• 대한화장품학회지
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.161-169
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• 2011

본 연구에서는 발모 소재 개발을 위하여 한방복합처방단의 효소처리에 의한 발모 및 흑모 관련 생리활성을 알아보았다. 효소 처리된 한방 복합 처방단의 자유라디칼 소거활성과 superoxide dismutase 유사활성을 알아보았으며, lipoxygenase 활성 저해효과, $5{\alpha}$-reductase 활성 저해효과 및 멜라닌 생성 촉진효과를 확인하였다. 또한, 인체 피부 일차 자극시험 결과 자극이 없는 저자극으로 나타났다. 이로써, 효소 처리된 한방 복합 처방단은 피부자극 없이 모발제품의 기능성 원료로서 큰 가능성을 가지고 있는 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국식물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국식물학회 2001년도 춘계학술발표대회:발표눈문요지록
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• pp.26-26
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• 2001

• Urogenital Tract Infection
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.79-83
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• 2018

Purpose: The 5 alpha reductase inhibitor (5ARI) reduces the size of the prostate and alleviates lower urinary tract symptoms. After stopping 5ARI, the prostate quickly recovers to its pre-medication size. The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors affecting the restoration of prostate size after 5ARI discontinuation. Materials and Methods: Between March 2009 and May 2017, patients who visited an outpatient clinic and were diagnosed with benign prostatic hyperplasia were selected and start 5ARI medication. After 6 months of medication, the patients stopped medication for 1 year. Meanwhile, we measured the prostate volumes of patients 3 times (before and after medication, after discontinuation) and divide the patients into 3 groups (maintained, intermediate, and restored) with recovered prostate volume ratio. After classification, we investigated the relationship between the variable factors (age, serum prostate-specific antigen, initial volume, reduced volume after medication) between groups. Results: Among the 147 selected patients, the mean age and plasma PSA level were $61.6{\pm}7.9$ and $0.8{\pm}0.6$, respectively. The mean initial prostate volume was $32.3{\pm}4.2ml$, which reduced to $23.2{\pm}3.2ml$ after medication. After one year of discontinuation, the mean volume was $31.4{\pm}6.4ml$, with restoration to 101.5% of the reduced size. We noticed a tendency that patients with faster prostate volume recovery were generally older than those with slower recovery; however, this was not statistically significant. Other factors showed no relationship with prostate recovery. Conclusions: When using 5ARI in elderly patients, continuous treatment seems better than intermittent treatment. If discontinuation is needed, short term follow-up is recommended.

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.118-124
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• 2012

This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of Grateloupia elliptica, a seaweed native to Jeju Island, Korea, on the prevention of hair loss. When immortalized rat vibrissa dermal papilla cells were treated with extract of G. elliptica, the proliferation of dermal papilla cells significantly increased. In addition, the G. elliptica extract significantly inhibited the activity of $5{\alpha}$-reductase, which converts testosterone to dihydrotestosterone (DHT), a main cause of androgenetic alopecia. On the other hand, the G. elliptica extract promoted $PGE_2$ production in HaCaT cells in a dose-dependent manner. The G. elliptica extract exhibited particularly high inhibitory effect on LPS-stimulated IL-12, IL-6, and TNF-${\alpha}$ production in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated bone marrow-derived dendritic cells. The G. elliptica extract also showed inhibitory activity against Pityrosporum ovale, a main cause of dandruff. These results suggest that G. elliptica extract has the potential to treat alopecia via the proliferation of dermal papilla, $5{\alpha}$-reductase inhibition, increase of $PGE_2$ production, decrease of LPS-stimulated pro-inflammatory cytokines and inhibitory activity against Pityrosporum ovale.

