• Journal of Plant Biology
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.45-52
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• 1975

Effects of air pollutants on vegetation were reviewed and discussed with special reference to sulfur dioxide. Main contents were on the sources, meteorological factors, injury symptoms, relative sensitivity, growth/yield, indicator/diagnosis, combined effects, injury mechanism and effects on plant metabolism, injury diminishing measures, and future research needs.

• 한국토양비료학회지
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.31-35
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• 2007

농작물 안전생산 및 대기환경 개선을 위한 기초 자료로 활용하기 위하여 유해가스에 의한 농작물 피해원인을 구명하였다. 작물 피해현지에서 유해가스에 의한 피해증상을 조사하였으며, 작물체중 유해성분 함량을 분석하였다. 또한, 2004년 경북지역 농공단지에서 발생한 작물피해 사례에 대한 피해원인 구명을 위하여 조사지역의 피해발생 당시 기상자료 및 오염원에서의 배출가스 농도를 적용한 오염물질 확산을 제시하였다. 주요 작물의 암모니아가스 피해증상은 잎 끝으로부터 백색으로 고사하며, 저농도의 경우에는 적갈색 반점이 나타나는 특징을 보였고 화훼류의 경우에는 꽃보다 잎의 피해가 심하게 나타났다. 불소가스 피해증상은 잎의 선단이나 가장자리 부분에 나타나는 특성이 있다. 또한, 유해가스로 인한 작물피해 현지 사례에서 피해 지역의 아황산가스 등농도(等濃度) 분포를 조사한 결과, 조사지역은 발생원으로부터 발생된 아황산가스 영향을 받고 있으며, 특히 계절별로는 기상요인에 따른 여름철의 피해가 우려되었다.

• 한국토양비료학회지
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• 제43권6호
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• pp.978-980
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• 2010

This study was conducted to observe the cause of injury of fig plant. Nitrogen dioxide gas can be evolved at low pH or reduced in soil. Fig plant cultivated with nutrient solution was wilted or withered. Injury symptom for nutrient solution containing nitrous acid was worse as pH of soil decreased. However, increase in pH of nutrient solution treated with increasing $Ca(OH)_2$ solution prevented nutrient solution from producing nitrogen dioxide gas. Recovery of the fig plant by pH increase indicated that the cause of injury was nitrogen dioxide gas.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.2405-2425
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• 2014

Radiation exposure leads to several pathophysiological conditions, including oxidative damage, inflammation and fibrosis, thereby affecting the survival of organisms. This review explores the radiation countermeasure properties of fourteen (14) plant extracts or plant-derived compounds against these cellular manifestations. It was aimed at evaluating the possible role of plants or its constituents in radiation countermeasure strategy. All the 14 plant extracts or compounds derived from it and considered in this review have shown some radioprotection in different in vivo, ex-vivo and or in vitro models of radiological injury. However, few have demonstrated advantages over the others. C. majus possessing antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory effects appears to be promising in radioprotection. Its crude extracts as well as various alkaloids and flavonoids derived from it, have shown to enhance survival rate in irradiated mice. Similarly, curcumin with its antioxidant and the ability to ameliorate late effect of radiation exposure, combined with improvement in survival in experimental animal following irradiation, makes it another probable candidate against radiological injury. Furthermore, the extracts of P. hexandrum and P. kurroa in combine treatment regime, M. piperita, E. officinalis, A. sinensis, nutmeg, genistein and ginsan warrants further studies on their radioprotective potentials. However, one that has received a lot of attention is the dietary flaxseed. The scavenging ability against radiation-induced free radicals, prevention of radiation-induced lipid peroxidation, reduction in radiation cachexia, level of inflammatory cytokines and fibrosis, are some of the remarkable characteristics of flaxseed in animal models of radiation injury. While countering the harmful effects of radiation exposure, it has shown its ability to enhance survival rate in experimental animals. Further, flaxseed has been tested and found to be equally effective when administered before or after irradiation, and against low doses (${\leq}5Gy$) to the whole body or high doses (12-13.5 Gy) to the whole thorax. This is particularly relevant since apart from the possibility of using it in pre-conditioning regime in radiotherapy, it could also be used during nuclear plant leakage/accidents and radiological terrorism, which are not pre-determined scenarios. However, considering the infancy of the field of plant-based radioprotectors, all the above-mentioned plant extracts/plant-derived compounds deserves further stringent study in different models of radiation injury.

