• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권10호
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• pp.4271-4274
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• 2014

The epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a key step during embryonic morphogenesis and plays an important role in drug resistance and metastasis in diverse solid tumors. We previously reported that 48 h treatment of anti-cancer drug doxorubicin could induce EMT in human gastric cancer BGC-823 cells. However, the long term effects of this transient drug treatment were unknown. In this study we found that after 48 h treatment with $0.1{\mu}g/ml$ doxorubicin, most cells died during next week, while a minor population of cells survived and formed colonies. We propagated the surviving cells in drug free medium and found that these long term cultured drug survival cells (abbreviated as ltDSCs) retained a mesenchymal-like cell morphology, and expressed high levels of EMT-related molecules such as vimentin, twist and ${\beta}$-catenin. The expression of chromatin reprogramming factors, Oct4 and c-myc, were also higher in ltDSCs than parental cells. We further demonstrated that the protein level of p300 was upregulated in ltDSCs, and inhibition of p300 by siRNA suppressed the expression of vimentin. Moreover, the ltDSCs had higher colony forming ability and were more drug resistant when compared to parental cells. Our results suggested that an epigenetic mechanism is involved in the EMT of ltDSCs.

• Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.165-176
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• 1993

These studies were carried out to investigate the optimal freezing protocol for 2 cell mouse embryos and to find the probability of quality control with 2-cell embryos frozen. The embryos showed the best survival by the protocol composed of a freezing solution with the cryoprotectants(1.5M propanediol + 0.1M sucrose), and a 2-steop thawing method(room temperature, 20 sec-37$^{\circ}C$, 20 sec). The developmental ability of frozen-thaw 2-cell embryos did not differ from that of fresh 2-cell embryos in m-KRB medium with 0.4% bovine serum albumin. But development of frozen-thaw embryos was depended on the supplements of the medium. In the albumin-free medium, the developmental rate(rate of blastocysts) was significantly reduced, compared with that in the medium with 0.4% BSA. Also, when frozen-thaw embryos were cultured in the meduim with human fetal cord serum(HCS), the developmental rate of frozen-thaw embryos was sligtly reduced, compared with that of fresh 2-cell embryos. Finally, frozen-thaw 2-cell mouse embryos were more sensitive to the toxic agent of disposable-plastic syringe. Therefore, toxicity of medium could be effectively detected by frozen-thaw 2-cell mouse embryos.

• Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.239-245
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• 2012

Purpose: Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) plays a key role in tumor angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis including induction of endothelial cell proliferation, migration and capillary tube formation. E7080 (S1164, Selleck chemical, Houston, TX, USA) is a muti-targeted kinase inhibitor, which targets VEGF receptor-2, 3 (VEGFR-2, 3) and inhibits survival and proliferation of tumor cell. The purpose of this study was to determine the anti-tumor effect of E7080 on oral squamous cell carcinoma. Methods: An oral squamous cell carcinoma cell line, SCC-9 was used in this study. E7080 was applied to SCC-9 cells by 3 different concentrations (1, 5, 10 ${\mu}g/mL$). Control means no application of E7080. The cellular growth was evaluated by real-time cell electronic sensing and MTT assay. The signal transduction was evaluated by Western blotting. Results: In experimental group, SCC-9 cell proliferation was decreased and the VEGFR-3 downstream pathways were inhibited compared with control. Furthermore, increasing the concentration of E7080, the ability of E7080 to disturbance of SCC-9 cell proliferation was increased. Conclusion: Proliferation of SCC-9 cells was inhibited by E7080, which was through by inhibition of VEGFR-3 downstream pathway. In vivo study with E7080 will be required to provide therapeutic benefits in oral squamous cell carcinoma.

