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Subchronic Inhalation Toxicity Study of n-pentane in Rats

  • Kim, Jong-Kyu;Cho, Hae-Won;Han, Jeong-Hee;Lee, Sung-Bae;Chung, Yong-Hyun;Rim, Kyung-Taek;Yang, Jeong-Sun
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.3 no.3
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    • pp.224-234
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    • 2012
  • Objectives: This study was conducted in order to obtain information concerning the health hazards that may result from a 13 week inhalation exposure of n-pentane in Sprague-Dawley rats. Methods: This study was conducted in accordance with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) guidelines for the testing of chemicals No. 413 'Subchronic inhalation toxicity: 90-day study (as revised in 2009)'. The rats were divided into 4 groups (10 male and 10 female rats in each group), and were exposed to 0, 340, 1,530, and 6,885 ppm n-pentane in each exposure chamber for 6 hour/day, 5 days/week, for 13 weeks. All of the rats were sacrificed at the end of the treatment period. During the test period, clinical signs, mortality, body weights, food consumption, ophthalmoscopy, locomotion activity, urinalysis, hematology, serum biochemistry, gross findings, organ weights, and histopathology were assessed. Results: During the period of testing, there were no treatment related effects on the clinical findings, body weight, food consumption, ophthalmoscopy, urinalysis, hematology, serum biochemistry, gross findings, relative organ weight, and histopathological findings. Conclusion: The no-observable-adverse-effect level (NOAEL) of n-pentane is evaluated as being more than 6,885 ppm (20.3 mg/L) in both male and female rats. n-pentane was not a classified specific target organ toxicity in the globally harmonized classification system (GHS).

The Development of Instrument of Korean Medical Pattern Identification and Functional Evaluation for Five Organ (한의 오장 변증·평가 설문지 개발을 위한 신뢰도 및 타당도 평가)

  • Jang, Eunsu;Kim, Yunyoung;Park, Yang Chun;Jeon, Ju Hyun;Jung, In-Chul
    • Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.173-181
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    • 2017
  • The aim of this study was to identify the reliability and the validity of Five Organs Questionnaire (FOQ). In this study, 335 data was collected from early adulthood of A-city, D-city and C-city in South Korea from Dec. 2016 to Jan. 2017, and the collected data was analyzed with SPSS 23.0 software. The result showed that the Cronbach's ${\alpha}$ of five organs was 0.775-0.853. The reliabilities of test and retest Intra Correlation Coefficient (ICC) for the five organs were .891-.929 in pattern identification and .874-.930 in functional evaluation, respectively. Each organ was divided by two factors, and the factor loadings of Liver, Heart, Spleen, Lung and Kidney were 52.973%, 54.534%, 57.060%, 53.803%, and 46.337%, respectively. The functional evaluation of five organs was associated with self-rated health status as r was -.443 to -.583(p<.001), and quality of life as r was -.5.17 to -.716(p<.001), respectively. The test-retest diagnostic agreement was 67.2% and Kappa was 0.562. This study revealed that FOQ is a reliable and valid questionnaire.

Development of Jaspine B analysis using LC-MS/MS and its application: Dose-independent pharmacokinetics of Jaspine B in rats

  • Song, Im-Sook;Jeon, Ji-Hyeon;Lee, Jihoon;Lim, Dong Yu;Lee, Chul Haeng;Lee, Dongjoo;Choi, Min-Koo
    • Analytical Science and Technology
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    • v.34 no.2
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    • pp.37-45
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    • 2021
  • A rapid and simple LC-MS/MS analytical method in determining Jaspine B has been developed and validated in rat plasma. The standard curve value was 25 - 5000 ng/mL and the linearity, inter-day and intra-day accuracy and precision were within 15.0 % of relative standard deviation (RSD). The mean recoveries of Jaspine B ranged from 87.5 % to 91.2 % with less than 3.70 % RSD and the matrix effects ranged from 91.1 % to 108.2 % with less than 2.6 % RSD. The validated LC-MS/MS analytical method of Jaspine B was successfully applied to investigate the dose-escalated pharmacokinetic study of Jaspine B in rats following an intravenous injection of Jaspine B at a dose range of 1 - 10 mg/kg. The initial plasma concentrations and area under plasma concentration curves showed a good correlation with intravenous Jaspine B dose, indicating the dose independent pharmacokinetics of Jaspine B in rats. In conclusion, this analytical method for Jaspine B can be easily applied in the bioanalysis and pharmacokinetic studies of Jaspine B, including its administration at multiple therapeutic doses, or for making pharmacokinetic comparisons for the oral formulations of Jaspine B in small experimental animals as well as in vivo pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic correlation studies.

