• 대한감각통합치료학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.75-84
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• 2015

목적 : 본 연구의 목적은 감각조절과 각성과의 신경학적인 메커니즘을 알아보는 것이다. 본 론 : 감각통합치료에서 아동의 적절한 각성유지는 중요한 이슈이다. 감각입력을 통한 각성 조절을 위해 둘레계 및 그물체는 중요한 관계가 있고, 특히 그물체에서 대뇌피질로 가는 오름그물활성계통은 주요 처리 경로이다. 이때 콜린성 뉴런 및 단가아민계 뉴런 집단 등에서 분비되는 다양한 신경전달물질이 영향을 미친다. 각성을 위한 메커니즘은 중추신경계 및 자율신경계 기능을 측정하는 뇌파나 피부전기반응 등으로 측정한다. 객관적 신경생리학적 측정을 통해 일반아동과 장애아동에서 중추신경계 및 자율신경계 기능이 차이가 있음이 보고되었다. 감각통합치료를 통해 장애아동에게 적절한 감각을 입력하는 것은 그물체와 둘레계, 대뇌피질을 활성화시켜 최적의 각성상태를 유지하도록 돕는다. 결 론 : 객관적 측정도구를 사용한 연구결과의 제시는 감각통합치료에 대한 근거기반 임상을 위한 기초자료가 된다.

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.207-213
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• 2012

The present study examined the effects of krill-derived phosphatidylserine (Krill-PS) on the learning and memory function and the neural activity in rats with trimethyltin (TMT)-induced memory deficits. The rats were administered vehicle (medium-chain triglyceride: MCT) or Krill-PS (50, 100 mg/kg, p.o.) daily for 21 days. The cognitive improving efficacy of Krill-PS in TMT-induced amnesic rats was investigated by assessing the Morris water maze test and by performing choline acetyltransferase (ChAT), acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and cAMP responsive element binding protein (CREB) immunohistochemistry. The rats with TMT injection showed impaired learning and memory of the tasks and treatment with Krill-PS produced a significant improvement of the escape latency to find the platform in the Morris water maze at the $2^{nd}$ and $4^{th}$ day compared to that of the MCT group (p<0.05). In the retention test, the Krill-PS+MCT groups showed increased time spent around the platform compared to that of the MCT group. Consistent with the behavioral data, Krill-PS 50+MCT group significantly alleviated the loss of acetylcholinergic neurons in the hippocampus and medial septum compared to that of the MCT group. Treatment with Krill-PS significantly increased the CREB positive neurons in the hippocampal CA1 area as compared to that of the MCT group. These results suggest that Krill-PS may be useful for improving the cognitive function via regulation of cholinergic marker enzyme activity and neural activity.

• Journal of Neurogastroenterology and Motility
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.643-655
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• 2018

Background/Aims Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common disease characterized by intestinal dysmotility, the mechanism of which remains elusive. We aim to determine whether the high-affinity choline transporter 1 (CHT1), a determinant of cholinergic signaling capacity, modulates intestinal motility associated with stress-induced IBS. Methods A rat IBS model was established using chronic water avoidance stress (WAS). Colonic pathological alterations were evaluated histologically and intestinal motility was assessed by intestinal transit time and fecal water content (FWC). Visceral sensitivity was determined by visceromotor response to colorectal distension. RT-PCR, western blotting, and immunostaining were performed to identify colonic CHT1 expression. Contractility of colonic muscle strips was measured using isometric transducers. enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was used to measure acetylcholine (ACh). We examined the effects of MKC-231, a choline uptake enhancer, on colonic motility. Results After 10 days of WAS, intestinal transit time was decreased and fecal water content increased. Visceromotor response magnitude in WAS rats in response to colorectal distension was significantly enhanced. Protein and mRNA CHT1 levels in the colon were markedly elevated after WAS. The density of CHT1-positive intramuscular interstitial cells of Cajal and myenteric plexus neurons in WAS rats was higher than in controls. Ammonium pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate partly reversed CHT1 upregulation and alleviated colonic hypermotility in WAS rats. Pharmacological enhancement of CHT1 activity by MKC-231 enhanced colonic motility in control rats via upregulation of CHT1 and elevation of ACh production. Conclusion Upregulation of CHT1 in intramuscular interstitial cells of Cajal and myenteric plexus neurons is implicated in chronic stress-induced colonic hypermotility by modulation of ACh synthesis via nuclear factor-kappa B signaling.

