• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.533-541
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• 1999

Many conventional anticancer drugs display relatively poor selectivity for neoplastic cells, in particular for solid tumors. Furthermore, expression or development of drug resistance, increased glutathione transferases as well as enhanced DNA repair decrease the efficacy of these drugs. Research efforts continue to overcome these problems by understanding these mechanisms and by developing more effective anticancer drugs. Cyclophosphamide is one of the most widely used alkylating anticancer agents. Because of its unique activation mechanism, numerous bioreversible prodrugs of phosphramide mustard, the active species of cyclophosphamide, have been investigated in an attempt to improve the therapeutic index. Solid tumors are particularly resistant to radiation and chemotherapy. There has been considerable interest in designing drugs selective for hypoxic environments prevalent in solid tumors. Much of the work had been centered on nitroheterocyclics that utilize nitroreductase enzyme systems for their activation. In this article, recent developments of anticancer prodrug design are described with a particular emphasis on exploitation of selective metabolic processes for their activation.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.411-416
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• 1999

A new kind of differential flow induced chemical wave is introduced by theoretical calculation. A differential flow between the counter acting species of a dynamical activator-inhibitor system may destabilize its homogeneous reference state and cause the medium to self-organize into a pattern of travelling waves through the differential flow instability (DIFI). In a chemical system, also, the differential bulk flow may change the dynamics of the system, thus it has been refered to as the differential flow induced chemical instability (DIFICI). For DlFICI experiments, one directional flow has been commonly employed, resulting in periodic wave patterns generally. In this study, we considered two directional flow for the DIFICI wave by exchanging artificially the flow direction at some period.

• Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.420-423
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• 2020

As a result of continuous taxonomic studies on the Korean crabs, Carcinus aestuarii Nardo, 1847 belonging to the superfamily Portunoidea is newly reported from Korean waters. Carcinus aestuarii has characteristics as followings: cardiac, hepartic and brachial regions are divided by deep furrow; shape of three lobes in frontal area is flatter with hairy; inside of carpus is with one sharp tooth; the posterior-lateral margin of the carapace is concave, and so on. The examined specimen doesn't have hairy and bump on outer margin of the chelipeds which differed from the previous description of the specimens collected from Tokyo Bay, Japan. Here, the diagnosis and the picture of Korean specimen is provided. Korean portunoids currently consist of 20 species belonging to 10 genera.

• Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2021

A eunicid polychaete, Marphysa victori Lavesque, Daffe, Bonifácio & Hutchings, 2017 is described for the first time from the intertidal zones of the Korean coasts. It is characterized by having three types of pectinate chaetae (INS, isodont-narrow-slender; AWS, anodont-wide-slender; and AWT, anodont-wide-thick), appearance of pectinate chaetae from chaetiger 2, the chaetae consisted of pectinate and compound spinigers, and pygidium with one pair of pygidial cirri. In genetic analysis based on cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI), intra-specific genetic distance between the specimens of M. victori from its type locality, France and Korea are in the range of 0.000-0.013. This paper includes the morphological description and photographs of M. victori new to Korean fauna, with partial sequences of the mitochondrial COI as DNA barcode data on this species.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제54권6호
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• pp.982-988
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• 2021

Gamma irradiation is one of the simple methods used to induce mutagenesis. Therefore, it is widely used for the development of breeding lineages of plants and algae. In this study, it was developed a new variety of Pyropia yezoensis using gamma irradiation. It was applied a dose of 1 kGy and named the developed mutant Py1k. The blade with width of the mutant was narrower and the blade length was longer than those of the wild type. To further investigate the mutant, it was analyzed the nutrient composition and antioxidant activity. In comparison to those in the wild type, it was found a higher amino acid composition and marginally increased antioxidant activity in Py1k. Based on these results, it was suggests that our protocol can be utilized to develop Pyropia species with improved nutritional quality through gamma irradiation.

• 한국산림과학회지
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• 제83권2호
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• pp.191-204
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• 1994

