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Development of Laboratory Safety Management System for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Laboratory (화학 및 화학공학 실험실의 안전관리 시스템 개발)

  • Yoo, Jin Hwan;Lee, Heon Seok;Choi, Joung Woo;Seo, Jae Min;Park, Chulhwan;Ko, Jae Wook
    • Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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    • v.46 no.2
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    • pp.376-382
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    • 2008
  • There are many accidents such as fire and explosion in laboratories that have caused a great loss to lives and property in spite of the effort to the enhancement of laboratory safety level for years. Development of laboratory safety management system is a necessary to improve safety level because the accidents of similar types have periodically occurred in laboratories. The laboratory safety management system may reduce many accidents and a serious loss in laboratory. In this study, we summarized major items for a risk management and safety improvement based on the analysis results of various accidents in the laboratories. And then the laboratory safety management system was developed containing a laboratory safety management manual, a laboratory management system, a education management system, a MSDS (material safety data sheet) management system and a laboratory safety audit system. It may have a potential application for the laboratory safety management in the chemical laboratories.

HLA-B27 DNA Typing using Group Specific Polymerase Chain Reaction (중합효소연쇄반응을 이용한 HLA-B27 유전자분석)

  • Kyung Ok Lee;Sung Hoi Hong;Moom Ju Oh;Kyung In Kim;Min Jung Kim
    • Biomedical Science Letters
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.223-229
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    • 1996
  • HLA-B27 gene, one of the HLA-class I molecule, is strongly associated with ankylosing spondylitis. It has been most frequently used as a disease-correlated HLA gene by clinicians. In most laboratories, conventional HLA-B27 typing is still performed by cell cytotoxicity tests or fluorescence serology with specific antibodies. In this study, DNA typing method for HLA-B27 was developed by using group specific Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR). Four HLA-B27 cell lines (HOM-2, JESTHOM, WT24 and BTB) and fifty six B27 Korean individuals defined by serology were used. The results of control cell and B-27 positive individual samples were correlated well with the data which was performed by serological method. All of B27 positive PCR products gave positive signals on Southern blot hybridization with B27 specific probe. This study shows that the HLA-B27 DNA typing is a relatively simple, fast and practical tool for the determination of the HLA-B27 gene in routine clinical laboratory work.

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A Study of Parallel Test Among Three ADVIA 2120 System (3대의 ADVIA 2120 System 평행시험에 대한 연구)

  • Chang, Sang-Wu;Cho, Eun-Hae;Kim, Nam-Yong;Chu, Kyung-Bok;Lee, Suk-Jong;Hong, Sung-No;Oh, Jong-Do
    • Korean Journal of Clinical Laboratory Science
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    • v.38 no.1
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    • pp.16-21
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    • 2006
  • Parallel testing means ordering a number of tests at the same time so abnormalities in any of the tests can be found quickly and used in making the diagnosis. This is a good medical strategy to eliminate diseases and it is relatively inexpensive if all the tests are potential sources of information and performed on the same analyzer. In regression, the equation for the straight line is recast as y = bx + a. This change in terminology leads to confusion. Here a is the y-intercept or constant and b is the coefficient or slope of the line. A few more words of caution about regression - as in all of statistics there are certain assumptions: the x value is a true measure, both X and Y distributions are normal, and homoscedasticity, i.e., the variance of y is the same for each value of x. In this study the linearity classification made by different scientists were always in agreement. Typical examples of curves that were considered linear are presented in Fig. 1-5. Because these automated procedures values were usually within five percent of each other the curvature could be easily detected. The plot of the WBC, RBC, hemoglobin, hematocrit and platelet concentrations from approximately 74.4 to $0{\times}10^3/{\mu}L$ and $80.4-0{\times}10^3/{\mu}L$, $5.6-0{\times}10^6/{\mu}L$ and $6.1-0{\times}1106/{\mu}L$, 18.3-0 g/dL and 19.0-0 g/dL, 54.1-0% and 56.8-0% and 642.0 to $0.03{\times}10^3{\mu}L$ and $754.0-0{\times}10^3/{\mu}L$ on the ADVIA 2120 C Versus and A and B typical of an acceptable linear study as shown in Fig. 1-5. The grand mean of R2, intercept and slope is 0.99898, 0.99459 and 1.54626.

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[ $5{\alpha}-Reductase$ ] Inhibitors from Native Plants and their Sebosuppressive Effects in Cultured Human Sebaceous Gland Cells (천연물 유래의 $5{\alpha}-Reductase$ 저해제의 개발과 인체 유래 피지선 세포의 배양을 이용한 피지분비 억제 효과 측정)

  • Jeong, Se-Kyoo;Kim, Jeong-Kee;Baek, Ji-Hwoon;Lee, ki-Moo;Cho, In-Shik;Lee, Seung-Hun
    • Journal of the Society of Cosmetic Scientists of Korea
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    • v.31 no.3 s.52
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    • pp.273-277
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    • 2005
  • This study was performed to develop new cosmeceutical agents with sebosuppressive activity from native plant extracts in Korea. Inhibitory efforts of the extracts on $5{\alpha}-reductase$ (5-AR) were evaluated by enzyme kinetics analysis using UV-spectrophotometric method. Two kinds of enzyme suspensions as 5-AR sources were prepared from rat liver tissue and cultured hSG cells. The sebosuppressive effects were determined by measuring the total lipid quantity produced in cultured hSG cells after incubation with the extracts. As a result, Pinus thunbergii extracts showed the most potent 5-AR inhibitory effects. Its $K_i$ values were 0.0002% and 0.0014% for rat liver 5-AR and human sebaceous gland 5-AR, respectively. Addition of Pinus thunberii extract to hSG cells showed 48% reduction in total lipid production at 0.005% concentration. In conclusion, Pinus thunbergii extracts can be used as a cosmeceutical agent to regulate sebum production and to alleviate the sebum-involved skin diseases, such as acne and seborrheic dermatitis.