• 동의생리병리학회지
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.305-312
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• 2015

Paeonol is a major component found in the Paeoniaceae family such as Paeonia suffruticosa Andrews. Paeonia suffruticosa Andrews has traditionally been used to enhance blood flow and relieve joint pain in east Asian countries including China, Korea and Japan. Current research has shown that paeonol blocked the voltage-gated sodium channel and L-type calcium channel. However, there is a lack of research to reveal the relation between cardiac function and blockade of ion channels by paeonol. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate whether paeonol has anti-arrhythmic effects via modulating cardiac ion channels. It is collected that the effects of paeonol on multiple ion channels such as the fast sodium channel and L-type calcium channel from published papers. To incorporate the information on multi-channel block, we computed the effects using the mathematical cardiac model of the guinea-pig and rat ventricular cells (Noble 1998 and 1991 model) and induced early after-depolarizations (EADs) to generate an arrhythmia in the whole heart. Paeonol slightly shortened the action potential duration in the normal cardiac ventricular action potential by the inhibition of sodium channel and L-type calcium channel. Paeonol presented the protective effect from EADs by the inactivation of sodium channel but not L-type calcium channel. Paeonol did not show any changes when it treated on normal ventricular cells through the inhibition of sodium channel, but the protective effect of paeonol through sodium channel on EADs was dose-dependent. These findings suggest that paeonol and its original plant may possess anti-arrhythmic activity, which implies their cardioprotective effects.

• 한국응용약물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국응용약물학회 2004년도 Annual Meeting of the Korean Society ofApplied Pharmacology
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• pp.124-128
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• 2004

We have assessed amyloid ${\beta}-peptide$ $(A{\beta})-induced$ neurotoxicity in primary neurons and organotypic hippocampal slice cultures (OHC) in rat. Exposing cultured hippocampal and cerebellar granule neurons to $A{\beta}$ resulted in a decrease of MTT reduction, and in destruction of neuronal integrity. Treatment of these neurons with tunicamycin, an inhibitor of N-glycosylation in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), also decreased MTT reduction in these neurons. S-allyl-L-cysteine (SAC), an active organosulfur compound in aged garlic extract, protected hippocampal but not cerebellar granule neurons against $A{\beta}$- or tunicamycin-induced toxicity. In the hippocampal neurons, protein expressions of casapse-12 and GRP 78 were significantly increased after $A{\beta}_{25-35}$ or tunicamycin treatment. The increase in the expression of caspase-12 was suppressed by simultaneously adding $1{\mu}M$ SAC in these neurons. In contrast, in the cerebellar granule neurons, the expression of caspase-12 was extremely lower than that in the hippocampal neurons, and an increase in the expression by $A{\beta}_{25-35}$ or tunicamycin was not detected. In OHC, ibotenic acid (IBO), a NMDA receptor agonist, induced concentration-dependent neuronal death. When $A{\beta}$ was combined with IBO, there was more intense cell death than with IBO alone. SAC protected neurons in the CA3 area and the dentate gyrus (DG) from the cell death induced by IBO in combination with $A{\beta}$, although there was no change in the CA1 area. Although protein expression of casapse-12 in the CA3 area and the DG was significantly increased after the simultaneous treatment of AI3 and IBO, no increase in the expression was observed in the CA1 area. These results suggest that SAC could protect against the neuronal cell death induced by the activation of caspase-12 in primary cultures and OHC. It is also suggested that multiple mechanisms may be involved in neuronal death induced by AI3 and AI3 in combination with IBO.

• Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.89-96
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• 1987

동물의 간소엽에 심한 지방성병변과 괴사성병변을 일으키는 사염화탄소와 이와 비슷한 독작용을 가지고 동물의 간소엽에 심한 출혈성 괴사성병변을 초래하는 Dimethylnitrosamine이 동일물질의 2~3회 반복투여에 의해서 어떠한 영향을 받는가를 비교, 관찰하기 위하여 체중 150~200gm의 백서를 실험동물로 사용하여 Sublethal dose의 사염화탄소(0.4ml/kg)와 DMN(40mg/kg)을 1회, 2회 및 3회 복강내로 주입하여 간소엽에 나타난 병리조직학적 병변을 요약하면 다음과 같다. 1. 사염화탄소를 1회 투여한 동물의 간소엽에 있어서 지방변성 괴사성병변에 비해 2회 또는 3회 반복투여한 동물의 병변정도가 경하였고, 또 간세포나 동양세포의 재생성 변화도 더 빨리 일어났다. 2. DMN을 1회 투여한 동물에 있어서의 괴사성병변은 2회 또는 3회 투여한 군의 그것과 큰 차이는 없었지만 간세포의 증식성 변화는 DMN의 투여회수가 많을수록 비례해서 강하게 나타나는 경향을 보였다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.615-621
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• 2007

