• Toxicological Research
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.279-283
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• 2013

Acanthopanax koreanum Nakai, a well known traditional herb grown in Jeju Island, South of Korea, has been used as a tonic and sedative agent, as well as in the treatment of diabetes and immune diseases. Mutagenicity of two lignans, syringaresinol and tortoside A isolated from A. koreanum, was assessed using Salmonella/microsome (Ames) test. Tester strains used were Salmonella typhimurium TA98, TA100, TA1535, and Escherichia coli WP2uvrA. The mutagenic activity was determined both in the absence or presence of S9 mixture. As a result, tortoside A did not cause any increase in the number of $his^+$ revertants in S. typhimurium and E. coli WP2uvrA strains in the presence or absence of S9 mix, compared to the controls. Similarly, low concentrations of syringaresinol (750 and 1,500 ${\mu}g$/plate) did not show any mutagenic properties in all bacterial strains, in the presence or absence of S9 mixture. However, in the high concentration of syringaresinol (3,000 ${\mu}g$/plate), the number of revertants were increased in TA1535 strains, in the absence of S9 metabolic activation. Therefore, in vivo experiments such as comet assay are needed to further determine the genotoxic/carciogenic potential of syringaresinol isolated from A. koreanum.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.199-210
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• 2017

Background: This paper aims to demonstrate current health expenditure (CHE) and National Health Accounts of the years 2015 constructed according to the SHA2011, which is a new manual of System of Health Accounts (SHA) that was published jointly by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Eurostat, and World Health Organization in 2011. Comparison is made with international trends by collecting and analysing health accounts of OECD member countries. Particularly, financing public-private mix is parsed in depth using SHA data of both HF as financing schemes as well as FS (financing source) as their revenue types. Methods: Data sources such as Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service's publications of both motor insurance and drugs are newly used to construct the 2015 National Health Accounts. In the case of private financing, an estimation of total expenditures for revenues by provider groups is made from the Economic Census data; and the household income and expenditure survey, Korean healthcare panel study, etc. are used to allocate those totals into functional classifications. Results: CHE was 115.2 trillion won in 2015, which accounts for 7.4 percent of Korea's gross domestic product. It was a big increase of 9.3 trillion won, 8.8 percent, from the previous year. Government and compulsory schemes's share (or public share) of 56.4% of the CHE in 2015 was much lower than the OECD average of 72.6%. 'Transfers from government domestic revenue' share of total revenue of HF was 17.8% in Korea, lower than the other contribution-based countries. When it comes to 'compulsory contributory health financing schemes,' 'Transfers from government domestic revenue' share of 14.9% was again much lower compared to Japan (44.7%) and Belgium (34.8%) as contribution-based countries. Conclusion: Considering relatively lower public financing share in the inpatient care as well as overall low public financing share of total CHE, priorities in health insurance coverage need to be repositioned among inpatient care, outpatient care and drugs.

• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• 제58권2호
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• pp.9.1-9.5
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• 2016

Background: Literature is lacking on the effects of feeding by-product feed (BF)-based silage on rumen fermentation parameters, nutrient digestion and nitrogen (N) retention in sheep. Therefore, this study was conducted to determine the effect of replacing rye straw with BF-based silage as a roughage source on ruminal parameters, total-tract apparent nutrient digestibility, and N balance in sheep. Methods: The by-product feed silage was composed of spent mushroom substrate (SMS) (45 %), recycled poultry bedding (RPB) (21 %), rye straw (11 %), rice bran (10.8 %), corn taffy residue (10 %), protected fat (1.0 %), bentonite (0.6 %), and mixed microbial additive (0.6 %). Six sheep were assigned randomly to either the control (concentrate mix + rye straw) or a treatment diet (concentrate mix + BF-based silage). Results: Compared with the control diet, feeding a BF-based silage diet resulted in similar ruminal characteristics (pH, acetate, propionate, and butyrate concentrations, and acetate: propionate ratio), higher (p < 0.05) ruminal NH3-N, higher (p < 0.05) ether extract digestibility, similar crude protein digestibility, lower (p < 0.05) dry matter, fiber, and crude ash digestibilities, and higher (p < 0.05) N retention (g/d) Conclusion: The BF-based silage showed similar energy value, higher protein metabolism and utilization, and lower fiber digestion in sheep compared to the control diet containing rye straw.

