• 대한화학회지
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• 제58권2호
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• pp.227-229
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• 2014

• 센서학회지
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.414-419
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• 2017

The optical characteristics of cresol red, phenol red, and neutral red immobilized in the thin film were investigated with absorbance measurement in order to find a sensing part of a fiber-optic pH sensor. Sol-Gel method with tetramethyl orthosilicate as a precursor was used to immobilize the pH indicators in the thin film. The absorbance spectra were measured when pH indicators were immobilized in the film and were dissolved in the buffer solution. Experimental results showed that the absorbance spectra could be changed when the pH indicator is immobilized in the thin film. As compared with other pH indicators, the neutral red exhibited similar absorbance spectra regardless of physical conditions and was sensitive over whole pH range between 4 and 11. In addition, the absorbance ratio of base peak to acid peak tended to increase in proportion to the increase in pH. Experimental results indicate that the neutral red is a good pH indicator for fabrication of a sensing part of the fiber-optic pH sensor.

• Toxicological Research
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.77-82
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• 2000

This study was conducted to assess a possible alternative method as replacements for in vivo test. The human fibroblasts were exposed to several photoxic chemicals (promethazine, neutral red, chlortetracyclone, amiodatone, bithional, 8-methyooxypsorale) and non-phototoxi substance, ammonium laureth sulfate and irradiatied with 5 J/$cm^2$ of UVA (3320~420nm). The cell viability was measured by NRU (neutral red uptake) assay. The photoxic potential of test chemicals in the NRU PT (phototoxicity test) was assessed by determining the PIF (photoirritancy Factor) by using a cut-off value of 5. The NRU PT responses of most chemicals showed a close agreement with in vivo response except bithinol. There was a relatively good agreement between in vitro NRU assay and in vivo data. These results suggest that NRU assay using fibroblast could be used to predict the phototoxicity.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.406-411
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• 2001

In a bacterial denitrification test with Pseudomonas sp. and anaerobic consortium, more nitrates and less substrate were consumed but less metabolic nitrite was produced under an anaerobic $H_2$ condition rather than under $N_2$ condition. In a bioelectrochemical denitrification test with the same organisms, the electrochemically reduced neutral red was confirmed to be a substitute electron donor and a reducing power like $H_2$. The biocatalytic activity of membrane-free bacterial extract, membrane fraction, and intact cell for bioelectrochemical denitrification was measured using cyclic voltammetry. When neutral red was used as an electron mediator, the electron transfer from electrode to electron acceptor (nitrate) via neutral red was not observed in the cyclic voltammogram with the membrane-free bacterial extract, but it was confirmed to gradually increase in proportion to the concentration of nitrate in that of the membrane fraction and the intact cell of Pseudomonas sp.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제49권5호
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• pp.514-534
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• 2021

국내 목조건축물을 가해하는 지중 흰개미인 Reticulitermes speratus 군체의 영역 범위 산정을 위한 적정 염색약 선정 및 확산 경향 평가를 실시하였다. Sawdust diet를 이용한 감수성 평가 결과, 염색약의 농도가 증가할수록 섭식량은 감소하지만 보다 진하게 염색되었으며, 생존율은 Neutral Red 0.5%를 제외하고 4주차까지 모든 농도 조건이 대조군과 차이 없이 85% 이상의 생존하였다. 또한 2가지 염색약 모두 0.1% 농도 조건을 제외한 0.2% 이상의 농도 조건에서 11주 동안 염색이 유지되었고 전이력은 염색약 섭식 직후를 제외하고는 없는 것으로 확인되었다. 이에 따라 Nile Blue A와 Neutral Red 모두 0.2% 농도 조건이 R. speratus 군체의 영역 모니터링에 최적의 농도라고 판단된다. 이와 더불어 실내 조건에서 제작된 40m 길이의 foraging arena에 약 25,000마리 군체를 서식시킨 뒤, Nile Blue A와 Neutral Red 0.2% 농도로 각각 염색된 개체를 양 쪽 끝에 방사하여 시간 경과에 따른 확산 경향을 파악하였다. 그 결과 염색 개체가 7일 정도의 기간에 40m 거리까지 점진적으로 확산 이동하여 서로 섞이는 것이 확인되었다. 이를 통해 목조건축물에 유입된 R. speratus 군체를 대상으로 Mark-Release-Recapture(MRR) 법을 이용한 모니터링을 실시할 경우, 군체의 영역 범위를 산정할 수 있으며, 서로 다른 군체의 식별도 가능할 것이다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.675-678
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• 2005

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.248-254
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• 1992