AMP-activated protein kinase alpha 2 (PRKAA2) plays a key role in regulation of fatty acid and cholesterol metabolism. This study investigated the porcine PRKAA2 gene as a positional candidate for intramuscular fat and backfat thickness traits in pig chromosome 6. A partial fragment of the porcine PRKAA2 gene, amplified by PCR, contained a putative intron 3 including a part of exon 3 and 4, comparable with that of human PRKAA2 gene. Within the fragment, several single nucleotide polymorphisms were identified using multiple sequence alignments. Of these, TaqI restriction enzyme polymorphism was used for genotyping various pig breeds including Korean reference family. Using linkage and physical mapping, the porcine PRKAA2 gene was mapped in the region between microsatellite markers SW1881 and SW1680 on chromosome 6. Allele frequencies were quite different among pig breeds. The full length cDNA of the porcine PRKAA2 (2,145 bp) obtained by RACE containing 1,656 bp open reading frame of deduced 552 amino acids, had sequence identities with PRKAA2 of human (98.2%), rat (97.8%), and mouse (97.5%). These results suggested that the porcine PRKAA2 is a positional candidate gene for fat deposition trait at near telomeric region of the long arm of SSC 6.

• 한국응용과학기술학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.19-24
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• 2002

It is a great role that the character of man or woman could be distinguished by hair on the aspect of ornament. Hair will be support of beautifulness of human being in various permanent wave by many kinds of its drugs. Hair is based upon the skin which enroll the body of high living animals and have multiple membrane structure. This study used rat and the effects of commercial permanent wave products to skin which are composed with thioglycolic acid and bases. Results are as follows. Permanent wave penetrated to 4 hours later with steady state in skins and was not significant changeable after 20hr later. In case of neutralizer with thioglycolic acid lag time and permeability coefficient in healthy skin is 3.38hr and $0.094^{\mu}g/cm^{2}$ ${\cdot}$ hr, it old skin is 3.48hr and 0.129$^{\mu}g/cm^{2}$ ${\cdot}$ hr, and it wounded skin is 4.72hr and $0.158^{\mu}g/cm^{2}$ ${\cdot}$ hr. In conclusion, lag time and permeability coefficient in old skin and wounded skin are faster than healthy skin. In vivo which was studied by general time and method of permanent wave. We notified that fine rinkle and rash of skin were changeable in the case of treating with permanent wave drugs than normal skin. We can see even rash and eruption by the naked eye.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.242-247
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• 1992

연구배경 : Surfactant 단백은 surfactant의 물리학적 성상의 결정 및 대사를 조절하는데 있어서 중요한 역할을 한다. 유전자 발현의 조절을 연구하기 위하여서는 cDNA의 탐지자에 의한 mRNA의 정량측정이 중요하다. 방법 : 쥐의 surfactant 단백 B의 cDNA에 대한 coding 부위를 PGem 3Z 또는 4Z에 subclone하여 SP6 RNA polymerase 효소를 이용하여 antisense와 sense을 얻었다. Sense을 이용한 filter hybridization올 시행하여 정상곡선을 얻었다. Antisense는 $^{32}P$를 표지시켜 탐지자로 이용하였다. 결과 : SP-B에 대한 sense 복사체의 정상곡선은 Y=2034.9X+159.1(X=SP-BmRNA 복사체, Y=CPM)이고, 상관계수는 1.0이었다. 결론 : 이상의 결과로 filter hybridization 방법은 mRNA을 정량측정 하는데 있어서 빠르고, 재현성이 높으며, 많은 시료를 한꺼번에 시행할 수 있는 유용한 방법이다.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.130-134
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• 2016