• 약학회지
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.414-421
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• 1998

In order to compare the suppressive effect of quercetin and its glycosides, such as quercitrin (quercetin-3-rhamnoside), isoquercitrin (quercetin-3-glucoside), hyperin (querceti n-3-galactoside)and rutin (quercetin-3-rhamnosyl glucoside), on the genotocicity by benzo(a)pyrene(B(a)P), in vitro sister chromatid exchange(SCE) test using mouse spleen lymphocytes and in vivo micronucleus test using mouse peripheral blood were performed. B(a)P-induced SCEs in vitro were slightly decreased by the simultaneous treatment of quercetin and its glycosides, although there was no significant decrease. On the other hand, MNU induced micronucleated reticulocytes(MNRL7s) in vivo were significantly decreased with a dose-dependent manner in all compounds tested. However, there were no differences between quercetin aglycone and glycosides in the suppressive effects under experimental condition of this study. To elucidate, the action mechanism of quercetin aglycone and its glycosides against B(a)P-induced genotoxicity, the assay of DNA binding with B(a)P was studied. Quercetin aglycone and its glycosides inhibited B(a)P metabolism in the presence of S-9 mix and decreased the B(a)P/DNA binding in the calf thymus DNA with S-9 mix. These results suggest that antigenotoxicity of quercetin antiglycosides on B(a)P-induced genotoxicity is due to decrease of DNA binding with B(a)P through the inhibition of metabolism with B(a)P in the calf thymus DNA. Therefore, quercetin and its glycosides may act as an antigenotoxicity agent and may be useful as a chemopreventive agent of polycyclic aromaic hydrocarbons like B(a)P.

• Toxicological Research
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.211-220
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• 2014

Resveratrol has received considerable attention as a polyphenol with various biological effects such as anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, anti-mutagenic, anti-carcinogenic, and cardioprotective properties. As part of the overall safety assessment of HS-1793, a novel resveratrol analogue free from the restriction of metabolic instability and the high dose requirement of resveratrol, we assessed genotoxicity in three in vitro assays: a bacterial mutation assay, a comet assay, and a chromosomal aberration assay. In the bacterial reverse mutation assay, HS-1793 did not increase revertant colony numbers in S. typhimurium strains (TA98, TA100, TA1535 and TA1537) or an E. coli strain (WP2 uvrA) regardless of metabolic activation. HS-1793 showed no evidence of genotoxic activity such as DNA damage on L5178Y $Tk^{+/-}$ mouse lymphoma cells with or without the S9 mix in the in vitro comet assay. No statistically significant differences in the incidence of chromosomal aberrations following HS-1793 treatment was observed on Chinese hamster lung cells exposed with or without the S9 mix. These results provide additional evidence that HS-1793 is non-genotoxic at the dose tested in three standard tests and further supports the generally recognized as safe determination of HS-1793 during early drug development.

• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.114-120
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• 1991

대기부유입자상물질이나 diesel 배출가스중에 함유하여, 주요한 direct-acting mutagen의 하나로 작용하는 1-nitropyrene, 1,3-, 1,6- 및 1,8-dinitropyrene을 합성하고, 고속액체 chromatography로 분리정제하여, Salmonella typhimurium TA 98, S9mix 비첨가의 계에서 돌연변이원성을 측정한 결과, 1-nitropyrene에 비하여, dinitropyrene은 강력한 돌연변이 원성을 나타내었고, 그 중에서도 1,8-dinitropyrene은 733,000 revertants/$\mu$g으로 최고의 돌연변이원 활성을 나타내었다.

• 화약ㆍ발파
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.32-37
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 시멘트-모르타르의 각 배합비별 양생기간에 대한 압축강도시험을 수행하여 일축압축강도를 비교한 결과, 혼합수의 양이 적을수록 강도가 증가하는 경향을 나타냈다. 또한 각 배합비에 따라 3일에서 7일 사이, 10일 사이에 강도가 일정하다 갑자기 증가하는 구간이 나타나는 것으로 확인되었다. 포아송비는 0.13~0.27까지 걸쳐 나타났으며, 영률의 경우도 13.79~33.25MPa까지 넓은 범위에 걸쳐 나타남을 알 수 있었다. 또한 포아송비는 일축압축강도의 감소나 증가에 특별한 상관성이 없고, 영률의 경우에는 상관성이 있는 것으로 확인되었다. 함수비와 모래비에 의해 강도의 변화가 일어나 영률에 영향을 미침을 알 수 있었다. 이상의 결과를 종합해 볼 때 3일에서 7일 사이에 강도의 변화가 심함을 알 수 있다.

