• Journal of the Korean Society of Tobacco Science
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.18-24
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• 2015

Urinary mutagenicity is widely recognized as a useful biomarker for the assessment of mutagen exposure level in human. In this study, we optimized the several parameters affecting the activity of Urinary mutagenicity using highly sensitive mutation test(microsuspension assay) instead of the conventional Ames test. First of all, we chose YG1024 as a highly sensitive strain from three str ains of Salmonella typhimurium(TA98, TA100, YG1024) using r epr esentative mutation substances, such as Benzo[a]pyrene, 2-Aminonaphthalene, 2-amino-3-methyl-9H-pyrido[2,3-b]indole($MeA{\alpha}C$) and cigarette total particulate matter(TPM). And we established the several kinds of test conditions such as number of bacter ia, concentr ation of metabolic activation system and incubation time for the most sensitive reaction. Also, we optimized efficient pre-treatment method using commercial C18 column. As a r esults, this method was shown a aver age of 94 % recovery value and 13 % relative standard deviation. When we compared the Urinary mutagenicity between several participants, we confirmed that compar ative measurements were possible for different levels of urine mutagenicity. In conclusion, the optimized highly sensitive mutation test to measure the Urinary mutagenicity may be useful in biological monitoring of mutagen exposure level.

• Korean Journal of Medicinal Crop Science
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.329-335
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• 2003

This study was carried out to investigate physiological activities of chicory root (Cichorium intybus L. var. sativus). The anti-hepatotoxic activity of roasted chicory was studied using primary cultured rat hepatocytes where cytotoxicity was induced by galactosamine. The water extract of roasted chicory did not induced of cytotoxicity in primary cultured rat hepatocytes. Treatment with 5 mM galactosamin for 5.0 hr showed maximum increase in activity of lactic dehydrogenase (LDH) released in the medium. The water extract of roasted chicory inhibited significantly and dose-dependently the release of LDH activity increased by galactosamine-induced cytotoxity. The antidiabetic activity of water extract of roasted chicory was examined in streptozotocin induced diabetic rats. The increased blood glucose level in the streptozotocin induced diabetic rats was significantly decreased by the administration of chicory extract (800 mg/kg). Chicory water extract (800 mg/kg) prevented weight losses in streptozotocin induced diabetic rats. The antimutagenic activities of chicory water extract were tested using Salmonella thyphimurium YG 1024 as tester strains and 2-aminofluorence as a potent carcinogen in the presence of S-9 mix. No mutagenic activities of the water extracts of roasted chicory were observed on all the tested strains at dose $10{\sim}5,000$ ${\mu}/g$ per plate. Water extract of roasted chicory did not inhibit the mutagencities of Salmonella thyphimurium YG 1024 induced by 2-aminofluorene.

• Food Science and Preservation
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.399-404
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• 2001

Antimutagenic, antioxidative and nitrite-scavenging effects of seafood bun were investigated. Each samples were extracted with methanol. Aflatoxin Bl(AFB1) was used as mutagen. Seafood bun added 20% kimchi(5mg/plate) reduced mutagenicity of AFB1 for Salmonella typhimurium TA and YG 1024 to 47% and 61%, rrespectivery. The reduction rate of seafood bun added 20% kimchi was higher relative to that of other samples. Mydrogen donating activity in all buns showed over 50% and seafood bun added 20% kimchi was higher than others, but the activity was lower than that of 0.1% BHT. The peroxide value for linoleic acid increased during the storage, the values in seafood bun added 20% kimchi was higher than others, but the activity was lower than that of 0.1% BHT. The peroxide value for linoleic acid increased during the storage, the values in seafood bun added 20% kimchi was significantly lower and the values in other buns were a lower than that of control, the values in all of the samples were higher than that in 0.1% BHT. Among the samples tested, the TBA value in the seafood bun added 20% kimchi for liver homogenate of rat was the lowest. Nitrite-scavenging effect in all the samples tested was higher than 50%.