• 한국동물학회지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.105-110
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• 1972

cellulose acetate 전기영동법으로 한국산 개구리목의 동물 6종에서 LDH 와 MDH isozyme을 조사하였다. 개구리목의 MDH 와 LDH isozyme은 종에 따른 특징을 잘 나타내고 있었으며 포유류나 조류와는 다름을 알 수 있었다. 참개구리와 금개구리에서는 LDH 나 MDH 모두 두개의 isozyme으로 구성되어 있었고, 이두 isozyme의 pattern 역시 거의 같다고 볼 수 있었다. 산개구리 전뇌의 LDH isozyme 역시 두개의 isozyme만을 보였으나 그 pattern은 참개구리나 금개구리와 근본적으로 달랐다. 두꺼비와 무당개구리는 다섯개의 LDH isozyme을 가지고 있으나 그 pattern은 전혀 달랐다. 한편 옴개구리에서는 세개의 LDH isozyme을 볼 수 있었다. 모든 시험동물에서 두개의 MDH isozyme을 발견 할 수 있었는데 참개구리의 후엽과 소뇌 및 연수혼합 물에서는 단 하나의 MDH isozyme만이 검출되었다.

• 약학회지
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• 제41권6호
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• pp.773-781
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• 1997

The activity of $Ca^{2+}$calmodulin (CaM)-dependent protein kinase Ia (CaM kinase Ia) is shown to be regulated through direct phosphorylation by CaM kinase I kinase (CaMK IK). In the present study, three distinct CaMKIK peaks were separated from Q-Sepharose colunm chromatography of pig brain homogenate using a Waters 650 Protein Purification System. The purified CaMKIK from the major peak potently and rapidly enhanced CaM kinase Ia activity, reaching a maximal stimulation within 2min at the concentrations of 12-15nM. The activated state of CaM kinase Ia is characterized by a markedly enhanced $V_{max}4 as well as significantly decreased $K_m\;and\;K_a$ values toward peptide substrate and CaM, respectively. These observations suggest the activation process of CaM kinase Ia. The phosphorylation of CaM kinase Ia by CaMKIK may induce its conformational change responsible for the alterations in the kinetic properties, which ultimately leads to the rapid enzyme activation.

• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.833-837
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• 2005

송화분, 참나무화분 및 백합화분에 대한 항산화 효능을 DPPH radical 소거능 및 동물조직의 지질산화 억제효능을 이용하여 평가하였다. 각 화분을 ethanol, 50% ethanol 및 물을 이용하여 추출물을 조제한 후 이들에 대한 DPPH radical 소거능을 분석한 결과 50% 소거능을 나타내는 $EC_{50}$ 값은, 송화분의 경우 50% ethanol 추출물(40.0mg/mL)이 가장 낮게 나타났으며 물 추출물(46.8mg/mL), 100% ethanol 추출물(131.2mg/mL) 순 이었다. 참나무화분에서는 50% ethanol 추출물(3.2mg/mL), 100%, ethanol 추출물(4.5mg/mL), 물 추출물(8.3mg/mL) 순이었고 백합화분에서는 100% ethanol 추출물의 $EC_{50}$값이 14.0mg/mL로, 50% ethanol 추출물(24.0mg/mL) 및 물 추출물(18.8mg/mL)에 비해 가장 낮았다. 3 종의 화분에서는 참나무 화분의 DPPH radical 소거능이 우수한 것으로 나타났다. 한편 $ascorbate-Fe^{3+}-EDTA$에 의해 유도되는 뇌조직에서의 지질산화도는 송화분, 참나무화분, 백합화분 추출물에 의해 모두 농도 의존적으로 억제되었으며 신장에서의 지질산화도 억제되었다. 그리고 이 중에서 송화분보다는 참나무와 백합화분의 효능이 우수한 것으로 나타났다. 화분 추출물에 대한 총 polyphenol의 함량을 분석한 결과 참나무화분$(32.5{\pm}2.9{\mu}g/mg\;pollen)$이 백합화분$(25.9{\pm}1.4{\mu}g/mg\;pollen)$이나 송화분$(9.3{\pm}0.7{\mu}g/mg\;pollen)$보다 높게 나타났다.