• 한국작물학회지
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• 제34권s02호
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• pp.96-114
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• 1989

There are several meterorolgical stresses in the winter cereal crops. Among these stresses, cold injury is one of the most important stresses for wheat and barley production in Korea. The reduction in grain yield of the wheat and barley due to cold injury has occurred almost every year in Korea. The objective of the study was to get the basic information in relation to the cold injury and to detect the method minimizing the damage of cold injury. When the air temperature was the ranges of -13$^{\circ}C$ to -15$^{\circ}C$, the soil temperature at the crown part of the plant was very stable, whereas in the ranges of -2$^{\circ}C$ to -3$^{\circ}C$ the soil surface temperature was more unstable and cold than air and subterranean temperatures. The different parts of the plant in wheat and barley possess the different levels of cold hardiness. In comparison to the cold hardiness of plant parts, the leaf and crown are the less sensitive to cold injury than root and vascular transitional zone. The type and extent of stress is determined by the redistribution pattern of water during freezing. These types from freezing processes were three types: a) Equilibrium freezing pattern b) Non -equilibrium freezing pattern, c) Non-equilibrium freezing pattern typical of tender tissues. Cold hardiness in wheat plants were more harder than barley plants at vegitative stage, but inverted at the reproductive stage. Injuries by low temperature during the seasons of barley cultivation in Korea were occured mainly in four stage; in the first and third stage, frost injury occurs, the second stage, freezing injury, and the fourth stage, chilling injury.

• 한국토양비료학회지
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• 제43권6호
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• pp.975-977
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• 2010

Ammonium nitrogen is volatilized as ammonia at high pH soil. This study was conducted to observe an injury cause of egg plant grown in a high pH rockwool amended with ammonium phosphate. The etiolation symptom (yellowing) was appeared on veins of a leaf but not in healthy root when nutrient solution containing ammonium phosphate in addition to essential elements was applied in a top soil of which pH was 7.8. However, the same symptom did not appeared in the egg plant from the top soil in which the nutrition solution containing potassium phosphate instead of ammonium phosphate was applied. pHs were similar between these two different solutions. This revealed that the injury was caused by ammonia gas.

• 한국응용곤충학회지
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• 제45권3호
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• pp.317-325
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• 2006

2004년 잎들깨 주요 해충을 조사하였던 바, 잎들깨 시설하우스내에서 발생하는 주요 해충들은 들깨진딧물(Aphis egomae), 들깨잎말이명나방(Pyrausta panopealis), 점박이응애(Tetranychus urticae), 차먼지응애(Polyphagotarsonemus latus), 차응애(Tetranychus kanzawai) 등이었다. 그 중에서 들깨진딧물은 방제를 하지 않았을 경우 100%에 가까운 피해를 주는 중요한 해충으로 밝혀졌다. 본 연구는 발생초기 100주당 1마리에서 80마리 수준으로 들깨진딧물 성충을 인위적으로 접종하였을 경우 잎들깨 포장에서의 경제적 피해 수준과 요방제수준을 밝히고자 수행 하였다. 100주당 $1{\sim}80$마리가 접종되었을 때 평균 피해주율은 6월 하순경 $2.4%{\sim}40.5%$였다. 시험기간 동안의 방제비용(C)를 시장가격(V)으로 나누었을 때 진딧물의 발생초기인 4월부터 6월 13일까지 경제적 손실을 일으키는 시점은 5.8%였으며 진딧물의 발생최성기인 6월 13일부터 6월 30일까지의 경우 9.3%였다. 들깨진딧물의 발생 초기에서의 경제적 피해수준은 주당 5.3마리였으며 발생최성기 때의 경제적 피해수준은 주당 0.6마리와 7.6% 피해주율 이었다. 경제적 피해수준의 80% 수준에서의 요방제 수준은 들깨진딧물의 발생최성기인 6월의 경우 주당 0.5마리와 피해주율 6.1%였다.