• 한국식생활문화학회지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.185-189
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• 1989

Effect of perilla oil on the fatty acid composition, ACAT and HMG-CoA reductase in the liver microsomes, or cholesterol and protein in serum of rabbit were examined. 1. The content of total protein in serum was almost same amount of both groups, but ${\alpha_1}-globulin$ and r-globuline were incresed or ${\beta}-globulin$ was decresed compared with control. 2. The content of high density lipoprotein incresed, and the content of low density lipoprotein decresed in lipoprotein. 3. Total cholesterol and triglyceride were decresed, and the content of phospholipid was incresed. 4. Perilla oil did not effect for changing blood glucose and $Na^+,\;K^+$ electrolytes. 5. Perilla oil did not effect for changing serum GOT and GPT in rabbit. 6. The activity of ACAT decresed and the activity of HMG-CoA reductase incresed. The activity of ACAT and HMG-CoA reductase in liver microsomes were reciprocal. 7. There were arachidonic acid 20:4, eicosapentaenoic acid 20:5, and docosahexaenoic acid 22:6 in the liver microsomes of rabbits. These highly polyunsaturated fatty acids were convented from linolenic acid 18:3 n-3.

• Toxicological Research
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.155-161
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• 1996

The enzymatic properties for NADPH-P450 reductase domain of a fusion protein between human cytochrome P450 1A1 and rat NADPH-P450 reductase expressed in Escherichia coli were investigated. The fusion plasmid pCW/1A1OR-expressed E. coli membrane showed high NADPH-cytochrome c reductase activity ($830.1\pm 85.8 nmol\cdot min^{-1}\cdot mg protein^{-1}$), while pCW control vector and P 450 1A1 expression vector pCW/1A1 showed relatively quite low activity ($4.35\pm 0.49, 3.27\pm 0.50 nmol\cdot min^{-1}\cdot mg protein^{-1}$, respectively). The kinetic curves for NADPH-cytochrome c reductase followed typical Michaelis-Menten kinetics. The $K_{max}$ and $V_{max}$ for NADPH-dependent reductase activity were $8.24\pm 2.61\mu $and $817.9\pm 60.8 nmol\cdot min^{-1}\cdot mg protein^{-1}$, respectively, whereas those for cytochrome c-dependent reductase activity were $19.97\pm 2.86\mu M$ and $1303.5\pm 67.1 nmol\cdot min^{-1}\cdot mg protein^{-1}$. The reductase activities were also compared with those of rat, porcine and human liver microsomes. The activity of pCW/ 1A1OR-expressed E. coli membrane was 15.2-fold higher than that of rat liver microsome. Treatment with benzo(a)pyrene, 7-ethoxyresorufin and $\alpha$-naphthofiavone which are known as specific substrates or inhibitor for human P450 1A1 increased NADPH-cytochrome c reductase activity of fusion protein in E. coli membrane dose-dependently. These results demonstrate that the membrane topology of fused enzyme may be important for activity of its NADPH-P450 reductase domain.

• 한국식품영양과학회지
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• 제45권11호
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• pp.1571-1579
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• 2016

본 연구는 땅콩나물 열수 추출물이 남성 갱년기 관련 증상인 전립선 비대증과 발기부전에 대해 어떠한 영향을 미치는지 알아보기 위하여 phosphodiesterase(PDE) 저해 효과, 5-alpha reductase 활성 억제능, RAW264.7 세포에서 NO 함량 측정 및 TM3 세포에서 testosterone 함량을 측정하였다. 땅콩나물 추출물은 높은 PDE 저해능을 확인되었다. 또한, 5AR2 활성을 억제하였다. 전립선 비대와 관련된 염증에 대한 영향으로 RAW264.7 세포에서 lipopolysaccharide에 대한 NO 함량 억제능을 확인한 결과 땅콩나물 열수 추출물에 의해 NO 생성이 억제되었고 염증 인자가 감소하는 것으로 나타났다. TM3 세포에서 과산화수소로 유도된 산화적 손상에서는 땅콩나물 추출물 처리 시에 높은 세포보호능을 보였으며, 땅콩나물 추출물에 의해 testosterone 함량도 증가하는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 결과적으로 땅콩나물 열수추출물은 5AR2 억제 활성을 증대시키고 항염증 효과가 전립선 비대증의 유발을 억제시킬 수 있다는 선행연구로 볼 때 땅콩나물 추출물은 전립선 비대 유발에 직접 관계된 효소와 유전자를 제어함과 동시에 항염증 효능을 가짐으로써 전립선 비대 증상 개선에 매우 효과적일 것으로 판단된다. 또한, 땅콩나물 추출물은 PDE 활성을 저해함으로써 발기부전 증상을 완화시키고 고환 내 세포의 산화적 스트레스를 완화하며, testosterone과 같은 호르몬 합성을 증가시켜 전립선 비대증 외에 발기부전 및 호르몬 저하로 인해 발생하는 남성갱년기 증상에도 효과를 보일 것으로 기대된다. 이상의 결과로 볼 때 땅콩나물 열수 추출물은 전립선 비대를 비롯한 남성갱년기 증상을 완화시키는 기능성 소재로 활용할 수 있을 것으로 보인다.

