• 한국생물물리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물물리학회 2002년도 제9회 학술 발표회 프로그램과 논문초록
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• pp.48-48
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• 2002

Glutathione (GSH) is most prevalent reducing thiols in eukaryotic cells and known that participates in many cellular processes. It was found that total amount of glutathione and the ratio of reduced to oxidized glutathione during development of Dictyostelium discoideum increase at the initial stage of the aggregation of amoeba.(omitted)

• 한국임상수의학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.272-275
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• 1999

Generally, it is known that the composition of the cation of the dog's RBCs is high in potassium(K) and low in sodium(Na). However, it is reported that certain kinds of dogs have HK, HG phenotype which contains a large amount of reduced glutathione(GSH) by the effect of Na-K pump on the cell membrane of RBC with high concentration of K and low concentration of Na. Although this HK phenotype is not regarded as a disease, it is supposed to be an important assignment to examine the distribution and the occurrence rate of the dogs that contain HK cell in their RBCs for the proper clinical treatments as these HK dogs are very sensitive to aromatic disul-fide or onions and have a tendency to cause hemolysis. Accordingly, present study was performed to measure the concentration of K, Na and GSH in the RBCs of Jindo dogs and that of Dosa dogs at the same time.

• 약학회지
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.133-139
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• 1987

These studies were attempted to investigate the preventive effect of Ganoderma lucidum extract administered concurrently with glutathione on the liver damage induced by carbon tetrachloride ($CCl_4$) in rats. S-GOT and S-GPT activities of all the pre-treatment groups were significantly decreased, as compared with those of the control intoxicated by $CCl_4$. The concurrent administrations of Ganoderma lucidum extract with glutathione (100+100mg/kg, 200+100mg/kg, and 400+100mg/kg, respectively) were more effective than the individual administrations. i.e., Ganaderma lucidtcm extract (100, 200 and 400mg/kg, respectively) and glutathione (100, 200 and 400mg/kg, respectively). On the determination of lipid-peroxidation in liver, the concurrent administrations of Ganoderma lucidum extract with glutathione (100+100mg/kg, and 200+100mg/kg, respectively) significantly reduced the liver TBA values. Although hepatic cellular necrosis and fatty acid deposit were remarkably increased by $CCl_4$ intoxication, the concurrent administration of Ganoderma lucidum extract with glutathione (200+100mg/kg) reduced the pathological changes of parenchymal cell necrosis and fatty changes around centrilobalar area of the control. These findings indicate that the concurrent administrations of Ganoderma lucidum extract with glutathione showed better improvements than the individual administrations of them in all pathological aspects, in particular, against hepatitis and hepatic necrosis due to the cellular necrosis and fatty infiltration.

• 약학회지
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• 제42권1호
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• pp.108-113
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• 1998

G009, a polysaccharide isolated from the mycelia of Ganoderma lucidum IYO09, showed a hepatoprotective activity against $CCl_4$ induced cytotoxicity in primary cu ltured rat hepatocytes. Incubation of $CCl_4$-intoxicated hepatocytes with G009 significantly reduced the levels of glutamic pyruvic transaminase and sorbitol dehydrogenase released from hepatocytes in the medium. G009 showed antioxidative effect by elevating the activities of glutathione reductase and superoxide dismutase, and the content of glutathione in $CCl_4$-intoxidcated primary cultured rat hepatocytes. Furthermore, G009 significantly elevated glutathione-S-transferase activity in $CCl_4$-intoxicated primary cultured rat hepatocytes. G009 also reduced the production of malondialdehyde, a byproduct of lipid peroxidation. From these results, it could be concluded that G009 exerted hepatoprotective activity against $CCl_4$-induced cytotoxicity through antioxidation.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권18호
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• pp.7603-7609
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• 2014

