• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• 제6권6호
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• pp.299-304
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• 2002

Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) expressing neurons are distributed widely throughout the central and peripheral nervous systems. Due to its distribution and pharmacological studies, CGRP has been implicated to be involved in anxiety, fear and depression. In this study, ${\alpha}CGRP-knockout$ mice were used to assess the consequences of removing this neuropeptide to the mice behaviors. ${\alpha}CGRP-knockout$ mice performed equally as well as wild type mice in the light-dark transition test and in the elevated plus maze test of anxiety. ${\alpha}CGRP-null$ mice behaved similarly as wild-type mice in the Porsolt swim test of depression. They also exhibited normal learning and memory in the fear conditioning tasks. It is concluded that ${\alpha}CGRP$ is not essential for mice to be able to perform these tests, despite the presence of ${\alpha}CGRP$ in the relevant regions of the brain.

• Journal of Ginseng Research
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.304-308
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• 2016

Background: Joboksansam, Korean bird wild ginseng, is an artificially cultivated wild ginseng germinated from bird feces. Although numerous pharmacologic activities of wild ginsengs have been reported, the beneficial effect of joboksansam in cancer has not been elucidated. In this study, we investigated the in vivo and in vitro anticancer activities of joboksansam powder. Methods: To evaluate the in vivo anticancer activity of joboksansam, we established a xenograft mouse model bearing RMA cell-derived cancer. Direct cytotoxicity induced by joboksansam powder was also investigated in vitro using (3-4-5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2-5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay. The inhibitory activity of this powder on the activation of cell survival signaling involving Akt and Src was examined with immunoblot analysis. Results: Joboksansam powder displayed strong inhibitory activity against the increased tumor size, increased weight of total body and cancer tissues, and mortality of tumor-bearing mice. Joboksansam powder also suppressed the activation of survival regulatory enzymes Akt and Src, as assessed by phosphorylation levels in the immunoblot analysis of tumor tissues. Interestingly, the viability of RMA cells in vitro was directly decreased by joboksansam treatment. Conclusion: Overall, our results strongly suggest that joboksansam powder has the potential to protect against cancer generation by direct cytotoxic effects on cancer cells resulting from suppression of cell survival signaling.

• 약학회지
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• 제45권6호
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• pp.617-622
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• 2001

A protein-polysaccharide fraction of a Korean wild mushroom Psathyrella velutina, PVP, was prepared and its antitumor immunomodulatory activity was investigated. When PVP was administered once daily for seven days from day 1 to day 7 into male ICR mice implanted with 1 $\times$ 10$^{5}$ cells of sarcom 180 tumor cells into the peritoneum on day 4, it inhibited the growth of sarcoma 180 cells by 92.8%. In XTT assay, PVP also exhorted in vitro anti-proliferation activity on U-937, a human monoblastoid cell line, as well as sarcoma 180 cells. PVP showed marked stimulatory activity on the immune system in that it induced the accumulation of PEC (the stimulation index, Sl=4.90 at 100 mg/kg), stimulated the BALB/c mouse splenic lymphocytes to form lymphoblasts (Sl=5.75 at 100$\mu\textrm{g}$/ml), and upergulated the expression of CD25 molecules. All these results strongly support that PVP exhorts its antitumor activity through stimulation of the immune system as well as anti-proliferative activity on the tumor cells.

• 약학회지
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.213-218
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• 1987

Twenty species of higher fungi growing in the wild were collected and studied extensively for their lectin activities by using erythrocytes of human, rabbit and mouse blood. In total, 14 species demonstrated hemagglutination with some kinds of erythrocytes. Of twenty species, eight (Boletus edulis, B. splendidus, Clavaria zollingeri, Lactaritis subzonarius, L. volemus, Russula cutefracta, Pholiota squarrosa, and P. aspera) were shown lymphoagglutination with murine splenic lymphocytes. Protein contents were estimated from the crude lectin fraction. Above mentioned eight species contained relatively high amounts of proteins than other mushrooms. Since these species had coincidently, hiig emagglutinating activity as well, we could define them as lectin-containeing mushrooms. Some species also contained mitogenic lectins toward murine splenic lymphocytes.

• 한국동물생명공학회지
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.247-252
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• 2021

Embryo transfer (ET) in the animal is an important procedure to generate genetically engineered animals and conserve genetic resources. For ET experiments in mice, pseudopregnant recipients are usually prepared with proestrus stage of females and vasectomized males. However, this conventional method is inefficient because the size of female colonies should be large to select only the proestrus stage in the estrous cycle and the surgical procedures are required to generate vasectomized males. In this study, we established a simple and efficient protocol to prepare ET recipients using the estrous synchronization with hormone injection and the mating with wild male mice. The delivery rate of ET recipients tended to be increased with estrous synchronization using hormone injection (100%) compared to the conventional method (71%). Further, natural pregnancy of the recipients, induced by mating with a wild male, significantly enhanced the birth rate of ET offspring than the conventional method (33% vs. 13%). Based on the results, we concluded that our new protocol using hormone injection to ET recipients and mating with wild males could be more efficient and simpler compared to the conventional method.