Technology of Decision-Making Support Regarding the Possibility of Donation and Transplantation Considering Civil Law

  • Hnatchuk, Yelyzaveta;Hovorushchenko, Tetiana;Drapak, Georgii;Kysil, Tetiana
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.9
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    • pp.307-315
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    • 2022
  • The review of known decision-making support systems and technologies regarding the possibility of donation and transplantation showed that currently there are no systems and technologies of decision-making support regarding the possibility of donation and transplantation considering civil law. The paper models the decision-making support process regarding the possibility of donation and transplantation, which is a theoretical basis for the development of rules, methods and technology of decision-making support regarding the possibility of donation and transplantation considering civil law. The paper also developed the technology of decision-making support regarding the possibility of donation and transplantation considering civil law as a component of the Unified State Information System for Organ and Tissue Transplantation, which automatically and free of charge determines the possibility/impossibility of donation and transplantation. In the case of the possibility of donation, the admissible type of donation is also determined - over-life or after-life donation - and data about potential donor is entered in the relevant Donor Register. In the case of the possibility of transplantation, if the recipient needs a transplant of one of the paired organs or a part of the organ/tissue, then data about potential recipient are entered in the Transplantation List from both over-life and after-life donor, otherwise, if the recipient needs a transplant of a non-paired organ or both paired organs, then data about potential recipient are entered only in the Transplantation List from after-life donor.

Proliferation of Splenocytes and Bone-marrow Cells by Phellinus linteus polysaccharide

  • Joo, Seong-Soo;Kim, Min-Soo;Lee, Do-Ik
    • Proceedings of the PSK Conference
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    • 2003.04a
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    • pp.201-201
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    • 2003
  • The effect of radio- and chemotherapy for cancer are excellent, but their toxicities to normal tissue and organ of the body is relatively strong, which leads secondary side effect to patients during therapies. Particularly, due to the response for bone marrow suppression such as agranulocytosis limits the therapy periods and dose of drugs, new drug development that reproduces lymphocytes has been focused. (omitted)

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Effect of Arsenic on Acetylcholine-Induced Relaxation in Blood Vessels

  • Lee, M.Y.;Chung, S.M.;Bae, O.N.;Chung, J.H.
    • Proceedings of the PSK Conference
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    • 2003.04a
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    • pp.163.2-164
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    • 2003
  • Several epidemiological studies suggested that arsenic exposure was strongly correlated with the development of cardiovascular disease such as hypertension. In order to examine whether arsenic affects vasomotor tone in blood vessels, we investigated the effect of arsenic on agonist-induced vasorelaxation using the isolated rat aortic rings in vitro organ bath system.Treatment with arsenite inhibited acetylcholine-induced relaxation of aortic rings in a concentration-dependent manner. (omitted)

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EFFECT OF ARSENIC ON ACETYLCHOLINE-INDUCED RELEXATION IN BLOOD VESSELS IN VITRO AND IN VIVO

  • Lee, Moo-Yeol;Chung, Seung-Min;Bae, Ok-Nam;Chung, Jin-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Toxicology Conference
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    • 2002.05a
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    • pp.106-106
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    • 2002
  • Several epidemiological studies suggested that arsenic exposure was strongly correlated with the development of cardiovascular disease such as hypertension. In order to examine whether arsenic affects vasomotor tone in blood vessels, we investigated the effect of arsenic on agonist-induced vasorelaxation using the isolated rat aortic rings in in vitro organ bath system.(omitted)

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