• 대한약학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한약학회 2002년도 Proceedings of the Convention of the Pharmaceutical Society of Korea Vol.1
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• pp.140.2-140.2
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• 2002

• 생약학회지
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• 제48권2호
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• pp.148-154
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• 2017

Crinum asiaticum var. japonicum and its active component, norgalanthamine have been reported to have hair growth-promoting effect via the proliferation of dermal papilla cells. In this study, we investigated the other mechanisms of C. asiaticum extract var. japonicum and norgalanthamine on the hair growth. The C. asiaticum var. japonicum extract inhibited $5{\alpha}$-reductase activity by 16%, which converts testosterone to dihydrotestosterone (DHT), a main cause of androgenetic alopecia, whereas the C. asiaticum var. japonicum extract didn't function as an opener of the $K_{ATP}$ channel. On the other hand, we examined whether norgalanthamine can inhibit transforming growth factor-${\beta}$ (TGF-${\beta}$) signal pathway, which is essential in the regression induction of hair growth. Norgalanthamine inhibited the phosphorylation of Smad2/3 on TGF-${\beta}1$-induced canonical pathway in human keratinocyte HaCaT cells. These results suggested that the C. asiaticum var. japonicum extract and norgalanthamine had the potential to influence hair growth through the inhibition of $5{\alpha}$-reductase activity and TGF-${\beta}1$-induced canonical pathway.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제26권12호
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• pp.1376-1382
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• 2016

Xylitol은 식품 및 의료산업에서 이용가치가 높은 물질로, lignocellulosic biomass인 xylose의 환원으로부터 생산되며, 대부분 유전적으로 안전한 Saccharomyces cerevisiae 균주를 사용하여 생산되고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 S. cerevisiae에서 xylitol을 효율적으로 생산하기 위해 xylose reductase를 code하는 GRE3 (YHT104W)유전자의 발현시스템을 구축하여, xylose reductase의 분비생산 및 xylitol 생산성을 조사하고자 하였다. 먼저 GRE3 유전자의 발현에 적합한 promoter의 선별을 위해 GAL10 promoter와 ADH1 promoter 하류에 각각 mating factor ${\alpha}$ ($MF{\alpha}$) signal sequence와 GRE3 유전자를 가진 pGMF-GRE3와 pAMF-GRE3 plasmid를 구축하였다. 각각의 plasmid는 S. cerevisiae $SEY2102{\Delta}trp1$균주에 형질전환되었고, $SEY2102{\Delta}trp1$/pGMF-GRE3와 $SEY2102{\Delta}trp1$/pAMF-GRE3 형질전환주가 선별되었다. 그 중 $SEY2102{\Delta}trp1$/pGMF-GRE3 균주에서 NADPH를 cofactor로 사용했을 때 0.34 unit/mg-protein의 xylose reductase 활성(total activity)을 보였고, ADH1 promoter를 가진 $SEY2102{\Delta}trp1$/pAMF-GRE3 균주에 비해 1.5배 높은 활성증가를 확인 할 수 있었다. 또한 두 균주에서 모두 91%의 분비효율을 보여 대부분의 재조합 xylose reductase가 세포 밖으로 효율적으로 발현 분비되었음을 알 수 있었다. $SEY2102{\Delta}trp1$/pGMF-GRE3 균주를 사용한 baffled flask 배양에서 xylitol 생산량을 조사해 본 결과, 20 g/l의 xylose로부터 12.1 g/l의 xylitol을 생산하였고, 소모된 xylose의 약 83%정도가 xylitol로 환원되었음을 알 수 있었다.