The initial growth of Clostridium acetobutylicum was not inhibited by 1 atm of H$_2$ while H$_2$ reduced glucose consumption in a solventogenic culture of a phosphate limited 2-stage chemostat. Under 1 atm of H$_2$, a solventogenic culture consumed hydrogen, but an acidogenic culture produced hydrogen. H$_2$ consumption by the solventogenic culture was enhanced by the addition of 5 mM neutral red, an artificial electron carrier with a redox potential of -325 mV. Hydrogenase activity, measured in both directions of production and consumption, showed that activity coupled with methyl viologen is higher in an acidogenic culture than in a solventogenic culture, and that the two cultures have similar activities for methylene blue reduction. The solventogenic culture showed a higher activity coupled with neutral red than the acidogenic culture. From these results, it is hypothesized that hydrogen producing hydrogenase activity is high during the acidogenic phase, and decreases as solventogenesis starts, and that the solventogenic culture produces a second hydrogenase which uses an electron carrier other than ferredoxin. This hypothesis was supported by the fact that enzyme activities involved in electron flow can be coupled to neutral red, indepedent of ferredoxin, and that neutral red addition to the fermentation system increased butanol yield, with a decrease in production of less reduced fermentation products, and $H^2$.

• 대한화장품학회지
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.193-202
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 in vivo 광독성 시험을 대체할 수 있는 방법에 관한 연구를 수행하였다. 인체 유래의 섬유아세포를 활용하여 광독성 물질(promethazine, chlorpromazine chlortetracycline, 8-methoxypsoralen, neutral red, bithionol)과 비광독성 물질(cinnamic aldehyde, p-aminobenzoic acid, sodium lauryl sulfate, L-cysteine)을 평가하였다. 세포 생존율은 neutral red uptake (NRU)로 평가하였다. NRU 광독성 시험 결과 bithionol를 제외한 화합물에서 모두 in vivo 실험결과와 유사한 결과를 보였다. 같은 방법으로 화장품 성분인 $Medimin^{(R)}$ A, $Medimin^{(R)}$ D, $LG^{(R)}$ 106W, $Phytoclear^{(R)}$ EL-1, 단삼동 추출물, 미인초 추출물, 산거울 추출물, $Parsol^{(R)}$ MCX와 $Parsol^{(R)}$ 1789를 평가 하였다. 평가 결과 단삼동 추출물을 제외한 원료에서 광독성이 없는 것으로 평가되었다.

• Ocean Science Journal
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• 제42권3호
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• pp.193-197
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• 2007

The food selectivity of tethered females of the copepod Calanus helgolandicus was examined by using the colorimetric approach. First, feeding behavior of the copepod did not show any differences between the red-color stained with neutral red and non-stained diets using the diatom Coscinodiscus curvatulus. Then, the copepods were fed a mixtures of two diets, the diatom C. curvatulus, stained with neutral red, and the dinoflagellate Gymnodinium sanguineum for $14\sim60$ minutes of feeding duration. The foregut colors of females were examined using a stereo-microscope and a video monitor. The foreguts of animals fed with a high density of diatoms in mixed diets showed a dark red color, whereas those fed with a high density of dinoflagellate in mixed diets were a dark yellow. The results suggest that this species of copepod may not selectively feed either one of the diets used for this study. Their feeding activity may be more likely related to the density of available prey in their environment. Therefore, this quick and easy colorimetric approach could provide very useful information, like the pre-screening procedure before designing and conducting the time-consuming and complex feeding experiments to understand the feeding ecology of copepods.

• 한국비블리아학회지
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.27-45
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• 2024

본 연구 목적은 학교급별 학교도서관에 사용된 색채를 분석하고 색채가 주는 형용사 이미지를 파악하는 것이다. 초등학교, 중학교, 고등학교의 15개 학교도서관 이미지를 KSCA프로그램을 이용하여 색채를 추출하여 색상, 명도, 채도를 분석하였다. 또한 추출된 색을 I.R.I 이미지 스케일을 이용하여 형용사를 파악하였다. 분석 결과, 색상은 초등학교와 고등학교에서는 YR (Yellow Red), N (Neutral), Y (Yellow) 계열 순으로 사용되었으나 중학교에서는 YR (Yellow Red), N (Neutral), R (Red) 계열 순으로 나타났다. 모든 학교도서관에 사용된 색채의 명도는 평균적으로 중명도가 사용되었으며, 채도는 낮은 채도로 이루어져 있었다. 색채의 형용사 이미지는 '점잖은'이라는 형용사가 학교도서관에서 가장 많이 도출되었다. 학교도서관은 학교급별로 공간구성 색채에 있어 특별한 차이를 보이지 않았으며, 비슷한 색채와 형용사 이미지를 가진 것으로 나타났다.