삼림의 급격한 황폐화의 원인은 지구 환경의 악화와 무분별한 목재 자원의 남벌에 있다. 이러한 대규모의 삼림자원의 파괴에 의해 사라져가는 삼림 면적의 크기도 중요하지만 그에 못지 않게 그 안에 들어있는 식물종이 감소되어 가고 멸종되어 가는 것이 더욱 큰 문제가 된다. 이러한 종의 감소나 멸종이 가시적인 것이라고 한다면 종내의 유전변이의 감소는 눈에 보이지는 않지만 진화과정에 있어서 종을 유지하는데 필수적인 유전자 변이 폭이 좁아지기 때문에 매우 심각한 문제가 된다. 재배작물에 있어서 유전자 보존은 육종을 위한 측면에서 중요한 연구분야로 인식되어 왔다. 그러나 야생종인 삼림의 경우에는 현재 인간이 육종에 필요한 최소한의 개체만 유지 보존함으로써 유전변이가 심하게 축소되어 지속적으로 생존 진화할 수 있는 기본적 유전자 변이를 잃어버리게 될 위험에 처할 수 있기 때문에 삼림의 유전자보존이 절대적으로 필요한 것이다. 현재의 삼림 유전자 보존 정책은 현지보존, 현지외 보존, 시설내 보존으로 나누어 수행하고 있는데 아직도 그 방법이 확정되어 있지 않아서 많은 시행착오를 거듭하고 있다. 특히 광범위하게 분포되어 있는 같은 종의 삼림내 임목들간의 유전자변이를 조사 분석할 적당한 방법이 없으며 (동위효소변이에 많은 것을 의존하고 있으나 동위효소변이만으로 충분하지 못하다), 현지보존의 경우에도 얼마나 큰 집단을 또 어떤 행태로 보존해야 하는가에 대한 집단유전학적 이론 정립이 완전하지 못하다. 또한 현지외 보존의 경우 현지보존림의 유전변이를 빠짐없이 포함되도록 조성해야 할 구체적인 방법을 알지 못하고 있는 실정에 있다. 시설내 보존의 경우 종자 보관이나 화분 보관과 같은 기술적인 것은 재배작물의 방법을 적용하면 되지만 어떤 집단의 종자나 화분을 채집 보관해야 하는지에 대한 집단유전학적 근거가 아직 확실히 마련되고 있지 않다. 시설내 보존인 경우 기왕에 육종에 의해 선발된 개체를 유전자형(개체) 상태로 보존함으로써 부가가치를 높일 수 있을 것이며, 이러한 연구는 새롭게 개발되고 있는 조직배양 및 유전공학적 기법을 이용하므로써 발전할 수 있는 여지가 많은 연구 분야이다. 현지보존의 경우 유전자 보존만의 목적으로 조성된 삼림뿐만 아니라 다른 목적으로 보호 받고 있는 많은 삼림, 예를 들면 국립, 도립공원, 보안림, 노거수 등에 대한 적절한 생태유전학적인 연구를 통하여 유전자원으로 이용할 수 있는 방법이 강구되어야 하며, 현지외 보존의 경우에도 유전자원 보존림의 조성 뿐만 아니라 임목육종과정에서 기 조성되어 있는 채종원, 산지시험림, 차대검정림, 클론보존원 등에 대해서도 적절한 유전학적 연구 조사를 수행함으로써 현지외 유전자 보존림으로 이용할 수 있게 될 것이다.

• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.343-354
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• 2009

Since Barker found associations between low birth weight and several chronic diseases later in life, the hypothesis of fetal origins of adult disease (aka, Barker Hypothesis) and epigenetics have been emerging as a new paradigm for geneenvironment interaction of chronic disease. Epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in gene silencing that occur without any change in DNA sequence. Gene expression can be regulated by several epigenetic mechanisms, including DNA methylation and histone modifications, which may be associated with chronic conditions, such as cancers, cardiovascular disease, and type-2 diabetes. One carbon metabolism which involves the transfer of a methyl group catalyzed by DNA methyltransferase is an important mechanism by which DNA methylation occurs in promoter regions and/or repetitive elements of the genome. Environmental factors may induce epigenetic modification through production of reactive oxygen species, alteration of methyltransferase activity, and/or interference with methyl donors. In this review, we introduce recent studies of epigenetic modification and environmental factors, such as heavy metals, environmental hormones, air pollution, diet and psychosocial stress. We also discuss epigenetic perspectives of early life environmental exposure and late life disease occurrence.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.91-103
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• 1980

한국사양으로부터 1978년부터 1979년에 걸쳐서 123균주를 분리하였다. 분리된 균주중 Penicillium속 16종이 동정되었고, 이 중에서 한 균주만이 Eupenicillium javanicum인 자양균이었다. 이 균의 특징은 엷은 노란색의 폐자기를 가지며 그 크기는 $120\mu에서\;150\mu$ 정도이며, 그 내부에는 자양을 만든다. 자양포자의 구형이고, 반달모양이며 적도판에 골을 형성하고 있으며 그벽은 거친 모양이다. 그 직경은 $2~5\mu$ 정도이었다. 여기서 보고되는 Penicillium속의 모든 종은 한국에서는 미기록종들이다.

• 한국어업기술학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국어업기술학회 2000년도 춘계수산관련학회 공동학술대회발표요지집
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• pp.512-512
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• 2000

Some planorbid snails such as Hippeutis cantori and Segmentina hemisphaerula have reported as the molluscan intermediate hosts of Neodiplostomum seoulense, one of important snail-borne human intestinal trematodes in Korea. However, one of the Korean lymnaeid snail species, Austropeplea ollular was also found to be the first intermediate ho of N. seoulense. In field-collected Austropeplea snails from Sorae and Kimpo out of se collected localities, the bifurcated cercariae of N. seoulense were shed (infection rat 0.3%), whereas no Radix auricularia and Fossaria truncatula were found shedding cercariae. Each of 12 tadpoles of Rana nigromaculata, known as the second intermedia host of N. seoulense, were exposed to 200 cercariae shed from field-collected A ollula. F tadpoles of R. nigromaculata were found to be massively infected with metacercariae o N. seoulense (recovery rate: 62.1%). Each of five rats (Sprague-Dowley strain) was or fed with 200 metacercariae, and eggs of N. seoulense were detected in the rat feces on week later. These rats were killed 4 weeks after postinfection and adult worms of N seoulense were recovered from the small intestines (recovery rate: 9%). This is the f report of A. ollula as the first molluscan intermediate host for N. seoulense in Korea.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제55권2호
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• pp.256-261
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• 2011

Bis acetylated hybrid pyrazoles 을 합성하여 이들 화합물에 대해 녹는점, 원소분석, MS, FT-IR, one-dimensional $^1H,-$ 및 $^{13}C$-NMR로 분석하였다. 합성한 화합물들에 대해 in vitro 항균활성을 Candida sp. namely Candida albicans, Candida glabrata, Candida parapsilosis, Candida dubliniensis 및 Candida tropicali 균에 대해 수행하였다. Pyrazoles의 페닐고리에 작용기($-CH_3$, $-OCH_3$, -F, -Cl, 및 Br)가 있는 화합물은 Candida species에 대해서 강한 활성을 나타내었다.