• Journal of Life Science
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.775-781
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• 2003

In this study, we investigated to elevate the modulatory effect of flavonoid(fustin, sulfuretin, 10 mg/kg) which was isolated from Rhus verniciflua Stokes(RVS) in male Sprague-Dawley rats for 2 weeks on the toxicity of paraquat. In the flavonoids pretreated groups, glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase, glutamic pyruvic transaminase, blood urea nitrogen, creatinine, malondialdehyde and alkaline phosphatase activity in serum and malondialdehyde, alkaline phosphatase activity and collagen in lung tissue which was induced paraquat toxicity were slightly decrease compared to the normal group. In the lung tissue of flavonoids pretreated groups, malodialdehyde value, G-6-phosphatase activity and collagen synthesis were recovered to tile normal values and alkaline phosphatase activity was increased. From these results, we concluded that flavonoids which were isolated from RVS is an effective agent to inhibit the pulmonary and internal toxicities and hence we concluded that acitive components of fustin and sulfuretin which were isolated from RVS might be removed free radicals induced by paraquat.

• Journal of the korean academy of Pediatric Dentistry
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.30-38
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• 2008

Dental pulp cells are assumed to possess the capacity to elaborate both bone and dentin matrix under the pathological conditions following tooth injury. The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA) on various gene expression regarding dentinogenesis and cell viability assay in cultured primary human dental pulp cells. The author also examined the effects of this material on cellular alkaline phosphatase activity as a potential indicator of dentinogenesis. For gene expression on MTA, reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction was performed using primer sets of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, type I collagen, alkaline phosphatase(ALP), osteonectin, and dentin sialoprotein after 2 and 4 days. Cell viability assay showed that the proportion of MTA-treated pulp cells which had been exposed for 5 days to MTA was higher than that of the control cells. Among the genes investigated in this study, ALP and osteonectin(SPARC) were increased in MTA treated group than in control. These findings suggest that this dental pulp culture system may be useful in the future as a model for studying the mechanisms underlying dentin regeneration after the treatment with MTA. Exposure to MTA material would not induce cytotoxic response in the dental pulp cells. In addition, MTA could influence the behavior of human pulp cells by increasing the ALP activity and SPARC synthesis.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.397-402
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of alendronate and pamidronate on proliferation and the alkaline phosphatase activity of human bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells and to relate the results with bisphosphonate related osteonecrosis of the jaw(BRONJ). With the consent of patients with no systemic disease and undergoing iliac bone graft, cancellous bone was collected to obtain human bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells through cell culture. 96 well plate were prepared with a concentration of $10^4$cell/ well. Alendronate and pamidronate were added to each well with the concentration of $10^{-6}M$, $10^{-8}M$ and $10^{-10}M$, respectively. Then proliferation capacity of each well was evaluated with the cell counting kit. 24 well plates were prepared with a concentration of $10^5$cell/ml/well and with the bone supplement, alendronate and pamidronate were added with the concentration of $10^{-6}M$, $10^{-8}M$ and $10^{-10}M$, respectively on each plate. The plates were cultured for either 24 or 72 hours. Then the cells were sonicated to measure the alkaline phosphatase activity and protein assay was done to standardize the data for analysis. As the concentration of alendronate or pamidronate added to the culture increased, the proliferation capacity of the cells decreased. However, no statistical significance was found between the group with $10^{-10}M$ of bisphophonate and the control group. Pamidronate was not capable of increasing the alkaline phosphatase activity in all trials. However, alkaline phosphatase activity increased with 24 hours of $10^{-8}M$ of alendronate treatment and with 48 hours of $10^{-10}M$ of alendronate treatment. Cell toxicity increased as the bisphosphonate concentration increased. This seems to be associated with the long half life of bisphosphonate, resulting in high concentration of bisphosphonate in the jaw and thus displaying delayed healing after surgical procedures. Alendronate has shown to increase the alkaline phophatase activity of human bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells. However, this data is insufficient to conclude that alendronate facilitates the differentiation of human bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells. Further studies on DNA level and animal studies are required to support these results.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.724-730
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• 1998

Effects of raw soy flour(RSY) and black(RSB) feeding on protein concentration of liver and serum, and GOT, GPT and alkaline phosphatase activities of serum in diabetic and nondiabetic rats were studied. Male rats(Sprague-Dawley), mean weight of (338.4$\pm$19.2g) were assigned to six dietary groups and fed with the assigned diet for 28 days. For each experimental, some rats were injected with streptozotocin intraperitoneally(L.P.) to induce diabets, and other rats were injected with buffer L.P. as a control group. The liver, kidney and spleen weights relative to bo요 weigth were higher in raw yellow soy flour diet diabetes(D-RSY) and black soy flour diet diabetes(D-RSB) groups than control, but the body weights were lower than control. The protein and albumin concentrations of liver and serum were lower in D-RSY and D-RSB groups than control. The albumin concentration of serum in D-RSB group was lower than control. The GOT activities of serum in RSY and RSB groups were increased compared with control, but the GPT activities were lower in diabetic control, D-RSY and D-RSB groups than control. The alkaline phosphatase activities of serum in RSY and RSB groups were higher than control, but those in D-RSY and D-RSB groups were lower than diabetic control.