• 한국어병학회지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.97-104
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• 1998

1989년부터 남해안 일원 해상 가두리 양식장에서 사육중이던 능성어가 고수온기에 대량폐사하여 폐사율이 80%이었다. 발병한 병어는 채색흑화, 안구돌출, 평행감각 상실,회전운동과 몸통이 휘어지는 증상을 나타냈고, 조직학적으로는 뇌조직 및 안구망막의 신경세포가 공포 또는 괴사되었다. 병어로 부터 어류주화세포를 이용한 세포배양법으로 원인 바이러스는 분리되지 않았지만, 뇌 신경세포의 세포질에서 크기가 약 30 nm이며 외막(envelop)이 없는 다면체 모양의 바이러스 입자가 전가현미경적으로 관찰 되었다. 능성어로 부터 분리된 바이러스는 에테르나 열($50^{\circ}C$, 30분)처리에 의해 병원성이 실활되지 않았으나, 강산(pH 3)이나 강알카리(pH 11)에는 부분적으로 병원성이 실활되었다. 그리고 fish nodavirus인 Striped Jack Nervous Necrosis Virus(SJNNV)의 primer를 이용하여 인위감염 및 자연감염된 능성어를 대상으로 PCR을 한 결과 감염된 능성어의 뇌 및 안구조직에서 악 430 bp정도의 PCR 증폭산물이 검출되므로서 능성어를 폐사시키는 원인 바이러스는 SJNNV와 아주 유사한 nodavirus 였다.

• 동의생리병리학회지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.146-150
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• 2003

It had been known for a while that Crataegi Fructus(CF; Crataegus pinnatifida Bunge) had only a digestive effect. Recently, it has been demonstrated that CF also has an anti-hypertensive effect. However, its mechanism of relaxant effect has not been investigated yet. This study was examined to investigate the mechanism of vascular relaxation effect of CF in isolated rat thoracic aorta. CF revealed significant relaxation to phenylephrine(PE)-induced arterial contraction but much less to KCI-induced one. When CF was pretreated, it inhibited PE-induced contraction non-competitively. Methylene blue(10/sup -6/M) completely blocked the relaxant effect of CF whereas L-NAME(10/sup -5/M) did almost completely. However, atropine(10/sup -6/M) did not have any influence on vascular relaxation effect of CF. Regarding cNOS activity, CF significantly increased its activity from rat whole brain homogenate in a dose dependent manner which was inhibited by L-NAME(10/sup -5/M). On the other hand, CF did not affect on expression of TNF-α mRNA in RAW 264.7 cells, suggesting that CF is not related to iNOS activity. These results indicate that CF would be effective in relaxing vascular contraction through release of endothelial nitric oxide.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• 제28권5호
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• pp.518-528
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• 2005

In the present study, the antioxidative and inhibitory activity of Zingiber officinale Rosc. Rhizomes-derived materials (on mushroom tyrosinase) were evaluated. The bioactive co mponents of Z. officinale rhizomes were characterized by spectroscopic analysis as zingerone and dehydrozingerone, which exhibited potent antioxidant and tyrosinase inhibition activities. A series of substituted dehydrozingerones [(E)-4-phenyl-3-buten-2-ones] were prepared in admirable yields by the reaction of appropriate benzaldehydes with acetone and the products were evaluated in terms of variation in the dehydrozingerone structure. The synthetic analogues were examined for their antioxidant and antityrosinase activities to probe the most potent analogue. Compound 26 inhibited Fe$^{2+}$-induced lipid peroxidation in rat brain homogenate with an IC$_{50}$ = 6.3${\pm}$0.4 ${\mu}$M. In the 1,1-diphenyl- 2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical quencher assay, compounds 2, 7, 17, 26, 28, and 29 showed radical scavenging activity equal to or higher than those of the standard antioxidants, like ${\alpha}$-tocopherol and ascorbic acid. Compound 27 displayed superior inhibition of tyrosinase activity relative to other examined analogues. Compounds 2, 17, and 26 exhibited non-competitive inhibition against oxidation of 3,4- dihydroxyphenylalanine (L-DOPA). From the present study, it was observed that both number and position of hydroxyl groups on aromatic ring and a double bond between C-3 and C-4 played a critical role in exerting the antioxidant and antityrosinase activity.