The influence of Au/Ni-based contact formed on a lightly-doped (7.3×1017cm−3, Zn-doped) InGaAsP layer for electrical compensation of surface plasmon polariton (SPP) propagation under various rapid thermal annealing (RTA) conditions has been studied. The active control of SPP propagation is realized by electrically pumping the InGaAsP multiple quantum wells (MQWs) beneath the metal planar waveguide. The metal planar film acts as the electric contact layer and SPP waveguide, simultaneously. The RTA process can lower the metal-semiconductor electric contact resistance. Nevertheless, it inevitably increases the contact interface morphological roughness, which is detrimental to SPP propagation. Based on this dilemma, in this work we focus on studying the influence of RTA conditions on electrical control of SPPs. The experimental results indicate that there is obvious degradation of electrical pumping compensation for SPP propagation loss in the devices annealed at 400℃ compared to those with no annealing treatment. With increasing annealing duration time, more significant degradation of the active performance is observed even under sufficient current injection. When the annealing temperature is set at 400℃ and the duration time approaches 60s, the SPP propagation is nearly no longer supported as the waveguide surface morphology is severely changed. It seems that eutectic mixture stemming from the RTA process significantly increases the metal film roughness and interferes with the SPP signal propagation.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.287-295
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• 2005

정보통신 단말기에서 한글을 쉽고 빠르게 입력 할 수 있는 방법을 모색하기 위해 한글 자음과 모음의 표기법 및 조합 원리를 분석하여 한글 자모 집합보다 작은 크기의 기본 자모 집합으로 한글을 입력하는 방법을 제시하였다 그 결과로 자음의 경우 기본 자음과 기능키를 이용하여 자음들을 조합하고, 모음은 8개의 기본모음으로부터 모음의 조합 원리 및 가획 원리에 의해 입력키가 할당되지 않은 모음을 조합하는 방식을 제안하였다. 특히, 유사 자소간의 에러 발생시에 지움 버튼을 사용하는 불편함을 해소하기 위해 자소간의 전환이 가능한 오류 수정 방식을 도입하였을 뿐만 아니라, 사용자가 입력 방식에 쉽게 익숙해질 수 있도록 입력방식을 다양화함으로써 사용자 편의 성 을 추구하였다 기존의 천지인, 나랏글 방식과 비교했을 때 사용자 편의성과 입력의 신속성, 에러 수정의 용이성 측면에서 매우 효율적임을 확인하였다.

• Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.431-437
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• 2005

Fibrin glue is composed of fibrinogen and thrombin and used in various regions for multiple use. Basic principle is that thrombin converts fibrinogen to fibrin in the presence of $Ca^{2+}$. The structure of fibrin is loose at the beginning, but after about 5 minutes a tight structure is formed under the influence of factor VIII which changes fibrin monomer into fibrin polymer. Fibrin glue is used for tissue adhesive, suture, local hemostasis, wound healing, closure of subdural space. Fibrin adhesive has been used in oral and maxillofacial surgery for hemostasis after tooth extraction in patients with coagulation disorders, skin graft fixation, reattachment of periodontal flaps, in combination with autogenous bone chips to fill the bony cavities following cyst removal, and for securing the hydroxyapatite granules for maxillary alveolar ridge augmentation. This study was designed for researching influence of fibrin glue during healing phase after making artificial bone defect.

• 대한수의학회지
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• 제47권1호
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• pp.19-24
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• 2007

The cause and pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease remain unknown and no definitetherapy exists until now. The present study was conducted to investigate the anti-inflammatory effectsof a herbal preparation (HemoHIM) in colitis induced by 30 mg of trinitrobenzene sulfonic acid (TNBS)in rats. Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into 5 groups. Each group was treated with 1 mg ofHemoHIM/ml of drinking water, 4 mg of HemoHIM/ml of drinking water, 50 mg of HemoHIM/kgof body weight (i.p. once every other day) or 10 mg/kg of HemoHIMof body weight (i.p. onceevery other day) from the next day. After 2 weeks, rats were sacrificed and morphologic featuresof colons were examined. Ulceration, adhesion, thickening and dilatation were noticed in the colonicmucosa after TNBS instillation. Intraperitoneal injection of HemoHIM (50 and 100 mg/kg of bodyweight) showed the anti-inflammatory effect on adhesion, thickening, dilatation, ulceration, and theinhibition effect on damage score by 72.7% and 90.9%, respectively. Histologically, the colon of TNBS-treated rat showed inflammatory cell infiltration by polymorphonuclear cells, multiple erosive lesionsignificant improvement in these symptoms. The results obtained suggest marked anti-inflamatoryactivity of the HemoHIM at the dose levels examined.