• 동의생리병리학회지
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.876-880
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• 2011

Gammakdaejo-Tang (GMT) is a traditional oriental medicinal formula, a mixture of 3 crude drugs, and it has been clinically used for treating mild depressive disorders. The purpose of the study was to examine the effect of Gammakdaejo-Tang (GMT) on repeated stress-induced alterations of learning and memory on a passive avoidance test (PAT) test and also the anxiety-related behavior on the elevated pulse maze (EPM) in ovariectomized female rats. We assessed the changes in the reactivity of the cholinergic system by measuring the immunoreactive neurons of choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) in the hippocampus after behavioral testing. The rats were exposed to the immobilization (IMO) stress for 14 days (2hours/day), and Gammakdaejo-Tang (400 mg/kg, p.o.) was administered 30 min before IMO stress. Treatments with GMT caused significant reversals of the stress-induced deficits in learning and memory on a working memory test, and it also produced an anxiolytic-like effect on the EPM, and increased the ChAT reactivities (p<0.001, respectively). These results suggest that Gammakdaejo-Tang might prove to be an effective antidepressant agent.

• 약학회지
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• 제46권3호
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• pp.185-191
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• 2002

Alzheimer's disease (AD) involves neuronal degeneration with impaired cholinergic transmission, particularly in areas of the brain associated with learning and memory. Several cholinesterase inhibitors are widely prescribed to ameliorate the cognitive deficits in AD patients. In an attempt to examine if tacrine and donepezil, two well-known cholinesterase inhibitors, exhibit additional pharmacological actions in primary cultured rat cortical cells, we investigated the effects on neuronal injuries induced by glutamate or N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA), $\beta$-amyloid fragment ( $A_{{beta}25-35)}$), and various oxidative insults. Both tacrine and donepezil did not significantly inhibit the excitotoxic neuronal damage induced by glutamate. However, tacrine inhibited the toxicity induced by NMDA in a concentration-dependent fashion. In addition, tacrine significantly inhibited the $A_{{beta}25-35)}$-induced neuronal injury at the concentration of 50 $\mu$M. In contrast, donepezil did not reduce the NMDA- nor $A_{{beta}25-35)}$-induced neuronal injury. Tacrine and donepezil had no effects on oxidative neuronal injuries in cultures nor on lipid peroxidation in vitro. These results suggest that, in addition to its anticholinesterase activity, the neuroprotective effects by tacrine against the NMDA- and $A_{{beta}25-35)$-induced toxicity may be beneficial for the treatment of AD. In contrast, the potent and selective inhibition of central acetylcholinesterase appears to be the major action mechanism of donepezil.

• 한국약용작물학회지
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.456-463
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• 2011

The present study examined the effects of Korean white ginseng (WG, Panax ginseng C. A. Meyer) on the learning and memory function and the neural activity in rats with trimethyltin (TMT)-induced memory deficits. The rats were administered with saline or WG (WG 100 or 300 mg/kg, p.o.) daily for 21 days. The cognitive improving efficacy of WG on the amnesic rats, which was induced by TMT, was investigated by assessing the Morris water maze test and by performing immunohistochemistries on choline acetyltransferase (ChAT), acetylcholinesterase (AchE), cAMP responsive element binding protein (CREB) and brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). The rats treated with TMT injection (control group) showed impaired learning and memory of the tasks, but the rats treated with TMT injection and WG administration produced significant improvement of the escape latency to find the platform in the Morris water maze at the 2nd and 4th days compared to that of the control group. In the retention test, the WG 100 and WG 300 groups showed significantly increased crossing number around the platform compared to that of the control group (p < 0.001). Consistently with the behavioral data, result of immunohistochemistry analysis showed that WG 100 mg/kg significantly alleviated the loss of BDNF-ir neurons in the hippocampus compared to that of the control group (p < 0.01). Also, treatment with WG has a trend to be increased the cholinergic neurons in the hippocampal CA1 and CA3 areas as compared to that of the control group. These results suggest that WG may be useful for improving the cognitive function via regulation of neurotrophic activity.