• 한국환경농학회지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.117-123
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• 1988

본 연구에서는 diazinon과 carbofuran의 송사리와 미꾸리에 대한 선택적 어독성 기작을 규명코자 뇌와 몸체에서 acetylcholinesterase(AchE)를 추출하여 활성을 측정하였다. 또 농약에 의한 효소의 활성저해도(IC50)를 측정하였으며 이를 급성 어독성 실험에서 얻어진 LC5O값과 비교하였는데 그 결과는 다음과 같았다. 송사리의 AchE의 활성은 미꾸리의 활성보다 2배 높았고, diazinon과 carbofuran의 선택적 독성은 diazinon의 대사산물인 diazoxon의 두 어종에 대한 IC50 값이 미꾸리가 송사리보다 4배 낮고, carbofuran의 IC50값은 송사리가 미꾸리보다 약 3.4배 낮으므로,IC50 값에 의하여 부분적으로는 설명될 수 있었다. 따라서 AchE을 이용하여 유기인계 및 카바메이트계 농약의 독성을 검색하는데 있어 동일농약인 경우 어종간의 감수성을 부분적으로 설명할 수 있기 때문에 농약의 독성을 1차적으로 검색할 수 있는 수단이 될 것으로 사료된다. 그러나 위의 방법이 본격적으로 사용될 수 있기 위해서는 농약의 종류와 어종을 다양화한 실험과 흡수, 체내에서의 대사 등에 관한 연구를 통하여 급성 독성 현상과 AchE의 저해도와의 관계가 먼저 정리되어야 할 것으로 본다.

• Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.288-301
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• 1992

소의 중추신경계의 신경전달인자에 의한 세포막에서의 정보전달 과정에 관여하는 PLC 활성화에 G-단백질의 관여 여부를 관찰하기 위하여 소의 뇌조직의 PLC ${\beta}$, ${\gamma}$ 및 ${\delta}$를 얻어 각 isozyme의 특성을 관찰하였다. 기질용액에 phosphatidyl choline(PC)을 첨가시 PLC 각 isozyme 마다 정도의 차이는 있으나 증가 양상을 보였으며 PLC ${\delta}$는 $100{\mu}M$ $Ca^{2+}$ 농도에서 높은 활성도 증가를 보였다. 세포막 소포체를 형성하기 위하여 $PIP_2$기질과 PC에 detergent로 cholate와 deoxycholate 농도에 따른 PLC 효과 관찰에서 cholate 농도 0.2%에서 1%까지 증가할 때 효소 활성도의 지속적인 상승이 관찰되었고, deoxycholate는 농도가 0.2%에서 높았다가 0.4%에서 낮아졌고 1%까지 증가함에 따라 PLC 효소 활성도는 약간 증가하였다. 기질액에 뇌추출액을 첨가하여 cholic acid 농도에 따른 PLC의 효과를 관찰한 결과 cholic acid 농도 0.2%에서 보다 1%에서 각 isozyme 모두에서 PLC활성도가 증가하였다. 소의 여러 장기에서 PLC isozyme의 분포정도를 방사면역측정방법으로 관찰하였을 때 뇌조직에 가장 많이 분포하고 있으며 특히 PLC ${\beta}$, ${\gamma}$가 많았고, PLC ${\delta}$는 부신에서 가장 많이 분포하였다. 다음으로 PLC ${\beta}$는 부신과 위, PLC${\gamma}$는 부신과 폐순이었다. PLC 효소가 활성화될 때 G-단백질의 관여 여부에 관하여 cholate 0.2%와 0.1%에서 G-단백질과 GTPrS 및 PLC의 결합정도의 관찰은 조직분쇄시료를 소의 뇌 및 부신조직을 이용하여 $^{35}S$-GTPrS 첨가시와 단세포군 항체를 이용한 경우 모두에서 1.49% 이하의 낮은 결합 정도를 관찰하였다. 그래서 정제된 PLC isozyme과 G-단백질 $Go{\alpha}$, $G{\beta}{\gamma}$, Gmix, $Gi{\alpha}$ 및 $Gt{\alpha}$ 각각에 대한 효과 관찰에 서 $Go{\alpha}$와 $G{\beta}{\gamma}$는 PLC ${\beta}$와 ${\delta}$의 활성도를 증가시켰고, PLC ${\gamma}$는 별 영향이 없었으며 Gmix에서는 세효소 모두 증가시켰다. $Gi{\alpha}$는 PLC ${\beta}$와 ${\gamma}$에서만 증가하였다. $Gt{\alpha}$는 PLC ${\beta}$ 및 ${\gamma}$에서 억제하였고 PLC ${\delta}$에서는 증가 양상을 보였다. 그러므로 PLC 활성화에 G-단백질의 관여가 인지되며 PLC isozyme과 G-단백질의 종류에 따라 대개의 경우 증가하는 경향이나 일부는 억제 내지는 별 영향이 없는 것으로 나타났다.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.23-30
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• 1968