• Journal of fish pathology
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.243-251
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• 2006

The internal defense system of mollusks consists of circulating haemocytes. In order to understand the morphological characterization of haemocytes, light and electron microscopy were carried out in oyster, Crassostera gigas. Four types of haemocytes were recognized: type Ⅰ small hyalinocytes, type Ⅱ large hyalinocytes, type Ⅲ large granulocytes and type Ⅳ small granulocytes. Additionally, the activities of alkaline phosphatase (ALP), acid phosphatase (ACP), peroxidase (POD), α-naphthyl acetate esterase, β-glucuronidase, PAS, sudan black B and oil red O in haemocytes were analysed by immunocytochemical methods. The results indicate that enzymatic activities were abundant and more active in granulocytes than in hyalinocytes. After incubation with haemoctyes and Vibrio FKC, phagocytic index and percentage of phagocytic cell were and shown to be increased from 15 to 120 min. In addition, the enzymatic activities were higher than those of controls: ALP, ACP, α-naphthyl acetate esterase and β-glcuronidase, indicating that these enzymes can be related with phagocytosis in oyster.

• The Korean Journal of Zoology
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.35-48
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• 1988

This study was made to investigate the effect of testosterone and cyclic-AMP (cAMP) on rat epididymis. Peritoneai injections of testosterone and cAMP to rats were earned out The activities of acid phosphatase (ACP), alkaline phosphatase (ALP) and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) were measured and ultrastructural changes of luminal epithelial cells were observed. As a result, the activity of ACP was significanily decreased on the third day, that of ALP on the fifth day and that of LDH on the seventh day respectively in castrated group. In addition, the activities of ACP and ALP were significanily increased when treated with testosterone for 5 days, that of LDH when treated with testosterone for 7 days. In case of cAMP and cAMP - theophylline injection, the activities of ACP and LDH were increased but the range of increase was of no significance. However a significant increase in the activity of ALP was seen on both cases. On electron microscopic examination, gradually deformed Golgi complex, destructed mitochondria and disrupted stereociha were observed in castrated group. In case of testosterone injection, disrupted Golgi complex, mitochondria and stereocilia showed recovery. When cAMP and cAMP-theophylline were injected as an alternative, various cytoplasmic organelles as well as Golgi com- plex were recovered but stereocilia remained unrecovered.

• The Journal of the Korean dental association
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• v.37 no.7 s.362
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• pp.517-529
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• 1999

본 연구는 태령 19일된 백서 태자 두 개관에서 분리한 골모세포유사세포에 화학발암물질인 7,12-Dimethylbenz(a)anthracene (DMBA: 0.5 ㎍/ml) 및 tumor promotor인 12-O-tetradecanoyl-phorbol-13-acetate (TPA; 1.0 ㎍/ml)를 단독 혹은 복합 처리하여 PTRCC-DMBA, RCC-DMBA 및 RCC-DMBA-TPA 세포주를 확립시키고, 각 세포의 세포형태, 세포성장곡선, alkaline phosphatase와 acid phosphatase 활성 및 in vitro tumorigenicity를 연구하였다. 또한 c-myc, c-랜, c-jun, p53 및 Rb 유전자의 발현변화와 항암단백질인 p53 및 pRb 단백질의 발현변화를 관찰하여 골모세포유사세포가 악성형질전환되는 분자기전의 일단을 연구하고자 시행하였다. 본 실험에 사용한 모든 세포군에서 높은 aikaline phosphatase 활성과 낮은 acid phosphatase/alkaline phosphatase ratio를 보여 골모세포의 특성을 나타내었다. RCC-DMBA와 RCC-DMBA-TPA 세포는 정상세포나 PTRCC-DMBA에 비해 빠른 성장속도를 보였으며, 또한 SOFT AGAR상에서 colony를 형성하여 anchorage-independent growth를 나타내었다. 화학발암 물질로 악성변형된 세포들은 정상세포나 PTRCC-DMBA 세포에 비해 c-myc 유전자의 과발현이 관찰되었다. 정상세포에서 p53 유전자의 발현은 1.9 kb의 message만이 발현되었다. 그러나 화학발암물질로 형질전환된 세포에서는 1.9 kb message외에도 1.6 kb의 message가 더 발현되었으며, message의 양도 현저히 증가되었다. p53 단백질의 발현은 RCC-DMBA-TPA 세포에서 정상세포에 비해 현저히 감소하였으나, RCC-DMBA 세포에서는 유사한 경향을 보였다. Rb 유전자의 발현은 RCC-DMBA-TPA 세포에서만 현저히 감소하였으나, Rb 단백질의 발현은 정상세포에 비해 형질전환된 세포들에서 모두 현저히 감소되었고, 특히 RCC-DMBA-TPA 세포에서는 거의 발현되지 않았다. 이상의 결과에서 백서 태자 두 개관에서 분리한 골모세포유사세포는 화학발암물질인 DMBA에 의해 악성형질전환이 유도되었으며, c-myc의 과발현 및 p53과 Rb 단백질의 발현감소가 정상 골모세포유사세포의 악성변형과정에 밀접히 연관되어 있음을 시사한다.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.69-76
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• 1993

