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Nature of Cold Injury and Resistance in Wheat and Barley (맥류의 한해와 내동성에 관하여)

  • 남윤일;연규복;구본철
    • KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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    • v.34 no.s02
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    • pp.96-114
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    • 1989
  • There are several meterorolgical stresses in the winter cereal crops. Among these stresses, cold injury is one of the most important stresses for wheat and barley production in Korea. The reduction in grain yield of the wheat and barley due to cold injury has occurred almost every year in Korea. The objective of the study was to get the basic information in relation to the cold injury and to detect the method minimizing the damage of cold injury. When the air temperature was the ranges of -13$^{\circ}C$ to -15$^{\circ}C$, the soil temperature at the crown part of the plant was very stable, whereas in the ranges of -2$^{\circ}C$ to -3$^{\circ}C$ the soil surface temperature was more unstable and cold than air and subterranean temperatures. The different parts of the plant in wheat and barley possess the different levels of cold hardiness. In comparison to the cold hardiness of plant parts, the leaf and crown are the less sensitive to cold injury than root and vascular transitional zone. The type and extent of stress is determined by the redistribution pattern of water during freezing. These types from freezing processes were three types: a) Equilibrium freezing pattern b) Non -equilibrium freezing pattern, c) Non-equilibrium freezing pattern typical of tender tissues. Cold hardiness in wheat plants were more harder than barley plants at vegitative stage, but inverted at the reproductive stage. Injuries by low temperature during the seasons of barley cultivation in Korea were occured mainly in four stage; in the first and third stage, frost injury occurs, the second stage, freezing injury, and the fourth stage, chilling injury.

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Sympathetic Dependency of Cold-evoked Pain Behavior Seen in Rats with Peripheral Neuropathy (신경병증성통증 모델쥐에서 냉자극 유발 통증의 교감신경성 의존도)

  • Choi, Byung-Ock;Choi, Yoon;Gwak, Young-Seob;Nam, Taick-Sang;Paik, Kwang-Se;Leem, Joong-Woo
    • The Korean Journal of Pain
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.156-163
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    • 2000
  • Background: Peripheral nerve injury sometimes leads to chronic neuropathic pain such as causalgia. A subset of patients with causalgia have a sympathetically maintained pain which is often evoked by cooling stimuli. However, our knowledge on adrenergic receptor types responsible for cold-evoked pain that is sympathetically dependent is lacking. The present study was conducted to investigate subtypes of adrenoceptors involved in mediating cold-evoked pain that developed following peripheral nerve injury. Methods: Neuropathic surgery was performed by a unilateral ligation of L5 and L6 spinal nerves of rats. Behavioral sign of cold-evoked pain was examined for 5 min by measuring cumulative duration of time that the rat lifted its foot off a metal plate held at cold temperature ($5^{\circ}C$). Whether cold-evoked pain behavior was affected by antagonists of various subtypes of adrenoceptors, which were administered intraperitoneally before and after the ligation, was investigated. Results: After ligation, duration of foot lifting on the ligated side at cold temperature increased as compared to the pre-operative period. This increase maintained for the entire 40-day test period. Pretreatment with alpha-antagonist phentolamine produced a suppression of cold-evoked pain behavior that was not affected by beta-antagonist propranolol pretreatment. Prazosin, alpha-1 antagonist, suppressed cold- evoked pain behavior when treated either before or after nerve ligation. On the other hand, alpha-2 antagonist yohimbine was without effect on cold-evoked pain behavior whether it was treated before or after the ligation. Conclusions: The results suggest that peripheral nerve injury develops cold-evoked pain that is sympathetically dependent, and that alpha-1 adrenoreceptor plays a critical role for the generation of this type of pain in its initiation as well as maintenance.