• 한국안광학회지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.391-396
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• 2015

목적: 본 연구에서는 한국관박쥐 망막에서의 시각계를 이해하기 위하여 한국관박쥐의 망막 내 글루타메이트 및 ${\gamma}$-aminobutyric acid (GABA), 아세틸콜린과 같은 중추신경계의 주요 신경전달물질과 수용체, 신경교세포인 뮬러세포의 분포를 분석하였다. 방법: 성체 한국관박쥐의 망막을 대상으로 하였다. 망막을 수직 절편한 다음, 표준면역세포화학법을 적용하였다. 공초점 현미경을 사용하여 면역형광이미지 내 면역반응성을 확인하였다. 결과: 한국관박쥐의 망막에서 글루타메이트에 대한 면역반응성을 나타내는 신경세포들은 주로 신경절세포층에 존재하였다. GABA에 대한 면역반응성을 가지는 신경세포들은 내핵층에 주요하게 분포했으며, GABA의 수용체들은 내망상층에 존재하였다. 아세틸콜린의 면역반응성 신경세포들은 주로 내핵층에 위치하고 있었으며, 니코틴성 아세틸콜린 수용체 각각의 면역반응성들은 대부분 내망상층에 밀집해 있었다. 한국관박쥐의 망막에서 신경교세포 중 하나인 뮬러세포는 신경절 세포층에서 외핵층까지 길게 뻗어 있었다. 결론: 본 연구를 통하여 한국관박쥐의 망막에도 다른 포유동물의 망막에 있는 주요 신경전달물질 및 수용체, 뮬러세포가 존재한다는 것이 밝혀졌다. 이와 같은 연구결과는 한국관박쥐는 조직화된 망막 신경회로를 가지는 기능적 망막을 가지고 있음을 의미한다.

• Korean Journal of Acupuncture
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.81-98
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• 2006

Objectives : Acupuncture using a tonification or sedation techniques method is used as a controlling the medication for an early stroke in the Korean medicine. LR3 has indicatons of headache, vertigo, facial paralysis, apoplexy, epiepsy as the source acupoint of a liver meridian. So this study is aims to investigate the anti-apoptotic and neuroprotective effects of acupuncture on the focal ischemia induced by intraluminal filament insertion in rats. Methods : The focal ischemia was induced by intraluminal filament insertion into middle cerebral artery. The animals were divided into seven groups (n=8 in each group) : Normal, intactness group; Conrol group, no therapy group after being ischemia induced; MA-l, acupuncture perpendicularly without Tonification or Sedation techniques at LR3 after being ischemia induced; MA-2, acupuncture obliquely towards the knee at LR3 after being ischemia induced; MA-3, acupuncture obliquely towards the toe at LR3 after being ischemia induced; MA-4, acupuncture obliquely towards the knee and rotate 9 times in a clockwise direction at LR3 after being ischemia induced; MA-5, acupuncture obliquely towards the toe and rotate 6 times in a counterclockwise direction at LR3 after being ischemia induced. The anti-apoptotic and neuroprotective effects of Acupuncture techniques of tonification or sedation at LR3 are observed by mGluR5, Bax, Cresyl violet, ChAT-stain and NGF. Results : The intensity of mGluR5 and the density of ChAT was increased in MA-1 group. The intensity of Bax was decreased in MA-3, MA-4 group. The density of neurons stained by Cresyl violet and ChAT was increased in MA-2, MA-3, MA-4, MA-5 group. The density of neurons stained by NGF was only increased in MA-4 group. Conclusions : Our study suggests that acupuncture perpendicularly without Tonification or Sedation techniques and obliquely towards the knee and rotate 9 times in a clockwise direction(Tonifying technique) at LR3 after being ischemia induced at LR3 shows anti-apoptotic and neuroprotective effects on cholinergic neuron in focal cerebral ischemia of the stroke in rats.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제26권7호
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• pp.812-818
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• 2016

