• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.319-332
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• 2016

Micropollutants are often discharged to surface waters through untreated wastewater from sewage treatment plants and wastewater treatment plants. The presence of micropollutants in surface waters is a serious concern because surface water is usually provided to water treatment plants (WTP) to produce drinking water. Many micropollutants can withstand conventional WTP systems and stay in tap water. In particular, pharmaceuticals and endocrine disruptors are examples of micropollutants that are detected at the drinking water, ppb, or even ppb level. A variety of techniques and processes, especially advanced oxidation processes, have been applied to remove micropollutants from water to control drinking water contamination. This paper reviews recent researches on the occurrence and removal of micropollutants in the aquatic environments and during water treatment processes.

• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.111-120
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• 2015

Contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) including endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) and pharmaceuticals and personal care product chemicals (PPCPs) have recently received more attention because of their occurrence in water bodies and harmful impacts on human health and aquatic organisms. Triclosan is widely used as a synthetic broad-spectrum antimicrobial agent due to its antimicrobial efficacy. However, triclosan detected in aquatic environment has been recently considered as one of CECs, because of the potential for endocrine disruption, the formation of toxic by-products and the development of cross-resistance to antibiotics in aquatic environment. This comprehensive review focuses on the regulations, toxicology, fate and transport, occurrence and removal efficiency of triclosan. Overall, this review aims to provide better understanding of triclosan and insight into application of biological treatment process as an efficient method for triclosan removal.

• 한국독성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국독성학회 2006년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.34-45
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• 2006

Chemical toxicants are metabolically converted to numerous metabolites in the body. Toxicokinetic characteristics of metabolites could be therefore used as biomarker of exposure for human risk assessment. Biologically based dose response (BBDR) model was proposed for future direction of risk assessment. However, this area has not been developed well enough for human application. Benzo(a)pyrene (BP), for example, is a well-known environmental carcinogen and may produce more than 100 metabolites and BPDE-DNA adduct, a covalently bound form of DNA with benzo(a)pyrene diolepoxides (BPDES), has been applied to qualitatively or quantitaively estimate human exposure to BP. In addition, di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP), a widely used plasticize. in the polymer industry, is one of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and has been monitored in humans using urinary or serum concentrations of DEHP or its monomer MEHP for exposure and risk assessment. However, it is difficult to estimate the actual level of toxicants using these biomarkers in humans using. This presentation will discuss a methodology of exposure and risk assessment by application of metabolic profiling kinetics.

• 한국독성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국독성학회 2003년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.127-127
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• 2003

Bisphenol A (BPA) and 4-nonylphenol (4-NP) are a class of the broader group of compounds known as alkylphenol. These phenolic compounds are used in a number of commercial products and have been reported to be weakly estrogenic in previous studies. BPA, used as coating material for food cans and dental sealants, is relatively more estrogenic than other phenolic compounds.(omitted)

• 한국어업기술학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국어업기술학회 2001년도 춘계 수산관련학회 공동학술대회발표요지집
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• pp.473-474
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• 2001

스테로이드 호르몬과 유사한 기능을 하는 유기 화합물질들의 존재가 밝혀지고 있고, 이러 한 물질을 내분비 장애물질 (endocrine disrupting chemicals, EDCs)이라 명명하고 있다 (Kavlock et al., 1996). PCBs는 자연에서 쉽게 분해되지 않는 난분해성 물질이지만 생물체의 지방성분에는 쉽게 용해되는 지용성이다. 이 물질은 화학구조가 생명체의 호르몬과 비슷해 생명체에 흡수될 경우 정상적인 호르몬의 기능을 혼란시켜 생식기의 기형, 생식기능의 저하, 행동의 변화 등을 유발하는 것으로 알려지고 있다(Colborn et al., 1996). (중략)

• 대한약학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한약학회 2003년도 Proceedings of the Convention of the Pharmaceutical Society of Korea Vol.1
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• pp.189.1-189.1
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• 2003

Transcript profiling is a particularly valuable tool in the field of steroid receptor biology, as these receptors are ligand-activated transcription factors and therefore exert their initial effects through altering gene expression in responsive cells. Also, an increased awareness of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and their potential to affect wildlife and humans has produced a demand for practical screening methods to identify endocrine activity. (omitted)

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제29권7호
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• pp.771-777
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• 2007

가정계열과 공단계열로 분리하여 처리되는 하수처리장에서 에스트로겐 활성을 평가하기 위하여 yeast two-hybrid assay와 enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay(ELISA)를 이용하여 내분비계장애물질의 농도와 활성도를 측정하였다. 그 결과 가정계열 유입수 중에서 estrone (E1), 17$\beta$-estradiol(E2), 17$\alpha$-ethinylestradiol(EE2) 그리고 APE의 농도는 각각 최대 167.1, 39.7, 7.3, 145.4 ng/L까지 검출되었다. 활성슬러지법에 의한 처리로, 17$\beta$-estradiol의 평균제거율은 77.5%, 고도처리 공정인 모래여과와 오존산화를 거친 후에는 80.8%까지 제거되는 것으로 나타났다. 동시에 Yeast two-hybrid assay로 각 내분비계장애물질의 농도-반응곡선으로부터 반응식을 구하여, 에스트로겐 활성에 미치는 각 물질의 기여도를 분석한 결과, 가정계의 활성슬러지법에 의한 처리수에서 estrone, 17$\beta$-estradiol 17$\alpha$-ethinylestradiol, APE 가 각각 70.7, 23.3, 3.7, 2.32%로 나타났다. 즉, 생물학적 처리공정을 통해 배출된 처리수의 에스트로겐 활성에 영향을 미치는 주된 기여물질은 estrone과 17$\beta$-estradiol인 것으로 나타났다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권12호
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• pp.4809-4813
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• 2014

Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) have been reported to interfere with estrogen signaling. Exposure to these chemicals decreases the immune response and causes a wide range of diseases in animals and humans. Recently, many studies showed that licorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra) root extract (LRE) commonly called "gamcho" in Korea exhibits antioxidative, chemoprotective, and detoxifying properties. This study aimed to investigate the mechanism of action of LRE and to determine if and how LRE can alleviate the toxicity of EDCs. LRE was prepared by vacuum evaporation and freeze-drying after homogenization of licorice root powder that was soaked in 80% ethanol for 72 h. We used 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) as a representative EDC, which is known to induce tumors or cancers; MCF-7 breast cancer cells, used as a tumor model, were treated with TCDD and various concentrations of LRE (0, 50, 100, 200, $400{\mu}g/mL$) for 24, 48, and 72 h. As a result, TCDD stimulated MCF-7 cell proliferation, but LRE significantly inhibited TCDD-induced MCF-7 cell proliferation in a dose- and time-dependent manner. The expression of TCDD toxicity-related genes, i.e., aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR), AhR nuclear translocator, and cytochrome P450 1A1, was also down-regulated by LRE in a dose-dependent manner. Analysis of cell cycle distribution after treatment of MCF-7 cells with TCDD showed that LRE inhibited the proliferation of MCF-7 cells via G2/M phase arrest. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction and Western blot analysis also revealed that LRE dose-dependently increased the expression of the tumor suppressor genes p53 and p27 and down-regulated the expression of cell cycle-related genes. These data suggest that LRE can mitigate the tumorigenic effects of TCDD in breast cancer cells by suppression of AhR expression and cell cycle arrest. Thus, LRE can be used as a potential toxicity-alleviating agent against EDC-mediated diseases.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권13호
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• pp.5117-5121
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• 2014

Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) have been reported to interfere with estrogen signaling. Exposure to these chemicals decreases the immune response and causes a wide range of diseases in animals and humans. Recently, many studies showed that licorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra) root extract (LRE) commonly called "gamcho" in Korea exhibits antioxidative, chemoprotective, and detoxifying properties. This study aimed to investigate the mechanism of action of LRE and to determine if and how LRE can alleviate the toxicity of EDCs. LRE was prepared by vacuum evaporation and freeze-drying after homogenization of licorice root powder that was soaked in 80% ethanol for 72 h. We used 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) as an EDC, which is known to induce tumors or cancers; MCF-7 breast cancer cells were used as a tumorigenic model. These were treated with TCDD and various concentrations of LRE (0, 50, 100, 200, $400{\mu}g/mL$) for 24, 48, and 72 h. As a result, TCDD stimulated MCF-7 cell proliferation, but LRE significantly inhibited TCDD-induced MCF-7 cell proliferation in a dose- and time-dependent manner. Expression of TCDD toxicity-related genes, i.e., aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR), AhR nuclear translocator, and cytochrome P450 1A1, were subsequently down-regulated by LRE in a dose-dependent manner. Analysis of cell cycle distribution after treatment of MCF-7 cells with TCDD and various concentrations of LRE showed that LRE inhibited the proliferation of MCF-7 cells via G2/M phase arrest. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction and Western blot analyses also revealed that LRE dose-dependently increased the expression of the tumor suppressor genes p53 and p27 and down-regulated the expression of cell cycle-related genes. These data suggest that LRE can mitigate the tumorigenic effects of TCDD in breast cancer cells by suppression of AhR expression and cell cycle arrest. Thus, LRE can be used as a potential toxicity-alleviating agent against EDC-mediated disease.

• 생태와환경
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• 제38권1호통권110호
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• pp.11-17
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• 2005

야외에서 채집한 C. plumosus를 대상으로 잠재적 내 분비계 교란물질인 DEHP, BPA 및 Tebufenozide를 처리물질로 하여 형태적인 교란 효과를 살펴보았다. 약제에 노출된 개체의 하순기절은 부드러워지거나(smooth) 손실(loss)이 가장 많았으며 엷은 갈색을 보였다. 처리 물질에 따른 기형의 정도를 살펴보면, DEHP는 46.2 ${\sim}$ 85.7%, BPA는 73.7 ${\sim}$ 90.9% 그리고 tebufenozide는 57.6 ${\sim}$ 78.9%가 기형을 입어 BPA>tebufenozide>DEHP 순으로 기형이 크게 나타났다. 처리 물질별 기형 부위를 살펴보면, MIX (32 ${\sim}$ 46%)>MLT (25 ${\sim}$ 34%)>LT (3 ${\sim}$ 7%)로 두 부분이 함께 기형을 입는 형태가 가장 많았으며 LT 단독의 기형이 가장 적었다. MIX 형태로 기형이 가장 높은 물질은 BPA (46%)>DEHP (33%)>tebufenozide (32%)이고, MLT에 가장 높은 기형을 보인 것은 DEHP (34%)>tebufenozide (31%)>BPA (25%)로 나타났다. Tebufenozide 처리에 따른 하순기절의 색은 처리 농도가 높아지면 엷은 갈색 하순기절의 발생 빈도가 증가되었다 (27.8 ${\sim}$ 84.2%). 반면, BPA (8.7%)와 DEHP (18.2%)는 $1\;{\mu}g\;L^{-1}$에서 가장 낮은 엷은 갈색의 하순기절의 발생 빈도를 보였으나 $0.3\;{\mu}g\;L^{-1}$처리에서는 매우 높은 엷은 갈색의 하순기절이 다수 발생하였다 (BPA 52.6%; DEHP 30.8%).