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Role of Kupffer Cells in Cold/warm Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury or Rat Liver

  • Lee, Young-Goo;Lee, Sang-Ho;Lee, Sun-Mee
    • Archives of Pharmacal Research
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.620-625
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    • 2000
  • The mechanisms of liver injury from cold storage and reperfusion are not completely under-stood. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether the inactivation of Kupffer cells (KCs) by gadolinium chloride ($GdCl_3$) modulates ischemia-reperfusion injury in the rat liver. Hepatic function was assessed using an isolated perfused rat liver model. In livers subjected to cold storage at $4^{\circ}C$ in University of Wisconsin solution for 24 hrs and to 20 min rewarm-ing ischemia, oxygen uptake was markedly decreased, Kupffer cell phagocytosis was stimulated, releases of purine nucleoside phosphorylase and lactate dehydrogenase were increased as compared with control livers. Pretreatment of rats with $GdCl_3$) , a selective KC toxicant, suppressed kupffer cell activity, and reduced the grade of hepatic injury induced by ischemia-reperfusion. While the initial mixed function oxidation of 7-ethoxycoumarin was not different from that found in the control livers, the subsequent conjugation of its meta-bolite to sulfate and glucuronide esters was suppressed by ischemia-reperfusion, CdCl$_3$restored sulfation and glucuronidation capacities to the level of the control liver. Our findings suggest that Kupffer cells could play an important role in cold/warm ischemia-reperfusion hepatic injury.

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Use of ultrasound Doppler to determine tooth vitality in a discolored tooth after traumatic injury: its prospects and limitations

  • Cho, Yong-Wook;Park, Sung-Ho
    • Restorative Dentistry and Endodontics
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    • v.39 no.1
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    • pp.68-73
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    • 2014
  • When a tooth shows discoloration and does not respond to the cold test or electric pulp test (EPT) after a traumatic injury, its diagnosis can be even more difficult due to the lack of proper diagnostic methods to evaluate its vitality. In these case reports, we hope to demonstrate that ultrasound Doppler might be successfully used to evaluate the vitality of the tooth after trauma, and help reduce unnecessary endodontic treatments. In all three of the present cases, the teeth were discolored after traumatic injuries and showed negative responses to the cold test and EPT. However, they showed distinctive vital reactions in the ultrasound Doppler test during the whole observation period. In the first case, the tooth color returned to normal, and the tooth showed a positive response to the cold test and EPT at 10 wk after the injury. In the second case, the tooth color had returned to its normal shade at 10 wk after the traumatic injury but remained insensitive to the cold test and EPT. In the third case, the discoloration was successfully treated with vital tooth bleaching.

The Effect of Cold Application on Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury to Quadriceps Femoris Muscle of the Rats (한냉이 흰쥐 대퇴사두근의 허혈 - 재관류 후 SOD 발현에 미치는 영향)

  • Choi, Jin-Ho;Nam, Ki-Won;Kim, Jin-Sang
    • The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.41-48
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    • 2001
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of cold application on ischemia-reperfusion injury to quadriceps fomoris muscle of the hindlimbs of the rats. Nine weeks old male Sprague-Dawley white rats were divided into three groups : 1) control(only ischemia-reperfusion), 2) cold application before reperfusion(PreCold), 3) cold application after reperfusion(PostCold). All groups were 30 minute, 1 hour, 3 hours reperfusion after 2 hours ischemia with clamping abdominal artery, and investigate superoxide dismutase(SOD) immunohistochemical reaction for quadriceps femoris muscle of right hindlimb. SOD immunohistochemical reaction of experimental groups were more than the control group. Especially, SOD immunohistochemical reaction of PreCold were less than the PostCold.

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Some Characteristic Phenomena of Cold Injury in Peach [Prunus persica (L.) Batsch]

  • Jang, Han-Ik;Park, Seo-Jun;Seo, Hyung-Ho;Han, Jeam-Wha;Cho, Myong-Dong
    • Proceedings of The Korean Society of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology Conference
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    • 2001.06a
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    • pp.157-158
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    • 2001
  • In 2001, extremely cold air covered Korean peninsula during mid-January, recording - 29.2$^{\circ}C$ in Cheolwon region in Kangwon province. As a result, 4 cities or department below -$25^{\circ}C$ and 10 cities or department between 20 to -24.9$^{\circ}C$ were under the anxiety of cold injury in peach and grape. This survey and investigation was carried out to elucidate the characteristic symptoms of cold injury in peach and to obtain the basic information about the phenomenon, which could be occur in low air temperature.(omitted)

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Protective effect of platelet-rich plasma against cold ischemia-induced apoptosis of canine adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells

  • Suji Shin;Sung-Eon Kim;Seong-Won An;Seong-Mok Jeong;Young-Sam Kwon
    • Korean Journal of Veterinary Research
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    • v.64 no.1
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    • pp.2.1-2.8
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    • 2024
  • This study was performed to assess the antiapoptotic effect of canine platelet-rich plasma (PRP) treated on the canine adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells (cMSCs) under cold ischemic conditions. The effect of preventing apoptosis of cMSCs was evaluated in the apoptotic condition induced by cold ischemic injury in vitro. To determine the progression of apoptosis, the changes in cell nucleus were observed using 4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) fluorescence staining. In addition, we examined the mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP) and caspase-3 activity. When the cold hypoxic injury was applied to cMSCs, the apoptotic change was observed by DAPI staining, mitochondrial staining for MMP, and caspase-3 assay. PRP significantly decreased the number of apoptotic cells. Nuclear shrinkage and fragmentation of apoptotic cells in control groups were observed by DAPI staining. The MMP was recovered by the treatment of PRP. In addition, when the luminescence intensity was measured for caspase-3 activity, the value was significantly higher in the PRP treated groups than the control groups. The results of this study showed that the PRP may have a beneficial effect on apoptosis induced by cold ischemic injury.

A Case of Cold Medicine-Induced Hepatitis Treated with Herbal Medicine

  • Son, Chang-Gue
    • The Journal of Korean Medicine
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    • v.32 no.6
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    • pp.112-116
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    • 2011
  • Objectives: To inform the clinical features of drug-induced liver injury (DILI), and study traditional Korean medicine (TKM)-based strategies or therapeutics. Methods: A female patient with hepatitis after long term use of medication for cold symptoms was treated with Oriental therapies, after which the clinical outcome was evaluated by serum biochemical parameters and ultrasonography. Results: Clinical and biochemical levels were fluctuating during administration of cold medicine, but the patient completely recovered her health with herbal medicines. Conclusion: This case report would provide information about a typical DILI by western medicine followed by treatment with traditional Korean medicine.

Protective Effect of Trophic Factor Supplementation on Cold Ischemia/Rewarming Injury to Kidney Cells (Trophic factor supplementation에 의한 cold ischemia/rewarming손상으로 부터의 신장 세포 보호)

  • Kwon, Young-Sam;Jang, Kwang-Ho
    • Journal of Veterinary Clinics
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    • v.25 no.5
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    • pp.355-358
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    • 2008
  • The aim of this study was to investigate whether trophic factor supplementation (TFS) enhance the survival of kidney cell during cold ischemic storage and rewarming. The effect of TFS on the phosphorylation of p44/42 and p38 mitogen activated protein kinases (MAPK) signaling pathway was determined by Western blot. Apoptotic changes after cold ischemic storage and rewarming was determined by 4',6'-diamino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) staining. The cell viability was evaluated by live assay. TFS significantly decreased p44/42 and p38 MAPK activity induced by cold ischemic injury and rewarming (p < 0.05). The number of apoptotic cells was decreased after 5 minute rewarming in the presence of TFS. TFS significantly increased the cell viability after 5 minute rewarming (p < 0.05). Therefore, it was concluded that trophic factor supplementation protects kidney tubule cells from cold ischemic and rewarming injury via the inhibition of p44/42 and p38 MAPK activation and reducing apoptotic change.

Research of discrimination of internal injury from external by Lee Dong-won from medical historical point of view (이동원(李東垣) 내외상변(內外傷辨)의 의사학적(醫史學的) 고찰(考察))

  • Chin, Joo-pyo;Kim, Nam-il
    • The Journal of Korean Medical History
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.153-166
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    • 2001
  • Lee Dong-won based on the machanism of internal disease founded on Umhwa and Wonki in discriminating internal injury from external. His general idea of discrimination of internal injury from external could be thought as an reinterpretation of the concept from "Neijing", to Triple heater Wonki and ascending and descending of stomach qi. He distinguished between Yin disease and Yang disease and classified into internal and external injury. "Insufficiency of yang brings about cold syndrome." and "An excess of yang brings about heat syndrome." are considered as external infection, and "Insufficiency of yin brings about heat syndrome." and "An excess of yin brings about cold syndrome." as internal injury.

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