• Molecular & Cellular Toxicology
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.58-66
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• 2009

The 2-year rodent carcinogenicity test involves long-term, repetitive dosing of animals that is both time consuming and expensive. Alternative approaches have been attempted using specific transgenic or knockout mice or toxicogenomics to predict carcinogenicity without conducting a 2-year rodent test. In addition, toxicogenomic analysis of carcinogen-treated animals could also enhance our understanding of molecular mechanisms and aid in the diagnosis of acute toxicity induced by carcinogens. Therefore, we investigated transcription profiles after administering the carcinogens 4,4-dimethylformamide (DMF) and 4-biphenylamine (ABP). BALB/c male mice were treated once with DMF (650 mg/kg i.p.) or ABP (120 mg/kg p.o.). Standard blood biochemistry and histological changes were observed. Gene expression profiles in the livers of mice treated with either vehicle or the carcinogens were analyzed using the Affymetrix $GeneChip^{(R)}$ assay. In all, 1,474 differentially expressed genes in DMF- or ABP-treated mice were identified as being either up- or down-regulated over 1.5-fold (P< 0.01), and these genes were analyzed using hierarchical clustering and Ingenuity Pathways Analysis. Of these, 107 genes were consistently regulated in both carcinogen-treated groups. Genes associated with cancer were upregulated (Por, S100a10, Tes, Ctcf, Ddx21, Eapp, Nel, and Pa2g4) or downregulated (Cbs and Gch1). Toxicological function analysis also identified genes involved in organ toxicity, including hepatotoxicity. These data may help to identify molecular markers for acute hepatotoxicity induced by carcinogens.

• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.421-427
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• 1996

한국의 발초식품 중 가장 많이 섭취하고 있는 김치 중에서 배추김치를 각 지방에서 15개, 시중에서 판매 되고 있는 5개를 수집하여 김치의 특성을 고려하여 ethyl carbamate의 부분 정제를 시도하였다. 단계별 효율을 검색하면서 에틸아세테이트로 추출하여 불용성 고분자 물질과 수용성 물질을 제거하고, $C_{18}$ 수지로 소수성 색소를 제거한 후 알루미나, Florisil을 순차적으로 통과시켜서 수분과 비극성 물질을 제거하는 부분 정제법을 정립하였다. 가스 크로마토그래프 상에 분리된 표준 ethyl carbamate 피크와 같은 시간에 검출된 김치 추출액의 피크의 질량 분석 스펙트럼을 비교한 결과, 분자 이온 m/z 89와 m/z 74.62 토막 이온이 공통적으로 나타났다. 선택 이온 모드로 감도와 선택성이 가장 좋은 Mxlafferty 토막 이온 m/z 62에서 정량한 결과 ethyl carbamate의 범위는 검출 한계 농도 이하부터 4.6 ppb까지 분포하였으며, 김치의 숙성이 진행될수록 ethyl carbamate 농도는 증가하는 경향을 보였다. 이 양은 다른 식이는 고려하지 dskg고 김치에서만 하루에 섭취하는 ethyl carbamate 양으로 추정하였을 때, 사람에게 실질적으로 안전하다고 보고된 양 정도의 수준에 미치는 것으로 나타났다.

• Preventive Nutrition and Food Science
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.67-71
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• 2002

Capsaicin (trans-8-methyl-N-vanillyl-6-nonenarnide), a major pungent component of hot pepper, is known to exert antioxidative properties. In this study, we investigated the protective effects of capsaicin against chemical carcinogen-induced oxidative damage in rats. Male Sprague Dawley rats weighting 230~250 g were treated with chemical carcinogens such as 2-nitropropane (2NP) or n-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG) after (or before) the administration of capsaicin at doses of 0.5, 1,5 mg/kg. The level of lipid peroxidation in rat liver was estimated by measuring the amounts of thiobarbituric acid reactive substances. The degree of oxidative DNA damage was evacuated by measuring a DNA adduct, 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine (8-OHdG), in urine. Antioxidative activities of capsaicin and its metabolites in vitro were determined by the measurement of DPPH (1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl), a radical quencher. Significant inhibition of 2-NP induced lipid peroxidation was observed in the liver of the rat when treated with capsaicin. MNNG-induced urinary excretion of 8-OHdG was decreased by capsaicin treatment. Capsaicin and its metabolites inhibited net only the formation of free radicals, but also lipid peroxidation in vitro. Our results show that capsaicin may function as a free radical scavenger against chemical carcinogen-induced oxidative cellular damage in vivo. The observed antioxidative activities of capsaicin may play an important role in the process of chemoprevention.