Tissue homogenates of 12 kinds of human cancer tissues were incubated separately in medium containing $C^{14}-1-glucose$ and $C^{14}-6-glucose$ as a substrate in order to observe the oxidative pathway of glucose in the tumor tissues. At the end of 3 hours incubation in the Dubnuff metabolic shaking incubator, respiratory $CO_2$ samples trapped by alkaling which was placed in the center well of incubation flask were analysed for total $CO_2$ production rates and their radioactivities. The tissue homogenate samples after incubation were analyzed for their concentrations of glucose, lactate and pyruvate. Calculations were made on the glucose consumption rate and accumulation rates of lactate and pyruvate. Fractionation of oxidative pathway of glucose was carried out by calculating $C^{14}O_2 yields from C-1 and C-6 carbon of glucose. The following results were obtained. 1. In 12 kinds of human cancer, total $CO_2$ production rates were less than $8{\mu}M/gm$ except 2 cases. These lower values impressed that oxidative metabolism in the tumor tissues generally inhibited as compared with that in normal tissues. On the other hand, fractions of $CO_2$ derived from glucose to total $CO_2$ production rates (RSA) were less than 10% in every case. These facts showed that oxidation of glucose into $CO_2$ was remarkably inhibited in the tumor tissues. 2. Factions of glucose disappeared into $CO_2\;(RGD_{CO_2})$, lactate $(RGD_L)$, pyruvate $(RGD_P)$ to glucose consumption rates were as follows. $RGD_{CO_2}$ were less than 2% in cases of in this experiment and $RGD_L$ showed more than 5% except in 2 cases. These facts showed that anaerobic degradation of glucose into 3 carbon compounds was easily proceeded but further degradation into $CO_2$ via the TCA cycle was greatly inhibited resulting in accumulation of lactate. There are large variation in values of $RGD_P$ in different kinds of tumor tissue but relatively higher values in $RGD_{CO_2}$ were obtained in the tumor tissues as compared with those of normal tissues. 3. The oxidative pathway of glucose in tumor tissues were analyzed from the values of RSA which were obtained in $C^{14}-1\;and\;C^{14}-6-glucose$ incubation experiments. It was found that 3% of $CO_2$ derived from glucose were oxidized via the principal EMP-TCA cycle and the remainder were via alternate pathway such as HMP in the liver cancer and values in other cancer tissues were as follows; 4% in the tongue cancer, 6% in the colon cancer, 6% in the lung cancer, 9% in the stomach cancer, 11% in the ovarian cancer, 12% in the neck tumor, 22% in the uterine cancer, 22% in the bladder tumor, 32% in the spindle cell sarcoma and 65% in the brain tumor. These values except later 2 cases showed less than 30% which is the lowest value among the normal tissues. Even in the brain tumor in which showed highest value in the tumor group. It is reasonable to suppose that this fraction was remarkably decreased because values in normal brain tissue was more than 90%. From the above data, it was concluded that in tumor tissues, oxidation of glucose via TCA cycle was greatly inhibited but correlation between degree of inhibited oxidation of glucose via TCA cycle and malignancy of tumor were not clarified in this experiments.

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.275-282
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• 2015

In the present study, we synthesized a series of novel 7-methoxy-N-(substituted phenyl)benzofuran-2-carboxamide derivatives in moderate to good yields and evaluated their neuroprotective and antioxidant activities using primary cultured rat cortical neuronal cells and in vitro cell-free bioassays. Based on our primary screening data with eighteen synthesized derivatives, nine compounds (1a, 1c, 1f, 1i, 1j, 1l, 1p, 1q and 1r) exhibiting considerable protection against the NMDA-induced excitotoxic neuronal cell damage at the concentration of $100{\mu}M$ were selected for further evaluation. Among the selected derivatives, compound 1f (with $-CH_3$ substitution at R2 position) exhibited the most potent and efficacious neuroprotective action against the NMDA-induced excitotoxicity. Its neuroprotective effect was almost comparable to that of memantine, a well-known NMDA antagonist, at $30{\mu}M$ concentration. In addition to 1f, compound 1j (with -OH substitution at R3 position) also showed marked anti-excitotoxic effects at both 100 and $300{\mu}M$ concentrations. These findings suggest that $-CH_3$ substitution at R2 position and, to a lesser degree, -OH substitution at R3 position may be important for exhibiting neuroprotective action against excitotoxic damage. Compound 1j was also found to scavenge 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl radicals and inhibit in vitro lipid peroxidation in rat brain homogenate in moderate and appreciable degrees. Taken together, our structure-activity relationship studies suggest that the compound with $-CH_3$ substitution at R2 and -OH substitution at R3 positions of the benzofuran moiety might serve as the lead exhibiting potent anti-excitotoxic, ROS scavenging, and antioxidant activities. Further synthesis and evaluation will be necessary to confirm this possibility.