Glutathione is a thiol compound that plays an important role in the antioxidant defense system of the cell and its deficiency leads to an increased susceptibility to oxidative stress and, thus, progression of many disease states including head and neck cancer. In the present study, alterations of glutathione levels were investigated in study cohort of 500 samples (cohort 1 containing 200 head and neck cancer blood samples along with 200 healthy controls and cohort II with 50 head and neck squamous cell carcinoma tissue samples along with 50 control tissues) by high performance liquid chromatography. The results indicated that mean blood glutathione levels were significantly reduced in head and neck cancer patients (p<0.001) compared to respective controls. In contrast, the levels of glutathione total (p<0.05) and glutathione reduced (p<0.05) were significantly elevated in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma tissues compared to the adjacent cancer-free control tissues. In addition to this, pearson correlation performed to correlate different tissue glutathione levels (GSH) with clinical/pathological parameters demonstrated a significant negative correlation between pT-stage and GSH level ($r=-0.263^{**}$; p<0.01), C-stage and GSH level ($r=-0.335^{**}$; p<0.01), grade and GSH ($r=-0.329^{**}$; p<0.01) and grade versus redox index ($r=-0.213^{**}$; p<0.01) in HNSCC tissues. Our study suggests that dysregulation of glutathione levels in head and neck cancer has the potential to predict metastasis, and may serve as a prognostic marker.

• Toxicological Research
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.249-257
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• 2018

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effects of different dietary concentrations of T-2 toxin on blood plasma protein content, lipid peroxidation and glutathione redox system of pheasant (Phasianus colchicus). A total of 320 one-day-old female pheasants were randomly assigned to four treatment groups fed with a diet contaminated with different concentrations of T-2 toxin (control, 4 mg/kg, 8 mg/kg and 16 mg/kg). Birds were sacrificed at early (12, 24 and 72 hr) and late (1, 2 and 3 weeks) stages of the experiment to demonstrate the effect of T-2 toxin on lipid peroxidation and glutathione redox status in different tissues. Feed refusal and impaired growth were observed with dose dependent manner. Lipid-peroxidation was not induced in the liver, while the glutathione redox system was activated partly in the liver, but primarily in the blood plasma. Glutathione peroxidase activity has changed parallel with reduced glutathione concentration in all tissues. Based on our results, pheasants seem to have higher tolerance to T-2 toxin than other avian species, and glutathione redox system might contribute in some extent to this higher tolerance, in particular against free-radical mediated oxidative damage of tissues, such as liver.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제22권8호
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• pp.816-820
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• 2001

A new copper hexacyanoferrate modified electrode was constructed by mechanical immobilization. The modified electrode was characterised by cyclic voltammetric experiments. Electrocatalytic oxidation of glutathione was effective at the modified electrode at a significantly reduced overpotential and at broader pH range. The modified electrode shows a stable and linear response in the concentration range of 9 ${\times}$10-5 to 9.9 ${\times}$10-4M with a correlation coefficient of 0.9995. The modified electrode exhibits excellent stability, reproducibility and rapid response and can be used in flow injection analysis for the determination of glutathione.

• Journal of Ginseng Research
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.113-117
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• 2000

적변인삼의 원인 물질을 구명코저 인삼뿌리의 적변현상과 항산화 활성과의 상관관계를 조사하기 위하여 적변뿌리와 건전뿌리의 각 부위별 항산화 활성을 조사하였다. 적변삼의 표피와 피층조직의 superoxide dismutase(SOD) 활성(units/mg protein)은 각각 126.9와 79.6으로 정상뿌리에 비해 각각 3.5배, 2.0배 높았다. 적변뿌리의 catalase활성은 약 1.6배 높았으나, peroxidase 활성은 오히려 약간 낮았다. 적변뿌리 각 조직의 DPPH 자유라디칼 포착활성은 정상뿌리에 비해 약 2.0배 높았다. 정상뿌리의 ascorbate 함량은 조직에 따라 약간의 차이를 나타내었지만(166~240 $\mu$g/g fr. wt.), 산화형dehydroascorbate(DHA) 함량이 전체 ascorbate 함량의 약 97~79%를 차지하였다. 적변뿌리의 전체 ascorbate함량은 정상뿌리와 비슷하였지만 환원형 ascorbate의 함량은 조직에 따라 다르지만 정상뿌리에 비해 3.5~7.5배 높았다. 적변뿌리의 표피조직, 피층조직, 중심주 조직의 전체 glutathione 함량은 정상조직에 비해 각각 7.3배, 4.8배, 1.2배 높았다. 적변화에 따른 환원형 glutathione(GSH)과 산화형 glutathione(GSSG)의 함량비는 전체 glutathione 함량변화와 비슷하였다. 이상의 결과는 인삼의 적변조직은 어떤 외부스트레스에 의해 과다하게 발생되는 활성산소종을 제거하기 위하여 SOD 활성, 환원형 ascorbate 함량, 환원형 glutathione 함량이 크게 증가하는 것으로 사료된다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제24권12호
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• pp.1681-1689
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• 2011