• 한국식품영양과학회지
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• 제32권8호
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• pp.1328-1336
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• 2003

본 연구는 우리나라에서 발병률이 높은 간암의 발생과정에서 정어리유와 d-limonene의 섭취가 미치는 영향을 세포막 지질조성 및 PKC활성도를 통해 조사하여 이들의 항암 작용관련 기전을 규명 하고자 하였다. 따라서 이유된 흰쥐를 지방산 조성이 아주 다른 옥수수유, 정어리유를 15% 수준으로 공급하고 d-limonene 섭취군은 5%수준으로 공급하여 실험군에서는 발암물질인 DEN을 2회 복강 주사하고 PB를 물에 섞어 주어 20주간 사육하여 membrane fraction의 지방산 조성 및 지질의 조성, glutathione-S-transferase, PKC 활성도를 조사하여 아래와 같은 결과를 얻었다. 간 세포막의 콜레스테롤과 인지질 함량에 대한 C/PL ratio는 옥수수유군에서 발암물질 투여나 d-limonene의 섭취에 따른 효과가 없었으나 정어리 유군에서는 발암물질 투여시, d-limonene 섭취시 유의적인 감소를 나타내어 식이지방의 종류에 따라 발암물질과 d-limonene의 작용이 차이가 있는 것으로 나타났다. Membrane fraction의 인지질 조성은 CL을 제외한 PE, PI, PG, PC, PS와 PE/PC ratio등 모두에 있어서 식이지방의 종류, 발암물질의 투여, d-liomnene섭취에 따른 차이가 나타나지 않았다. 세포막의 지방산 조성을 나타내는 n-6/n-3 ratio가 정어리유군에서 옥수수유군보다 유의적으로 낮았고, 옥수수유군에서는 발암물질 투여나 d-limonene의 섭취에 따라 유의적으로 증가했으나 정어리유군에서는 발암물질과 d-limonene에 의한 차이가 없었다. Cytosolic PKC의 활성은 식이지방의 종류와 발암물질 투여에 따른 차이는 없었고, d-limonene의 섭 취에 따라 유의적 감소를 나타냈으며, 막부착 PKC의 활성은 옥수수유군에서 유의적으로 높았고, d-limonene 섭취에 따라 감소 경향을 발암물질 투여에 따라서는 증가 경향을 보였으나 유의적인 차이를 나타내지는 않았다. GST활성은 식이 지방의 종류에 따른 차이는 없었으나 발암물질 투여와 d-limonene 섭취에 따라 유의적으로 증가하였으며, 발암물질과 d-limonene을 같이 공급시에 더욱 더 유의적으로 증가하였다. 이상의 실험 결과를 종합에 보면 암화과정에 일어나는 지방의 대사가 식이지방의 종류에 따라 차이를 보이며, 특히 정어리유군에서 d-limonene에 의한 C/PL ratio가 감소하여 막 유동성에 변화를 초래하고, 이에 따라 membrane bound enzyme의 활성에 변화를 가져오는 것으로 생각된다. 따라서 식이지방의 종류가 암의 발생에 미치는 영향이 다르고, 막부착 PKC 활성도를 감소시켜 발암을 억제하는 효과가 있으며, 이 효과는 지방의 종류에 따라 차이가 있는 것으로 생각된다. 최근 n-3 지방산이나 d-limonene이 PKC expression을 감소시키고, apopotosis 촉진 단백질의 발현을 증가시켜 tumor cell의 apoptosis를 증가시킨다고 하여 n-3 지방산과 d-limonene의 또 다른 발암억제기전을 설명하고 있다. 그러나 n-3 지방산과 d-limonene의 상호효과에 대한 연구는 부족한 실정이므로 d-limonene과 n-3 지방산의 교호작용에 의한 발암억제 기전에 대해서는 더 많은 연구가 필요하다고 하겠다.

• 한국독성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국독성학회 2002년도 국제심포지움
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• pp.1-19
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• 2002

It is well established that the initiating event in chemical carcinogenesis is the binding of reactive carcinogens to DNA. Thus, a number of analytic methods have been developed for determining levels of carcinogen-DNA adducts in humans as a marker of individual exposure and, potentially, of risk for cancer development. In addition, reactive carcinogens also bind to protein suggesting protein adducts can be used as a surrogate for DNA adducts in some situations. We have developed monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies to carcinogen-DNA and protein adductis and highly sensitive ELISA and immunohistochemical assays for determining levels of adducts in human tissues. These studies have demonstrated higher levels of adducts in those with higher exposure as a result of workplace, dietary, chemotherapy, environmental of lifestyle (smoking) exposures. Elevated levels of adducts have been found in lung and liver cancer cases compared to controls. We have also used DNA adducts to determine efficacy of an antiosidant vitamin intervention. DNA adduct studies have demonstrated very different levels of damage in those with similar exposure levels. These interindividual differences are likely the result genetic differences in capacity to activate carcinogens, detoxify reactive intermediates and repair DNA adducts once formed. We are currently investigating the relationship between polymorphisms in a number of these genes to determine their relationship to adduct levels as well as their ability to confer increased risk for cancer development. The ability to identify high risk individuals will allow the targeting of screening and preventive strategies to those most likely to benfit.