• 한국식품영양학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.755-761
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• 2012

최근 산삼근의 배양이 실험실에서 가능해짐에 따라 산삼에 대한 많은 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 산삼 배양근으로부터 다당을 분리하여 보체계 및 macrophage에 대한 면역자극활성을 측정하였다. 산삼 배양근을 열수 추출한 뒤, 80% ethanol 침전을 통하여 조다당을 추출하여 특성을 검토한 결과, 산삼 배양근 조다당체(WGAR-CP)의 neutral sugar 함량은 64.77%였고, uronic acid 함량은 34.32%이었다. WGAR-CP의 구성당 조성을 확인한 결과, glucose를 높은 비율로 함유하고 있었으며, rhamnose, arabinose, galactose, glucose를 미량 함유하고 있었다. Uronic acid에서는 galacturonic acid를 높은 비율로 함유하고 있었다. 한편, WGAR-CP는 인체 초기 면역반응에 있어 중요한 역할을 담당하는 보체계에 대하여 농도 의존적인 활성을 나타냈다. WGAR-CP를 0.1, 1, 10, 50, $100{\mu}g/m{\ell}$ 농도로 mouse peritoneal macrophage에 처리하여 면역자극을 유도한 후, NO 생성 및 cytokine 분비활성을 평가하였다. 그 결과 WGAR-CP의 NO생성은 저농도에서는 유의적인 활성을 보이지 않았으나, 50, $100{\mu}g/m{\ell}$에서 농도별로 유의적인 차이를 보였다. 또한 50, $100{\mu}g/m{\ell}$ 용량에서 IL-6 생성을 농도 유의적으로 증가시켰고, 10, $50{\mu}g/m{\ell}$에서 농도 유의적으로 IL-12의 생성을 증가시켰다. 이상의 결과를 종합해 볼 때, WGAR-CP는 자연면역계를 구성하고 있는 보체계와 macrophage의 활성인자로 작용할 수 있음이 확인되었고, WGAR-CP에 의해 활성화된 macrophage는 NO 및 IL-6, IL-12와 같은 염증성 cytokine의 분비를 유도함으로써 체내 면역기능을 증강시킬 수 있는 가능성이 있을 것으로 사료되었다.

• 한국독성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국독성학회 2005년도 춘계 국제심포지엄 및 학술대회
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• pp.108-108
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• 2005

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.132-136
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• 2006

Aryl hydrocarbon receptor nuclear translocator (Arnt) belongs to bHLH-PAS protein family. Here, we study the role of Arnt in both cell growth and glucose metabolism. Our results demonstrated that the absence of Arnt does affect ATP homeostasis but not cell growth in monolayer-cultured mouse hepatoma cells. ATP level of Arnt defective BpRc1 hepatoma cells is less than that of wild type hepatoma cells in both normoxia and hypoxia. BpRc1 cells also fail to increase the expression of glycolytic enzymes in response to hypoxia. Our results suggest that Arnt is essential for glucose metabolism and ATP production but not for cell growth.

• BMB Reports
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• 제49권5호
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• pp.247-248
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• 2016

Necroptosis is a well-known form of caspase-independent cell death. Necroptosis can be triggered by various extrinsic stimuli, including death ligands in the presence of receptorinteracting protein kinase 3 (RIPK3), a key mediator of necroptosis induction. Our recent studies have revealed that C-terminus HSC-70 interacting protein (CHIP), an E3 ligase, can function as an inhibitor of necroptosis. CHIP^−/− mouse embryonic fibroblast showed higher sensitivity to necrotic stimuli than wild-type mouse embryonic fibroblast cells. Deleterious effects of CHIP knockout MEFs were retrieved by RIPK3 depletion. We found that CHIP negatively regulated RIPK3 and RIPK1 by ubiquitylation- and lysosome- dependent degradation. In addition, CHIP^−/− mice showed postnatal lethality with intestinal defects that could be rescued by crossing with RIPK3^−/− mice. These results suggest that CHIP is a negative regulator of RIPK1 and RIPK3, thus inhibiting necroptosis.

• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.488-492
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• 2003

S. cereviaiae KCTC 7911에 돌연변이를 유도하고 selective pressure로서 세포벽 분해효소인 zymolsae와 mechanical stress인 glass bead를 차례로 처리하여 효모변이주를 S. cerevisiae IS2를 선발하였다. S. cerevisiae IS2는 세포벽 분해효소인 zymolase의 농도별 내성실험 결과 wild-type에 비해 훨씬 강한 내성을 보여 세포벽에 변화가 일어난 균주로 예상된다. 효모변이주와 wild-type으로부터 베타글루칸을 추출하여 면역활성에 미치는 영향을 조사하기 위해 생쥐의 복강에 주사하고 생성되는 면역세포의 수, NO 생성능, 및 면역세포의 대다수를 차지하는 대식세포의 탐식능을 측정하였다. 베타글루칸을 쥐의 복강에 주사하였을 때 베타글루칸의 종류에 상관없이 면역세포의 수, NO 생성능 및 대식세포의 활성도가 증가하는 결과를 얻을 수 있었다. 특히 변이주 베타글루칸을 주사하였을 경우 wild-type 베타글루칸에 비해 면역세포의 수는 1.40배, NO 생성능은 1.12배, 대식세포의 활성도와 탐식능은 각각 1.18배와 1.43배 높은 수치를 얻을 수 있었다. 이러한 결과들로 미루어 변이주 베타글루칸이 wild-type 베타글루칸보다 우수한 면역활성 촉진능력을 가지고 있음을 증명할 수 있었으며, 고부가가치 기능성 면역물질로서의 응용 가능성을 확인할 수 있었다.