Abstract:
The present invention relates to a composition comprising metformin as an active ingredient for preventing or treating inflammatory bowel disease. The metformin compound or the metformin-etanercept (product name: Enbrel) composite according to the present invention may have excellent effects of maintaining the thickness of the small intestine and length of the large intestine normal, inhibiting or decreasing the activity of IL-17 and TNF-a, and promoting or increasing the activity of IFNr, and therefore can be effectively used as a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating autoimmune diseases including inflammatory bowel disease.
Abstract:
The method of face model alignment on unseen face includes inputting a face image; warping the face image into a standard shaped face based on a model seen by AAM (Active Appearance Model); normalizing the warped image by removing a texture change of the warped image; extracting a face texture from the normalized image; calculating error areas by comparing the face texture with the seen model; and aligning edges of the face texture with edges of the seen model while reducing the difference of the error areas.
Abstract:
The present invention is directed to adoptive immunotherapy using a lymphocyte in which an antigen-specific receptor and a bioactive material gene such as an IL-2 gene or a water-soluble TGF-beta receptor gene are transferred. The bioactive material is intensively secreted to, for example, a local site of a tumor, thereby reducing systemic side effects as much as possible, and the survival time of the lymphocyte is increased, thereby further improving the effect of the adoptive immunotherapy.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a technique for the T7 promoter-driven expression of a foreign protein, preferably, a human protein in E. coli having no T7 RNA polymerase. More particularly, the present invention relates to use of a vector including a T7 promoter and an N-terminal HA tag sequence for overexpression of a foreign protein in E. coli having no T7 RNA polymerase, E. coli that includes the vector and is able to overexpress the foreign protein in the absence of T7 RNA polymerase, a method for expressing or producing the foreign protein using the E. coli, and a method for analyzing functions of the foreign protein. Further, the present invention relates to a simple, rapid method for evaluating the expression and cytotoxicity of a human protein in E. coli by using the vector.
Abstract:
There is provided a contrast agent for diagnosis of vascular disease containing a gadolinium-based compound as an active ingredient. It has been found that the gadolinium-based compound Gd-DOTA-click-SF of the present disclosure, has a higher molar longitudinal relaxivity (r1) than Dotarem, is stable, and does not affect in vitro cell viability. In addition, it has been found through MRI images that the specific binding of Gd-DOTA-click-SF in an animal model of abdominal aortic aneurysm established using elastase, a serine protease, is remarkable. Also, it has been confirmed that the content of the gadolinium-based compound of the present disclosure that binds to serine protease in the aorta, that is, the content of gadolinium in the aorta, is remarkable. Thus, the Gd-DOTA-click-SF compound according to the present disclosure may be usefully used in MRI and CT imaging diagnosis for vascular disease.
Abstract:
A method for producing a bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide lithium salt is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: (a) reacting bis(chlorosulfonyl)imide with NH4F(HF)n (n=0-10) to prepare ammonium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide; and (b) reacting the ammonium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide with a lithium base, wherein in at least one of steps (a) and (b), after the reaction, a process of adding an alkoxy trialkyl silane to the reaction solution to remove a fluorine anion is performed.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a biocompatible peptide inhibiting the aggregation of a β-amyloid protein, and more particularly, to a biocompatible peptide derived from superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) and specifically binding to β-amyloid, a β-amyloid aggregation inhibitor including the peptide, and a pharmaceutical composition for treating a β-amyloid aggregation-associated disease. The peptide of the present invention has a strong binding strength to β-amyloid, inhibits the formation of a β-amyloid protein aggregate, and prevents neural cell death, thereby treating a neurodegenerative disease such as Alzheimer's disease. In addition, since the peptide of the present invention does not have cytotoxicity, it has no side effect of disturbing an immune system.
Abstract:
An anticancer composition includes cervical cancer-derived autocrine motility factor (AMF) as an effective component. The cervical cancer-derived AMF has an excellent effect of inhibiting the proliferation of liver cancer, pancreatic cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, and colon cancer, and inducing cell death. The composition can be used as an anticancer therapeutic agent.
Abstract:
An anticancer composition includes cervical cancer-derived autocrine motility factor (AMF) as an effective component. The cervical cancer-derived AMF has an excellent effect of inhibiting the proliferation of liver cancer, pancreatic cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, and colon cancer, and inducing cell death. The composition can be used as an anticancer therapeutic agent.
Abstract:
Provided are methods for improving the proliferation and stemness of limbal stem cells (LSCs) by adding a Wnt inhibitor to a medium for limbal explant cultures. When human limbal explants are cultured according to the methods, Wnt/β-catenin signaling is inhibited, resulting in improvement of LSC proliferation, and improvement in the stemness of LSCs, and thus the LSCs may be obtained in high yield.