• Molecular & Cellular Toxicology
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.106-110
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• 2005

N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea (ENU), which is a toxin and a carcinogen, as well as a mutagen, has a variety of effects on mice. ENU induces point mutation in male germ cell. Number of mutant animals are developed with ENU treatment. However, potentiality ot ENU as a carcinogen is not fully understood, even though, mutagenicity of ENU is broadly studied, In the present study, the gene expression profiling and histopathological investigation of ENU treated mouse's liver and brain were investigated. Also, the expression patterns of cancer related genes in ENU-treated mouse were analyzed.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제14권7호
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• pp.4235-4238
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• 2013

Glucoraphanin is the main glucosinolate found in broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables (Brassicaceae). The objective of the study was to evaluate whether glucoraphanin and its breakdown product sulforaphane, are potent modulators of various phase I and phase II enzymes involved in carcinogen-metabolising enzyme systems in vitro. The glucosinolate glucoraphanin was isolated from cruciferous vegetables and exposed to human hepatoma cell line HepG2 at various concentrations (0-25 ${\mu}M$) for 24 hours. Glucoraphanin at higher concentration (25 ${\mu}M$) decreased dealkylation of methoxyresorufin, a marker for cytochrome P4501 activity; supplementation of the incubation medium with myrosinase (0.018 U), the enzyme that converts glucosinolate to its corresponding isothiocyanate, showed minimal induction in this enzyme activity at concentration 10 ${\mu}M$. Quinone reductase and glutathione S-transferase activities were unaffected by this glucosinolate; however, supplementation of the incubation medium with myrosinase elevated quinone reductase activity. It may be inferred that the breakdown product of glucoraphanin, in this case sulforaphane, is superior than its precursor in modulating carcinogen-metabolising enzyme systems in vitro and this is likely to impact on the chemopreventive activity linked to cruciferous vegetable consumption.

• 한국수의병리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수의병리학회 2000년도 추계학술대회 및 정기총회
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• pp.26-26
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• 2000

The consumption of cruciferous vegetables such as cabbage and broccoli have been shown to have a chemopreventive effect in human and in experimental animals. Indole-3-carbinol (I3C), one component of cruciferous vegetables, has been shown to exert its chemopreventive effect in liver, colon and mammary tissue before or concurrent exposure of carcinogen, but in some reports, there have been several evidence that consumption of I3C after carcinogen treatment induced tumor promotion in some tissues. There have been no reports about the effect of I3C after carcinogen exposure in N-Nitroso-N-methylurea (MNU)-induced mammary tumor model of rats. (omitted)

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.100-104
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• 1992

본 연구는 비교 위험도 평가 기법을 사용하여, 도시 고형 폐기물의 소각에 따른 대기 오염 중 발암성 금속이 호흡기를 통해 소각로 주변 주민에게 미치는 암 위험도를 다옥신과 비교해 평가하였다. 어떤 물질이 인체에 암을 유발할 가능성이 있는 경우, 이 발암성은 물질의 화학적 형태 및 피폭경로에 관련될 지도 모른다. 물질의 발암성에 대한 이러한 사실이 조사되었고 위험도 정량화에 고려되었다. 본 연구 결과, 도시 고형 폐기물의 소각시 방출되는 발암성 금속으로 인한 위험도는 디옥신으로 인한 위험도의 약 5배 정도로 평가되었고, 위험도의 측면에서 가장 중요한 금속은 6가 크롬과 카드뮴인 것으로 판명되었다.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.139-146
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• 2000

7- Bromomethylbenz[a]anthracene is a known mutagen and carcinogen. The two major DNA adducts produced by this carcinogen, i.e., $N^2$-(benz[a]anthracen-7-yl methyl)-2'-deoxyguanosine (2, b[a]$a^2$G) and $N^6$-(benz[a]anthracen-7-ylmethyl)-2'-deoxyadenosine (4, b[a]$a^6$/A), as wel 1 as the simpler benzylated analogs,$N^2$-benzyl-2'deoxyguanosine (1, $bn^2$G) and $N^6$-benzyl-2'-deoxyadenosine (3, $bn^6$/A), were prepared by direct aralkylation of 2'-deoxyguanosine and 2'-deoxyadenosine. To determine the site-specific mutagenicity of these bulky exocyclic amino-substituted adducts, the suitably protected nucleosides were incorporated into 16-base oligodeoxyribonucleotides in place of a normal guanine or adenine residues which respectively are part of the ATG initiation codon for the lac Z' \alpha-complementation gene by using an in situ activation approach and automated phosphite triester synthetic methods. The base composition and the incorporation of the bulky adducts into synthetic oligonucleotides were characterized after purification of the modified oligonucleotides by enzymatic digestion and HPLC analysis.