• 제목/요약/키워드: Radiation biology

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가속기(加速器)를 이용(利用)한 암치료기술(癌治療技術) 현황(現況) (Recent Status of Cancer Treatment Using High Energy Radiotherapy Machine)

  • 유성열
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • 제11권1호
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    • pp.83-89
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    • 1986
  • High energy radiation therapy using accelerator or radioioisotope teletherapy unit is now one of the most important modality in the field dealing with human malignant tumor. It's successful technology overcomes incurable disease to change into curable disease not only by the improvement of clinical technique but also by the development of radiation physics and biology. The author presented the principles of radiation therapy by means of basic knowledge of medicine. physics and biology, described the various ways to improve the result of radiation therapy, and reviewed recent status of radiotherapy field in Korea.

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The Regulatory Effects of Radiation and Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor on Liver Cancer Cell Cycle

  • Lee, Sang Ho;Han, Chang Hee;Kang, Su Man;Park, Cheol Woo
    • International Journal of Contents
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    • 제8권4호
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    • pp.74-77
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    • 2012
  • Radiation has been an effective tool for treating cancer for a long time. Radiation therapy induces DNA damage within cancer cells and destroys their ability to reproduce. Radiation therapy is often combined with other treatments, like surgery and chemotherapy. Here, we describe the effects of radiation and histone deacetylase inhibitor, Trichostain A, on cell cycle regulation in hepatoma cells. The combinatorial treatment of radiation and Trichostain A induced cell cycle arrest and thereby increasing the hepatoma cell death. Furthermore, the regulatory effects of radiation and Trichostatin A on cell cycle applied in cell type specifically. These results suggest that the treatment of radiation and Trichostatin A may play a central role in hepatoma cell death and might be a good remedy to improve the efficiency of radiation therapy.

제니스틴에 의한 방사선유발 세포사멸 민감도증가 (Sensitization of Radiation-Induced Cell Death by Genistein)

  • 김태림;김인규
    • 방사선산업학회지
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    • 제4권1호
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    • pp.91-94
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    • 2010
  • A number of epidemiological studies as well as biological experiments, showed that genistein, one of the isoflavone, prevents prostate cancer occurrence. In this study, we showed that genistein inhibited the cell proliferation of human promyeoltic leukemia HL-60 cells and induced G2/M phase arrest. In addition, combination of genistein treatment and ${\gamma}$-irradiation displayed synergistic effect in apoptotic cell death of HL-60 cells. This means that the repair of genistein-induced DNA damage was hindered by ${\gamma}$-radiation and thus cell death was increased. In conclusion, genistein is one of the important chemicals that sensitize radiation-induced cell death.

표준한국인(標準韓國人)의 최대허용(最大許容) 피폭선량(被曝線量) 설정(設定)에 관한 연구(硏究) - 체위(體位) 및 내(內).외부(外部) 피폭선량(被曝線量) 추정(推定) - (Studies on the Reference Korean and Estimation of Radiation Exposure Dose - PHYSICAL STANDARD AND ESTIMATION OF INTER-EXTERNAL RADIATION EXPOSURE DOSE -)

  • Kim, Yung-J.;Lee, Kang-S.;Chun, Ki-J.;Kim, Jong-B.;Chung, Gook-H.;Kim, Sam-R.
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • 제7권1호
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 1982
  • 표준한국인(標準韓國人)의 체위(體位)와 내(內).외부(外部) 피폭선량(被曝線量)을 추정(推定)하기 위하여 한국인(韓國人)의 신장(身長), 체중(體重), 체표면적(體表面積)을 포함(包含)한 체위(體位)와 음식물섭취량(飮食物攝取量) 방사능물질섭취량(放射能物質攝取量) 그리고 환경방사능(環境放射能)에 의한 피폭선량(被曝線量)을 조사분석(調査分析)하여 다음과 같은 결론(結論)을 얻었다. 1) 표준한국인(標準韓國人)의 년령군(年齡群)은 남녀(男女) 모두 $20{\sim}30$세(歲)이며 남자(男子)에 있어서의 신장(身長)은 167cm, 체중(體重)은 61kg, 체표면적(體表面積)은 $1.67m^2$다. 그리고 여자(女子)에 있어서의 신장(身長)은 155cm, 체중(體重)은 51kg, 체표면적(體表面積)은 $1.51m^2$이다. 2) 한국인(韓國人) 성인(成人)은 1인(人) 1일(日) 812.8g(식물성((植物性) 669.6g, 동물성(動物性) 143.2g)의 음식물(飮食物)을 섭취(攝取)한다. 3) 한국인(韓國人) 성인(成人)은 음식물(飮食物)을 통(通)하여 1인(人) 1일(日) 약(約) 1,200pCi(${\beta}$-선(線))의 방사능물질(放射能物質)을 섭취(攝取)한다. 4) 한국인(韓國人) 성인(成人)은 년간(年間) 127mrem의 외부피폭(外部被曝)과, 8mrem의 내부피폭(內部被曝)으로 약(約) 135mrem의 환경방방선(環境放放線)에 피폭(被曝)되는 것으로 추산(推算)되나 이 선량치(線量値)는 앞으로 더 많은 자료(資料)가 보완(補完)됨에 따라 수정(修正)된다고 본다.