• Journal of Ginseng Research
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• 제45권6호
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• pp.642-653
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• 2021

Background: Effective strategies are dramatically needed to prevent and improve the recovery from myocardial ischemia and reperfusion (I/R) injury. Direct interactions between the mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum (ER) during heart diseases have been recently investigated. This study was designed to explore the cardioprotective effects of gypenoside XVII (GP-17) against I/R injury. The roles of ER stress, mitochondrial injury, and their crosstalk within I/R injury and in GP-17einduced cardioprotection are also explored. Methods: Cardiac contractility function was recorded in Langendorff-perfused rat hearts. The effects of GP-17 on mitochondrial function including mitochondrial permeability transition pore opening, reactive oxygen species production, and respiratory function were determined using fluorescence detection kits on mitochondria isolated from the rat hearts. H9c2 cardiomyocytes were used to explore the effects of GP-17 on hypoxia/reoxygenation. Results: We found that GP-17 inhibits myocardial apoptosis, reduces cardiac dysfunction, and improves contractile recovery in rat hearts. Our results also demonstrate that apoptosis induced by I/R is predominantly mediated by ER stress and associated with mitochondrial injury. Moreover, the cardioprotective effects of GP-17 are controlled by the PI3K/AKT and P38 signaling pathways. Conclusion: GP-17 inhibits I/R-induced mitochondrial injury by delaying the onset of ER stress through the PI3K/AKT and P38 signaling pathways.

• Journal of Veterinary Science
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.81.1-81.10
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• 2020

Background: Although previous in vivo studies explored urinary microRNA (miRNA), there is no agreement on nephrotoxicity-specific miRNA biomarkers. Objectives: In this study, we assessed whether urinary miRNAs could be employed as biomarkers for nephrotoxicity. Methods: For this, literature-based candidate miRNAs were identified by reviewing the previous studies. Female Sprague-Dawley rats received subcutaneous injections of a single dose or repeated doses (3 consecutive days) of gentamicin (GEN; 137 or 412 mg/kg). The expression of miRNAs was analyzed by real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction in 16 h pooled urine from GEN-treated rats. Results: GEN-induced acute kidney injury was confirmed by the presence of tubular necrosis. We identified let-7g-5p, miR-21-3p, 26b-3p, 192-5p, and 378a-3p significantly upregulated in the urine of GEN-treated rats with the appearance of the necrosis in proximal tubules. Specifically, miR-26-3p, 192-5p, and 378a-3p with highly expressed levels in urine of rats with GEN-induced acute tubular injury were considered to have sensitivities comparable to clinical biomarkers, such as blood urea nitrogen, serum creatinine, and urinary kidney injury molecule protein. Conclusions: These results indicated the potential involvement of urinary miRNAs in chemical-induced nephrotoxicity, suggesting that certain miRNAs could serve as biomarkers for acute nephrotoxicity.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.1-8
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• 1986

To obtain the guidance of plants sensitivity or resistance to $SO_2$ gas, 16 species, 25 varieties of plants were exposed to 0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.7 and 1.5 ppm of $SO_2$ gas in controlled environmental chamber and the visible injury on the plants was observed. Plant sensitivity and/or resistance rankings at each guidance appeared different, based on first injured time, injury degree, and injury index. Only 10 varieties of plant are equal in the ranking at different base. It is concluded that recommended guidance for sensitivity and resistance of plants to $SO_2$ gas are the first injured time and the injury degree, respectively.