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General Toxicity of Novel Pt(II) Complexes in vivo (새로운 항암성 백금(II) 착체류의 in vivo 독성 연구)

  • 정광원;정세영;노영수;임종석;최병기
    • Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology
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    • v.10 no.3_4
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    • pp.1-5
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    • 1995
  • The general toxicological study of new platinum(II) compounds, KHPC-002, KHPC-005 and KHPC-006 were investigated in rats. The effects of these Pt(II) complexes on renal, hematopoietic and hepatic system in rats showed lower toxicity compared with cisplatin. In the consideration of the maximal dose of these Pt(II) complexes using in this experiment is 4-8 times higher than cisplatin, these novel compounds will have the less general toxicity in vivo.

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Mucopolysaccharidoses in Taiwan

  • Lin, Hsiang-Yu;Chuang, Chih-Kuang;Lin, Shuan-Pei
    • Journal of mucopolysaccharidosis and rare diseases
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.14-20
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    • 2018
  • Mucopolysaccharidoses (MPSs) are a group of rare inherited metabolic disorders caused by specific lysosomal enzyme deficiencies leading to the sequential degradation of glycosaminoglycans, causing substrate accumulation in various cells and tissues and progressive multiple organ dysfunction. The rare disease medical care team at Mackay Memorial Hospital in Taiwan has been dedicated to the study of MPSs for more than 20 years. Since 1999, more than 50 academic papers focusing on MPSs have been published in international medical journals. Topics of research include the following items regarding MPSs: incidence, natural history, clinical manifestations, gene mutation characteristics, cardiac function, bone mineral density, sleep studies, pulmonary function tests, hearing assessments, percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy, anesthetic experience, imaging analysis, special biochemical tests, laboratory diagnostics, global expert consensus conferences, prenatal diagnosis, new drug clinical trials, newborn screening, and treatment outcomes. Of these published academic research papers, more than half were cross-domain, cross-industry, and international studies with results in cooperation with experts from European, American and other Asian countries. A cross-specialty collaboration platform was established based on high-risk population screening criteria with the acronym "BECARE" (Bone and joints, Eyes, Cardiac and central nervous system, Abdomen and appearance, Respiratory system, and Ear, nose, and throat involvement). Through this platform, orthopedic surgeons, rheumatologists, ophthalmologists, cardiologists, rehabilitation physicians, gastroenterologists, otorhinolaryngologists, and medical geneticists have been educated with regards to awareness of suspected cases of MPSs patients to allow for a further confirmative diagnosis of MPSs. Because of the progressive nature of the disease, an early diagnosis and early multidisciplinary therapeutic interventions including surgery, rehabilitation programs, symptom-based treatments, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, and enzyme replacement therapy, are very important.

Hypokalemic Muscular Paralysis Causing Acute Respiratory Failure in a Chronic Glue Sniffer (만성 본드 흡입 환자에게 발생한 호흡부전 1례)

  • Choi, Yoon-Hee;Lee, Dong-Hoon;Eo, Eun-Kyung
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Clinical Toxicology
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.63-66
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    • 2005
  • Toluene is an aromatic hydrocarbon found in glues, cements, and solvents. It is known to be toxic to the nervous system, hematopoietic system, and causes acid-base and electrolyte disorders. Acute respiratory failure with hypokalemia and rhabdomyolysis with acute renal failure should be considered as potential events in protracted glue sniffing. We reported the case of 26-year-old woman was admitted to the emergency department with the development of respiratory failure and altered mentality due to hypokalemia after chronic glue sniffing. She was weaned from the ventilator 3 days later after potassium and sodium bicarbonate replacement and was discharged without respiratory symptoms and other complications.

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Toxicological Evaluation of Medicinal Plants Used for Herbal Drugs (II) -Acute Toxicity and Effects on DNA Biosynthesis in Bone Marrow Cells and Hemoglobin Content in Blood- (한국산 생약의 약리작용 및 독성연구 (제2보) -급성 독성 및 골수세포의 DNA생합성에 미치는 영향-)

  • Chang, Il-Moo;Kim, Young-Soo;Han, Byung-Hoon
    • Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.14-19
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    • 1982
  • Potential toxicity of 15 medicinal plants used for herbal drugs, which were also described as being tonic for hematopoietic system or being toxic for the system in a oriental book 'Dong Ee Bo Gam', were evaluated in mice. Six plants among 15 plants tested appeared to exhibit acute toxicity along with bone marrow depression or with abnormally enhancing the $^3H-thymidine$ incorporation into DNA biosynthesis in bone marrow cells. Six plants were Paeonia albiflora, Pharbitis nil, Cemphalia lapidescens, Scutellaria baicalensis, Akebia quinata and Glycyrriza uralensis.

