatogram and high-performance liquid chromatogram (HPLC), and up to 90.59% of nanofood was incorporated. Stability evaluation showed relatively long-term stability with only slight particle growth (P>0.05) after storage at room temperature for 4 weeks. Therefore, ultrasonication is demonstrated to be a simple, available and effective method to prepare high quality SLN loaded probiotic material.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2003년도 하계학술대회 논문집 Vol.4 No.1
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• pp.208-211
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• 2003

The dielectric carbon nitride thin films were deposited onto Si(100) using a pulsed laser ablation of pure graphite target combined with a high voltage discharge plasma in nitrogen gas atmosphere. We can be calculated dielectric constant, ${\varepsilon}_s$, with a capacitance Sobering bridge method. We reported to investigate the influence of the laser ablation of graphite target and DC high voltage source for the plasma. The properties of the deposited carbon nitride thin films were influenced by the high voltage source during the film growth. Deposition rate of carbon nitride films were found to increase drastically with the increase of high voltage source. Infrared absorption clearly shows the existence of C=N bonds and $C{\equiv}N$ bonds. The carbon nitride thin films were observed crystalline phase, as confirmed by x-ray diffraction data.

• 한국항공운항학회지
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.90-105
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• 2020

This research investigates the export strategy for pioneering a new market of Advanced Pilot Trainer T-50, a business unit of KAI company, and increasing its market share. The export strategy is proposed based on the Corporate Marketing Model along with the market oriented concept. Specific sales strategies are extracted in consideration of product analysis, market analysis, and integration of product and target market. Therefore, six countries in Africa are selected as the primary target markets on account of their market potentials. In addition, T-50 is repositioned to 'T-50Af' as 'high price competitive and multi-role trainer.' The business implications include the expansion of the market in Africa and the pursuit of the consistent development and growth of T-50.