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제7권9호
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• pp.2940-2947
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• 2000

무선 ATM 환경에서 다양한 멀티미디어 트래픽을 지원하기 위해서는 매체 접RMS 제어(MAC) 프로토콜이 필요하다. MAC 프로토콜은 다양한 트래픽 클래스에 대한 QoS를 보장하면서 제한된 무선 대역폭을 효율적으로 활용할 수 있도록 설계되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 서로 다른 종류의 트래픽이 혼재된 무선 ATM 환경에서 각 서비스 클래스의 QoS를 만족할 수 있는 동적 자원 할당 방식 기반의 MAC 프로토콜을 제안하였다. CBR이나 VBR에 비해 낮은 우선 순위를 가지는 ABR 트래픽에 대해서는 최소 대역폭을 확보함으로써 지연을 크게 개선하였으며, 실시간 VBR 트래픽의 경우에는 대역폭이 초기에 경쟁을 통해 할당되고 이후로는 경쟁 없이 대역폭을 할달함으로써 처리율을 증가시켰다.

• 공업화학
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.349-353
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• 1999

페놀성 산업폐수중 2,4-dichlorophenol과 2,4-dinitrophenol를 함유한 폐수에 대해서 phenol이 활성슬러지공법에서 이 두 물질의 미생물 분해와 활성슬러지공정에 대한 Eckenfelder 수정모델의 미생물분해계수 (biodegradation kinetic coefficient)에 미치는 영향을 연구실험하였다. 미생물 성장에 필요한 에너지원과 필수영양물질 (base mix. BM)을 함유한 폐수를 분해하고 있는 활성슬러지 시스템에 2,4-dichlorophenol과 2,4-dinitrophenol를 함유한 폐수를 유입시켰을 때 이 활성슬러지 시스템은 서서히 죽어갔고 미생물들이 다 씻겨 나갔다. 반면에 페놀에 먼저 순화되어 있는 활성슬러지 시스템에 2,4-dichlorophenol과 2,4-dichlrophenol을 함유한 폐수를 phenol과 함께 유입하였을 때는 분해가 잘 되었고, 분해효율은 $BOD_5$ 기준으로 91.9%에 달했다. 그리고 phenol, 2,4-dichlorophenol 및 2,4-dinitrophenol의 처리효율은 각각 99.8%, 43.3% 및 62.5%였다. 같은 반응조에 연이어서 유입한 에너지원과 필수 영양물질의 추가공급은 처리효율을 상당히 증가시켜 처리수 중의 phenol, 2,4-dichlorophenol 및 2,4-dinitrophenol 농도를 현저히 감소시켰다. 이러한 효과는 페놀에 의해 순화되어 있는 미생물이 BM의 추가공급으로 활성도가 증가되어 분해효율이 증가되었다고 본다. 페놀에 대한 미생물의 순화과정 없이 실험하였을 때는 정상상태를 유지할 수 없었기 때문에 그 결과로부터는 Eckenfelder 수정모델의 미생물분해계수의 값을 구할 수가 없없다. 순화과정을 거친 경우의 미생물분해계수는 12.44/day이었고, 추가적인 $BM\;47mg/l(BOD_5)$의 첨가에 의해서는 46.91/day로 증가되었다. 이러한 값들은 공정설계시에 설계값으로 사용될 수 있고 다른 벤젠유도체의 미생물분해연구에 기초자료로도 활용 될 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국환경성돌연변이발암원학회지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.13-21
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• 1988

Mutagenic actions of aflatoxin B$_1$ (AFB$_1$) in the presence of various concentrations of L-ascorbIc acid (AA) in Salmonella typhimurium strains TA 100 and TA98 were studied. Spontaneous revertants per plate of the tester strains TA100 and TA98 were 121-125 and 25-30 with or without S9 mix, respectively. The negative controls used in the study did not show any mutagenesis in the tester strains. AFB$_1$ revealed strong mutagenicity at the dose levels of 0.05, 0.1 and 0.25 ${\mu}$g/plate with metabolic activation system in both strains. However, it showed a toxic effect when the levels were more than 0.5 ${\mu}$g/plate. When lower concentrations of AA (5-20 ${\mu}$g/plate) were added to AFB$_1$ in the Ames assay system with S9 mix the mutagenic action of AFB$_1$ decreased in both strains. About 70-90% of mutagenicity of AFB$_1$ disappeared in strain TA100 when 20${\mu}$g of AA was added to 0.05 ${\mu}$g of AFB$_1$. The inhibitory effect was greatly increased by the addition of higher concentrations of AA to AFB$_1$ in TA100 strain. The mutagenicity of AFB$_1$ was completely inhibited when 100 ${\mu}$g and 500 ${\mu}$g of AA were added to 0.05 ${\mu}$g and 0.1 ${\mu}$g of AFB$_1$, respectively, However, this protective effect of AA on AFB$_1$ mediated mutagenesis was less effective in TA98 strain than that in TA100.