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Early embryo development and implantation were arrested in ICR mice which were passively immunized with a mouse monoclonal progesterone antibody given as a single intraperitoneal injection at 12 hrs or 60 hrs ...
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Isolation of isoguanosine fromCroton tiglium and its antitumor activity
This paper describes the isolation of isoguanosine fromCroton tiglium L. and its cytotoxic effect against several tumor cell lines in culture and newly reports that isoguanosine has an antitumor activity against ...
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Synthesis and biological activity of 6-substituted-2-oxo-purine nucleosides
We have synthesized various 6-substituted-2-oxo-purine nucleosides from key intermediate, 6-[(4-methylphenylthio)-2-oxo-9-(2,3,5-tri-o-acetyl-β-D-ribofuranosyl)]-2,3-dihydropurine in relatively high yields by ...
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Enhanced cytotoxicity of berberine and some anticancer nucleotides against tumor cell-lines
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A Real-Time Region-Based Motion Segmentation Using Adaptive Thresholding and K-Means Clustering
This paper presents an approach for a real-time region-based motion segmentation and tracking using an adaptive thresholding and k-means clustering in a scene, with focus on a video monitoring system. In order to...
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Efficient Face Extraction Using Skin-Color Model and a Neural Network
In this paper, we present a method to efficiently extract a human’s face from a given image sequence. The method consists of two steps: image segmentation and facial region extraction. In the image segmentatio...
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Face Detection by Integrating Multiresolution-Based Watersheds and a Skin-Color Model
In this paper, we propose a method to automatically segment out a human’s face from a given image that consists of head-and shoulder views of humans against complex backgrounds in videoconference video sequenc...
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Efficient Image Segmentation Based on Wavelet and Watersheds for Video Objects Extraction
The MPEG-4 and MPEG-7 visual standard to support each frame of a video sequence should be segmented in terms of video object planes (VOPs). This paper presents an image segmentation method for extracting video...
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GA-Based Image Restoration by Isophote Constraint Optimization
We propose an efficient technique for image restoration based on a genetic algorithm (GA) with an isophote constraint. In our technique, the image restoration problem is modeled as an optimization problem whic...
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Antitumor activity of the Korean Mistletoe Lectin is attributed to activation of macrophages and NK cells
Inhibitory effect of the lectins (KML-C) isolated from Korean mistletoe (KM;Viscum album coloratura) on tumor metastases produced by murine tumor cells (B16-BL6 melanoma, colon 26-M3.1 carcinoma and L5178Y-ML25 l...
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Isolation ofepi-oleanolic acid from korean mistletoe and its apoptosis-lnducing activity in tumor cells
A triterpene was isolated as a cytotoxic principle from the dichloromethane extract of Korean mistletoe (KM;Viscum album coloratum) by repeated silica gel chromatography and recrystallization. Inin vitro analysis...
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Immune response and inhibitory effect of ketotifen on the BALB/c and C3H/HeN mice infected with Echinostoma hortense
Although Echinostoma hortense is one of the intestinal trematodes with a high infection rate in South Korea, the exact immune response against E. hortense infection has yet to be fully investigated. In the presen...
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Adjuvant effect of Korean mistletoe lectin on mucosal immunity induction following intranasal immunization with hemagglutinin antigen
To determine Korean mistletoe lectin (KML-C) functions as a mucosal adjuvant, we monitored its ability to modulate the immune response after intranasal immunization with hemagglutinin (HA) as an antigen. Mucos...
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MSER and SVM-Based Vehicle License Plate Detection and Recognition System
The area of automatic license plate localization and recognition has been a difficult problem for many years. Many approaches involve extraction information from the image through a variety of statistical filt...
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The genetic constitutions of complementary genes Pp and Pb determine the purple color variation in pericarps with cyanidin-3-O-glucoside depositions in black rice
The purple pericarp color in rice was controlled by two dominant complementary genes, Pb and Pp. Crossing black rice ‘Heugnambyeo’ variants with three varieties of white pericarp rice gave a segregation ratio of ...
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Cytotoxicity of recombinant immunotoxin containing lectin A chain from Korean mistletoe
Toxin moiety in immunotoxin (IT) plays an important role in cytotoxicity of target cells. We constructed a recombinant immunotoxin (RIT), which is composed of a recombinant lectin A chain from Korean mistletoe...
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Image Classification Method Using Support Vector Machine for Privacy Incident Response System
Nowadays, Internet becomes more and more popular in our modern life due to the rapid development of information and communication technology. Internet is widely used in a vast of social activities, such as ele...
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Korean mistletoe (Viscum album coloratum) extract extends the lifespan of nematodes and fruit flies
Viscum album coloratum (Korean mistletoe) is a semi-parasitic plant that grows on various trees and has a variety of biological functions such as immunomodulation, apoptosis, and anti-tumor activ...
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Item response theory approaches to harmonization and research synthesis
The need to harmonize different outcome metrics is a common problem in research synthesis and economic evaluation of health interventions and technology. The purpose of this paper is to describe the use of mul...
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Open AccessInhibitory effect of piperine on Helicobacter pylori growth and adhesion to gastric adenocarcinoma cells
Piperine is a compound comprising 5-9% of black pepper (Piper nigrum), which has a variety of biological roles related to anticancer activities. Helicobacter pylori has been classified as a gastric carcinogen, be...