본 연구는 칼슘 배합 비율에 따른 초석잠이 scopolamine 치매유도 흰쥐의 기억손상 개선효과에 대하여 연구하였다. 칼슘 배합 비율별(S, 1CS, 5CS군)로 군을 나누어 Y자 미로와 수중미로를 통한 행동실험을 실시한 결과, Y자 미로 실험에서 5CS군이 N군과 비교하였을 때 유사한 수치를 보이며 공간 인지기능을 개선시켰고, 수중미로 실험 또한 CS군의 escape latency가 감소하여 N군과 유사한 수치를 보여 기억력 및 학습능력 개선에 효과적이라는 것을 알 수 있었다. 또한 아세틸콜린 함량과 아세틸콜린에스테라제의 활성을 측정한 결과, CS군은 아세틸콜린에스테라제의 활성을 저해함으로써 뇌 조직 내 신경전달물질인 아세틸콜린의 함량을 증가시켜 뇌 신경세포 활성화 효과를 통해 인지기능 개선 효과를 유도할 수 있을 것으로 사료된다. 해마를 병리조직학적으로 관찰한 결과, 앞선 결과와 유사하게 손상 정도가 심하여 많은 수의 응축된 신경세포가 관찰된 C군에 비하여 CS군은 응축된 신경세포 수가 현저하게 감소하여 신경세포 손상을 억제한 것으로 보인다. 따라서 칼슘 배합 비율에 따른 초석잠은 scopolamine 치매유도 흰쥐모델에서 기억력, 학습능력 및 인지능력 개선에 효과적으로 작용하는 천연물 유래 기능성 소재로 이용될 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• 대한한의학회지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.1-16
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• 2009

Objectives: This study investigated the effect of Yukmijihwangtang on cerebral ischemia-induced learning and memory impairment by middle cerebral artery (MCA) occlusion in rats. Methods: The ability of learning and memory of rats was measured using the eight-arm radial maze and the passive avoidance test, and profile of cholinergic neuron was assessed in the medial septum and hippocampus region by immuno-histochemistry. Results: 1. No differences were found between groups in the number of correct choices in acquisition performance during the eight-arm radial maze task. 2. No differences were found between groups on day 1 in the error rate in acquisition performance, which is defined as the number of enters into the same arm more than once within five minutes. After 5 to 6 days of test, the number of errors was significantly reduced in the Yukmijihwangtang group (forebrain ischemia group with Yukmijihwangtang treatment), compared with the ischemia group. 3. The memory processes significantly improved in the Yukmijihwangtang group according to results of the passive avoidance test. 4. The appearance of AchE (acetylcholinesterase) in the CA1 region of hippocampus significantly decreased in the ischemia group, compared with the sham group (untreated group). The appearance of AchE in the same region significantly increased in the Yukmijihwangtang group, compared with the ischemia group. 5. The appearance of ChAT (choline acetyltransferase) in the CA1 region of the hippocampus and medial septum decreased in the ischemia group, compared with the sham group. The appearance of ChAT in the same region significantly increased in the Yukmijihwangtang group, compared with the ischemia group Conclusions: This study provides evidence that Yukmijihwangtang is effective for reviving the ability of learning and memory and damaged neurons in rats with experimental cerebral ischemia.