• 교육녹색환경연구
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.51-60
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• 2017

21세기 일본의 학교안전은 학교교육 정책의 변화에 따라 직접적인 영향을 받았다. 일본 학교교육의 목적은 "살아가는 힘(zest for life)"을 증진시킴으로써 자립 협동 창조적인 인간으로 육성하는데 있다. 이를 반영하여 학교안전의 목적도 어떠한 재난 상황에서도 학생 스스로 극복할 수 있는 생존 역량을 강화하는데 두고 있다. 일본 학교안전의 주요특징은 다음과 같다: 1) 스스로 살아남을 수 있는 역량 강조 2) 가정 및 지역사회의 학교안전 역할 중시 3) 학교안전과 학교교육의 균형 4) 체험학습 및 능동적 학습(active learning)을 통한 안전교육 강조 5) 안전한 학교시설 추구 6) 학교안전 개선을 위한 PDCA(Plan-Do-Check-Act) 적용 7) UN 안전학교 모델 도입 및 확산. 일본 학교안전에 대한 논의는 최근 제도적 변화가 급격히 이루어지고 있는 우리 나라 학교안전에 의미 있는 시사를 줄 것이다.

• 식물조직배양학회지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.117-121
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• 1994

쇠비름(portuaaca oleracea L.)의 줄기절편체로부터 캘러스유도를 위한 적정배지는 BAP 0.1 + 2,4-D 1.0 mg/L., 30g/L sucrose 및 10 g/L agar를 첨가한 MS배지로 나타났으며, 액체배양에 의한 세포의 증식에는 BAP 0.1 + 2,4-D 0.5mg/L가 함유된 MS배지가 효과적이었다. 장시간 건조처리는 세포는 활력과 재생 및 재분화율이 강하게 억제되나, 1시간 및 2시간동안의 단시간 건조처리한 세포의 재분화율은 각각 83및 80%로 나타나나 무처리 61%에 비해 높았다. 0.6% NaCl의 2일간 전처리는 세포의 재분화율에는 영향을 미치지 않으나, 세포활력 및 재생률에는 억제작용을 나타내었다. Sucrose 70및 100 g/L를 전처리한 쇠비름세포의 재분화율은 각각 80및 81%로 무처리에 비해 높았다.

• Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.120-125
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• 2014

Halophytes are plants of saline habitats that grow under conditions that may vary in extremes of temperatures (freezing to very hot), water availability (drought to water logging) and salinity (mild to almost saturation). Halophytes may also face sudden micro-environmental variations within their habitats. In this study, we examine some of the factors that determine the ability of seeds of Artemisia fukudo to germinate when conditions are optimal for seedling growth and survival. Germination percentage was the highest at 77.5% when treated in 0% seawater and seedling growth was best in 0% seawater plug cell tray. Physiological quality (chlorophyll contents) and mean germination time were best in the condition in which seeds were treated with 0% seawater (control). Germination performance index in the control group showed the highest value to 3.8. Seedling growth, seedling vigor index in the length of seedling growth andthe relative growth rate were the highest values of 0.76 cm, 1.43, 0.0099, respectively.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.324-333
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• 2004

To determine whether Insulin-like growth factor (IGF-I) treatment represents a potential means of enhancing the survival of cardiac muscle cells from adriamycin (ADR)-induced cell death, the present study examined the ability of IGF-I to prevent cell death. The study was performed utilising the embryonic, rat, cardiac muscle cell line, H9C2. Incubating cardiac muscle cells in the presence of adriamycin increased cell death, as determined by MTT assay and annexin V-positive cell number. The addition of 100 ng/mL IGF-I, in the presence of adriamycin, decreased apoptosis. The effect of IGF-I on phosphorylation of PI, a substrate of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI 3-kinase) or protein kinase B (AKT), was also examined in H9C2 cardiac muscle cells. IGF-I increased the phosphorylation of ERK 1 and 2 and $PKC{\;}{\zeta}{\;}kinase$. The use of inhibitors of PI 3-kinase (LY 294002), in the cell death assay, demonstrated partial abrogation of the protective effect of IGF-I. The MEK1 inhibitor-PD098059 and the PKC inhibitor-chelerythrine exhibited no effect on IGF-1-induced cell protection. In the regulatory subunit of PI3K-p85- dominant, negative plasmid-transfected cells, the IGF-1-induced protective effect was reversed. This data demonstrates that IGF-I protects cardiac muscle cells from ADR-induced cell death. Although IGF-I activates several signaling pathways that contribute to its protective effect in other cell types, only activation of PI 3-kinase contributes to this effect in H9C2 cardiac muscle cells.