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Attenuation of Hepatic Graft-versus-host Disease in Allogeneic Recipients of MyD88-deficient Donor Bone Marrow

  • Lim, Ji-Young;Lee, Young-Kwan;Lee, Sung-Eun;Ju, Ji-Min;Park, Gyeongsin;Choi, Eun Young;Min, Chang-Ki
    • IMMUNE NETWORK
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.125-134
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    • 2015
  • Acute graft-versus-host-disease (GVHD) is characterized by selective damage to the liver, the skin, and the gastrointestinal tract. Following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, donor bone marrow (BM) cells repopulate the immune system of the recipient. We previously demonstrated that the acute intestinal GVHD (iGVHD) mortality rate was higher in MyD88-deficient BM recipients than that in the control BM recipients. In the present study, the role of MyD88 (expressed by donor BM) in the pathophysiology of hepatic GVHD (hGVHD) was examined. Unlike iGVHD, transplantation with MyD88-deficient T-cell depleted (TCD) BM attenuated hGVHD severity and was associated with low infiltration of T cells into the liver of the recipients. Moreover, GVHD hosts, transplanted with MyD88-deficient TCD BM, exhibited markedly reduced expansion of $CD11b^+Gr-1^+$ myeloidderived suppressor cells (MDSC) in the liver. Adoptive injection of the MDSC from wild type mice, but not MyD88-deficient mice, enhanced hepatic T cell infiltration in the MyD88-deficient TCD BM recipients. Pre-treatment of BM donors with LPS increased MDSC levels in the liver of allogeneic wild type BM recipients. In conclusion, hGVHD and iGVHD may occur through various mechanisms based on the presence of MyD88 in the non-T cell compartment of the allograft.

Effect of a Herb Mixture (HIM-I) on the Protection of the Hematopoietic-Immune System and Self-renewal Tissues against Radiation Damage (면역조혈계 및 재생조직의 방사선 손상에 대한 생약복합물(HIM-I)의 방호 효과)

  • Park, Hae-Ran;Kim, Sung-Ho;Yee, Sung-Tae;Byun, Myung-Woo;Jo, Sung-Kee
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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    • v.34 no.5
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    • pp.605-612
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    • 2005
  • In previous studies, we evaluated the effect of the 6 energy-tonic or blood-building prescriptions of traditional oriental medicine, and observed that Si-Wu-Tang and Bu-Zhong-Yi-Qi-Tang showed high activity in the protection of the gastrointestinal and hematopoietic organs in irradiated mice. But any of these prescriptions did not show a high activity in the activation of the immune cells. We performed this study to design an herb mixture which protects the self-renewal tissues and also promotes recovery of the immune system against radiation damage. In order to meet all the requirements, we designed a new mixture of 3 edible herbs listed in Korean Food Code. The mixture of Angelim gigas radix, Cnidium officinale rhizoma and Paeonia japonica radix was decocted with hot water, and the activities of the water extract (HIM-I) were evaluated. HIM-1 stimulated the immune cells in a much higher extent than the traditional prescriptions, and promoted dramatically the growth of bone marrow stem cells in vitro. Also, HIM-1 protected digestive and hematopoietic organs against radiation as effectively as the 2 prescriptions, Si-Wu-Tang and Bu-Zhong-Yi-Qi-Tang. On the other hand, it showed high in vitro antioxidative activity that might be considered as a mechanism of the protective effects against radiation. Although the detailed mechanisms of those effects remain to be elucidated, these results indicated that HIM-I might be a useful agent for protection and recovery of body from various risk factor as well as radiation, especially since it is a relatively nontoxic natural product.