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Radiation Hormesis: Incredible or Inevitable\ulcorner

  • Ducoff, Howard-S
    • Animal cells and systems
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    • 제6권3호
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    • pp.187-193
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    • 2002
  • It has long been recognized that exposure to low levels of toxic chemicals could have beneficial effects, such as increased resistance to related chemicals or stimulation of growth or development. The notion of radiation hormesis, that exposure to low levels of ionizing radiation could produce beneficial effects, developed seriously in the late 1950’s, and was, to most radiation scientists, incredible. This was due in pan to the then prevailing ideas of radiobiological mechanisms, in part to the sweeping generalizations made by the leading proponents of the radiation hormesis concept, and in pan to the many failures to confirm reports of beneficial effects. More recent understanding of the mechanisms of radiation damage and repair, and discoveries of induction of gene expression by radiation and other genotoxic agents [the adaptive response] make it seem inevitable that under suitable conditions, irradiation will produce beneficial effects.

방사선 생물학을 위한 모델 시스템: 방사선치료의 전임상 연구 (Model Systems in Radiation Biology: Implication for Preclinical Study of Radiotherapy)

  • 김완연;성기문;양희정;윤혜숙;윤부현
    • 생명과학회지
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    • 제22권11호
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    • pp.1558-1570
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    • 2012
  • 방사선 생물학에서 방사선에 대한 반응으로 매개되는 다양한 기작에 대한 분석을 위해 여러 종류의 모델 생물체를 사용해 왔다. 모델 생물체는 생물학적으로 온전한 in vivo 환경을 제공할 수 있기 때문에 방사선에 의해 발생되는 세포 내 현상은 물론 생리적인 현상이나 병리학적인 현상을 규명하는 데 있어서 모델 생물체를 사용하는 것은 효과적인 방법이 될 수 있다. 지금까지 축적된, 모델 생물체를 이용한 방사선 생물학적 연구결과들은 새로운 방사선치료 보조제의 개발, 방사선치료 효율 증진 등에 적용되어 여러 질병에 대한 임상연구의 기초가 되어왔다. 이렇게 유용하게 사용된 여러 모델 생물체에 있어서, 각각의 모델에 대한 개별적인 정보에 대한 연구는 다양한 방면에서 이루어지고 있지만, 통합적인 비교, 분석 및 정리를 한 경우는 부족한 실정이다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 방사선 생물학에서 지금까지 많이 사용된 모델 생물체 4종(효모, 예쁜꼬마선충, 초파리, 생쥐)에 대해 각 생물체가 갖는 모델로써의 특징과 장단점 그리고 방사선 생물학 연구에 이용된 사례 등을 서술하고자 한다.

光合成有效放斜와 葉向과의 關係 (The Relationship between Photosynthetic Active Radiation and Leaf Orientation)

  • Chang, Nam-Kee;Heui-Baik Kim
    • The Korean Journal of Ecology
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    • 제8권2호
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    • pp.99-107
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    • 1985
  • Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) affects the growth of plants as well as their photosynthetic rates. A mathematical model for intercepted solar radiation on the tilted leaf with any azimuth angle was established and the leaf orientation in which receives the maximum solar radiation was determined each month, during the growing season, and for an year. PAR was maximized at the leaf elevation of 50。~60。 in the winter, at that of 20。~40。. On the whole the leaves of tilt angle 0。~40。 received much radiation comparing with those of other tilt angles. The theoretical tendencies were compared with the distribution of leaf orientation measused practically. The average leaf elevation of maple tree was 17.0。$\pm$12.0。, and that of ginkgo was 29.8。$\pm$16.0。. Several results from other literatures support our suggestion that cumulative effevct of the relationships between surface normal vector and a vector pointing in the direction of the radiation determine the leaf orientation.

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[6]-Gingerol Attenuates Radiation-induced Cytotoxicity and Oxidative Stress in HepG2 Cells

  • Chung, Dong-Min;Uddin, S.M. Nasir;Kim, Jin Kyu
    • 환경생물
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    • 제31권4호
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    • pp.376-382
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    • 2013
  • [6]-Gingerol, a major polyphenol of ginger (Zingiber officinale), exhibits a variety of biological properties including anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer activity. However, the radioprotective effect of [6]-gingerol is still unknown. The aim of this study was to investigate the radioprotective effect of [6]-gingerol against radiation-induced cell cytotoxicity and oxidative stress in HepG2 cells. [6]-Gingerol pretreatment attenuated radiation-induced cell cytotoxicity caused by 5Gy (half lethal dose, $LD_{50}$ of HepG2 cells). The measurements of superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase (CAT) activity were also performed. The results showed that [6]-gingerol pretreatment reduced increasing SOD and CAT activity after exposure of IR, indicating that [6]-gingerol protected oxidative stress by regulating cellular antioxidant enzyme (SOD and CAT) activity. These findings suggest that [6]-gingerol acts as a radioprotector by attenuating cell cytotoxicity and oxidative stress.

Enhancement of Pendimethalin Degradation Activity in Bacillus sp. MS202 using Gamma Radiation

  • Lee Young-Keun;Chang Hwa-Hyoung;Lee Ho-Jin;Park Heesoon;Lee Kyung Hee;Joe Min-Ho
    • 환경생물
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    • 제23권4호
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    • pp.405-408
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    • 2005
  • To induce the enhanced mutants of dinitroaniline herbicide pendimethalin degrading bacterium, Bacillus sp. MS202 was irradiated with gamma radiation at the dose of $LD_{99}$ (3.35 kGy). Three enhanced mutants (MS202m7, MS202m14, MS202m18) were isolated from the candidates by the generation - isolation method. Clear zone formation and the GC analysis confirmed that the degrading activity of each enhanced mutant (MS202m7, MS202m14, MS202m18), the formation of pendimethalin metabolite, increased by $11\%,\;45\%,\;and\;32\%$ than a wild type, respectively. It suggested that these mutants induced by gamma radiation could be useful for the application of pesticide degradation.