• 한국식품저장유통학회지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.184-189
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• 2005

젓갈은 전남 목포지역의 대형마트 및 가정에서 수집하였으며 오징어젓, 갈치속젓, 꼴뚜기젓, 멸치젓 등 10여종의 젓갈로부터 균을 분리하였다. 이들 분리 유산균 중 3균주가 인공위액과 인공담즙액에서 내성을 나타내었다. 이들 분리된 균주 중 생존력이 왕성한 3균주는 모두 인공위액에서 2시간, 인공담즙액에서 24시간 생존 가능하였다. 특히 유산균 ML 36, ML 128, ML 178 외 2종의 효모는 초기 생균수와 인공위액에서 2시간 배양 후 생균수의 변화가 거의 없어 가장 강한 내성을 나타내었다. 인공위액에서 분리된 균주의 생존율은 낮은 pH로 인하여 낮은 경향을 나타내었으나, 인공담즙액에 대해서는 높은 생존율을 나타내었다. 인공위액 및 인공담즙에 내성을 나타낸 3종의 유산균이 항생물질인 nicin, rifamycin, streptomycin, 그리고 tetracycline에 대하여 내성을 나타내었다. 또한 이들 분리 유산균은 병원성 미생물인 Listeria monocytogenes 대해 뚜렷한 항균 효과가 있는 것으로 나타났다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.829-834
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• 2013

Background: MicroRNAs are noncoding RNA molecules that posttranscriptionally regulate gene expression. The aim of this study was to determine the role of microRNA-21 in cholangiocarcinomas and its relationship to cholangiocarcinoma RBE cell capacity for invasion and metastasis. Methods: MicroRNA-21 expression was investigated in 41 cases of cholangiocarcinoma samples by in situ hybridization and real-time PCR. Influence on cholangiocarcinoma cell line invasion and metastasis was analyzed with microRNA-21 transfected cells. In addition, regulation of reversion-inducing-cysteine-rich protein with kazal motifs (RECK) by microRNA-21 was elucidated to identify mechanisms. Results: In situ hybridization and real-time quantitative PCR results for patients with lymph node metastasis or perineural invasion showed significantly high expression of microRNA-21 (P<0.05). There was a dramatic decrease in cholangiocarcinoma cell line invasion and metastasis ability after microRNA-21 knockdown (P<0.05). However, overexpression significantly increased invasion and metastasis (P<0.05). Real-time PCR and Western-blot analysis showed that microRNA-21 could potentially inhibit RECK expression in RBE cells. Survival analysis showed that patients with higher expression levels of microRNA-21 more often had a poor prognosis (P<0.05). Conclusions: MicroRNA-21 may play an important role in cholangiocarcinoma invasion and metastasis, suggesting that MicroRNA-21 should be further evaluated as a biomarker for predicting cholangiocarcinoma prognosis.

• Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.125-129
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• 2003

Effects of synthetic oligodeoxynucleotides (ODNs) containing cytidine-phosphate-guanosine(CpG) motif(s) on nonspecific immune responses of olive flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus) and on protection against lethal infection with Edwardsiella tarda were investigated. Respiratory bunt activities of the head kidney phagocytes in the fish injected either 0.25 or 0.5 ${\mu}g/fish$of ODNs containing CpG motifs (ODN 1826 and ODN 1670) were significantly higher than those injected with an ODN containing a guanosine-phosphate-cytidine (GpC) motif (ODN 1720) or with hanks balanced salt solution (HBSS, control) at 3, 5 and 7 days after injection. The serum lysozyme activities of fish injected with 0.25${\mu}g$ of ODN 1826 were significantly higher than those injected with ODN 1720 or HBSS at 1 and 7 days after injection. At 7 days after injection, the group of fish injected with CpG ODNs showed higher serum lysozyme activities than fish injected with ODN 1720 or control. The group of fish injected 0.25 or 0.5${\mu}g$ of CpG ODNs showed higher survival rates than those treated with GpC ODN and the control group after challenge with Edwardsiella tarda. The present study proved the ability of synthetic CpG ODN to increase nonspecific immune responses and disease resistance in olive flounder.