The beneficial effects of tea catechins (TCs) are related not only to their antioxidant potential but also to the improvement of animal meat quality. In this study, we assessed the effects of dietary TC supplementation on plasma biochemical parameters, hormone responses, and glutathione redox status in goats. Forty Liuyang goats were randomly divided into four equal groups (10 animals/group) that were assigned to four experimental diets with TC supplementation at 4 levels (0, 2,000, 3,000 or 4,000 mg TC/kg DM feed). After a 60-day feeding trial, all goats were slaughtered and sampled. Dietary TC treatment had no significant effect on blood biochemical parameters, however, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (p<0.001), triglyceride (p<0.01), plasma urea nitrogen (p<0.01), and glucose (p<0.001) decreased and total protein (p<0.01) and albumin (p<0.05) increased with the feeding time extension, and day 20 was the turning point for most of changes. Interactions were found in glutathione (p<0.001) and the ratio of reduced and oxidized glutathione (p<0.05) in whole blood between treatment and feeding time. Oxidized glutathione in blood was reduced (p<0.05) by 2,000 mg TC/kg feed supplementation, and a similar result was observed in longissimus dorsi muscle. Though plasma glutathione peroxidase (p<0.01) and glutathione reductase (p<0.05) activities were affected by treatment and feeding time interactions, and glutathione S-transferases activity increased with feeding day extension, no changed values appeared in longissimus dorsi muscle. In conclusion, dietary TC supplementation affected the concentrations of some blood metabolites and accelerated GSH depletion in the blood of goats. In terms of less high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, the highest insulin and IGF-I concentrations, the highest ratio of reduced and oxidized glutathione in plasma, the dosage of 2,000 mg TC/kg feed might be desirable for growing goats to prevent glutathione depletion and keep normal physiological metabolism.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.141-147
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• 2004

가자 추출물을 흰쥐에 일정량 투여한 후 간장에 미치는 영향을 관찰할 목적으로 여러 가지 효소량의 변동을 검토하였다. 간 손상의 지표로 사용되는 AST, ALT활성을 측정한 결과 AST, ALT모두에서 정상군보다 300 mg/kg의 용량으로 2주 시료 투여한 군의 함량이 2배 이상 증가되는 것으로 나타났다. 가자 추출물이 지질과산화물 생성에 미치는 효과를 관찰한 결과, 300 mg/kg의 용량으로 2주 시료 투여한 군함량이 정상군에 비해 135.43%, 173.9% 정도 증가하는 결과를 나타내었다. 간 조직의 지질과산화물 반응에 관여하는 것으로 알려진 XO, AO, AD 및 AH활성에 대한 효과를 관찰한 결과 마이크로솜 분획에 존재하는 AD, AH의 활성은 저해 효과가 없었고, 세포질 효소인 XO, AO의 활성은 300 mg/kg의 용량으로 2주 시료 투여한 군 함량이 정상군에 비해 약 2배 증가됨을 볼 수 있었다. 가자 추출물에 의한 간 조직중 glutathione농도에 미치는 영향에 대해 관찰한 결과 2주 동안 300 mg/kg의 용량으로 투여한 군의 glutathione농도는 정상군에 비해 약 75% 감소하는 것으로 나타났다 가자 추출물 투여 후 glutathione의 함량 감소를 경감시키는 기전을 알아볼 목적으로 glutathione 합성에 관여하는 $\gamma$-GCS의 활성과 산화형 glutathione을 환원형 glutathione으로 환원시키는 GR의 활성을 관찰한 결과 정상군에 비해 GR이 56.6%, $\gamma$-GCS가 6.7% 정도 감소하는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 glutathione의 함량 변동은 산화형 glutathione을 환원형 glutathione으로 환원시키는 GR의 활성에 영향을 주어 나타나는 결과로 생각된다. 가자 추출물이 지질과산화의 해독계에 미치는 영향을 관찰할 목적으로 catalase, GP 및 SOD의 활성을 측정한 결과 catalase, GP의 활성은 각각 77.5%, 64.3% 감소하는 결과를 나타냈으며, SOD의 활성은 정상군에 비해 약 3배 증가하는 것으로 나타났다.