In order to investigate radiation effects on the liver, functional changes of liver were analyzed after irradiation. Doses of 10 Gy, 15 Gy and 20 Gy were exposed partially to the liver of male rats(Sprague-Dawley) with X-ray(4MV linear accelerator) at room temperature. On 1, 2, 4 and 8 weeks after irradiation, sera of the animals were compared with those of unirradiated animal by liver function tests. Enzyme activities in sera such as alkaline phosphatase and concentrations of bilirubin in liver function tests. The content of the activities of many enzymes including alkaline phosphatase in sera were increased slightly with increasing exposure dose in all experiments and the activities of these enzymes increased markedly in 20 Gy irradiated groups. The contents of serum bilirubins including direct and indirect bilirubins increased continuously along with the time lapse after irradiation. However, in 20 Gy irradiated group, the content of serum bilirubin decreased slightly during 2 or 4 weeks after irradiation and increased markedly there after. From these above results, functional changes of the liver were induced in all irradiated groups. Damaged liver was recovered along with time collapsed after irradiation to the doses of 10 Gy and 15 Gy while no recovery was deteced within 8 weeks after irradiation to 20 Gy. These results suggest that careful attontion must be paid to liver not to be included in exposure field in radiation therapy.

• Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.309-314
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• 1996

The purpose of this study is to explain the relationship between the pharmacological mechanism of levamisole and the cellular activity of cellular alkaline phosphatase (ALPase) in kidney cells. The results of our investigation were as follows. 1. Cellular ALPase activity in Macacus rhesus monkey kidney cells (MA 104 cells) and primary cultured rabbit kidney proximal tubular cells treated with levamisole was increased about two or three times than control. However, 50% of ALPase activity in cultured medium was inhibited by levamisole itself. 2. The proliferation of MA 104 and cultured rabbit kidney proximal tubular cells was linearly decreased in paralleled with increase of levamisole concentration $(50\;and\;500\;{mu}M)$ with MTT test. 3. In the heat stability tests, the inhibition of ALPase activity with and without levamisole at $56^{\circ}C$ in MA 104 cells showed different $IC_{50}$ values. 4. HPLC analysis of levamisole metabolites produced by cultured MA 104 cells suggested that the formation of a metabolite, that may be associated with its increase of cellular ALPase activity. Based on these results, we assumed that the increase of cellular ALPase activity by levamisole was evoked by modification of the ALPase catalytic sites.

• Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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• v.43 no.4
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• pp.322-329
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• 2015

The effects of water extracts of Gallus gallus var. domesticus (Yeonsan ogolgye, GD) on the activities of osteoblast differentiation and the restraint of osteoclast formation were investigated. The water extract of GD in the human osteoblast "MG-63" cell, was examined in relation to alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity and alizarin red stains. In order to observe the effects of osteoclasts formation, we analyzed RAW 264.7 cell tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase (TRAP) activity and TRAP stains. The ALP activity of the water extract of hen and cock flesh (3 years) were 133.8% and 129.6%, respectively. The ALP activity of flesh extracts was also higher than that of the skin extracts. Concerning the effects of age, the 3 years old flesh extracts had a higher activity than that of the one year old extracts. However the activity of the 3 years old skin extracts was lower than that of the one year old extracts. For gender conditions, the ALP activity of the hen extract was higher than that of the cock. The degree bone mineralization in the three years old hen flesh exhibited the highest rate, at 124.3%, amongst all the groups. The TRAP activity of the flesh extracts of the three years old cock revealed the lowest rate, at 31.8%, compared to the control. Our results demonstrate that the water extract of GD increases bone mineralization and osteoblast differentiation activity in MG-63 cells and enhances the inhibitory activity of bone-resorption in RAW 264.7 cells. In conclusion, the water extracts of GD seem to be effective in the prevention and treatment of bone related disorders.