Activation of Intestinal Immune System by an Orally Administered Methanol Extract from Pine Needles (솔잎 메탄올추출물의 마우스 경구투여에 의한 장관면역 활성)

  • Yoon, Jin-A;Yu, Kwang-Won;Shin, Shun-Hyuck;Cho, Hong-Yeon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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    • v.39 no.3
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    • pp.356-362
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    • 2010
  • When pine (Pinus densiflora) needles were fractionated into cold water (PD-CW), hot water (PD-HW) and methanol extract (PD-M), PD-M showed potent simulating activity (1.19-fold of the saline control) for proliferation of bone marrow cells mediated by Peyer's patch cells in vitro. MeOH extracts were prepared by homogenization, stirring or reflux to identify the method of methanol extraction, and MeOH extract by reflux method showed significantly highest intestinal immune system modulating activity (1.30-fold) in vitro. The intestinal immune system modulating effect of orally administered PD-M fractionated from pine needles also were studied in mice. Analyzing intestinal immune system modulating activity mediated Peyer's patch cells from C3H/He mice which had been fed with PD-M at different doses for 7 days, 1.0 g/kg of BW/day indicated that the bone marrow cells had proliferated (3.65-fold of 3% EtOH administered group). In addition, the amounts of IL-6 in the culture supernatant of Peyer's patch cells at 1.0 g/kg of BW/day were increased (1.13-fold) whereas the production of GM-CSF was not dose dependent. These results indicate that oral administration of PD-M enhances the secretion of hematopoietic growth factors such as GM-CSF and IL-6 from Peyer's patch cells, and these cytokines also act on modulator of bone marrow cell proliferation.

5 Cases of Bone Scan with Sr-85 (Sr-85를 이용(利用)한 골(骨) 스캔 5례(例))

  • Yoo, H.S.;Park, C.Y.;Choi, B.S.
    • The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.37-41
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    • 1973
  • Bone scanning was attempted in the five representative cases in various diseases such as primary bone tumor, inflammatory or traumatic changes, secondary metastatic bone tumor and changes in the hematopoietic system with Sr-85 which is available at this time. Each findings were correlated to the X-ray findings. Scan findings were more appreciable than the X-ray findings in elucidation of extent of bone pathology in cases of primary bone tumor and fracture cases. Especially, increased radioactivity was noted on the clinically suspected region which were not demonstrated on the plain X-rays.

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Biological Response Modifiers Influence Structure Function Relationship of Hematopoietic Stem and Stromal Cells in a Mouse Model of Leukemia

  • Basu, Kaustuv;Mukherjee, Joydeep;Law, Sujata;Chaudhuri, Samaresh
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • v.13 no.6
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    • pp.2935-2941
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    • 2012
  • Biological response modifiers (BRMs) can alter interactions between the immune system and cancer cells to boost, direct, or restore the body's ability to fight disease. Mice with ethylnitrosourea- (ENU) induced leukemia were here used to monitor the therapeutic efficacy of lipopolysaccaride (LPS), Bacillus Calmette Guerin (BCG) and sheep erythrocytes (SRBC). Flow cytometry based CD34+ positivity analysis, clonogenicity, proliferation and ultrastructure studies using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) of stem cells in ENU induced animals with and without BRMs treatment were performed. BRMs improved the stem-stromal relationship structurally and functionally and might have potential for use as an adjunct in human stem cell therapy.

Analysis of experimental studies on Insamyangyoung-tang (인삼양영탕을 이용한 실험연구 분석)

  • Choi, Song Ie;Kim, Yun Hee;Lee, Hye Won
    • Journal of Society of Preventive Korean Medicine
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.145-157
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    • 2015
  • Objective : This study aimed to analyze a comprehensive feature of experimental research on Insamyangyoungtang and develop a strategy that can be used for experimental studies on Insamyangyoung-tang in the future. Method : The journal search was performed using six databases : PubMed, Chinese database (China Network Knowledge Infrastructure, [CNKI]), Japan database (Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic, [J-STAGE]) and three Korean databases (Oriental Medicine Advanced Searching Integrated System [OASIS], Research Information Service System [RISS], and Korean Studies Information Service System [KISS]). We used limited keywords and analyzed studies by publication year, experimental models, and the subjects of biological activities. The mechanism of pharmacological activity in accordance with the therapeutic effects of Insamyangyoung-tang was noted. Results and Conclusion : A total of 43 studies (6 domestic studies and 37 foreign ones) were examined according to the inclusion criteria of the experimental study. Research on the pharmacological activities of Insamyangyoung-tang showed its therapeutic effects on the nervous and immune systems, as well as its anti-aging, anti-fatigue, and hematopoietic effects. Additional efficacy and safety assessments and experimental and clinical studies should be performed to evaluate the mechanism of Insamyangyoung-tang. The present review has provided preliminary information for further studies on Insamyangyoung-tang.